hamburger

 Hamburger (disambiguation) on Wikipedia

• hamburgher (dated)

Shortening of Hamburger sandwich, Hamburger steak, etc.; or, less likely, borrowed from German Hamburger (“native of Hamburg”), equivalent to Hamburg +‎ -er. (Can this⁽⁺⁾ etymology be sourced?)

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈhæmˌbɜː.ɡə/, /ˈhæm.bə.ɡə/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈhæmˌbɝ.ɡɚ/, /ˈhæm.bɚ.ɡɚ/

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hamburger (countable and uncountable, plural hamburgers)

1. A hot sandwich consisting of a patty of cooked ground beef or a meat substitute, in a sliced bun, usually also containing salad vegetables, condiments, or both.
2. The patty used in such a sandwich.
3. (uncountable) Ground beef, especially that intended to be made into hamburgers.
4. (US, colloquial, somewhat crude) An animal or human, or the flesh thereof, that has been badly injured as a result of an accident or conflict.

   The truck hit the deer and turned it into hamburger.

   I'm going to make you into hamburger if you do that again.

5. (graphical user interface) Short for hamburger button.

   Coordinate terms: meatball, kebab, bento

6. (US, education, informal) Describing the shape of a rectangular piece of paper folded in half so that it forms a short rectangle.

   Coordinate term: hot dog

• liberty sandwich (US, historical)
• (sandwich): beefburger
• (patty): hamburger patty

• (sandwich): burger

(sandwich, patty):

• slider
• quarter-pounder
• cheeseburger

(sandwich, patty):

• chicken burger
• vegeburger
• soyburger

• 🍔 (hamburger emoji)

hamburger (third-person singular simple present hamburgers, present participle hamburgering, simple past and past participle hamburgered)

1. To badly injure or damage.
   • 1944, C. G. Morris, Hugh B. Cave, “The Fightin’est Ship”: The Story of the Cruiser “Helena”, New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead & Company, page 62:

     The men played baseball on coral diamonds that tore their shoes and clothes and hamburgered their hands.

   • 1981, John Nichols, The Nirvana Blues, New York, N.Y.: Henry Holt and Company, →ISBN, page 283:

     And his tires triggered no Claymore mines or Bouncing Betties that might have hamburgered his vehicle with him in it.

   • 1994, Beatrice Sparks (falsely indicated as editor), It Happened to Nancy: By an Anonymous Teenager, a True Story from Her Diary, Avon Books, published 2005, →ISBN, page 133:

     My tears are like gagged pieces of ice cutting up my eyeballs and hamburgering my face.

   • 2014, Shannon Galpin, Mountain to Mountain: A Journey of Adventure and Activism for the Women of Afghanistan, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin’s Press, →ISBN, page 47:

     It’s a trail that has taken more than its fair share of blood, my first flat tire, and hamburgered my entire forearm on a descent.

   • 2019, Christopher McDougall, Running with Sherman: The Donkey with the Heart of a Hero, New York, N.Y.: Alfred A. Knopf, →ISBN, page 51:

     Ken broke three fingers and hamburgered his legs, but he still got to his feet, chased down his burro, and continued on to the finish line.

   • 2020, Lynn Stansbury, Crossing the Divide, Bloomington, Ind.: iUniverse:

     Why they didn’t both break their necks or get hamburgered by cloven hooves was a mystery.

• IPA^(key):

hamburger m inan

1. hamburger (a hot sandwich consisting of a patty of cooked ground beef, in a sliced bun, sometimes also containing salad vegetables, condiments, or both)

   Synonym: hambáč

• “hamburger”, in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu (in Czech)

Dutch Wikipedia has an article on:

hamburger

Wikipedia ^nl

Borrowed from English hamburger.

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• Hyphenation: ham‧bur‧ger

hamburger m (plural hamburgers, diminutive hamburgertje n)

1. hamburger

From English hamburger.

• IPA^(key): /ˈhɑm(ˌ)b̥urɡ̊er/,
• Rhymes: -urɡer
• Hyphenation: ham‧bur‧ger

hamburger (genitive hamburgeri, partitive hamburgerit or hamburgeri)

1. hamburger

   Synonyms: burger, (colloquial) burks

2. (colloquial) a sign resembling a multi-layered bun, under which a web page menu opens

• hamburger in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)

From English hamburger, from German Hamburger.

• (France) ^{(aspirated h)} IPA^(key): /ɑ̃.bœʁ.ɡœʁ/, /ɑ̃.buʁ.ɡɛʁ/, /ɑ̃.buʁ.ɡœʁ/, /am.bœʁ.ɡœʁ/

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• (Quebec, Missouri, New England, Louisiana) ^{(aspirated h)} IPA^(key): /ambɚɡɚ/

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• Rhymes: -œʁ, -ɚ
• Homophone: hamburgers

hamburger m (plural hamburgers)

1. hamburger

   Synonyms: burger, hambourgeois

   Hyponyms: cheeseburger, fishburger

• “hamburger” in the Dictionnaire de l’Académie française, 9th Edition (1992-).
• “hamburger” in Dictionnaire français en ligne Larousse.
• “hamburger” in Dictionnaire Le Robert.
• “hamburger”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.

 hamburger on Hungarian Wikipedia

From English hamburger.^[1]

• IPA^(key):
• Hyphenation: ham‧bur‧ger
• Rhymes: -ɛr

hamburger (plural hamburgerek)

1. hamburger (hot sandwich)

   Synonym: (clipping) hambi

• IPA^(key): /amˈbur.ɡer/^[1]
• Rhymes: -urɡer

hamburger m (invariable)

1. hamburger

   Synonym: svizzera

Norwegian Wikipedia has an article on:

hamburger

Wikipedia ^no

From German Hamburger and English hamburger.

hamburger m (definite singular hamburgeren, indefinite plural hamburgere, definite plural hamburgerne)

1. a Hamburger (person from Hamburg)

   Hamburgerene i klassen snakket tysk.

   The Hamburgers in the class spoke German.

2. a hamburger (fast food)

   Vil du ha pommes til hamburgeren?

   Do you want fries with your hamburger?

• hamburgar (Nynorsk)

• “hamburger” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Polish Wikipedia has an article on:

hamburger

Wikipedia ^pl

Borrowed from American English hamburger.

• IPA^(key): /xamˈbur.ɡɛr/

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• Rhymes: -urɡɛr
• Syllabification: ham‧bur‧ger

hamburger m animal (related adjective hamburgerowy)

1. hamburger (ground beef, especially that intended to be made into hamburgers)

   Synonym: burger

   Hypernym: kotlet

2. hamburger (hot sandwich consisting of a patty of cooked ground beef or a meat substitute, in a sliced bun, sometimes also containing salad vegetables, condiments, or both)

   Synonym: burger

   Hypernym: kanapka

   Hyponym: Big Mac

   Coordinate terms: cheeseburger, fishburger

3. (derogatory, ethnic slur) burger (American person)

• hamburger in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• hamburger in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• hamburger in PWN's encyclopedia

Unadapted borrowing from English hamburger.

hamburger m or f (plural hamburgers)

1. Alternative spelling of hambúrguer

Unadapted borrowing from English hamburger or French hamburger.

hamburger m (plural hamburgeri)

1. hamburger

From German Hamburger.

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hamburger (definite accusative hamburgeri, plural hamburgerler)

1. hamburger