menu

menu

See also: menú, menù, menü, Menü, Menu, and měnu

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French menu. Doublet of minute.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɛnjuː/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈmɛnju/

• Audio (US)

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɛnjuː

Noun

menu (plural menus)

1. The details of the food to be served at a banquet; a bill of fare.
2. A list containing the food and beverages served at a restaurant, café, or bar. Menus may be printed on paper sheets provided to customers, put on a large poster or display board inside the establishment, displayed outside the restaurant, or digital.

   The server handed us the menu.

   We selected duck pâté and chicken goujons from the menu.

3. The food or drinks that are available in a restaurant, café, or bar.

   They took the chicken sandwich off their menu.

   We've added a few new dishes to our menu.

4. (computing, gaming) A list from which the user may select an operation to be performed, often done with a keyboard, mouse, or controller under a graphical user interface
5. A list or agenda.

   What's on the menu for today's meeting?

Derived terms

• Chinese menu
• context menu
• degustation menu
• hamburger menu
• mega menu
• menu bar
• menu board
• menu cost
• menued
• menuless
• pie menu
• pop-up menu
• set menu
• submenu
• tasting menu
• user menu

Descendants

• → Cebuano: menu
• → Gulf Arabic: منيو‎ (minyu)
• → Japanese: メニュー
• → Thai: เมนู (mee-nuu)
• → Tok Pisin: menyu

Translations

details of the food to be served at a banquet

Afrikaans: spyskaart (af) Albanian: meny Arabic: قَائِمَة‎ f (qāʾima), قَائِمَةُ الطَّعَام‎ f (qāʾimatu ṭ-ṭaʿām) Armenian: ճաշացուցակ (hy) (čašacʿucʿak), մենյու (hy) (menyu) Azerbaijani: menyu (az) Belarusian: меню́ n (mjenjú) Bengali: মেনু (menu) Bulgarian: меню́ n (menjú) Burmese: မီနူး (minu:) Catalan: menú (ca) m Chinese: Cantonese: 菜單, 菜单 (coi3 daan1), 餐牌 (caan1 paai4-2) Mandarin: 菜單／菜单 (zh) (càidān) Czech: jídelní lístek m Danish: spisekort n, menu (da) c Dutch: menu (nl) n Estonian: menüü (et) Finnish: menukortti, menu (fi), ruokalista (fi) French: carte (fr) f, menu (fr) m Georgian: მენიუ (meniu) German: Menü (de) n Greek: εδεσματολόγιο (el) n (edesmatológio), κατάλογος (el) m (katálogos) Ancient: γραμματείδιον n (grammateídion) Hebrew: תַּפְרִיט‎ (he) m (tafrít) Hindi: मेनू (menū) Hungarian: menü (hu), étlap (hu) Irish: biachlár m Italian: carta (it) f Japanese: メニュー (ja) (menyū), お品書き (おしながき, oshinagaki) Kazakh: мәзір (kk) (mäzır) Khmer: ម៉ឺនុយ (məɨnuy), បញ្ជីមុខម្ហូប (bɑñcii muk mhoup), អាហារប័ណ្ណ (ʼaahaaraʼban) Korean: 메뉴 (ko) (menyu), 차림표 (ko) (charimpyo) Kyrgyz: меню (menyu) Lao: ເມນູ (mē nū) Latvian: ēdienkarte f Lithuanian: meniu (lt) Macedonian: мени́ n (mení) Mongolian: хоолны нэрс (xoolny ners) Norwegian: Bokmål: meny (no) m, speisekart n Persian: منو‎ (fa) (menu), صورت‌غذا‎ (surat-ğazâ) Polish: menu (pl) n Portuguese: cardápio (pt), menu (pt) Romanian: meniu (ro) n Russian: меню́ (ru) n (menjú) Scottish Gaelic: cairt-bidhe f, clàr-bìdhe m Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: мени m, јеловник m Roman: mènī (sh) m, jelòvnīk (sh) m Slovak: jedálny lístok m Slovene: meni m, jedilnik m Spanish: menú (es) m, carta (es) f Swedish: meny (sv) c Tagalog: talaulaman Tajik: меню (menyu) Thai: เมนู (th) (mee-nuu) Tibetan: ཁ་ལག་ཐོ (kha lag tho) Turkish: menü (tr) Turkmen: menýu Ukrainian: меню́ n (menjú) Uzbek: menyu (uz) Vietnamese: thực đơn (vi) Welsh: bwydlen f

