different between pickle vs achar

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p?kl?/
• Rhymes: -?k?l

Etymology 1

From Middle English pikel, pykyl, pekille, pigell (“spicy sauce served with meat or fish”), borrowed from Middle Dutch, Middle Low German pekel (“brine”). Cognate with Scots pikkill (“salt liquor, brine”), Saterland Frisian Piekele (“pickle, brine”), Dutch pekel (“pickle, brine”), Low German pekel, peckel, pickel, bickel (“pickle, brine”), German Pökel (“pickle, brine”).

Alternative forms

• pickel (obsolete and rare)

Noun

pickle (countable and uncountable, plural pickles)

1. A cucumber preserved in a solution, usually a brine or a vinegar syrup.

   A pickle goes well with a hamburger.

2. (often in the plural) Any vegetable preserved in vinegar and consumed as relish.
3. A sweet, vinegary pickled chutney popular in Britain.
4. The brine used for preserving food.

   This tub is filled with the pickle that we will put the small cucumbers into.

5. (informal) A difficult situation; peril.

   The climber found himself in a pickle when one of the rocks broke off.

   • 1955, Rex Stout, "Die Like a Dog", in Three Witnesses, October 1994 Bantam edition, ?ISBN, page 194:

     I beg you, Miss Jones, to realize the pickle you're in.

6. (endearing) A mildly mischievous loved one.
7. (baseball) A rundown.

   Jones was caught in a pickle between second and third.

8. (uncountable) A children’s game with three participants that emulates a baseball rundown

   The boys played pickle in the front yard for an hour.

9. (slang) A penis.
10. (slang) A pipe for smoking methamphetamine.

    Load some shards in that pickle.

11. (metalworking) A bath of dilute sulphuric or nitric acid, etc., to remove burnt sand, scale, rust, etc., from the surface of castings, or other articles of metal, or to brighten them or improve their colour.
12. In an optical landing system, the hand-held controller connected to the lens, or apparatus on which the lights are mounted.

Synonyms

• (penis): See also Thesaurus:penis

Derived terms

• in a pickle
• pickle switch

Descendants

• ? Dutch: pickles
• ? French: pickles
• ? Irish: picil
• ? Korean: ?? (pikeul)
• ? Spanish: pickles
• ? Welsh: picil

Translations

See also

• piccalilli

Verb

pickle (third-person singular simple present pickles, present participle pickling, simple past and past participle pickled)

1. (transitive, ergative) To preserve food (or sometimes other things) in a salt, sugar or vinegar solution.

   We pickled the remainder of the crop.

   These cucumbers pickle very well.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:pickle.
2. (transitive) To remove high-temperature scale and oxidation from metal with heated (often sulphuric) industrial acid.

   The crew will pickle the fittings in the morning.

3. (programming) (in the Python programming language) To serialize.
   • 2005, Peter Norton et al, Beginning Python:

     You can now restore the pickled data. If you like, close your Python interpreter and open a new instance, to convince yourself […]
4. (historical) To pour brine over a person after flogging them, as a method of punishment.
   • 1756, Thomas Thistlewood, diary, quoted in 2001, Glyne A. Griffith, Caribbean Cultural Identities, Bucknell University Press (?ISBN), page 38:

     On Wednesday 26 May, […] I had [an enslaved man] flogged and pickled and then made Hector shit in his mouth. […] In July, […] Gave [another enslaved man] a moderate whipping, pickled him well, made Hector shit in his mouth, […]

   • 2016, Christopher P. Magra, Poseidon's Curse: British Naval Impressment and Atlantic Origins of the American Revolution, Cambridge University Press (?ISBN), page 70:

     Naval seamen could also be keel-hauled, ducked, pickled, and flogged around the fleet.

     [elsewhere, page 93, the book explains:] A pickled man had his flogged back washed with vinegar.

Derived terms

• pickled
• pickling

Translations

Etymology 2

Perhaps from Scottish pickle, apparently from pick +? -le (diminutive suffix). Compare Scots pickil.

Noun

pickle (plural pickles)

1. (Northern England, Scotland) A kernel; a grain (of salt, sugar, etc.)
2. (Northern England, Scotland) A small or indefinite quantity or amount (of something); a little, a bit, a few. Usually in partitive construction, frequently without "of"; a single grain or kernel of wheat, barley, oats, sand or dust.
   • 1881, Robert Louis Stevenson, "Thrawn Janet"

     […] ill things are like guid—they baith come bit by bit, a pickle at a time […]

Verb

pickle (third-person singular simple present pickles, present participle pickling, simple past and past participle pickled)

1. (Northern England, Scotland, transitive, intransitive) To eat sparingly.
2. (Northern England, Scotland, transitive, intransitive) To pilfer.

