Kitchen

Noun

 * 1) A room or area for preparing food.
 * 2) An admixture of languages spoken to convey meaning between non-native speakers.
 * 3)  The nape of a person's hairline, often referring to its uncombed or "nappy" look.
 * 4) cuisine
 * 5)  The percussion section of an orchestra.

Adjectives for Kitchen
commodious; fragrant; detached; reeking; itinerant; greasy; pretty; well-designed.

Verbs for Kitchen
avoid—; consign to—; convey from—; drudge in—; equip—; inspect—; loiter in—; preside over—; retire to—; rule—; scrub—; slave in—; survey—; sweat in—; toil in—; work in—; —enslaves; —gleams; shines; —smells of.

Derived terms

 * back kitchen
 * everything but the kitchen sink
 * if you can't take the heat, get out of the kitchen
 * kitchenette
 * kitchening
 * kitchenless


 * kitchen paper
 * kitchen towel
 * kitchen table software
 * kitchen utensil
 * kitchenware

Thesaurus
automat, bakehouse, bakery, beanery, bistro, buffet, buvette, caboose, cafe, cafeteria, camboose, canteen, cantina, chophouse, chuck wagon, coffee shop, coffeehouse, coffeeroom, cookery, cookhouse, cooking, cookroom, cookshack, cookshop, cuisine, culinary, diner, dining hall, dining room, dog wagon, drive-in, drive-in restaurant, eatery, eating house, fast-food chain, galley, grill, grillroom, hamburger stand, hash house, hashery, hot-dog stand, kitchenette, larder, lunch counter, lunch wagon, luncheonette, lunchroom, mess hall, pantry, pizzeria, quick-lunch counter, restaurant, scullery, smoking room, smorgasbord, snack bar, storeroom, tavern, tearoom, trattoria

Etymology
From kitchen:, kichene:, kuchen:, from  cycen:, cycene:, from, probably a borrowing of  cucina:, from coquo:, from. More at.

Germanic cognates include koken:,  keuken:,  Küche:,  Kök:,  kjøkken:, while Romance cognates include  cuisine: (borrowed into  cuisine:),  cucina:, and  cocina:.

In other languages, the cognate term often refers not only to the room, but also to the type of cooking, while in English these two senses are generally distinguished via the etymological twins kitchen: (Germanic) and cuisine: (French).

Translations

 * Afrikaans:
 * Albanian: kuzhinë
 * Arabic:
 * Egyptian Arabic:
 * Morocco:
 * Armenian:
 * Azeri:
 * Basque: sukalde
 * Belarusian: кухня
 * Bosnian:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: cuina
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Danish: køkken
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:
 * Ewe: dzodoƒe
 * Filipino:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * Georgian:
 * German:
 * Greek: ,
 * Greenlandic:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: रसोईघर
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian:
 * Interlingua:


 * Irish:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:, , キッチン
 * Korean:
 * Latin:
 * Macedonian:
 * Malay:
 * Northern Sami: gievkkan
 * Norwegian:
 * Old English:
 * Old High German: chuhhina
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: cidsin
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: кухиња
 * Roman: kuhinja
 * Slovak: kuchyňa
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili: ,
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: kusina, lutuan
 * Tajik: ошхона,
 * Telugu: వంటగది (vaNTagadi), వంటిల్లు (vaNTillu)
 * Thai: ครัว, ห้องครัว
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: кухня
 * Vietnamese: nhà bếp
 * Volapük: kvisinöp
 * Welsh:
 * Yiddish: קיך


 * Polish:


 * Swahili:

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