different between lasagna vs ravioli

English

Alternative forms

• lasagne

Etymology

From Italian lasagna (and its plural lasagne), possibly from Vulgar Latin *lasania, from Latin lasanum (“cooking pot”), from Ancient Greek ??????? (lásanon, “trivet or stand for a pot”). Others argue the Italian lasagna originally derived from the Arabic ??????????? (lawz?naj, “almond cake”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /l??zæn.j?/, /l??z?.nj?/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /l??z?.nj?/, /l??s?.nj?/
• (Canada) IPA^(key): /l??z?.nj?/
• (General New Zealand) IPA^(key): /l??s??.nj?/, /l??z??.nj?/

Noun

lasagna (plural lasagnas or lasagne or lasagnes)

1. A flat sheet of pasta.
2. An Italian baked dish comprising layers of such pasta with various ingredients (usually a meat ragù (chiefly Bolognese), a fish ragù or a vegetarian/vegetable ragù with bechamel sauce)
3. (by extension) A combination or layering of things.
   • 1996, Lance Olsen, Time Famine: A Novel

     Kristofer'd gotten it through his head shortly after their arrival to swim naked in the lake, such as it was, and his skin blemished into a lasagna of red hives, white welts, and disarming yellowish spots.

   • 2008, Body & Soul

     Unfortunately, typical mattresses are often a lasagna of nonbiodegradable synthetics, pesticides, and potentially carcinogenic toxins.

   • 2011, Thorsten Botz-Bornstein, Inception and Philosophy: Ideas to Die for, Open Court Publishing (?ISBN), page 280:

     It's sort of a lasagna of ideas about time and dreams.

   • 2013, Molly Harper, How to Run with a Naked Werewolf, Simon and Schuster (?ISBN)

     “Everything about us is just one layer of lies after another. We're a lasagna of lies. This is a terrible basis for a relationship.”

Usage notes

• In Italian, lasagna refers to one flat sheet of pasta and its plural form, lasagne, refers to the dish. This distinction is also observed in English, but only rarely in American English.
• When the dish is referred to as lasagne (rather than lasagna), lasagnes is sometimes found as the plural form, referring to multiple dishes or varieties.

Translations

Anagrams

• Alagnas, Laganas, galanas

Italian

Etymology

Possibly from Vulgar Latin *lasania, from Latin lasanum (“cooking pot”), from Ancient Greek ??????? (lásanon, “trivet or stand for a pot”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /la?za?.?a/
• Hyphenation: la?sà?gna
• Rhymes: -a??a

Noun

lasagna f (plural lasagne)

1. (cooking, food) a food made of flat sheets of pasta alternated with condiments
2. (cooking, chiefly in the plural) a dish of lasagna

Derived terms

• lasagne alla bolognese (“Bolognese lasagna, Bologna-style lasagna, lasagna with Bolognese”)
• lasagne di pesce (“fish lasagna, lasagna with fish ragù”)
• lasagne di verdure (“vegetarian lasagna, lasagna with vegetable ragù”)

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian ravioli.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -??li

Noun

ravioli (countable and uncountable, plural raviolis)

1. plural of raviolo
2. Small square parcels of pasta filled with meat, cheese, spinach etc.
3. A dish made with ravioli.
4. (informal) by analogy, similar dishes/pastas from non-Italian cuisines.

Translations

Usage notes

• The individual parcels are called "pieces of ravioli" or suchlike. The singular raviolo is reserved for a single, large parcel of the same design, but is rare.

Anagrams

• Viloria

Finnish

Etymology

From Italian ravioli.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?r??ioli/, [?r??i?o?li]
• Rhymes: -oli
• Syllabification: ra?vi?o?li

Noun

ravioli

1. ravioli (small square parcels of pasta)

Declension

French

Noun

ravioli m (plural raviolis)

1. ravioli (Italian pasta and dish)
2. ravioli (non-Italian stuffed pasta/noodle pocket)

Derived terms

• ravioli chinois
• ravioli polonais

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ravi??li/, /ravj??.li/

Noun

ravioli m pl

1. plural of raviolo

References

Anagrams

• olivari, rivolai

Spanish

Etymology

Italian raviolo

Noun

ravioli f (plural raviolis)

1. ravioli