cutlet

English

Etymology

From French côtelette (recorded in English since 1706), from Middle French costelette (“little rib”), from coste + -elette, from Old French coste (“rib, side”), from Latin costa. Influenced by English cut, as if from cut +‎ -let. Doublet of kotleta.

Pronunciation

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Noun

cutlet (plural cutlets)

1. A thin slice of meat, usually fried.

   Synonym: scallop

2. A chop, a specific piece of meat (especially pork, chicken, or beef) cut from the side of an animal.
3. A piece of fish that has been cut perpendicular to the spine, rather than parallel (as with a fillet); often synonymous with steak.
4. A prawn or shrimp with its head and outer shell removed, leaving only the flesh and tail.
5. A mash of vegetables (usually potatoes) fried with bread

Derived terms

• Aberdeen cutlet
• chicken cutlet
• Mikoyan cutlet
• nut cutlet
• Pojarski cutlet
• Pozharsky cutlet
• Viennese cutlet

 

Descendants

• → Burmese: ကတ်သလိတ် (katsa.lit)
• → Cantonese: 吉列 (gat1 lit6)
  • → Chinese: 吉列 (jíliè)
• → Japanese: カツレツ (katsuretsu)
  • Japanese: カツ (katsu)
    • → English: katsu
    • ⇒ Japanese: 豚カツ (tonkatsu)
      • → English: tonkatsu

Translations

slice of meat

• Azerbaijani: kotlet (az)
• Bulgarian: шни́цел m (šnícel)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: (pork) 豬排／猪排 (zh) (zhūpái), (pork) 豬扒／猪扒 (zh) (zhūpá), (any meat) 炸肉片 (zhàròupiàn), 炸肉排 (zhàròupái)

• Czech: řízek (cs) m
• Danish: schnitzel c (thin slice of veal or pork), kotelet c (thicker slice of pork than the schnitzel)
• Finnish: leike (fi)
• French: côtelette (fr) f
• Georgian: კატლეტი (ḳaṭleṭi)
• German: Schnitzel (de) n, Kotelett (de) n
• Greek: κοτολέτα (el) f (kotoléta)
• Hungarian: szelet (hu), hússzelet (hu)
• Italian: costoletta (it) f, cotoletta (it) f
• Japanese: カツレツ (ja) (katsuretsu)
• Korean: 코토레타 (kotoreta)
• Norman: côtelette f
• Persian: کتلت (fa) (kotlet)
• Polish: kotlet (pl) m, sznycel (pl) m, bitka (pl) f
• Portuguese: costeleta (pt) f
• Romanian: șnițel (ro) n
• Russian: отбивна́я котле́та f (otbivnája kotléta), котле́та (ru) f (kotléta), шни́цель (ru) m (šnícelʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: одрезак m

  Roman: odrezak (sh) m

• Spanish: chuleta (es) f
• Swedish: kotlett (sv)
• Ukrainian: котле́та f (kotléta)

meat chop

• Bulgarian: котле́т m (kotlét)
• Czech: kotleta (cs) f
• Danish: kotelet c
• Dutch: kotelet (nl) f or m
• Esperanto: kotleto
• Finnish: kyljys (fi)
• French: côtelette (fr) f
• Galician: costeleta (gl) f
• Georgian: კატლეტი (ḳaṭleṭi)
• German: Kotelett (de) n
• Greek: παϊδάκι (el) n (païdáki)
• Hungarian: kotlett (hu), bordaszelet (hu), borda (hu), karaj (hu) (see also the broader terms above)
• Italian: costoletta (it) f
• Latin: praecīsum n
• Norman: côtelette f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: kotelett m

  Nynorsk: kotelett m

• Portuguese: posta (pt) f
• Romanian: cotlet (ro) n
• Russian: отбивна́я котле́та f (otbivnája kotléta)
• Ukrainian: котле́та f (kotléta)

References

• Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “cutlet”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

Anagrams

• cuttle