From en.wiktionary.org:
[Lunch]
** English
*** Etymology
Recorded since 1580 in the sense “piece, hunk”. The word [en] with the same
meaning is presumably an extension on the pattern of [en] and [en]. But
earliest found forms include [en] and [en], which are equivalent to [en], with
the suffix [en] possibly later modified to imitate a French origin.
The sense “light meal” is first attested for _luncheon_ in 1652 and for
_lunch_ in 1829, so in this sense the latter is probably a shortening of the
former.
_Lunch_ is possibly a derivative of [en] (as [en] is from [en]. See [en] for
more), or represents an alteration of [en], from [en] (see [en]) and altered
by northern English dialect [en] (1590), which perhaps is from [en] or from
[es].[1]
*** Pronunciation
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
*** Noun
[~]
1. [en] A light meal usually eaten around midday , notably when not as main meal of the day.
2. * [chapter=5]
3. [en] A break in play between the first and second session s.
4. [en] Any small meal, especially one eaten at a social gathering .
5. [en] A thin piece or hunk [of bread, meat, etc.]
**** Synonyms
- [midday meal] [en] [formal] ; [en] [obsolete]
**** Derived terms
[en]
**** Descendants
[2]
- [bn]
- [yue]
- [nl]
- [fr]
- [de]
- [ja]
- [ko]
- [nb]
- [nn]
- [pl]
- [pt]
- [ru] , [ru]
- [es]
- [sv]
- [uk]
- [yi]
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**** Translations
[meal around midday]
- Afrikaans: [af]
- Albanian: [sq] , [sq]
- Arabic: [ar]
- Armenian: [hy] , [hy]
- Aromanian: [rup]
- Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: [aii]
- Asturian: [ast]
- Azerbaijani: [az] , [az]
- Baluchi: [bal]
- Basque: [eu]
- Belarusian: [be] , [be]
- Bengali: [bn]
- Bikol Central: [bcl]
- Breton: [br]
- Bulgarian: [bg] , [bg] , [bg]
- Burmese: [my]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Cebuano: [ceb]
- Central Atlas Tamazight: [tzm] , [tzm]
- Chickasaw: [cic]
- Chinese:
- Czech: [cs]
- Danish: [da] , [da]
- Dutch: [nl] , [nl] , [nl]
- Esperanto: [eo] , [eo] , [eo]
- Estonian: [et]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr] , [fr] [Belgium] , [fr] [more specific] , [fr] [neologism] , [fr] [neologism]
- Friulian: [fur]
- Galician: [gl]
- Georgian: [ka] , [ka]
- German: [de] , [de]
- Gothic: [got]
- Greek: [el] , [el]
- Hawaiian: [haw]
- Hebrew: [he]
- Hindi: [hi] , [hi] , [hi]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Icelandic: [is] , [is]
- Ido: [io] , [io]
- Indonesian: [id]
- Ingrian: [izh]
- Ingush: [inh]
- Interlingua: [ia] , [ia]
- Inupiaq: [ik] , [ik]
- Irish: [ga]
- Italian: [it] , [it]
- Japanese: [ja] , [ja] , [ja] , [ja] , [ja]
- Kabuverdianu: [kea] , [kea]
- Kazakh: [kk] , [kk] , [kk] , [kk] , [kk]
- Khmer: [km] , [km]
- Korean: [ko] , [ko] , [ko] , [ko] [dated] , [ko] , [ko] , [ko] [phonetic loan]
- Kurdish:
- Kyrgyz: [ky] , [ky]
- Ladin: [lld]
- Lao: [lo]
- Latgalian: [ltg]
- Latin: [la]
- Latvian: [lv]
- Lithuanian: [lt]
- Macedonian: [mk]
- Malay: [ms]
- Maltese: [mt]
- Maori: [mi]
- Mazanderani: [mzn]
- Middle English: [enm]
- Mirandese: [mwl]
- Mòcheno: [mhn]
- Mongolian:
- Navajo: [nv]
- Norman: [nrf]
- Northern Sami: [se] , [se]
- Norwegian:
- Occitan: [oc]
- Old Church Slavonic:
- Old English: [ang] , [ang]
- Oromo: [om]
- Pashto: [ps]
- Pennsylvania German: [pdc]
- Persian:
- Plautdietsch: [pdt]
- Polish: [pl] , [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt] , [Portugal] [pt]
- Romanian: [ro] , [ro] , [neologism] [ro]
- Romansch: [rm]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru] , [ru] , [ru]
- Sanskrit: [sa]
- Sardinian: [sc] , [sc] , [sc]
- Scottish Gaelic: [gd]
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Sicilian: [scn]
- Sindhi: [sd]
- Slovak: [sk]
- Slovene: [sl] , [sl] , [sl]
- Sorbian:
- Spanish: [es] [Latin America] , [es] [Spain] , [es] [dialectal] , [es] [Latin America] , [es] [Latin America] , [es] [Americas]
- Swedish: [sv] , [sv]
- Tagalog: [tl]
- Tajik: [tg] , [tg] , [tg]
- Tarifit: [rif]
- Thai: [th] , [th] , [th] , [th] , [th] , [th] , [th] [ecclesiastical]
- Turkish: [tr]
- Turkmen: [tk] , [tk]
- Ukrainian: [uk] , [uk]
- Urdu: [ur] [ur] , [ur]
- Uzbek: [uz] , [uz] , [uz] , [uz]
- Venetan: [vec]
- Vietnamese: [vi] , [vi]
- Volapük: [vo]
- Walloon: [wa] , [wa]
- Welsh: [cy]
- Yiddish: [yi] , [yi] [US] , [yi]
[trans-bottom]
[cricket break]
- Bengali: [bn]
[trans-bottom]
*** Verb
[en-verb]
1. [en] [en] To eat lunch.
2. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1934 | author=w:Cole Porter | title=w:Miss Otis Regrets
|passage=Miss Otis regrets she's unable to LUNCH today.}}
1. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1909 | author=Frank Sidgwick | title=Love and battles | page=291
|passage=The gentleman had left for London after lunch. Yes, alone; but he
had LUNCHED in the hotel with a lady.}}
1. [en] To treat to lunch.
2. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1906 | author=w:H. G. Wells | title= [The Future in America: A Search After Realities]
|passage=We dined him, we lunched him, we were photographed in his company by
flashlight.}}
**** Derived terms
[en]
**** Related terms
- [en]
**** Translations
[to eat lunch]
- Albanian: [sq] , [sq]
- Aromanian: [rup]
- Basque: [eu]
- Belarusian: [be] , [be]
- Breton: [br]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Chickasaw: [cic]
- Chinese:
- Czech: [cs]
- Dalmatian: [dlm]
- Danish: [da] , [da] [da]
- Dutch: [nl] , [nl] , [nl]
- Estonian: [et]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr] , [fr] , [fr] [more specific]
- Galician: [gl]
- German: [de] , [de] , [de]
- Greek: [el]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Ido: [io]
- Ingrian: [izh]
- Interlingua: [ia] , [ia]
- Irish: [ga]
- Italian: [it]
- Japanese: [ja]
- Kabuverdianu: [kea] , [kea]
- Korean: [ko] , [ko] [more formal] , [ko] [more formal] , [ko] [honorific] , [ko] [more honorific] , [ko] [more formal] , [ko] [more formal] , [ko] [more formal] , [ko] [more formal]
- Kurdish:
- Latgalian: [ltg]
- Latin: [la]
- Latvian: [lv]
- Lithuanian: [lt]
- Macedonian: [mk]
- Maori: [mi]
- Mirandese: [mwl]
- Mongolian: [mn] , [mn]
- Polish: [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Romanian: [ro]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru]
- Sardinian: [sc] , [sc] / [sc]
- Slovak: [sk]
- Sorbian:
- Spanish: [es] , [es] [Latin America] , [es] [Americas]
- Swedish: [sv] , [sv]
- Tagalog: [tl]
- Ukrainian: [uk] , [uk]
- Vietnamese: [vi]
- Volapük: [vo]
- Walloon: [wa] , [wa] , [wa]
[trans-bottom]
*** See also
- [en]
- [en] , [en]
- [en]
*** References
[reflist]
[en]
** Chinese
*** Alternative forms
- [zh]
*** Etymology
From [yue].
*** Pronunciation
{{zh-pron |c=lan1 cyu4,lan1 cyu2 |cat=n,v }}
*** Noun
[zh]
1. [zh] [en] [c:個]
*** Verb
[zh]
1. [zh] to eat lunch; to have lunch
**** Related terms
- [zh]
** Dutch
*** Etymology
Borrowed from [nl].
*** Pronunciation
- [nl]
- [nl]
- [nl]
*** Noun
[m]
1. a [en] , a meal eat en around noon
**** Synonyms
- [nl]
**** Derived terms
- [nl] (verb)
- [nl] [m]
- [nl]
- [nl]
**** Related terms
- [nl] (verb)
- [nl]
*** Verb
[nl]
1. [nl]
*** See also
- maaltijd
- ontbijt
** French
*** Etymology
From [fr].
*** Pronunciation
- [fr-IPA]
- [fr]
*** Noun
[m]
1. a [en] , (usually light) meal around noon
2. a light meal with sandwiches, cold cuts, pastry etc. served at a festive reception
**** Derived terms
- [fr]
*** Further reading
- [R:fr:TLFi]
** Polish
[lang=pl]
*** Etymology
[pl].
*** Pronunciation
[lancz]
*** Noun
[m-in]
1. [en] [meal around midday]
**** Declension
{{pl-decl-noun |lunch|lunche |lunchu|lunchów |lunchowi|lunchom |lunch|lunche
|lunchem|lunchami |lunchu|lunchach |lunchu|lunche }}
*** Further reading
- [R:pl:WSJP]
- [R:pl:PWN]
[pl]
** Spanish
*** Alternative forms
- [es]
*** Etymology
[es].
*** Pronunciation
[lonch]
*** Noun
[m]
1. [en]
*** Further reading
- [R:es:DRAE]
[es]
** Swedish
[lang=sv]
*** Etymology
From [sv].
*** Pronunciation
- [sv]
- [sv]
- [sv]
*** Noun
[c]
1. [en] , a meal eaten around noon
**** Declension
[sv-infl-noun-c-er]
**** Related terms
[sv]
**** See also
- [sv]
- [sv]
- [sv]
- [sv]
- [sv]
- [sv]
*** References
- [so]
- [saol]
- [saob]
[sv]