cookbook

cookbook

See also: cook book

English

Alternative forms

• cook book

Etymology

From cook +‎ book; possibly also a calque of German Kochbuch, from kochen (“cook”) + Buch (“book”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkʊkˌbʊk/

• Audio (US)

  (file)

Noun

cookbook (plural cookbooks)

1. A book or an encyclopedia of recipes and cookery tips.
2. (by extension) Any book of strategies.

   The Anarchist's Cookbook

Synonyms

• cookery book
• recipe book

Derived terms

• cookbookery

Translations

book of cooking recipes

Bulgarian: готварска книга f (gotvarska kníga) Chinese: Mandarin: 菜譜 (zh), 菜谱 (zh) (càipǔ) Czech: kuchařka (cs) f Danish: kogebog (da) c Dutch: kookboek (nl) n Esperanto: kuirlibro Estonian: kokaraamat Finnish: keittokirja (fi) French: livre de cuisine m Galician: libro de receitas m German: Kochbuch (de) n Hebrew: ספר בישול‎ m (sefer bishul) Hungarian: szakácskönyv (hu)

Icelandic: matreiðslubók (is) f Italian: ricettario (it) m Japanese: 料理の本 (りょうりのほん, ryōri-no hon) Navajo: chʼiyáán ííłʼíní binaaltsoos Norwegian: Bokmål: kokebok m or f Nynorsk: kokebok f Polish: książka kucharska (pl) f Portuguese: livro de receitas m Russian: пова́ренная кни́га (ru) f (povárennaja kníga) Spanish: libro de recetas m, recetario m, recetario m Swedish: kokbok (sv) c Thai: ตำราอาหาร (dtam-raa-aa-hǎan) Yiddish: קאָכבוך‎ n (kokhbukh)