ketchup
English
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/10/Organic_Heinz_Tomato_Ketchup.jpg)
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/eb/Mushroom_ketchup.jpg/220px-Mushroom_ketchup.jpg)
Alternative forms
Etymology
Uncertain, but probably ultimately from Hokkien 膎汁 (kê-chiap, “fish sauce”) via Malay kicap, though the precise path is unclear – there are related words in various Chinese languages, and it may have entered English directly from Hokkien Chinese. Cognate to Indonesian kecap, ketjap (“soy sauce”). Various other theories exist – see Ketchup: Etymology for extended discussion.
First appeared in English in the late 17th century in reference to a Southeast Asian sauce encountered by British traders and sailors. The Oxford English Dictionary notes that it was commonly used in the 18th century to refer to a variety of similar sauces with varying ingredients—"anchovies, mushrooms, walnuts, and oysters being particularly popular"—but by the late 19th century the current tomato ketchup became the most popular form.[1]
Catsup (earlier catchup) is an alternative Anglicization, still in use in the U.S.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈkɛt͡ʃ.əp/, /ˈkɛt͡ʃ.ʌp/
Audio (US): (file) Audio (Canada): (file) - Homophone: catch-up (one pronunciation)
Noun
ketchup (countable and uncountable, plural ketchups)
- (uncountable, chiefly US, Canada, UK) Ellipsis of tomato ketchup. A tomato-vinegar-based sauce, sometimes containing spices, onion or garlic, and (especially in the US) sweeteners.
- Synonym: tomato catsup
- Hypernyms: tomato sauce, red ketchup, red catsup
- tomato ketchup
- This diner serves ketchup in red bottles, and mustard in yellow ones.
- (countable, now rare) Such a sauce more generally (not necessarily based on tomatoes, but with mushrooms, fish, etc.). This is the older meaning.
- Hyponyms: tomato ketchup, tomato catsup, fruit ketchup, fruit catsup, corn ketchup, corn catsup, green ketchup, green catsup, yellow ketchup, yellow catsup
- 1883, Cassell's Dictionary of Cookery, page lxxxiii:
- The bottles, however, were port bottles, but contained mushroom ketchup; […]
- 2003, Inns and Bed and Breakfasts in Quebec 2003, Ulysses Travel Guides, page 46:
- To accompany meat, we prepare fruit ketchups and rhubarb chutney.
Usage notes
The spelling ketchup became significantly preferred in the United States due to the popularity of the Heinz brand, which shortly after its introduction in 1876 switched from catsup to this spelling to distinguish itself from competitors. Other major brands, such as Hunt, subsequently followed, with Del Monte only switching to ketchup in 1988.[2]
This condiment is more commonly and somewhat ambiguously called tomato sauce outside of North America and the United Kingdom. In South Africa, the word ketchup is not generally understood.
Hypernyms
Coordinate terms
- black pepper
- chili sauce
- chowchow
- cucumber relish
- green relish
- ground black pepper
- ground pepper
- malt vinegar
- mayonnaise
- mustard
- mustard sauce
- pepper
- prepared mustard
- prepared mustard sauce
- prepared yellow mustard
- prepared yellow mustard sauce
- relish
- salt
- siracha
- sweet green relish
- sweet relish
- table salt
- vinegar
- white vinegar
- yellow mustard
- yellow mustard sauce
Derived terms
Descendants
- → Arabic: كَتْشَب (katšab)
- → Belarusian: кетчуп (kjetčup)
- → Bulgarian: кетчуп (ketčup)
- → Cantonese: 茄汁 (ke4-2 zap1)
- → Catalan: quètxup
- → Czech: kečup
- → Danish: ketchup
- → Dutch: ketchup
- → Finnish: ketsuppi
- → French: ketchup
- → German: Ketchup, Catchup (obsolete); Ketschup (superseded)
- → Lower Sorbian: ketšup
- → Greek: κέτσαπ (kétsap)
- → Hebrew: קֶטְשׁוֹפּ (ketshop)
- → Hokkien: 茄汁 (kiô-chap) (Singapore)
- → Hungarian: ketchup
- → Irish: citseap
- → Japanese: ケチャップ (kechappu)
- → Korean: 케첩 (kecheop)
- → Marshallese: kōjjeb
- → Persian: کچاپ (kečâp)
- → Polish: keczup, ketchup
- → Portuguese: ketchup
- → Romanian: ketchup
- → Russian: кетчуп (ketčup)
- → Armenian: կետչուպ (ketčʻup)
- → Serbo-Croatian:
- → Spanish: ketchup, kétchup
- → Swedish: ketchup
- → Tagalog: ketsap
- → Thai: เค็ตชัป (két-chàp)
- → Turkish: ketçap
- → Ukrainian: кетчуп (ketčup)
- → Uzbek: ketchup
- → Welsh: cetsyp
- → Yiddish: קעטשאָפּ (ketshop)
Translations
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Verb
ketchup (third-person singular simple present ketchups, present participle ketchupping, simple past and past participle ketchupped)
- (transitive) To cover with ketchup.
