French toast

See also: french toast

English

French toast with toppings.

Alternative forms

• french toast

Etymology

First recorded use in 1660, in a recipe without eggs, in the current sense from 1870s. The common French name for the dish is pain perdu (literally “lost bread”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌfɹɛnt͡ʃ ˈtəʊst/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˌfɹɛnt͡ʃ ˈtoʊst/

Noun

French toast (countable and uncountable, plural French toasts)

1. (cooking) Food prepared by dipping bread into egg batter and frying.

   I'd like syrup on my French toast.

Synonyms

• eggy bread (UK)
• freedom toast (rare, US politics, sometimes humorous)

Derived terms

• French-toasty

Translations

food prepared by dipping bread into egg batter and frying

• Bulgarian: пържена филия f (pǎržena filija)
• Catalan: rostes de Santa Teresa m pl, torrades de Santa Teresa (ca) f pl
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 西多士 (sai¹ do¹ si^6-2), 西多 (sai¹ do¹)

  Mandarin: 法國吐司／法国吐司 (Fàguó tǔsī), 法蘭西吐司／法兰西吐司 (Fǎlánxī tǔsī)

• Danish: arme riddere c pl
• Dutch: wentelteefje (nl) n
• Esperanto: pankuko
• Finnish: köyhät ritarit pl
• French: pain perdu (fr) m (France), pain doré (fr) m (Canada)
• Galician: torrada f, torrexa f, tosta f
• German: Arme Ritter (de) m pl
• Greek: αυγόψωμο n (avgópsomo), αυγόφετα (el) f (avgófeta)
• Hebrew: פרנץ׳ טוסט, לחם מטוגן
• Hungarian: bundás kenyér (hu)
• Irish: tósta francach m
• Italian: panperso m
• Japanese: フレンチトースト (ja) (Furenchi tōsuto)
• Korean: 프렌치 토스트 (Peurenchi toseuteu)
• Malay: roti bakar
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: arme riddere m pl

• Pannonian Rusyn: пражинка f (pražinka)
• Portuguese: rabanada (pt) f, fatia dourada
• Romanian: toast franțuzesc n
• Russian: грéнка f (grénka), францу́зский тост m (francúzskij tost)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: прженица

  Roman: prženica (sh)

• Spanish: torrijas (es) f pl
• Swedish: fattiga riddare c pl
• Yiddish: געפֿרישט ברויט (gefrisht broyt), געפֿרישטע חלה (gefrishte khale), געפֿרישטער קוילעטש (gefrishter koyletsh)

Further reading

• French toast on Wikipedia.Wikipedia