hamburger

English

 Hamburger (disambiguation) on Wikipedia

Alternative forms

• hamburgher (dated)

Etymology

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?)

Pronunciation

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

• Audio (Southern England)

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Noun

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, sometimes 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, hamburger, 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

Synonyms

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

Hypernyms

• (sandwich): burger

Hyponyms

(sandwich, patty):

• slider
• quarter-pounder
• cheeseburger

Coordinate terms

(sandwich, patty):

• chicken burger
• vegeburger
• soyburger

Derived terms

Descendants

• → Burmese: ဟမ်ဘာဂါ (hambhaga)
• → Dutch: hamburger
• → Estonian: hamburger
• → French: hamburger m
• → German: Hamburger m
  • → Bulgarian: хамбургер (hamburger)
• → Hungarian: hamburger
• → Japanese: ハンバーガー
• → Italian: hamburger m
• → Khmer: ហាំប៊ឺហ្គឺ (hambɨɨgɨɨ)
• → Korean: 햄버거 (haembeogeo)
• → Macedonian: хамбургер (hamburger)
• → Mongolian: хамбургер (xamburger)
• → Persian: همبرگر
• → Polish: hamburger
• → Portuguese: hambúrguer m
• → Romanian: hamburger m
• → Russian: га́мбургер (gámburger)
  • → Mongolian: гамбургер (gamburger)
• → Swahili: hambaga
• → Thai: แฮมเบอร์เกอร์ (hɛm-bəə-gə̂ə)
• → Turkish: hamburger
• → Vietnamese: hăm-bơ-gơ

Translations

See also

• 🍔 (hamburger emoji)

Verb

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.

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):

Noun

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

Declension

Further reading

• hamburger in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu

Dutch

Dutch Wikipedia has an article on:

hamburger

Wikipedia ^nl

Etymology

Borrowed from English hamburger.

Pronunciation

• Audio

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• Hyphenation: ham‧bur‧ger

Noun

hamburger m (plural hamburgers, diminutive hamburgertje n)

1. hamburger

Estonian

Etymology

From English hamburger.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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

Declension

References

• hamburger in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)

French

Etymology

From English hamburger, from German Hamburger.

Pronunciation

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

• audio (France, Paris)

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• audio (France, Normandy)

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• (Quebec) ^{(aspirated h)} IPA^(key): /ambɚɡɚ/

• Audio (Quebec, Montreal)

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• Audio

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• Rhymes: -œʁ
• Homophone: hamburgers

Noun

hamburger m (plural hamburgers)

1. hamburger

   Synonym: hambourgeois

Further reading

• “hamburger”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.

Hungarian

 hamburger on Hungarian Wikipedia

Etymology

From English hamburger.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

hamburger (plural hamburgerek)

1. hamburger (hot sandwich)

   Synonym: (clipping) hambi

Declension

Derived terms

Related terms

References

Italian

Pronunciation

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

Noun

hamburger m (invariable)

1. hamburger

   Synonym: svizzera

References

Norwegian Bokmål

Norwegian Wikipedia has an article on:

hamburger

Wikipedia ^no

Etymology

From German Hamburger and English hamburger.

Noun

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

1. a Hamburger (person from Hamburg)
2. a hamburger (fast food)

See also

• hamburgar (Nynorsk)

References

• “hamburger” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Polish

Polish Wikipedia has an article on:

hamburger

Wikipedia ^pl

Etymology

Borrowed from American English hamburger.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /xamˈbur.ɡɛr/

• Audio

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

Noun

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)

Declension

Derived terms

Further reading

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

Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English hamburger, from German Hamburger.

Pronunciation

Noun

hamburger m (plural hamburgers)

1. Alternative form of hambúrguer

Romanian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English hamburger or French hamburger.

Noun

hamburger m (plural hamburgeri)

1. hamburger

Declension

Turkish

Etymology

From German Hamburger.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):

Noun

hamburger (definite accusative hamburgeri, plural hamburgerler)

1. hamburger

Declension