satay

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English

WOTD – 28 March 2009
Satay served with peanut sauce, cucumber, and onion

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Etymology

From Malay sate (“satay”), ultimately from Tamil சதை (catai).

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Noun

satay (countable and uncountable, plural satays)

  1. A dish made from small pieces of meat or fish grilled on a skewer and served with a spicy peanut sauce, originating from Indonesia and Malaysia.
    • 1956, Anthony Burgess, Time for a Tiger (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 107:
      Crabbe bought sateh for all: tiny knobs and wedges of fire-hot meat on wooden skewers, to be dipped in a lukewarm sauce of fire and eaten with slivers of sweet potato and cucumber.

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Portuguese

Noun

satay m (plural satays)

  1. satay (Indonesian and Malaysian meat dish)

Spanish

Noun

satay m (plural satayes)

  1. satay

Tagalog

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Etymology

Borrowed from English satay, from Malay sate, from Tamil சதை (catai, “flesh”). Compare Tausug satti.

Pronunciation

Noun

satay (Baybayin spelling ᜐᜆᜌ᜔)

  1. satay (Indonesian and Malaysian dish)

Further reading

  • “satay”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
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