dumpling

English

Shrimp dumplings.

Etymology

A folk word [c. 1600s], apparently from a Norfolk dialect, of uncertain origin. Perhaps from some Low German word or from dialectal dump (“lump”) [late 1800s], possibly associated with -ling by popular etymology.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈdʌmplɪŋ/
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Noun

dumpling (plural dumplings)

(cooking) A ball of dough that is cooked and may have a filling and/or additional ingredients in the dough. [from 17th c.]
(familiar) A term of endearment.
My little dumpling.
(mildly vulgar) A piece of excrement.
- 2018 Brent Butt as Brent Herbert Leroy, "Sasquatch Your Language", Corner Gas Animated
  Wherever legitimate tracks are found there's always some fresh scat, y'know, poo, flop, dumplings.

Hyponyms

See also Thesaurus:dumpling

Derived terms

potato dumpling
raspberry dumpling

rice dumpling
soup dumpling

Translations

food

Albanian: please add this translation if you can
Arabic: دَامْبْلِنْغ‎‎ m (dāmblinḡ)
Armenian: խմորագնդիկ (xmoragndik)
Azerbaijani: klyotek, mantı
Bashkir: манты (mantï)
Belarusian: пяльме́нь m (pjalʹmjénʹ)
Bulgarian: кне́дла f (knédla)
Burmese: ပေါက်စီ (my) (paukci) (Chinese baozi)
Catalan: mandonguilla f, nyoqui m
Chinese:
Cantonese: 餃子, 饺子 (gaau² zi²)

Dungan: бозы (bozь)

Mandarin: 餃子 (zh), 饺子 (zh) (jiǎozi)
Czech: knedlík (cs) m, haluška f
Danish: dumpling
Dutch: knoedel (nl) m
Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
Estonian: klimp (et)
Finnish: myky (fi), kokkare (fi)
French: quenelle (fr) f, ravioli (fr) m
Georgian: პელმენი (ṗelmeni) (Russian pelmeni)
German: Knödel (de) m, Kloß (de) m, Klops (de) m
Hindi: गुलगुला (hi) (gulgulā)
Hungarian: galuska (hu), nokedli (hu), gombóc (hu)
Italian: gnocco (it) m
Japanese: 餃子 (ja) (ぎょうざ, gyōza), ギョーザ (gyōza)
Kazakh: тұшпара (tuşpara), мәнті (mänti)
Korean: 만두 (ko) (mandu), 교자 (ko) (gyoja) (gyoza), 펠메니 (ko) (pelmeni) (Russian pelmeni)
Kyrgyz: манты (ky) (mantı), мантуу (mantuu), чүчбара (ky) (çüçbara)
Lao: ກ້ຽວ (kiāu)

Latvian: ķiļķens m, klimpa f
Lithuanian: kukulis m, gružulis m, kankolas m, apskritainis m
Luxembourgish: Kniddel f
Macedonian: кнедла f (knedla)
Maori: motumotu
Mongolian: банш (mn) (banš), бууз (mn) (buuz), ᠪᠠᠩᠰᠢ (bangsi)
Navajo: kʼíneeshbízhii
Norwegian:
Bokmål: melbolle
Persian: منتو‎‎ (mantu), دامبلینگ‎‎ (dâmpling)
Polish: pieróg (pl) m
Portuguese: bolinho (pt) m
Russian: пельме́нь (ru) m (pelʹménʹ), клёцка (ru) f (kljócka) (no filling), галу́шка (ru) f (galúška) (no filling), манты́ (ru) f pl (mantý), манту́ (ru) f, n (mantú), маньто́у (ru) f, n (manʹtóu)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: нокла f, ноклица f, кне́дла m, кне́дл m, гомбоца f

Roman: nokla (sh) f, noklica (sh) f, knédla (sh) m, knédl m, gomboca (sh) f
Slovak: knedľa f, haluška f
Slovene: cmok (sl) m
Spanish: empanadilla (es) f, albóndiga (es) f, ñoqui (es) m
Swedish: klimp (sv) c, knyte (sv) n, dumpling (sv) c, pirog (sv) c
Tajik: тушбера (tušbera)
Tatar: манты (mantı)
Thai: เกี๊ยว (th) (gíao)
Turkish: mantı (tr)
Tuvan: манчы (mančı)
Ukrainian: пельме́нь m (pelʹménʹ), кле́цька f (klécʹka) (no filling), галу́шка f (halúška) (no filling), пирі́г m (pyríh) (Western Ukraine)
Uyghur: جۇۋاۋا‎‎ (juwawa), بەنشىر‎‎ (benshir), بەنشىرە‎‎ (benshire)
Uzbek: chuchvara (uz), manti (uz)
Vietnamese: mằn thắn (vi), vằn thắn, hoành thánh
Yiddish: קניידל‎‎ n (kneydl)

term of endearment

Finnish: kultamussukka
French: chou (fr) m

Portuguese: docinho m
Russian: пы́шечка f (pýšečka), пы́шка (ru) f (pýška)

References

Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967