Dish - what is it? The interpretation of this word sometimes raises the question of whether it refers only to food served on the table, or can it also be called dishes? And also many people think that this word came into the Russian language from a foreign one or two centuries ago. Is it so? Details about the fact that this is a dish, as well as about the origin, synonyms and rhyme for this word will be described in the article.
Open dictionary
The dictionary gives three meanings for the word "dish".
- The first of them says that this is tableware, usually a shallow plate. It serves dishes that are not liquid. Example: “Anna decided that when Sergei entered the dining room, she would put the leg of lamb on a dish, and put peaches around it, pears from compote, but she would entrust cutting the meat to him.”
- The second meaning is one of the most important meals during a meal (breakfast, lunch or dinner). Example: "An efficient waiter with a big black mustache thenand for some reason he brought all new plates with fragrant foods steaming on them, even before anyone had time to try, he dragged the next one, but did not remove the first one and put a new dish right on top of it.
The third variant of the meaning of "dish" is a meal as such, a cooked meal. Example: “In the old days, perhaps none of the many other dishes of Russian cuisine was as popular as pancakes.”
Next, synonyms for the word under study will be considered.
Similar words
We will divide them into two groups, corresponding to different shades of meaning.
The first group refers to the "dish" as dishes:
- plate;
- dishes;
- bowl;
- plate;
- vase;
- tray;
- herring;
- salad bowl;
- sugar bowl;
- bouquetier.
The second group of synonyms refers to "dish" as food:
- food;
- delicacy;
- food;
- food;
- delicacy;
- snack;
- sweetness;
- first;
- second;
- soup;
- brew;
- dessert;
- portion;
- change;
- food;
- salad;
- pate;
- steak;
- soufflé;
- casserole;
- roll;
- pilaf;
- khinkali.
Thus, the number of synonyms for the second meaning can be continued indefinitely, naming this or that cooked dish.
Rhyming with the word "dish"
If someone is fond of composing poems, for example, dedicated to some kind of festive feast, and finds it difficult to choose a rhyme, then he can use the following list:
- I will.
- Bad.
- Stomach.
- Fools.
- Etudes.
- I will.
- I will.
- Wake up.
- I'll get it.
- I will arrive.
- Booth.
- Forget-me-not.
- Bastard.
- Camels.
- I'll forget.
- Reason.
- Prejudice.
- Emerald.
- Everywhere.
- Dishes.
- Amplitudes.
- Gossip.
- Pile.
- Dudok.
- Loan.
- Puda.
- Will.
- Equip.
- Wake up.
- Breast.
- Mica.
- Poverty.
- Vessels
- Broad-chested.
- Lynching.
- Itches
- Miracles.
- Oody.
- Delete.
- Pruda.
In conclusion of the study of the question of what is a dish, the etymology of the word will be considered.
Origin
According to linguists, the word comes from a common Slavic form. In Old Church Slavonic, it was written as a “dish”, and at the same time, the noun also had a masculine gender - “dish”. Formed from it:
- Russian, Ukrainian, Bulgarian - "dish";
- Serbo-Croatian - "bludo" and feminine - "bludo";
- Polish - bluda, also feminine;
- Church Slavonic in the plural - "dishes", in the genitive case - "blyudve";
- Upper Luga and Lower Luga - blido, meaning "table".
In ancient times, the word in Old Slavonic was borrowed from Gothic, where it looked like biuþs and meant "dish, bowl". Similar words are:
- in Old High German - biutta - in the meaning of "sauerkraut, beehive";
- in New High German - Beute, where it denotes prey and was formed from the Gothic verb biudan - "offer";
- in Swedish - bjuda - "offer".
Finnish pöytä – “table” was borrowed from the same source.
It should be noted that this is one of the most ancient words not only in Russian, but also in a number of Indo-European languages. It has existed in them unchanged both in pronunciation and spelling since the 9th century. In Old Church Slavonic, it had two spellings and meanings.
- The first of them - "dish" - is a "receptacle" of food, from which the noun "mesca" came from, and then "bowl".
- Second - "dishes" as food, dishes.
Since the 13th century, it has become one word, in which both plural and singular are distinguished.
