satay

English
WOTD – 28 March 2009
Satay served with peanut sauce, cucumber, and onion

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Etymology

From Malay sate (“satay”), ultimately from Tamil சதை (catai).

Pronunciation
  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈsæt.eɪ/, /ˈsɑː.teɪ/
    Rhymes: -æteɪ
  • (US) IPA(key): /sæˈteɪ/, /sɑːˈteɪ/
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  • Homophone: sauté (pronunciation with /ɑː/ in accents with cot–caught merger)
    Rhymes: -eɪ

Noun

satay (countable and uncountable, plural satays)

  1. A dish made from small pieces of meat or fish grilled on a skewer and served with a spicy peanut sauce, originating from Indonesia and Malaysia.
    • 1956, Anthony Burgess, Time for a Tiger (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 107:
      Crabbe bought sateh for all: tiny knobs and wedges of fire-hot meat on wooden skewers, to be dipped in a lukewarm sauce of fire and eaten with slivers of sweet potato and cucumber.

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Portuguese

Noun

satay m (plural satays)

  1. satay (Indonesian and Malaysian meat dish)

Spanish

Noun

satay m (plural satayes)

  1. satay

Tagalog

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from English satay, from Malay sate, from Tamil சதை (catai, “flesh”).

Pronunciation
  • Hyphenation: sa‧tay
  • IPA(key): /ˈsataj/, [ˈsa.taɪ̯]

Noun

satay

  1. satay (Indonesian and Malaysian dish)

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