carbonara

From the Italian carbonara, shortening of alla carbonara (literally “in the manner of charcoal burners”, or “in the manner of the Carbonari”), ultimately from carbone (“coal”).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˌkɑːbəˈnɑːɹə/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˌkɑɹbəˈnɑɹə/, /ˌkɑɹbəˈnæɹə/
• Rhymes: -ɑːɹə, -æɹə

carbonara (countable and uncountable, plural carbonaras)

1. A thick Italian pasta sauce, made with guanciale, grated cheese, beaten egg yolks and pepper.
   • 1999, Roger D. Skillings, Where the Time Goes‎^[1], page 10:

     One of my own grand carbonaras, some crisp and spicy greens, a clean Tuscan white, a pint of raspberry sorbet, a pot of freshly ground strong coffee, and a long beguiling night on my couch in pajamas with cannabis, good TV, and no qualms about the future, please.

2. (by extension) A spaghetti dish made using such a sauce.
3. (by extension, sometimes proscribed) A spaghetti dish made using a similar sauce made from a different type of cured pork than guanciale (such as bacon, pancetta, lardons, gammon or ham).

Borrowed from Italian carbonara.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɑrbonɑːrɑ/, [ˈkɑ̝rbo̞ˌnɑ̝ːrɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -ɑːrɑ
• Syllabification^(key): car‧bo‧na‧ra
• Hyphenation^(key): car‧bo‧na‧ra

carbonara

1. carbonara

• IPA^(key): /kar.boˈna.ra/
• Rhymes: -ara
• Hyphenation: car‧bo‧nà‧ra

carbonara

1. feminine singular of carbonaro

• alla carbonara

carbonara f (plural carbonare)

1. female equivalent of carbonaro (“charcoal burner; member of the Carbonari”)
2. (by ellipsis) carbonara sauce
3. (by ellipsis and by extension) carbonara pasta or, more specifically, spaghetti

   Synonyms: pasta alla carbonara, spaghetti alla carbonara

• barracano

• IPA^(key): /kaɾboˈnaɾa/ [kaɾ.β̞oˈna.ɾa]
• Rhymes: -aɾa
• Syllabification: car‧bo‧na‧ra

carbonara f (plural carbonaras)

1. carbonara (sauce)

carbonara

1. first/third-person singular imperfect subjunctive of carbonar

• “carbonara”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024