porridge

English

Alternative forms

• parritch (Scotland)
• porage, porrige (both obsolete)

Etymology

Variant of pottage (“thick soup or stew”), influenced by porray (“stew of leeks”). The "prison sentence" sense comes from the British tradition of serving prisoners porridge for breakfast.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈpɒɹ.ɪd͡ʒ/
• (General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈpɔɹɪd͡ʒ/
• (New York City, Philadelphia) IPA^(key): /ˈpɑɹɪd͡ʒ/

  • Audio (New Jersey):

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• (Australia) IPA^(key): /ˈpɔɹɪd͡ʒ/

  • Audio (Queensland):

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• (New Zealand) IPA^(key): /ˈpɔ̟ɹəd͡ʒ/
• Rhymes: -ɒɹɪdʒ

Noun

porridge (usually uncountable, plural porridges)

1. A dish made of grain or legumes, milk or water, heated and stirred until thick and typically eaten for breakfast.

   Eat your porridge while it's hot!

   • 1922, Michael Arlen, “1/1/2”, in “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days‎^[1]:

     There were rumours, new rumours every morning, delightful and outrageous rumours, so that the lumps in the porridge were swallowed without comment and the fish-cakes were eaten without contumely.

   1. (chiefly UK) Oat porridge; oatmeal.
   2. (Malaysia, Singapore) Rice porridge; congee.
2. (UK, slang, uncountable) A prison sentence.

   Just do your porridge and keep your head down.

3. (rare) A type of thick soup or stew, especially thickened with barley.

Derived terms

• do porridge
• keep one's breath to cool one's porridge
• Laba porridge
• pease porridge
• pine nut porridge
• plain as porridge
• plum-porridge
• porridge belly
• porridge drawer
• porridgeless
• porridgelike
• porridge pot
• porridge-stick
• porridge time
• porridgy
• pumpkin porridge
• red bean porridge
• rice porridge
• save one's breath to cool one's porridge
• Teochew porridge
• water-porridge

Translations

breakfast cereal dish — see also oatmeal

• Afrikaans: pap (af)
• Altai:

  Southern Altai: ботко (botko)

• Arabic: ثَرِيد m (ṯarīd), عَصِيدَة (ar) f (ʕaṣīda)
• Armenian: շիլա (hy) (šila)
• Azerbaijani: sıyıq
• Bashkir: бутҡа (botqa)
• Basque: ahi (eu), morokil
• Belarusian: ка́ша f (káša)
• Bidayuh:

  Biatah Bidayuh: bubur

• Bulgarian: ка́ша (bg) f (káša)
• Catalan: farinetes (ca) f pl
• Chechen: худар (xudar)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 粥 (zuk¹) (rice), 麥片 / 麦片 (mak⁶ pin^3-2) (oats, oatmeal)

  Mandarin: 粥 (zh) (zhōu) (rice, buckwheat, oats, etc.)

• Cornish: yos kergh m
• Czech: kaše (cs) f
• Danish: grød (da) c
• Dutch: pap (nl) c
• Esperanto: griaĵo, kaĉo (eo)
• Estonian: puder (et)
• Ewe: akatsa, koko
• Faroese: greytur m
• Finnish: puuro (fi)
• Fon: please add this translation if you can
• French: bouillie (fr) f, porridge (fr) m, gruau (fr) m (Canada)
• Galician: papa (gl) f, papas f pl
• Georgian: ფაფა (papa)
• German: Brei (de) m
• Greek: χυλός (el) m (chylós), κουάκερ (el) n (kouáker)

  Ancient Greek: ἀθάρη f (athárē), πτισάνη f (ptisánē) (made from barley), πόλτος (póltos) (made from wheat flour)

• Haitian Creole: labouyi
• Hebrew: דייסה f (daysá)
• Hindi: दलिया (hi) m (daliyā)
• Hungarian: kása (hu)
• Indonesian: bubur (id)
• Irish: leite f
• Italian: porridge (it) m, pappa d'avena f, zuppa d'avena f
• Japanese: ポリッジ (ja) (porijji), 粥 (ja) (かゆ, kayu, かい, kai, しゅく, shuku) (rice, buckweat, oats, etc.), 雑炊 (ja) (zousui)
• Kazakh: ботқа (botqa)
• Khmer: បបរ (km) (bɑbɑɑ)
• Kikuyu: ucoro
• Komi:

  Komi-Zyrian: рок (rok)

• Korean: 포리지 (poriji)
• Kyrgyz: ботко (ky) (botko)
• Latin: puls f, pappa f
• Latvian: putra f
• Lithuanian: košė f
• Luhya: bhuyu ?
• Luo: nyuka
• Macedonian: каша (mk) f (kaša)
• Malay: bubur (ms)
• Malayalam: കഞ്ഞി (ml) (kaññi) (congee)
• Māori: pāreti, pākū
• Mongolian: будаа (mn) (budaa)
• Naga:

  Khiamniungan Naga: wâkù

• Nahuatl: pozōlli
• Nanai: балан (balan)
• Nivkh: ераӄ (jeraq)
• Norwegian: grøt (no) m
• Old English: brīw m
• Persian: فرنی (fa) (ferni), حریره (fa) (harire), هریسه (fa) (harise)
• Polish: owsianka (pl) f
• Portuguese: mingau (pt) (Brazil), papa (pt)
• Punjabi: ਦਲੀਆ ? (dalīā)
• Quechua: api
• Romanian: păsat (ro) n, terci (ro) n
• Russian: ка́ша (ru) f (káša), овся́нка (ru) f (ovsjánka)
• Sami:

  Northern Sami: buvru

  Skolt Sami: hutt

• Scots: parritch
• Scottish Gaelic: lite f, brochan m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: каша f

  Latin: kaša (sh) f

• Slovak: kaša f
• Slovene: káša (sl) f
• Sotho: papa ?
• Spanish: gachas (es) f pl, puches (es) m, papilla (es) f
• Sranan Tongo: akansa, angu
• Swahili: uji (sw) class 11
• Swedish: gröt (sv) c
• Tagalog: lugaw
• Tajik: шӯла (šüla)
• Tatar: ботка (tt) (botqa)
• Tausug: biyugbug
• Telugu: అంబలి (te) (ambali)
• Tocharian B: onkarño ? (made from rice)
• Ukrainian: ка́ша f (káša)
• Uzbek: boʻtqa (uz)
• Venda: vhuswa
• Vietnamese: cháo (vi)
• Welsh: uwd (cy) m
• Xhosa: ípápa class 9/10
• Yoruba: please add this translation if you can
• Zulu: ^{(please verify)} ípápa ?, ^{(please verify)} umdokwe ?

slang: prison sentence

• Finnish: kakku (fi)
• Hungarian: börtönbüntetés (hu)
• Polish: odsiadka (pl) f

See also

• congee
• gruel
• oatmeal
• stiff porridge

Further reading

• porridge on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Périgord

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English porridge.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɔ.ʁidʒ/

• Audio (France):

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Noun

porridge m (plural porridges)

1. porridge

Further reading

• “porridge”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

Romanian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English porridge.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpo.rid͡ʒ/

Noun

porridge n (uncountable)

1. porridge

Declension

singular only	indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	porridge	porridgeul
genitive-dative	porridge	porridgeului
vocative	porridgeule