menu

Borrowed from French menu. Doublet of menudo and minute.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɛnjuː/
• (General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈmɛnju/
• (Wales, Ottawa Valley) IPA^(key): /ˈmɛnɪu̯/

• Audio (US):

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• (Indic) IPA^(key): /menˈ(j)uː/
• Rhymes: -ɛnjuː

menu (plural menus)

1. The details of the food to be served at a banquet; a bill of fare.
2. A list containing the food and beverages served at a restaurant, café, or bar. Menus may be printed on paper sheets provided to customers, put on a large poster or display board inside the establishment, displayed outside the restaurant, or digital.

   The server handed us the menu.

   We selected duck pâté and chicken goujons from the menu.

3. The food or drinks that are available in a restaurant, café, or bar.

   They took the chicken sandwich off their menu.

   We've added a few new dishes to our menu.

4. (computing, gaming) A list from which the user may select an operation to be performed, often done with a keyboard, mouse, or controller under a graphical user interface
5. A list or agenda.

   What's on the menu for today's meeting?

• → Cebuano: menu
• → Gulf Arabic: منيو (minyu)
• → Japanese: メニュー (menyū)
• → Korean: 메뉴 (menyu)
• → Thai: เมนู (mee-nuu)
• → Tok Pisin: menyu

menu (third-person singular simple present menus, present participle menuing, simple past and past participle menued)

1. (transitive, rare) To include (something) in a menu.
   • 1991, Food Management, volume 26, page 139:

     He created this prize-winning dish last December, to serve at a catered dinner that honored benefactors of Nashua Memorial Hospital. At that elaborate holiday repast, Quimby menued the seafood dish as a first course. However, he noted, his dish is substantial enough to serve as a satisfying entree.

   • 1991, School Food Service Journal, volume 45, page 65:

     […] held their own, then that child nutrition program would consider menuing the product in the future. Kater knew he was in trouble when he saw what he was up against that day: pizza and chicken nuggets, two of the most popular school lunches served in today’s schools.

   • 2001, Restaurant Business, volume 100, page 90, column 1:

     “Menuing a bisque allows you to charge another dollar or two for the soup. Instead of $8, I can charge $11,” says Beacon’s chef and an owner, Waldy Malouf.

   • 2002, Restaurant Business, volume 101, page 86, column 3:

     He first menued the chop two years ago, expecting a short run, but has seen surprising customer loyalty: “If I took it off the menu, there would be an uprising.”

   • 2003, Restaurant Business, volume 102, page 66, column 3:

     […] scale chef who couldn’t resist menuing the classic. But unlike Regis, Gardner’s take has a few unexpected extras.

   • 2009, Chef, volume 53, page 20:

     Depending upon your customer base, you may want to menu options that are gluten-free (G-F), vegan, macrobiotic, organic or even create a healthful kids’ menu. In fact, none of these categories are mutually exclusive, so you might consider menuing a dessert like Brownies with Cashew Cream, a popular item fitting all those categories, served at the Cal Dining-sponsored “Raw Food Chef Night” at the University of California, Berkeley ([…]).

   • 2019, Alan Paris, Filament II: Brighten the World, Bloomington, Ind.: iUniverse, →ISBN:

     Along with the meats, local Gnocchi, Borgotaro malfatti, made from ricotta, herbs, and spinach were menued. The mixture contained eggs and breadcrumbs to bind the ingredients, the chef optioning grated cheese. White truffles, Borgotaro mushrooms and stuffed tortellini bordered the fresh fish catch of the day. The bishop explained, “You’ll find our tastings vary significantly from the cuisine served at your restaurants in New York City– where the Neapolitan and Sicilian sauces are prevalent. […]”

• Appendix:Menus

• menu on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• menu (computing) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• MUNE, enum, neum

menu (plural menu's)

1. menu

From English menu, from French menu. Doublet of minuto and menudo.

• Hyphenation: me‧nu

menu

1. a bill of fare
2. a menu; a list of dishes offered in a restaurant
3. a computer menu

menu

1. tongue

From English menu.

menu

1. (Hong Kong Cantonese) menu

Borrowed from French menu.

• IPA^(key): [ˈmɛnu]

menu n (indeclinable)

1. menu

   denní menu ― daily menu

   uživatelské menu ― user menu

• “menu”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “menu”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “menu”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025

Borrowed from French menu.

• IPA^(key): /meˈny/, [meˈny]

menu c (singular definite menuen, plural indefinite menuer)

1. menu (all senses)

• menu on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da

Borrowed from French menu.

