chutney

See also: Chutney

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Hindustani चटनी (caṭnī) / چَٹْنِی (caṭnī).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃʌtni/

  • Audio (Southern England):

    (file)

• (Northern England) IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃʊtni/
• Rhymes: -ʌtni

Noun

varied chutneys

chutney (usually uncountable, plural chutneys)

1. A sweet or savory but usually spicy condiment, originally from eastern India, made from a variety of fruits and/or vegetables, often containing significant amounts of fresh green or dried red chili peppers. [from 1813]

   mango chutney

   lemon chutney

2. (music) A style of Indo-Caribbean music from the West Indies, associated especially with Trinidad and Tobago.

Derived terms

• chutney ferret
• chutney-soca
• chutney soca
• chutnification
• Major Grey's chutney

Descendants

• → French: chutney
• → German: Chutney
• → Italian: chutney
• → Japanese: チャツネ
• → Portuguese: chutney
• → Spanish: chutney
• → Swedish: chutney

Translations

condiment

• Afrikaans: blatjang
• Arabic: تْشَاتْنِي m (tšātnī)
• Bengali: চাটনি (bn) (caṭoni)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 酸辣醬 / 酸辣酱 (zh) (suānlàjiàng)

• Czech: čatní (cs) n
• Danish: chutney c
• Esperanto: ĉatnio
• Finnish: sose (fi), chutney
• French: chutney (fr)
• German: Chutney (de) n
• Greek: τσάτνεϊ (el) n (tsátneï)
• Gujarati: ચટણી (caṭṇī)
• Haitian Creole: chutne
• Hebrew: צ׳טני (chatni)
• Hindi: चटनी (hi) f (caṭnī)
• Irula: பஜ்ஜி (bajji)
• Italian: chutney (it) f
• Japanese: チャツネ (chatsune), チャトゥニー (chatunī)
• Kashmiri: ژؠٹِنؠ (ċyaṭin'), ژیٛۆٹ (ċyoṭ)
• Kazakh: чатни (čatnıy)
• Korean: 처트니 (cheoteuni)
• Malayalam: ചമ്മന്തി (ml) (cammanti), ചട്ണി (ml) (caṭṇi)
• Marathi: चटणी f (caṭṇī)
• Mauritian Creole: satini
• Persian:

  Dari: چَتْنِی (čatnī)

  Iranian Persian: چاشْنی (čâšni), چَتْنی (čatni)

• Polish: ćatni n, gąszcz (pl) m or f, czatnej m
• Portuguese: chutney m, chetnim m
• Punjabi:

  Gurmukhi: ਚਟਣੀ f (caṭṇī)

• Russian: ча́тни (ru) n (čátni)
• Spanish: chatni (es) m, chutney m
• Tamil: சட்னி (ta) (caṭṉi)
• Telugu: పచ్చడి (te) (paccaḍi)
• Ukrainian: ча́тні n (čátni)
• Urdu: چَٹْنی f (caṭnī)
• Vietnamese: tương ớt (vi) (醬𬨖)
• Welsh: catwad m
• Yiddish: טשאַטני (tshatni)

Anagrams

• chuntey, untechy

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English chutney, ultimately from Hindi.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /(t)ʃœt.ni/

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

chutney m (plural chutneys)

1. chutney (condiment)

Italian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English chutney, ultimately from Hindi.

Noun

chutney m (invariable)

1. chutney

Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English chutney, ultimately from Hindi.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ʃu.t͡ʃiˈnej/ [ʃu.t͡ʃiˈneɪ̯], /ʃut͡ʃˈnej/ [ʃut͡ʃˈneɪ̯]

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ʃutˈnɐj/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ʃutˈnɐj/
  • (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /t͡ʃutˈnɐj/

• Hyphenation: chut‧ney

Noun

chutney m (uncountable)

1. chutney (condiment)

   Synonym: (India) chetnim

References

• “chutney”, in Dicionário Infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2026
• “chutney”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2026, →ISBN

Spanish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English chutney, ultimately from Hindi.

Noun

chutney m (plural chutneys)

1. chutney

Usage notes

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.

Swedish

Noun

chutney c

1. chutney (condiment)

Declension

Declension of chutney

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	chutney	chutneys
	definite	chutneyn	chutneyns
plural	indefinite	—	—
	definite	—	—

References

• “chutney”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)
• “chutney”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)