foie gras

foie gras

English

A dish of foie gras at a restaurant in Singapore.

Etymology

Borrowed from French foie gras (literally “fat liver”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˌfwɑː ˈɡɹɑː/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˌfwɑ ˈɡɹɑ/

• Audio (US)

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Noun

foie gras (countable and uncountable, plural foies gras)

1. The fattened liver of geese or ducks, used for gourmet cooking.
   • 1901, The Picayune’s Creole Cook Book, second edition, New Orleans, La.: The Picayune, page 130, columns 1–2:

     Foies Gras are now sold in cans in every large grocery establishment in the United States. […] Bake this paste, and then fill in with the foies gras.

   • 1907, “Poultry”, in A Guide to Modern Cookery, London: William Heinemann Ltd., translation of Le guide culinaire by Auguste Escoffier, section “1726—Foie Gras”, page 547:

     Foies gras are supplied either by geese or ducks.

   • 1948, Town & Country, page 166:

     Many foies gras put up by French canneries aren’t really French at all.

   • 1963, Réalités, section “Louisa Porter’s Comments”, page 87, column 3:

     Fresh duck foies gras are so highly prized in the southwest of France […]

Synonyms

• foie (shortening) (colloquial)

Derived terms

• foie

Translations

fattened liver of geese or ducks

Arabic: كبد دسم‎, فْوَا غْرَا‎ (fwā ḡrā), (of a goose) كبد الأوز‎, (of a duck) كبد البط‎ Egyptian: فْوَا جْرَا‎ (fwā grā) Chinese: Cantonese: 肥肝 (fei4 gon1), 鵝肥肝 (ngo4 fei4 gon1), 鵝肝 (ngo4 gon1) Mandarin: (of a goose) 肥鵝肝／肥鹅肝 (féi'égān), 鵝肝／鹅肝 (égān), (of a duck) 肥鴨肝／肥鸭肝 (féiyāgān), 鴨肝／鸭肝 (yāgān), (of either a goose or duck) 肥肝 (féigān) Dutch: foie gras (nl) m, (of a goose) ganzenlever (nl) m, (of a duck) eendenlever (nl) m Esperanto: fuagraso, grashepataĵo Estonian: hanemaksa Finnish: hanhenmaksa (fi) French: foie gras (fr) m Georgian: ფუა-გრა (pua-gra) German: Stopfleber f, Foie gras n, (of a goose) Gänsestopfleber (de) f, (of a duck) Entenstopfleber f Greek: φουά γκρα (el) n (fouá gkra) Ancient: χήνεια ἥπατα n pl (khḗneia hḗpata) Hebrew: כָּבֵד אַוָּז‎ m (kå̄ḇēḏ ʾawwå̄z), פואה גרא‎ Hungarian: libamáj (hu) Italian: foie gras m, fegato grasso m Japanese: フォアグラ (ja) (foagura), フォワグラ (fowagura) Korean: 푸아그라 (puageura) Lao: ຟົວກາ (fūa kā) Latin: fīcātum n Limburgish: vètslaever m Lithuanian: žąsų arba ančių kepenėlių paštetas m, žąsų kepenėlių paštetas m Malayalam: കൊഴുപ്പിച്ച കരൾ (koḻuppicca karaḷ) Norwegian: gåselever m Occitan: fetge gras m Gascon: hetge gras m Aranese: hitge gras m Persian: جگر چرب‎ (jegar čarb) Polish: pasztet strasburski (pl) m, foie gras (pl) n Portuguese: foie gras (pt) m Russian: фуа̀-гра́ (ru) n (fuà-grá) Spanish: foie gras (es) m, fuagrás (es) m Swedish: foie gras c, gåslever c, anklever c Thai: ฟัวกรา (fuua-graa) Turkish: kaz ciğeri Ukrainian: фуа̀-гра́ n (fuà-hrá) Vietnamese: gan ngỗng béo, gan béo, gan ngỗng vỗ béo

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French

A serving of foie gras (on the left) as an appetizer in a restaurant in Avignon, France

Etymology

foie (“liver”) +‎ gras (“fat”).Literally, “fat liver”.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fwa ɡʁa/, /fwa ɡʁɑ/

• Audio

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Noun

foie gras m (plural foies gras)

1. foie gras (fattened liver of geese or ducks)

Further reading

foie gras on the French Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^fr

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Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French foie gras (literally “fat liver”).

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /fuˌaˈɡɾa/ [fʊˌaˈɡɾa], (faster pronunciation) /ˌfwaˈɡɾa/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˌfwaˈɡɾa/ [ˌfwaˈɣɾa]

• Rhymes: -a

Noun

foie gras m (uncountable)

1. foie gras (fattened liver of geese or ducks)

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Spanish

Etymology

From French foie gras (literally “fat liver”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌfwa ˈɡɾa/ [ˌfwa ˈɣ̞ɾa]

Noun

foie gras m (uncountable)

1. foie gras

Further reading

• “foie gras”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014