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ketchup
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ketch·up  (kchp, kch-) also catch·up (kchp, kch-) or cat·sup (ktsp, kchp, kch-)
n.
A condiment consisting of a thick, smooth-textured, spicy sauce usually made from tomatoes.

[Probably Malay kicap, fish sauce, possibly from Chinese (Cantonese) k-chap, equivalent to Chinese (Mandarin) qié, eggplant + Chinese (Mandarin) zh, sap, gravy.]
Word History: The word ketchup exemplifies the types of modifications that can take place in borrowingboth of words and substances. The source of our word ketchup may be the Malay word kchap, possibly taken into Malay from the Cantonese dialect of Chinese. Kchap, like ketchup, was a sauce, but one without tomatoes; rather, it contained fish brine, herbs, and spices. Sailors seem to have brought the sauce to Europe, where it was made with locally available ingredients such as the juice of mushrooms or walnuts. At some unknown point, when the juice of tomatoes was first used, ketchup as we know it was born. But it is important to realize that in the 18th and 19th centuries ketchup was a generic term for sauces whose only common ingredient was vinegar. The word is first recorded in English in 1690 in the form catchup, in 1711 in the form ketchup, and in 1730 in the form catsup. All three spelling variants of this foreign borrowing remain current.

ketchup [ˈkɛtʃəp], catchup, catsup
n
(Cookery) any of various piquant sauces containing vinegar tomato ketchup
[from Chinese (Amoy) kōetsiap brine of pickled fish, from kōe seafood + tsiap sauce]
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.ketchup - thick spicy sauce made from tomatoesketchup - thick spicy sauce made from tomatoes
condiment - a preparation (a sauce or relish or spice) to enhance flavor or enjoyment; "mustard and ketchup are condiments"
Translations
ketchup [ˈketʃəp] Nsalsa f de tomate, catsup m

ketchup [ˈkɛtʃʌp] nketchup m

ketchup
nKet(s)chup nt or m

ketchup [ˈkɛtʃəp] n (also tomato ketchup) → ketchup m inv

ketchup
n ketchup [ˈketʃəp]
a flavouring sauce made from tomatoes or mushrooms etc. tamatiesous صَلْصَة من البنْدورَه кетчуп kečup ketchup das Ketchup σάλτσα ντομάτας, κέτσαπ salsa de tomate, ketchup ketšup کچاب؛ سس گوجه ketsuppi ketchup קֶטשוֹפּ टमाटर की चटनी pikantni umak od rajčica, gljiva i dr. ketchup saus tomat tómatsósa ketchup ケチャップ 케첩 kečupas kečups sos tomato ketchup ketchup ketchup, sos pomidorowy molho de tomate ketchup кетчуп kečup kečap kečap ketchup, soja ซอสมะเขือเทศ ketçap 番茄醬 кетчуп ٹماٹر ، مشروم وغیرہ سے بنی چٹنی nước sốt cà chua ()番

ketchup كاتشب kečup ketchup Ketchup κέτσαπ ketchup ketsuppi ketchup kečap ketchup ケチャップ 케첩 ketchup ketchup ketchup ketchup кетчуп ketchup ซ๊อสมะเขือเทศ ketçap nước sốt cà chua 蕃茄酱


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