list of dishes offered in a restaurant

Afrikaans: menu Arabic: قَائِمَة‎ f (qāʾima), قَائِمَةُ طَعَام‎ f (qāʾimatu ṭaʿām) Gulf Arabic: منيو‎ m (minyu) Armenian: ճաշացուցակ (hy) (čašacʿucʿak) Azerbaijani: menyu (az) Belarusian: меню́ n (mjenjú) Bulgarian: меню́ n (menjú) Catalan: carta (ca) m Chinese: Cantonese: 餐牌 (caan1 paai4-2) Mandarin: 菜單／菜单 (zh) (càidān), 餐牌 (zh) (cānpái), 菜譜／菜谱 (zh) (càipǔ) Czech: jídelní lístek m Danish: menu (da) Dutch: menukaart (nl) f Estonian: menüü (et) Finnish: ruokalista (fi) French: carte (fr) f, menu (fr) m Georgian: მენიუ (meniu) German: Speisekarte (de) f Greek: μενού (el) n (menoú), κατάλογος (el) m (katálogos), εδεσματολόγιο (el) n (edesmatológio) Hindi: मेनू (menū) Hungarian: menü (hu), étlap (hu), ételkínálat Icelandic: matseðill (is) m Irish: biachlár m Italian: menù (it) m Japanese: メニュー (ja) (menyū), お品書き (おしながき, oshinagaki), 献立 (ja) (こんだて, kondate) Korean: 메뉴판 (menyupan), 메뉴 (ko) (menyu), 식사안내표 (siksaannaepyo) (North Korea) Lao: ລາຍການອາຫານ (lāi kān ʼā hān) Latvian: ēdienkarte f Lithuanian: meniu (lt) Macedonian: мени́ n (mení) Maori: rārangi kai Norwegian: meny (no) m Persian: منو‎ (fa) (menu), صورت‌غذا‎ (surat-ğazâ) Polish: menu (pl) n, spis dań m, jadłospis (pl) m Portuguese: cardápio (pt), menu (pt), ementa (pt) f Romanian: meniu (ro) n Russian: меню́ (ru) n (menjú) Scottish Gaelic: cairt-bidhe f Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: мени m, јеловник m Roman: mènī (sh) m, jelòvnīk (sh) m Slovak: jedálny lístok m Slovene: jedilni list m, jedilnik m Spanish: menú (es) m, carta (es) f Swedish: meny (sv) c Tagalog: putahe Thai: เมนู (th) (mee-nuu), รายการอาหาร (raai-gaan aa-hǎan) Turkish: menü (tr) Ukrainian: меню́ n (menjú) Vietnamese: thực đơn (vi), bảng kê món ăn Welsh: bwydlen

food or drinks that are available in a restaurant, café, or bar

Finnish: ruokalista (fi)

