tartare

French tartare (literally “Tartar”).

• (rhotic) IPA^(key): /tɑːɹˈtɑːɹ/
• (non-rhotic) IPA^(key): /tɑːˈtɑː/
• (Aus/NZ, as in tartare sauce) IPA^(key): /ˈtɑː(ɹ)tɛə(ɹ)/

tartare (not comparable)

1. Chopped fine and served raw.

   steak tartare; salmon tartare

tartare (countable and uncountable, plural tartares)

1. A foodstuff chopped fine and served raw.

   We ordered two steak tartares.

2. Ellipsis of tartare sauce.

Inherited from Middle French tartar.

• IPA^(key): /taʁ.taʁ/

tartare (plural tartares)

1. (relational) Tartar, Tatar (relating to the Tatar people or their culture)

• sauce tartare
• steak tartare

tartare m or f by sense (plural tartares)

1. Tartar, Tatar (a member of the Tatar people)

tartare m (countable and uncountable, plural tartares)

1. ellipsis of steak tartare
2. synonym of tatar (“Tatar language”)

• “tartare” in Collins French-English Dictionary
• “tartare”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

From French tartare (“Tartar”), from the belief that the Tartars, having little time for cooking, put the desiccated meat under their horses' saddles while riding, in order to soften it prior to eating it.

• tartar

• tartara (Italianized)

• IPA^(key): /tarˈtar/
• Rhymes: -ar
• Hyphenation: tar‧tàre

tartare f (invariable)

1. a tartare dish

   Vorrei una tartare di tonno, per favore. ― I'll have a tuna tartare, please.

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtar.ta.re/
• Rhymes: -artare
• Hyphenation: tàr‧ta‧re

tartare f pl

1. feminine plural of tartaro

• atterra, atterrà