foie gras

English

A dish of foie gras at a restaurant in Singapore.

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French foie gras (literally “fat liver”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˌfwɑː ˈɡɹɑː/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˌfwɑ ˈɡɹɑ/

• Audio (US):

  (file)

Noun

foie gras (countable and uncountable, plural foies gras)

1. The fattened liver of geese or ducks, used for gourmet cooking.
   • 1901, The Picayune’s Creole Cook Book, 2nd edition, New Orleans, La.: The Picayune, page 130, columns 1–2:

     Foies Gras are now sold in cans in every large grocery establishment in the United States. […] Bake this paste, and then fill in with the foies gras.

   • 1907, “Poultry”, in A Guide to Modern Cookery, London: William Heinemann Ltd., translation of Le guide culinaire by Auguste Escoffier, section “1726—Foie Gras”, page 547:

     Foies gras are supplied either by geese or ducks.

   • 1948, Town & Country, page 166:

     Many foies gras put up by French canneries aren’t really French at all.

   • 1963, Réalités, section “Louisa Porter’s Comments”, page 87, column 3:

     Fresh duck foies gras are so highly prized in the southwest of France […]

Synonyms

• foie (shortening) (colloquial)

Derived terms

• foie

Related terms

• pâté de foie gras

Translations

fattened liver of geese or ducks

• Arabic: كبد دسم, فْوَا غْرَا (fwā ḡrā), (of a goose) كبد الأوز, (of a duck) كبد البط

  Egyptian: فْوَا جْرَا (fwā grā)

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 肥肝 (fei⁴ gon¹), 鵝肥肝 / 鹅肥肝 (ngo⁴ fei⁴ gon¹), 鵝肝 / 鹅肝 (ngo⁴ gon¹)

  Mandarin: (of a goose) 肥鵝肝 / 肥鹅肝 (féi'égān), 鵝肝 / 鹅肝 (égān), (of a duck) 肥鴨肝 / 肥鸭肝 (féiyāgān), 鴨肝 / 鸭肝 (yāgān), (of either a goose or duck) 肥肝 (féigān)

• Dutch: foie gras (nl) m, (of a goose) ganzenlever (nl) m, (of a duck) eendenlever (nl) m
• Esperanto: fuagraso, grashepataĵo
• Estonian: hanemaksa
• Finnish: hanhenmaksa (fi)
• French: foie gras (fr) m
• Georgian: ფუა-გრა (pua-gra)
• German: Stopfleber f, Foie gras n, (of a goose) Gänsestopfleber (de) f, (of a duck) Entenstopfleber f
• Greek: φουά γκρα (el) n (fouá gkra)

  Ancient: χήνεια ἥπατα n pl (khḗneia hḗpata)

• Hebrew: כָּבֵד אַוָּז m (kå̄ḇēḏ ʾawwå̄z), פואה גרא
• Hungarian: libamáj (hu)
• Italian: foie gras m, fegato grasso m
• Japanese: フォアグラ (ja) (foagura), フォワグラ (fowagura)
• Korean: 푸아그라 (puageura)
• Lao: ຟົວກາ (fūa kā)
• Latin: fīcātum n
• Limburgish: vètslaever m
• Lithuanian: žąsų arba ančių kepenėlių paštetas m, žąsų kepenėlių paštetas m
• Malayalam: കൊഴുപ്പിച്ച കരൾ (koḻuppicca karaḷ)
• Norwegian: gåselever m
• Occitan: fetge gras m

  Aranese: hitge gras m

  Gascon: hetge gras m

• Persian: جگر چرب (jegar čarb)
• Polish: pasztet strasburski (pl) m, foie gras (pl) n
• Portuguese: foie gras (pt) m
• Russian: фуа̀-гра́ (ru) n (fuà-grá)
• Spanish: foie gras (es) m, fuagrás (es) m
• Swedish: foie gras c, gåslever (sv) c, anklever c
• Thai: ฟัวกรา (fuua-graa)
• Turkish: kaz ciğeri
• Ukrainian: фуа̀-гра́ n (fuà-hrá)
• Vietnamese: gan ngỗng béo, gan béo, gan ngỗng vỗ béo

See also

• fatty liver

Anagrams

• Figeroas

French

A serving of foie gras (on the left) as an appetizer in a restaurant in Avignon, France

Etymology

From foie (“liver”) +‎ gras (“fat”). Literally, “fat liver”.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fwa ɡʁa/ ~ /fwa ɡʁɑ/

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

foie gras m (plural foies gras)

1. foie gras (fattened liver of geese or ducks)

Further reading

foie gras on the French Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^fr

Polish

foie gras

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French foie gras.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfwa ˈɡra/
• Syllabification: [please specify syllabification manually]

Noun

foie gras n (indeclinable)

1. foie gras (fattened liver of geese or ducks, used for gourmet cooking)

   Synonym: pasztet strasburski

Further reading

• foie gras in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French foie gras (literally “fat liver”).

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /fuˌaˈɡɾa/ [fʊˌaˈɡɾa], (faster pronunciation) /ˌfwaˈɡɾa/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˌfwaˈɡɾa/ [ˌfwaˈɣɾa]

• Rhymes: -a

Noun

foie gras m (uncountable)

1. foie gras (fattened liver of geese or ducks)

Spanish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French foie gras (literally “fat liver”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌfwa ˈɡɾa/ [ˌfwa ˈɣ̞ɾa]

Noun

foie gras m (uncountable)

1. foie gras

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.

Further reading

• “foie gras”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10