french fries

See also: French fries

English

French fries cooked in truffle oil, sprinkled with herbs

Crinkle-cut sweet potato fries as a side dish

Alternative forms

• French fries

Etymology

Clipping of earlier French fried potatoes (1856) and French-fried potatoes, potatoes supposedly prepared in the French style.

Pronunciation

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Noun

french fries pl (normally plural, singular french fry)

1. (chiefly Canada, US) Strips of deep-fried potatoes that have been frenched (cut into strips). [from 1903]

   French fries are our specialty.

   • 1903, Lillian Pettengill, Toilers of the Home, New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, page 292:

     “What's the matter?” she asked quickly. “Haven't we had all the things before? Soup, chops, peas, French fries, and the fruit pudding–there wasn't a thing new.”

   • 1922, Robert C. Benchley, chapter XXII, in Love Conquers All, Henry Holt & Company, page 111:

     His first official act was to order dinner. “A nice, juicy steak,” he is said to have called for, “French fries, apple pie and a cup of coffee.” It is probable that he really said “a coff of cuppee,” however, as he was a wag of the first water and loved a joke as well as the next king.

Synonyms

• fries (North America); chips, potato chips (UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand); freedom fries (US, dated); French-fried potatoes (North America, dated)

Hyponyms

• julienne fries; crinkle-cut fries; home fries, cottage fries; potato wedges, wedges

Derived terms

• fries

 

Translations

deep fried strips of potato

• Afrikaans: slaptjips (af), aartappelskyfie
• Albanian: patate të skuqura f pl
• Arabic: بَطَاطَا مَقْلِيَّة f (baṭāṭā maqliyya), بَطَاطِس مَقْلِيَّة f (baṭāṭis maqliyya)

  Hijazi Arabic: بطاطس m (baṭāṭis), بطاطس مقلي m (baṭāṭis magli)

• Armenian: ֆրի (hy) (fri)
• Basque: patata frijitu
• Belarusian: бу́льба фры f (búlʹba fry)
• Bulgarian: пъ́ржени карто́фи m pl (pǎ́rženi kartófi), чипс pl (čips)
• Catalan: patates fregides f pl, creïlles fregides f pl
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 薯條／薯条 (syu⁴ tiu^4-2)

  Mandarin: 炸薯條／炸薯条 (zh) (zháshǔtiáo, zhàshǔtiáo), 土豆條／土豆条 (zh) (tǔdòutiáo), 馬鈴薯條／马铃薯条 (zh) (mǎlíngshǔtiáo), 炸土豆條／炸土豆条 (zh) (zhátǔdòutiáo), 薯條／薯条 (zh) (shǔtiáo), 法式薯條／法式薯条 (zh) (fǎshì shǔtiáo)

• Czech: hranolky (cs) m pl, pomfrity pl
• Danish: pomfrit (da) c, pommes frites (da) pl, fritter pl
• Dutch: (southern Netherlands, Belgium) frietjes (nl), (northern Netherlands) patat (nl), (Belgium) frieten (nl)
• Esperanto: terpomfingroj (eo) pl, terpomfritoj (eo) pl
• Estonian: friikartulid pl, friikad pl
• Finnish: ranskalaiset perunat (fi) pl, ranskanperunat (fi) pl; ranskikset pl, ranskalaiset pl
• French: frites (fr) f pl, pommes frites (fr) f pl, pommes allumettes f pl
• Galician: patacas fritas f pl
• Georgian: კარტოფილი ფრი (ḳarṭopili pri)
• German: Pommes frites (de) f pl, Pommes (de) f pl, Fritten (de) f pl
• Greek: τηγανητές πατάτες f pl (tiganités patátes)
• Gujarati: ફ્રેન્ચ ફ્રાઈસ (phrenc phrāīsa)
• Hebrew: טוגנים (he) pl (tuganim) צ'יפס (he) pl (tchips)
• Hindi: फ़्रेंच फ़्राइज़ (frẽc frāiz)
• Hungarian: hasábburgonya (hu), szalmakrumpli (hu), sült burgonya, sült krumpli (hu)
• Ido: potato-fritajo
• Indonesian: kentang goreng, keripik (id)
• Interlingua: patatas frite
• Irish: sceallóga f pl
• Italian: patata fritta f (colloquial), patate fritte f pl (colloquial), patatine fritte f pl, patatina fritta f, patatina f
• Japanese: フライドポテト (ja) (furaidopoteto), フレンチフライ (ja) (furenchifurai)
• Khmer: ដំឡូងបារាំង (dɑmloung baarang), ដំឡូងបារាំងបំពង (dɑmloung baarang bɑmpɔɔng), បន្ទះសៀគ្វី (banteah siekvi)
• Korean: 감자튀김 (ko) (gamjatwigim), 감자튀기 (ko) (gamjatwigi) (used in North Korea), 프렌치 프라이 (peurenchi peurai)
• Lao: ມັນຝຣັ່ງທອດ (man fa rang thǭt)
• Latvian: frī kartupeļi pl, kartupeļi frī
• Lithuanian: bulvytės fri
• Macedonian: помфри́т m (pomfrít)
• Malay: kentang goreng (ms)
• Maltese: ċips pl
• Maori: tītipi
• Mongolian: шарсан төмс (šarsan töms)
• Navajo: nímasii ádaałtsʼóózígo niheeshgizhgo akʼah bee shibézhígíí
• Norwegian: pommes frites m, pomfri m
• Persian: سیب‌زمینی سرخ‌کرده (sib-zamini-ye sorx-karde)
• Polish: frytki (pl) f pl
• Portuguese: batatas fritas f pl, batatinha frita (pt) f
• Romanian: cartofi prăjiți m pl
• Russian: ло́мтик (ru) m (lómtik), чипс (ru) m (čips), карто́фель фри (ru) m (kartófelʹ fri), чи́псы (ru) m pl (čípsy)
• Scottish Gaelic: sliseag f, tiops m pl
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: по̀мфрит m

  Roman: pòmfrit (sh) m, prženi krumpirići pl

• Slovak: hranolčeky m pl, pomfritky pl
• Slovene: pomfri m
• Sotho: tjhipise
• Spanish: (Spain) patatas fritas f pl, (Mexico) papas fritas (es) f pl, (Nicaragua) papitas fritas f pl, papas a la francesa f pl, patatas a la francesa f pl
• Swedish: pommes frites (sv) c, strips (sv) pl
• Telugu: ఫ్రెంచ్ ఫ్రైస్ (phreñc phrais)
• Thai: มันฝรั่งทอด
• Turkish: patates kızartması (tr)
• Ukrainian: карто́пля фрі f (kartóplja fri)
• Uyghur: بەرەڭگە قەلەمچىسى (berengge qelemchisi)
• Vietnamese: khoai tây chiên (literally “fried western potato”)
• Welsh: sglodion (cy), tsipsen f
• Yiddish: פֿראַנצויזיש פֿרייז (frantsoyzish freyz)