Anagrams

• pelick

French

Etymology

English pickle

Noun

pickle m (plural pickles)

1. pickle (kind of chutney popular in Britain)

English

Alternative forms

• achaar

Etymology

From Hindi ???? (ac?r)/Urdu ????? (ac?r), from Persian ????? (â?âr).

Noun

achar (countable and uncountable, plural achars)

1. A spicy and salty pickle in Indian cuisine.

Anagrams

• chara

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese achar (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin afflare (“blow”). Cognate with Portuguese achar and Spanish hallar.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a?t??a?/

Verb

achar (first-person singular present acho, first-person singular preterite achei, past participle achado)

1. (transitive, now rare) to find, come upon
   • 1555, Hernán Nunez, Refranes en Romance:

     Ala me leue Deus, donde ache dos meus

     May God take me to places where I come upon my people

   Synonym: atopar

2. (transitive, dated) to find, find out; to think
   • c1295, R. Lorenzo (ed.), La traducción gallega de la Crónica General y de la Crónica de Castilla. Ourense: I.E.O.P.F., page 806:

   Synonyms: coidar, pensar

Conjugation

Derived terms

• ao chou

References

• “achar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “achar” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “achar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “achar” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “achar” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish ochair (“edge”), from Proto-Celtic *okris, from Proto-Indo-European *h?ó?ris (compare Latin ocris (“rugged mountain”), Ancient Greek ????? (ókris, “sharp edge”)), from *h?e?- (“sharp”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ax???/

Noun

achar m (genitive singular achair)

1. distance, extent
   • 1899, Franz Nikolaus Finck, Die araner mundart, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, vol. II, p. 7:

     ?? n t-axr?, ? t? ?n dreh?d šin æš šo?

     conventional orthography:

2. period of time
   • 1899, Franz Nikolaus Finck, Die araner mundart, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, vol. II, p. 8:

     ? wak? t? n b?ai?x ?d loms?, a ç?n?? m? t? axr? g?????

     conventional orthography:

3. (geometry) area

Declension

Derived terms

• Achar an Dá Lá Dhéag (“the Twelve Days of Christmas; Epiphany”)

Mutation

References

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “ochair”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• “achar” in Foclóir Gae?ilge agus Béarla, Irish Texts Society, 1st ed., 1904, by Patrick S. Dinneen, page 3.
• "achar" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
• Entries containing “achar” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
• Entries containing “achar” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.
• “achar” at the Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926 of the Royal Irish Academy.

Old Irish

Adjective

achar

1. Alternative form of aicher

Declension

Mutation

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /?.??a?/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /a.??a(?)/, [?.??ä(?)]
• Hyphenation: a?char

Etymology 1

From Old Portuguese achar, from Latin affl?re, present active infinitive of affl?. Cognate with Spanish hallar.

Verb

achar (first-person singular present indicative acho, past participle achado)

1. (transitive) to find; to encounter (to come across something that was unknown or had been lost)

2. (ditransitive, copulative for the second object) to find; to consider (to have the opinion that a given thing has the given quality)

3. (ditransitive, copulative for the second object) to find (to come across something in the given state)

4. (transitive with que) to think; to think that (to have the given opinion)

5. (transitive with de) to think of (to have an opinion regarding the worth of someone or something)

6. (takes a reflexive pronoun, copulative) to be (in the given state or condition)

7. (Brazil, slang, takes a reflexive pronoun) to be arrogant or act arrogantly; to think too highly of oneself

8. first-person singular (eu) personal infinitive of achar
9. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) personal infinitive of achar
10. first-person singular (eu) future subjunctive of achar
11. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) future subjunctive of achar

Conjugation

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:achar.

Synonyms

• (to encounter): encontrar
• (to consider): considerar
• (to come across in a given state): encontrar
• (to think that): pensar que, crer que
• (to think of): pensar
• (to be in a state): estar, encontrar-se

Related terms

• inchar
• soprar

Etymology 2

From Hindi ???? (?c?r) and Urdu ????? (???r), from Persian ????? (â?âr).

Noun

achar m (plural achares)

1. achar (a spicy and salty pickle of Indian cuisine)

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:achar.

Further reading

• “achar” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.