stir-fry

See also: stirfry, and stir fry

English

Etymology

From stir +‎ fry. Coined by Buwei Yang Chao in 1945, in How to Cook and Eat in Chinese.

Pronunciation

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Verb

stir-fry (third-person singular simple present stir-fries, present participle stir-frying, simple past and past participle stir-fried)

1. (transitive) To fry quickly in hot oil whilst constantly stirring, especially in a wok or similar pan.

Translations

fry something quickly in hot oil

• Afrikaans: roerbraai
• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Burmese: please add this translation if you can
• Catalan: saltar (ca)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 炒 (caau²)

  Mandarin: 炒 (zh) (chǎo)

• Czech: osmažit
• Dutch: roerbakken (nl)
• Finnish: wokata
• French: sauter (fr)
• German: (fry quickly at great heat) anbraten (de); (emphasizing the stirring) unter ständigem Rühren anbraten; (specialist also) pfannenrühren
• Hebrew: הקפיץ (he) (hikpíts)
• Hungarian: dobva-rázva süt
• Indonesian: gongseng (id), oseng
• Italian: rosolare (it), saltare (it)
• Japanese: 炒める (ja) (itameru)
• Khmer: ឆា (km) (cʰaa), ឆាឆុរ (cʰaa cʰol)
• Lao: please add this translation if you can
• Malay: goreng kilas
• Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
• Norman: fricachi à la Chinnouaise
• Portuguese: refogar (pt)
• Russian: жа́рить в ма́сле (žáritʹ v másle)
• Spanish: sofreír (es), saltear (es)
• Swedish: woka (sv), snabbsteka, sautera (sv)
• Tagalog: gisa
• Thai: ผัด (th) (pàt)
• Tibetan: please add this translation if you can
• Tày: xảo, bốm
• Vietnamese: xào (vi)
• Welsh: tro-ffrio
• Zhuang: cauj

Noun

Stir fry in a wok.

stir-fry (countable and uncountable, plural stir-fries or stir-frys)

1. 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
• Italian: please add this translation if you can
• Japanese: 炒め物 (ja) (itame-mono)
• Macanese: chau-cháu
• Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
• Norman: fricachie Chinnouaise f
• Portuguese: refogado m
• Russian: жарко́е (ru) n (žarkóje)
• Spanish: sofrito (es) m, salteado (es) m
• Swedish: wok (sv) c
• Tagalog: ginisa
• Tibetan: please add this translation if you can
• Zhuang: please add this translation if you can