computing: list from which the user may select an operation to be performed

Arabic: قَائِمَة‎ f (qāʾima) Bulgarian: меню n (menju) Catalan: menú (ca) m Chinese: Mandarin: 選單／选单 (zh) (xuǎndān), 菜單／菜单 (zh) (càidān), 項目單／项目单 (xiàngmùdān), 項目表／项目表 (xiàngmùbiǎo), 選項單／选项单 (xuǎnxiàngdān) Czech: nabídka (cs) f, menu (cs) n Dutch: menu (nl) n Finnish: valikko (fi) French: menu (fr) m German: Menü (de) n Greek: μενού (el) n (menoú), κατάλογος (el) m (katálogos) Hungarian: menü (hu) Irish: roghchlár m Japanese: メニュー (ja) (menyū) Kazakh: мәзір (kk) (mäzır) Korean: 메뉴 (ko) (menyu) Latvian: izvēlne f Macedonian: мени́ n (mení) Maori: rārangi tono Norwegian: Bokmål: meny (no) m Persian: منو‎ (fa) (menu), فهرست‎ (fa) (fehrest) Polish: menu (pl) n Portuguese: menu (pt) Romanian: meniu (ro) n Russian: меню́ (ru) n (menjú) Scottish Gaelic: clàr-iùil m Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: мени m, изборник m Roman: mènī (sh) m, ìzbōrnīk m Spanish: menú (es) m Swedish: meny (sv) c Thai: เมนู (th) (mee-nuu) Turkish: menü (tr) Vietnamese: trình đơn (vi), menu (vi), danh mục (vi), bảng chọn (vi) Welsh: dewislen f

list or agenda

Finnish: lista (fi) (list or agenda); asialista (fi), esityslista (fi) (agenda)

See also

• Appendix:Menus

Further reading

• menu on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• menu (computing) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• MUNE, enum, neum

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Afrikaans

Noun

menu (plural menu's)

1. menu

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Cebuano

Etymology

From English menu, from French menu. Doublet of minuto and menudo.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: me‧nu

Noun

menu

1. a bill of fare
2. a menu; a list of dishes offered in a restaurant
3. a computer menu

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:menu.

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Chamicuro

Noun

menu

1. tongue

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Czech

Etymology

Borrowed from French menu.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈmɛnu]

Noun

menu n (indeclinable)

1. menu

   denní menu ― daily menu

   uživatelské menu ― user menu

Further reading

• menu in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
• menu in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989
• menu in Internetová jazyková příručka

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Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from French menu.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /meˈny/, [meˈny]

Noun

menu c (singular definite menuen, plural indefinite menuer)

1. menu (all senses)

Inflection

Declension of menu

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	menu	menuen	menuer	menuerne
genitive	menus	menuens	menuers	menuernes

Further reading

• menu on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da

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Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French menu.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /məˈny/

• Audio

  (file)

• Hyphenation: me‧nu
• Rhymes: -y

Noun

menu n (plural menu's, diminutive menuutje n)

1. menu

   Synonyms: kaart, menukaart, spijskaart

2. (computing) menu

Derived terms

• driegangenmenu
• hoofdmenu
• kindermenu
• menukaart
• vegamenu
• verrassingsmenu
• viergangenmenu

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Estonian

Etymology

Borrowed from Finnish meno.

Noun

menu (genitive menu, partitive menu)

1. success

Declension

Inflection of menu (ÕS type 17/elu, no gradation)

	singular	plural
nominative	menu	menud
accusative	menu	menud
genitive	menu	menude
partitive	menu	menusid
illative	mennu menusse	menudesse
inessive	menus	menudes
elative	menust	menudest
allative	menule	menudele
adessive	menul	menudel
ablative	menult	menudelt
translative	menuks	menudeks
terminative	menuni	menudeni
essive	menuna	menudena
abessive	menuta	menudeta
comitative	menuga	menudega

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Finnish

Alternative forms

• menyy

Etymology

Borrowed from French menu.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmenu/, [ˈme̞nu]
• IPA^(key): /ˈmenyː/, [ˈme̞nyː]
• Rhymes: -enu
• Syllabification^(key): me‧nu

Noun

menu

1. menu, bill of fare (details of the food to be served at a banquet)

   Synonyms: menukortti, menyy

2. Synonym of ruokalista (“menu”) (printed list of dishes offered in a restaurant)
3. (computing) Synonym of valikko (“menu”) (list from which the user may select an operation to be performed)

