satay

English

WOTD – 28 March 2009

Satay served with peanut sauce, cucumber, and onion

Alternative forms

• satai, saté, sate, sateh

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈsæt.eɪ/, /ˈsɑː.teɪ/

  Rhymes: -æteɪ

• (US) IPA^(key): /sæˈteɪ/, /sɑːˈteɪ/

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• Homophone: sauté (pronunciation with /ɑː/ in accents with cot–caught merger)

  Rhymes: -eɪ

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.

Derived terms

• satay stick

Translations

dish

• Arabic: سَاتِيه m (sātīh)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 沙爹 (sa^1-3 de¹), 沙嗲 (sa^1-3 de¹)

  Hokkien: 沙茶 (zh-min-nan) (sa-te)

  Mandarin: 沙茶 (zh) (shāchá), 沙爹 (zh) (shādiē), 沙嗲 (zh) (shādiǎ)

• Danish: please add this translation if you can
• Dutch: saté (nl) m
• Finnish: satay, satay-vartaat
• French: satay (fr) m, saté (fr) m
• German: Satay, Saté
• Hindi: please add this translation if you can
• Hungarian: szaté
• Indonesian: satai (id)
• Italian: saté m
• Japanese: サテ (sate)
• Javanese: ꦱꦠꦺ (jv) (saté)
• Khmer: សាតេ (saatee)
• Korean: 사테 (sate)
• Malay: sate (ms)
• Norwegian: please add this translation if you can
• Persian: please add this translation if you can
• Polish: satay m, saté n
• Portuguese: satay m
• Romanian: please add this translation if you can
• Russian: сата́й m (satáj), сате́ n (saté), сатэ́ n (satɛ́)
• Spanish: satay m
• Sundanese: saté
• Swedish: satay
• Tagalog: satay
• Thai: สะเต๊ะ (th) (sà-dté)
• Ukrainian: please add this translation if you can
• Vietnamese: satê

Further reading

• satay on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• astay, ayats

Portuguese

Noun

satay m (plural satays)

1. satay (Indonesian and Malaysian meat dish)

Spanish

Noun

satay m (plural satayes)

1. satay

Tagalog

Alternative forms

• sate

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈsataj/ [ˈsaː.taɪ̯]
• Rhymes: -ataj
• Syllabification: sa‧tay

Noun

satay (Baybayin spelling ᜐᜆᜌ᜔)

1. satay (Indonesian and Malaysian dish)

Further reading

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