• IPA^(key): /məˈny/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: me‧nu
• Rhymes: -y

menu n (plural menu's, diminutive menuutje n)

1. menu

   Synonyms: kaart, menukaart, spijskaart

2. (computing) menu

Borrowed from Finnish meno.

menu (genitive menu, partitive menu)

1. success, popularity

Declension of menu (ÕS type 17/elu, no gradation)
		singular	plural
nominative		menu	menud
accusative	nom.
	gen.	menu
genitive			menude
partitive		menu	menusid
illative		mennu menusse	menudesse
inessive		menus	menudes
elative		menust	menudest
allative		menule	menudele
adessive		menul	menudel
ablative		menult	menudelt
translative		menuks	menudeks
terminative		menuni	menudeni
essive		menuna	menudena
abessive		menuta	menudeta
comitative		menuga	menudega

• menyy

Borrowed from French menu.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmenu/, [ˈme̞nu]
• IPA^(key): /ˈmenyː/, [ˈme̞nyː]
• Rhymes: -enu
• Syllabification^(key): me‧nu
• Hyphenation^(key): me‧nu

menu

1. menu, bill of fare (details of the food to be served at a banquet)

   Synonyms: menukortti, menyy

2. synonym of ruokalista (“menu”) (printed list of dishes offered in a restaurant)
3. (computing) synonym of valikko (“menu”) (list from which the user may select an operation to be performed)

• “menu”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 3 July 2023

• emun

Inherited from Middle French menu, from Old French menu, from Latin minūtus (“minute, tiny”). Doublet of minute.

• IPA^(key): /mə.ny/

• Audio:

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menu (feminine menue, masculine plural menus, feminine plural menues)

1. slim, small, fine
2. minor, trifling

• les briser menues
• menuet
• menu fretin
• par le menu
• par le menu détail

menu m (plural menus)

1. detailed list
2. menu; a set meal on a menu

• menu du jour
• menu gastronomique

• “menu”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Internationalism, either from English menu or Dutch menu, from French menu, from Middle French menu, from Old French menu, from Latin minūtus (“minute, tiny”). Doublet of menit.

• (Standard Indonesian)
  • IPA^(key): /ˈmenu/ [ˈme.nu]
    • Rhymes: -enu
  • IPA^(key): /məˈnu/ [məˈnu]
    • Rhymes: -u
• Syllabification: me‧nu

The /e/ is standard, English-influenced, while the /ə/ is Dutch-influenced.

menu (plural menu-menu)

1. menu
   1. details of the food to be served at a banquet,
   2. list of dishes offered in a restaurant
   3. (computing, gaming) list from which the user may select an operation to be performed

• “menu” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

• menù

Borrowed from French menu. Doublet of minuto.

• IPA^(key): /meˈnu/^*

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -u

menu m (invariable)

1. menu

• nume

• IPA^(key): [mʲɛˈn̪ʊ]

menù

1. instrumental singular of menas

menù

1. first-person singular present of miñti

From Old French menu.

menu m (feminine singular menue, masculine plural menus, feminine plural menues)

1. small

• grand
• gross

• French: menu (see there for further descendants)

From Latin minūtus.

menu m (oblique and nominative feminine singular menue or menude)

1. small
   • 12^th Century, Unknown, Raoul de Cambrai:

     Trenche la coife de son hauberc menu

     He cut off the head of his small coat of armor

• Middle French: menu
  • French: menu (see there for further descendants)

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (menu)

Unadapted borrowing from French menu. Doublet of minuta.

• IPA^(key): /mɛˈɲi/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -i
• Syllabification: me‧nu

menu n (indeclinable)

1. menu, bill of fare (details of the food to be served at a banquet)
2. menu (printed list of dishes offered in a restaurant)

Unadapted borrowing from English menu, from French menu.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɛ.nu/, (after French) /mɛˈɲi/
• Rhymes: -ɛnu, -i
• Syllabification: me‧nu

menu n (indeclinable)

1. (computing, video games) menu (list from which the user may select an operation to be performed)

• menu in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• menu in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Borrowed from French menu.^[1][2] Doublet of miúdo and minuto.

• Rhymes: -u
• Hyphenation: me‧nu

menu m (plural menus)

1. menu (printed list of dishes offered in a restaurant)

   Synonyms: cardápio, ementa

2. (computing) menu (list from which the user may select an option)

menu (Cyrillic spelling мену)

1. accusative singular of mena

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• IPA^(key): [ˈmenu]

menu f

1. accusative singular of mena

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• IPA^(key): [ˈmenu]

menu n

1. dative singular of meno

Borrowed from French menu.

• IPA^(key): [ˈmeny]

menu n (indeclinable)

1. menu

• “menu”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2025

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

menu n (plural menu's, diminutive menuke)

1. menu

• menukaart

• “menu”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011