lasagna

• lasagne

From Italian lasagna (and its plural lasagne), possibly from Vulgar Latin *lasania, from Latin lasanum (“cooking pot”), from Ancient Greek λάσανον (lásanon, “trivet or stand for a pot”). Others argue the Italian lasagna originally derived from the Arabic لَوْزِينَج‎ (lawzīnaj, “almond cake”).

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ləˈzæn.jə/, /ləˈzɑ.njə/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ləˈzɑ.njə/, /ləˈsɑ.njə/

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• (Canada) IPA^(key): /ləˈzɑ.njə/
• (New Zealand) IPA^(key): /lɘˈsɐː.njɘ/, /lɘˈzɐː.njɘ/

lasagna (plural lasagnas or lasagne or lasagnes)

1. A flat sheet of pasta.
2. An Italian baked dish comprising layers of such pasta with various ingredients (usually a meat ragù (chiefly Bolognese), a fish ragù or a vegetarian/vegetable ragù with bechamel sauce)
3. (by extension) A combination or layering of things.
   • 1996, Lance Olsen, Time Famine: A Novel:

     Kristofer'd gotten it through his head shortly after their arrival to swim naked in the lake, such as it was, and his skin blemished into a lasagna of red hives, white welts, and disarming yellowish spots.

   • 2008, Body & Soul:

     Unfortunately, typical mattresses are often a lasagna of nonbiodegradable synthetics, pesticides, and potentially carcinogenic toxins.

   • 2011, Thorsten Botz-Bornstein, Inception and Philosophy: Ideas to Die for, Open Court Publishing, →ISBN, page 280:

     It's sort of a lasagna of ideas about time and dreams.

   • 2013, Molly Harper, How to Run with a Naked Werewolf, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN:

     “Everything about us is just one layer of lies after another. We're a lasagna of lies. This is a terrible basis for a relationship.”

• In Italian, lasagna refers to one flat sheet of pasta and its plural form, lasagne, refers to the dish. This distinction is also observed in English, but only rarely in American English.
• When the dish is referred to as lasagne (rather than lasagna), lasagnes is sometimes found as the plural form, referring to multiple dishes or varieties.

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• Alagnas, Laganas, galanas

Possibly from Vulgar Latin *lasania, from Latin lasanum (“cooking pot”), from Ancient Greek λάσανον (lásanon, “trivet or stand for a pot”).

• IPA^(key): /laˈzaɲ.ɲa/
• Rhymes: -aɲɲa
• Hyphenation: la‧sà‧gna

lasagna f (plural lasagne)

1. (cooking, food) a food made of flat sheets of pasta alternated with condiments
2. (cooking, usually in the plural) a dish of lasagna

• lasagne alla bolognese (“Bolognese lasagna, Bologna-style lasagna, lasagna with Bolognese”)
• lasagne di pesce (“fish lasagna, lasagna with fish ragù”)
• lasagne di verdure (“vegetarian lasagna, lasagna with vegetable ragù”)

(all are borrowed)