Declension

Inflection of menu (Kotus type 1/valo, no gradation)
nominative		menu	menut
genitive		menun	menujen
partitive		menua	menuja
illative		menuun	menuihin
		singular	plural
nominative		menu	menut
accusative	nom.	menu	menut
	gen.	menun
genitive		menun	menujen
partitive		menua	menuja
inessive		menussa	menuissa
elative		menusta	menuista
illative		menuun	menuihin
adessive		menulla	menuilla
ablative		menulta	menuilta
allative		menulle	menuille
essive		menuna	menuina
translative		menuksi	menuiksi
instructive		—	menuin
abessive		menutta	menuitta
comitative		—	menuineen

Possessive forms of menu (type valo)
possessor	singular	plural
1st person	menuni	menumme
2nd person	menusi	menunne
3rd person	menunsa

Inflection of menu (Kotus type 21/rosé, no gradation)
nominative		menu	menut
genitive		menun	menuiden menuitten
partitive		menuta	menuita
illative		menuhyn menuhun	menuihin
		singular	plural
nominative		menu	menut
accusative	nom.	menu	menut
	gen.	menun
genitive		menun	menuiden menuitten
partitive		menuta	menuita
inessive		menussa	menuissa
elative		menusta	menuista
illative		menuhyn menuhun	menuihin
adessive		menulla	menuilla
ablative		menulta	menuilta
allative		menulle	menuille
essive		menuna	menuina
translative		menuksi	menuiksi
instructive		—	menuin
abessive		menutta	menuitta
comitative		—	menuineen

Possessive forms of menu (type rosé)
possessor	singular	plural
1st person	menuni	menumme
2nd person	menusi	menunne
3rd person	menunsa

Inflection of menu (Kotus type 21/rosé, no gradation)
nominative		menu	menut
genitive		menun	menuiden menuitten
partitive		menutä	menuitä
illative		menuhyn menuhun	menuihin
		singular	plural
nominative		menu	menut
accusative	nom.	menu	menut
	gen.	menun
genitive		menun	menuiden menuitten
partitive		menutä	menuitä
inessive		menussä	menuissä
elative		menustä	menuistä
illative		menuhyn menuhun	menuihin
adessive		menullä	menuillä
ablative		menultä	menuiltä
allative		menulle	menuille
essive		menunä	menuinä
translative		menuksi	menuiksi
instructive		—	menuin
abessive		menuttä	menuittä
comitative		—	menuineen

Possessive forms of menu (type rosé)
possessor	singular	plural
1st person	menuni	menumme
2nd person	menusi	menunne
3rd person	menunsä

Compounds

• aamiaismenu
• illallismenu
• juhlamenu
• lounasmenu
• maistelumenu
• äyriäismenu

 

Anagrams

• emun

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French

Etymology

From Middle French menu, from Old French menu, from Latin minūtus (“minute, tiny”). Doublet of minute.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mə.ny/

• audio

  (file)

Adjective

menu (feminine menue, masculine plural menus, feminine plural menues)

1. slim, small, fine
2. minor, trifling

Derived terms

• les briser menues
• menuet
• menu fretin
• par le menu
• par le menu détail

Noun

menu m (plural menus)

