Ketchup

Alternative forms

 * catsup
 * catchup

Etymology
1711, following earlier catchup: (1690), of disputed origin. Originally referred to an sauce from South/Southeast/East Asia – 1690: (region generally); 1711:  (northern Vietnam) and China.

Most likely from kicap:, from Chinese  鮭汁:, though precise path is unclear – there are related words in various Chinese dialects, and it may have entered English directly from Chinese. Cognate to Indonesian kecap:, ketjap:. Various other theories exist – see Ketchup: Etymology for extended discussion.

catsup: (earlier catchup:) is an alternative Anglicization, still in use in U.S.

Pronunciation

 * Homophones: catch up
 * Homophones: catch up
 * Homophones: catch up

Noun

 * 1)  A tomato-vinegar based sauce.
 * 2) 🇺🇸 A food comprising tomato concentrate and any of vinegar, sweetener, spices, flavoring, onion, and garlic.
 * 3)  Such a sauce more generally (not necessarily based on tomatoes), or a specific brand or kind of such sauce – see usage notes below.

Translations

 * Albanian: keçap
 * Arabic: عصير البندورة
 * Armenian:
 * Azeri: ketçup
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: quètxup, quetxup
 * Chickasaw: akankishniha' okchi'
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 番茄醬, 番茄酱
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: კეჩუპი
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hindi: केचप
 * Hungarian:, paradicsomszósz
 * Icelandic:


 * Indonesian: saus tomat
 * Japanese:
 * Korean: 케첩
 * Latvian: kečups
 * Lithuanian: kečupas
 * Lower Sorbian: ketšup/ketchup
 * Macedonian: кечап, доматен сос
 * Malay: sos tomato
 * Maltese: sos aħmar, ketċap
 * Polish: keczup, ketchup
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Slovak:
 * Spanish: kétchup,
 * Swedish: ketchup
 * Tagalog: ketsap
 * Thai: เคทชัพ
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian:
 * Vietnamese:
 * Welsh: sôs coch
 * Yiddish: קעטשאָפּ

Etymology
From

Alternative forms

 * keczup

Etymology
From ketchup.

Pronunciation

 * , rare:

Noun



 * 1) ketchup

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