marmalade

English

Etymology

Borrowed fromMiddle Frenchmarmelade,fromPortuguesemarmelada(“quince jam”),frommarmelo(“quince”),fromLatinmelimēlum(“sweet apple”),fromAncient Greekμελίμηλον(melímēlon),fromμέλι(méli,“honey”)+μῆλον(mêlon,“apple”).A falsefolk etymologyclaims that this comes from the phrase “Marie est malade”,referring toMary, Queen of Scotsfalling ill and being given marmalade to feel better.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation)IPA^(key):/ˈmɑː.mə.leɪd/
• (General American)IPA^(key):/ˈmɑɹ.mə.leɪd/
• Hyphenation:mar‧ma‧lade

• Audio(US):

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Noun

marmalade(countableanduncountable,pluralmarmalades)

1. A kind ofjammade withcitrus fruit,distinguished by being made slightly bitter by the addition of the peel and by partialcaramelisationduring manufacture. Most commonly made withSeville oranges,and usually qualified by the name of the fruit when made with other types of fruit.[from late 15c.]

   limemarmalade

   thick cutmarmalade

   1. Ellipsisoforangemarmalade.
2. (obsolete)quincejam

Hypernyms

• jam

Derived terms

• marmalade box
• marmalade dropper
• marmalade tree
• marmaladey
• marmalady

Translations

citrus jam

• Afrikaans:marmelade
• Arabic:مَرْمَلَادm(marmalād)
• Armenian:ջեմ(hy)(ǰem),մարմելադ(hy)(marmelad)
• Azerbaijani:marmelad
• Basque:marmelada
• Belarusian:мармела́дm(marmjelád),джэмm(džem)
• Bulgarian:мармаладm(marmalad)
• Catalan:melmelada(ca)f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese:Chanh bì chiêm(caang²pei⁴zim¹)

  Mandarin:Quất tử quả tương／Quất tử quả tương(júzi guǒjiàng),Quả tương／Quả tương(zh)(guǒjiàng),Quả tử tương／Quả tử tương(zh)(guǒzijiàng)

• Czech:marmeláda(cs)f
• Danish:syltetøj
• Dutch:marmelade(nl)f,jam(nl)f,confituur(nl)f
• Esperanto:marmelado
• Estonian:marmelaad
• Finnish:marmeladi(fi),marmelaadi(fi),marmelaati(fi)
• French:confiture(fr)f,confiture d’orangesf,marmelade d’orangesf
• Galician:marmelada(gl)f
• Georgian:მარმელადი(marmeladi)
• German:Marmelade(de)f
• Greek:μαρμελάδα(el)f(marmeláda)

  Ancient Greek:παλάθηf(paláthē)

• Gujarati:please add this translation if you can
• Hindi:मुरब्बा(hi)(murabbā)
• Hungarian:narancsdzsem(hu),narancslekvár(hu),(dated)marmelád(hu)
• Ido:konfitajo(io)
• Indonesian:marmelade(id)
• Irish:marmaláidf
• Italian:marmellata(it)f
• Japanese:マーマレード(māmarēdo)
• Javanese:please add this translation if you can
• Kazakh:мармелад(marmelad)
• Khmer:ដំណាប់(km)(dɑmnap)
• Korean:마멀레이드(ko)(mameolleideu)
• Lao:please add this translation if you can
• Latin:please add this translation if you can
• Latvian:marmelādef
• Lithuanian:marmeladasm
• Malay:please add this translation if you can
• Malayalam:please add this translation if you can
• Mongolian:please add this translation if you can
• Norman:marméladef(Guernsey)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål:marmeladem,syltetøy(no)n

  Nynorsk:syltetøy

• Persian:مارمالاد(fa)(mârmâlâd)
• Polish:marmolada(pl)f
• Portuguese:geleia(pt)f
• Romanian:marmeladă(ro)f
• Russian:джем(ru)m(džem),пови́дло(ru)n(povídlo),мармела́д(ru)m(marmelád)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic:мармеладаf,пекмезm,џемm

  Roman:marmelada(sh)f,pekmez(sh)m,džem(sh)m

• Slovak:marmeládaf
• Slovene:marmelada(sl)f
• Spanish:mermelada(es)
• Swedish:marmelad(sv)c
• Telugu:please add this translation if you can
• Turkish:marmelat(tr)
• Ukrainian:джемm(džem),пови́длоn(povýdlo),мармеля́даf(marmeljáda)
• Urdu:please add this translation if you can
• Vietnamese:mứt cam
• Welsh:marmalêd
• Yiddish:מאַרמעלאַדm(marmelad)

Verb

marmalade(third-person singular simple presentmarmalades,present participlemarmalading,simple past and past participlemarmaladed)

1. (transitive)Tospreadmarmaladeon.

Derived terms

• marmalader
• marmalading

Translations

to spread marmalade on