咖喱

See also: 咖哩

Chinese

		phonetic
simp. and trad. (咖喱)		咖	喱
alternative forms		咖哩 chiefly Taiwan

Etymology

Borrowed from English curry, from Tamil கறி (kaṟi).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): gālí

  (Zhuyin): ㄍㄚ ㄌㄧˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): gaa³ lei¹
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): ka-lí / ka-li / ka-ri

  (Teochew, Peng'im): ga¹ li⁵

• Wu (Wugniu)
  • (Northern): ¹ka-li₆

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Mainland)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: gālí
    • Zhuyin: ㄍㄚ ㄌㄧˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: galí
    • Wade–Giles: ka¹-li²
    • Yale: gā-lí
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: gali
    • Palladius: гали (gali)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kä⁵⁵ li³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: gaa³ lei¹
    • Yale: ga lēi
    • Cantonese Pinyin: gaa³ lei¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: ga³ léi¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kaː³³ lei̯⁵⁵/
    • Homophones:

      edit edit 咖喱 咖哩

• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese, Singapore)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ka-lí
    • Tâi-lô: ka-lí
    • Phofsit Daibuun: kalie
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /ka³³ li⁵⁵⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /ka⁴⁴⁻³³ li⁴¹/
    • IPA (Taipei): /ka⁴⁴⁻³³ li⁵³/
    • IPA (Singapore): /ka⁴⁴⁻²² li⁴²/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /ka⁴⁴⁻²² li⁵³/
  • (Hokkien: Penang)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ka-li
    • Tâi-lô: ka-li
    • Phofsit Daibuun: kaly
    • IPA (Penang): /ka³³⁻²¹ li³³/
  • (Hokkien: Penang)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ka-ri
    • Tâi-lô: ka-ri
    • IPA (Penang): /ka³³⁻²¹ ɹi³³/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: ga¹ li⁵
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: ka lî
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ka³³⁻²³ li⁵⁵/
• Wu
  • (Northern: Shanghai)
    • Wugniu: ¹ka-li₆
    • MiniDict: ka^平 li^去
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ¹ka-li₃
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /ka⁵⁵ li²¹/

Noun

咖喱

1. curry
   • 1886, Lim Hiong Seng, “Provisions, Fish, Vegetable and Fruit”, in Handbook of the Swatow Vernacular, Singapore: Koh Yew Hean Press, page 95:

     簥好煮膠離 [Teochew, trad.]
     𰩸好煮胶离 [Teochew, simp.]

     giê⁵ ho² ze² ga¹ li⁵ [Peng'im]

     Brinjal can be curried.

2. (Cantonese, cant) bribe

Derived terms

• 咖喱粉 (gālífěn)
• 咖喱角 (kālíjiǎo)
• 咖喱雞／咖喱鸡 (gālíjī)
• 咖喱魚蛋／咖喱鱼蛋 (gālí yúdàn)
• 紅咖喱／红咖喱 (hónggālí)
• 綠咖喱／绿咖喱 (lǜgālí)
• 青咖喱 (qīnggālí)