different between restaurant vs chinky

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French restaurant, present participle of the verb restaurer, corresponding to Latin restaurans, restaurantis, present participle of restauro (“I restore”), from the name of the 'restorative' soup served in the first establishments.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /???s.t(?).???/, /???s.t(?).??nt/, /???s.t(?).?(?)nt/
• (US) IPA^(key): /???s.t(?)???nt/, /???s.t(?).??nt/
• Hyphenation: tau?rant

Noun

restaurant (plural restaurants)

1. An eating establishment in which diners are served food, usually by waiters at their tables but sometimes (as in a fast food restaurant) at a counter.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:restaurant

Derived terms

• resto

Related terms

• restaurateur

Translations

See also

• bar
• cook, chef
• drive-in
• fast food
• grill
• menu, Appendix:Menus
• slow food
• waiter m, waitress f, waitron

Afrikaans

Alternative forms

• restourant

Etymology

From Dutch restaurant, from French restaurant.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /r?st????rant/, /r?stu?rant/

Noun

restaurant (plural restaurante or restaurants, diminutive restaurantjie)

1. restaurant

Catalan

Etymology

From French restaurant.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /r?s.t?w??ant/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /r?s.t?w??an/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /res.taw??ant/
• Rhymes: -ant

Noun

restaurant m (plural restaurants)

1. restaurant

Verb

restaurant

1. present participle of restaurar

Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from French restaurant.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [??sd?o????]

Noun

restaurant c (singular definite restauranten, plural indefinite restauranter)

1. restaurant

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French restaurant.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /r?sto??r?nt/, /r?stu?r?nt/, /r?st??r?nt/
• Hyphenation: res?tau?rant
• Rhymes: -?nt

Noun

restaurant n (plural restaurants or restauranten, diminutive restaurantje n)

1. restaurant

Usage notes

In Belgium, the plural form restauranten is common and co-exists with the plural form restaurants. In the Netherlands, the plural form restauranten is rare.

Derived terms

Descendants

• Afrikaans: restaurant
• ? Indonesian: restoran

French

Etymology

From the present participle of restaurer. Corresponds to Latin restaurans, restaurantem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??s.t?.???/

Noun

restaurant m (plural restaurants)

1. restaurant

Verb

restaurant

1. present participle of restaurer

Related terms

• restaurer
• restauration

Descendants

Further reading

• “restaurant” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Latin

Verb

restaurant

1. third-person plural present active indicative of restaur?

Norman

Etymology

Either inherited from Old French or borrowed from French.

Noun

restaurant m (plural restaurants)

1. restaurant

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

Borrowed from French restaurant.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /r?st??r??/

Noun

restaurant m (definite singular restauranten, indefinite plural restauranter, definite plural restaurantene)

1. a restaurant

References

• “restaurant” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

Borrowed from French restaurant.

Noun

restaurant m (definite singular restauranten, indefinite plural restaurantar, definite plural restaurantane)

1. a restaurant

References

• “restaurant” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Romanian

Etymology

From French restaurant.

Noun

restaurant n (plural restaurante)

1. restaurant

English

Etymology

chink +? -y

Pronunciation

Adjective

chinky (comparative more chinky, superlative most chinky)

1. Full of chinks, laden with small cracks or openings.
   • 1826, Benjamin Apthorp Gould, The Works of Vergil: Translated into English Prose

     […] the accustomed warmth pierced his marrow, and ran thrilling through his shaken bones; just as when at times, with forked thunder burst, a chinky stream of fire in flashy lightning shoots athwart the skies.

   • 1884, The Australian Journal

     The door was knockerless and chinky, and creaked dismally as I inserted the key.

2. (derogatory, offensive) Possessing attributes of, or similar to, a Chinese person or Chinese style or culture.

Noun

chinky (plural chinkies)

1. (Britain, slang, possibly offensive) A Chinese takeaway restaurant.
2. (Britain, slang, possibly offensive) A meal of Chinese food.
3. (offensive) A Chinese person.
4. (India, offensive) A person from Northeast India.

Synonyms

• chink