kitchen

Betekenis (Engels)

Noun

1. A room or area for preparing food.
2. Cuisine; style of cooking.
3. The nape of a person's hairline, often referring to its uncombed or "nappy" look.
4. The percussion section of an orchestra.
5. A utensil for roasting meat.
6. A domesticated or uneducated form of a language.
7. (slang) A public gaming room in a casino.
8. (obsolete) Anything eaten as a relish with bread, potatoes, etc.; a condiment.
9. The region of a billiard table between the head rail and the head string.

Verb

1. To do kitchen work; to prepare food.
2. To embellish a basic food; to season, add condiments, etc.
3. To embellish; to dress up.

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/ˈkɪt͡ʃən/

Etimologie (Engels)

From Middle English kychyn, kytchen, kichene, küchen, from Old English cyċen, cyċene, from Proto-West Germanic *kukinā, a borrowing from Late Latin cocīna, from earlier coquīna (“kitchen; cuisine”), from coquō (“to cook”), from Proto-Indo-European *pekʷ- (“to cook, become ripe”).
In other languages, the cognate term often refers both to the room and the type of cooking. In English, the distinction is generally made via the etymological twins kitchen (“room”) (Latin via Germanic) and cuisine (“type of cooking”) (Latin via French).