1. detailed list
2. menu; a set meal on a menu

Derived terms

• menu du jour
• menu gastronomique

Descendants

• → Albanian: meny
• → Azerbaijani: menyu
• → Belarusian: меню (mjenju)
• → Bengali: মেনু (menu)
• → Bulgarian: меню (menju)
• → Burmese: မီနူး (minu:)
• → Catalan: menú
• → Crimean Tatar: menü
• → Czech: menu
• → Danish: menu
• → Dutch: menu
• → English: menu
  • → Cebuano: menu
  • → Gulf Arabic: منيو‎ (minyu)
  • → Japanese: メニュー
  • → Thai: เมนู (mee-nuu)
  • → Tok Pisin: menyu
• → Estonian: menüü
• → Finnish: menu
• → Georgian: მენიუ (meniu)
• → German: Menü
• → Hindi: मेनू (menū)
• → Hungarian: menü
• → Indonesian: menu
• → Italian: menu
• → Japanese: メニュー (menyū)
• → Khmer: ម៉ឺនុយ (məɨnuy)
• → Korean: 메뉴 (menyu)
• → Kyrgyz: меню (menyu)
• → Lao: ເມນູ (mē nū)
• → Lithuanian: meniu
• → Macedonian: мени (meni)
• → Norwegian Bokmål: meny
• → Polish: menu
• → Portuguese: menu
• → Romanian: meniu
• → Russian: меню (menju)
  • → Armenian: մենյու (menyu)
  • → Azerbaijani: menyu
  • → Yiddish: מעניו‎ (menyu)
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: мени

  Latin: meni

• → Spanish: menú
• → Swedish: meny
• → Tajik: меню (menyu)
• → Turkish: menü
• → Turkmen: menýu
• → Ukrainian: меню́ (menjú)
• → Uzbek: menyu

Further reading

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

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Italian

Alternative forms

• menù

Etymology

Borrowed from French menu. Doublet of minuto.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /meˈnu/^*

• Audio

  (file)

• Rhymes: -u

Noun

menu m (invariable)

1. menu

Anagrams

• nume

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Lithuanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [mʲɛˈn̪ʊ]

Noun

menù

1. instrumental singular of menas

Verb

menù

1. first-person singular present of miñti

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Middle French

Etymology

From Old French menu.

Adjective

menu m (feminine singular menue, masculine plural menus, feminine plural menues)

1. small

Antonyms

• grand
• gross

Descendants

• French: menu (see there for further descendants)

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Old French

Etymology

From Latin minūtus.

Adjective

menu m (oblique and nominative feminine singular menue or menude)

1. small
   • 12^th Century, Unknown, Raoul de Cambrai:

     Trenche la coife de son hauberc menu

     He cut off the head of his small coat of armor

Declension

Declension of menu

Number	Case	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Singular	Subject	menus, menuz	menue, menude	menu
	Oblique	menu			menue, menude	menu
Plural	Subject	menu	menues, menudes		menu
	Oblique	menus, menuz			menues, menudes	menu

Descendants

• Middle French: menu
  • French: menu (see there for further descendants)

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (menu)

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Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɛˈɲi/

• Audio

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɛɲi
• Syllabification: me‧nu

Etymology 1

Unadapted borrowing from French menu. Doublet of minuta (“minute”).

Noun

menu n (indeclinable)

1. menu, bill of fare (details of the food to be served at a banquet)
2. menu (printed list of dishes offered in a restaurant)

Etymology 2

Unadapted borrowing from English menu.

Noun

menu n (indeclinable)

1. (computing, video games) menu (list from which the user may select an operation to be performed)

Further reading

• menu in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• menu in Polish dictionaries at PWN

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Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from French menu.[1][2]

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): (normative) /mɨˈnu/, (common but considered incorrect) /mɛˈnu/[3]

• Rhymes: -u
• Hyphenation: me‧nu

Noun

menu m (plural menus)

1. menu (printed list of dishes offered in a restaurant)

   Synonyms: cardápio, ementa

2. (computing) menu (list from which the user may select an option)

References

1. “menu” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2023.
2. “menu” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.
3. FLiP Dúvidas

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Serbo-Croatian

Noun

menu

1. accusative singular of mena

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Slovak

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈmenu]

Noun

menu f

1. accusative singular of mena

Noun

menu n

1. dative singular of meno

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West Frisian

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

menu n (plural menu's, diminutive menuke)

1. menu

Derived terms

• menukaart

Further reading

• “menu”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011