- 1867, John Maddison Morton, Aunt Charlotte's maid: a farce in one act:
- It strikes me she's "ketchupped" the lot! I won't touch a morsel!
- 1973, Horizon, page 15:
- "Well," said Chuck, ketchupping his hamburger, "I'd rather do without King Lear than put up with the human agony it sprang out of. I'd rather not have the Eroica than have the big bloody conqueror it tries to immortalize."
- 2009, David Silverman, Twinkle, page 4:
- Their fellow diners, like their ketchupped grub, were appropriately dashed and splattered with paint and plaster, reading their Suns and Daily Mirror.
References
- ^ "Ketchup", Oxford English Dictionary (online edition, 2020).
- ^ “Is There a Difference Between Ketchup and Catsup?”, Slate, Aisha Harris, April 22, 2013
- Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “ketchup”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
Danish
Etymology
From English ketchup, from Malay kicap, from Hokkien 膎汁 (kê-chiap).
Pronunciation
Noun
ketchup c (singular definite ketchuppen, plural indefinite ketchupper)
- (uncountable) ketchup (a tomate sauce with vinegar)
- (countable) ketchup (a particular brand or type of ketchup)
Declension
common gender |
Singular | Plural | ||
---|---|---|---|---|
indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
nominative | ketchup | ketchuppen | ketchupper | ketchupperne |
genitive | ketchups | ketchuppens | ketchuppers | ketchuppernes |
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from English ketchup, from Malay kicap, from Hokkien 膎汁 (kê-chiap). Doublet of ketjap.
Pronunciation
Audio: (file)
Noun
ketchup m (plural ketchups, diminutive ketchupje n)
- ketchup
- Synonym: tomatenketchup
Derived terms
French
Etymology
Borrowed from English ketchup, from Malay kicap, from Hokkien 膎汁 (kê-chiap).
Pronunciation
- (France) IPA(key): /kɛt.ʃœp/
Audio (France): (file) - (France, Quebec) IPA(key): /kɛt.ʃɔp/
Audio (Quebec): (file)
Noun
ketchup m (plural ketchups)
Further reading
- “ketchup”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Polish
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English ketchup, from Malay kicap, from Hokkien 膎汁 (kê-chiap, “fish sauce”).
Pronunciation
Noun
ketchup m inan
- Alternative spelling of keczup
Declension
singular | plural | |
---|---|---|
nominative | ketchup | ketchupy |
genitive | ketchupu | ketchupów |
dative | ketchupowi | ketchupom |
accusative | ketchup | ketchupy |
instrumental | ketchupem | ketchupami |
locative | ketchupie | ketchupach |
vocative | ketchupie | ketchupy |
Further reading
- ketchup in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- ketchup in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Portuguese
Alternative forms
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English ketchup.
Pronunciation
Noun
ketchup m (plural ketchups)
- (uncountable) ketchup (tomato-vinegar based sauce)
Quotations
For quotations using this term, see Citations:ketchup.
References
“ketchup”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024
Romanian
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English ketchup.
Noun
ketchup n (uncountable)
Declension
singular | ||
---|---|---|
n gender | indefinite articulation | definite articulation |
nominative/accusative | (un) ketchup | ketchupul |
genitive/dative | (unui) ketchup | ketchupului |
vocative | ketchupule |
Serbo-Croatian
Noun
ketchup m (Cyrillic spelling кетцхуп)
- Alternative form of kečap
Spanish
Alternative forms
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English ketchup, from Malay kicap, from Hokkien 膎汁 (kê-chiap).
Pronunciation
Noun
ketchup m (plural ketchups)
Swedish
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/83/Pasta%2C_Swedish_meatballs_and_ketchup.jpg/220px-Pasta%2C_Swedish_meatballs_and_ketchup.jpg)
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9a/Vegan_pyttipanna_%283085572734%29.jpg/220px-Vegan_pyttipanna_%283085572734%29.jpg)
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
ketchup c
- ketchup
- senap och ketchup
- ketchup and mustard ["senap och ketchup" feels more idiomatic than "mustard and ketchup" does in English, for some reason]
Usage notes
Popular and uncontroversial pasta condiment in Sweden.
Declension
Declension of ketchup | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|
Uncountable | ||||
Indefinite | Definite | |||
Nominative | ketchup | ketchupen | — | — |
Genitive | ketchups | ketchupens | — | — |
Derived terms
- ketchupflaska (“a bottle of ketchup”)
- tomatketchup (“tomato ketchup”)
See also
- makaroner
- köttfärssås
- senap (“mustard”)
- spaghetti
- tomat
References
West Frisian
Etymology
Noun
ketchup c (no plural)
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