English
Etymology
From stir + fry. Coined by Buwei Yang Chao in 1945, in How to Cook and Eat in Chinese.
Pronunciation
Verb
stir-fry (third-person singular simple present stir-fries, present participle stir-frying, simple past and past participle stir-fried)
- (transitive) To fry quickly in hot oil whilst constantly stirring, especially in a wok or similar pan.
Translations
fry something quickly in hot oil
Noun
stir-fry (countable and uncountable, plural stir-fries or stir-frys)
- Food cooked in this manner.
Translations
dish
- Afrikaans: roerbraai
- Arabic: please add this translation if you can
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: (fried with rice) 炒飯 / 炒饭 (zh) (chǎofàn), (fried with noodles) 炒麵 / 炒面 (zh) (chǎomiàn), 小炒 (xiǎochǎo)
- Czech: please add this translation if you can
- Dutch: roerbakschotel f, roerbak (nl) m
- Esperanto: kirlofritaĵo
- Estonian: vokk, vokiroog
- Finnish: wokki (fi)
- French: sauté (fr) m
- German: Pfannengericht n; (in compounds) -pfanne; (traditional dish with stir-fried strips of meat) Geschnetzeltes (de) n
- Hebrew: מֻקְפָּץ m (muqpátz)
- Hungarian: serpenyős zöldség
- Irish: suaithfhriochadh
- Italian: please add this translation if you can
- Japanese: 炒め物 (ja) (itame-mono)
- Macanese: chau-cháu
- Maori: kapekape
- Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
- Norman: fricachie Chinnouaise f
- Okinawan: ちゃんぷるー
- Portuguese: refogado m
- Russian: жарко́е (ru) n (žarkóje)
- Spanish: sofrito (es) m, salteado (es) m
- Swedish: wok (sv) c
- Tagalog: ginisa
- Thai: ผัด (th) (pàt)
- Tibetan: please add this translation if you can
- Zhuang: please add this translation if you can
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