different between whisky vs shochu

English

Alternative forms

• whiskey (Ireland, US)

Etymology

Attested since the early 18th century. Variant of usque, abbreviation of usquebaugh (compare obsolete whiskybae). From Scottish Gaelic uisge-beatha and Irish uisce beatha (“water of life”). Compare aquavit, from Latin aqua vitae (“water of life”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?w?ski/, /???ski/
• Hyphenation: whis?ky

Noun

whisky (countable and uncountable, plural whiskies)

1. (chiefly Britain and Canada) An alcoholic liquor distilled from fermented grain and usually aged in oak barrels.
2. (chiefly Britain and Canada) A drink of this liquor.
3. (historical) A light gig or carriage.

   Synonym: tim-whiskey

   • 1768, Ignatius Sancho, letter to Mr. M—, in Letters of the Late Ignatius Sancho, London: J. Nichols, 3rd edition, 1784, pp. 7-8,^[2]

     Look into old age, you will see avarice joined to poverty—letchery, gout, impotency, like three monkeys, or London bucks, in a one-horse whisky, driving to the Devil.

   • 1772, George Alexander Stevens, “The Portrait” in Songs, Comic, and Satyrical, Oxford: for the author, p. 202,^[3]

     Ye Ladies of Lapland who beesoms bestride,

     Or, pair’d in Witch Whiskeys, aslant the Moon slide;

   • 1797, Charlotte Lennox, The History of Sir George Warrington, London: J. Bell, Volume 1, Chapter 4, p. 46,^[4]

     At the appointed time Mr. Kettering’s one-horse chaise, or rather whisky, drove up to the door; for, as it was principally intended for him to visit his patients, when disinclined to mount his horse, it was built in the lightest manner, and without a head, that it might move with the greater expedition.

Usage notes

The regional spellings whisky and whiskey are also used world-wide to distinguish regional drinks, for example Scotch whisky, but bourbon whiskey.

Translations

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from English whisky.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /?wis.ki/

Noun

whisky m (plural whiskys or whiskies)

1. whisky, whiskey

Czech

Alternative forms

• viska

Etymology

Borrowed from English whisky.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?v?sk?]
• Hyphenation: whi?s?ky

Noun

whisky f

1. whisky, whiskey

Declension

Further reading

• whisky in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• whisky in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English whisky.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???ski/
• Hyphenation: whis?ky

Noun

whisky m (plural whisky's, diminutive whisky'tje n)

1. (a glass of) whisky, whiskey

French

Alternative forms

• ouisqui (rare)
• ouisquie (rare)
• ouiski (rare)
• whiskey

Etymology

Borrowed from English whisky.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /wis.ki/

Noun

whisky m (plural whiskies or whiskys)

1. whisky, whiskey

Synonyms

• visqui (rare)

Further reading

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

Galician

Etymology

Borrowed from English whisky.

Noun

whisky m (plural [please provide])

1. whisky, whiskey

Greenlandic

Etymology

Borrowed from English whisky (probably via Danish whisky).

Noun

whisky (plural whiskyt)

1. whisky

References

• whisky in Katersat

Hungarian

Etymology

Borrowed from English whisky.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?viski]
• Hyphenation: whis?ky
• Rhymes: -ki

Noun

whisky (plural whiskyk)

1. whisky (US, Ireland: whiskey)

Declension

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?wis.ki/
• Rhymes: -iski
• Hyphenation: whis?ky

Etymology 1

Unadapted borrowing from English whisky, alternative form of usque, shortening of usquebaugh, from Irish uisce beatha (literally “water of life”) and Scottish Gaelic uisge beatha (literally “water of life”).

Noun

whisky m (invariable)

1. (countable and uncountable) whisky, whiskey

References

• whisky¹ in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Etymology 2

Unadapted borrowing from English whisky, derived from whisk.

Noun

whisky m (invariable)

1. whisky (light carriage)

References

• whisky² in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Norman

Etymology

Borrowed from English whisky, ultimately from Old Irish uisce.

Noun

whisky m (plural whiskys)

1. (Jersey) whisky, whiskey

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

Borrowed from English whisky, originally from Gaelic.

Noun

whisky m (definite singular whiskyen, indefinite plural whiskyer, definite plural whiskyene)

1. whisky

References

• “whisky” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

Borrowed from English whisky, originally from Gaelic.

Noun

whisky m (definite singular whiskyen, indefinite plural whiskyar, definite plural whiskyane)

1. whisky

References

• “whisky” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Polish

Etymology

From English whisky, from Irish uisce beatha, Scottish Gaelic uisge-beatha (literally “water of life”), from Proto-Celtic *udenskyos (“water”) + *biwotos (“life”), from *biwos (“alive”), calque of Latin aqua vitae.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?w?s.k?i/, /?wis.k?i/

Noun

whisky n (indeclinable)

1. whisky, whiskey

Further reading

• whisky in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• whisky in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from English whisky.

Noun

whisky m (plural whiskys)

1. Alternative form of uísque

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French whisky, from English whisky.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?uj.ski/, /?wi.ski/

Noun

whisky n (plural whisky-uri)

1. whisky, whiskey

Declension

Slovak

Etymology

Borrowed from English whisky, from Scottish Gaelic uisge-beatha and Irish uisce beatha (“water of life”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??is.ki/

Noun

whisky f nondeclinable

1. whisky, whiskey

Derived terms

• whiskový

Further reading

• whisky in Slovak dictionaries at slovnik.juls.savba.sk

Spanish

Alternative forms

• güisqui, wiski

Etymology

Borrowed from English whisky.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?wiski/, [?wis.ki]

Noun

whisky m (uncountable)

1. whisky (alcoholic liquor)

Further reading

• “whisky” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.
• whisky on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^es

Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from English whisky.

Noun

whisky c

1. Whisky, whiskey (alcoholic drink)

Declension

English

Etymology

From Japanese ?? (sh?ch? ??????), from Mandarin ?? (compare Mandarin sh?oji? ??, Korean soju ??), from ? ("burn", "flammable") + ? ("alcohol").

Noun

shochu (uncountable)

1. A Japanese alcoholic beverage, most commonly distilled from barley, sweet potato or rice. Typically it is 25% alcohol by volume, making it weaker than whisky, but stronger than wine and sake.

See also

• sake
• awamori

Anagrams

• choush

Italian

Etymology

Japanese

Noun

shochu m (invariable)

1. shochu