marmalade

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French marmelade, from Portuguese marmelada (“quince jam”), from marmelo (“quince”), from Latin melimēlum (“sweet apple”), from Ancient Greek μελίμηλον (melímēlon), from μέλι (méli, “honey”) + μῆλον (mêlon, “apple”). A false folk etymology claims that this comes from the phrase “Marie est malade”, referring to Mary, Queen of Scots falling ill and being given marmalade to feel better.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɑː.mə.leɪd/
• IPA^(key): /ˈmɑɹ.mə.leɪd/
• Hyphenation: mar‧ma‧lade

• Audio (US):

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Noun

marmalade (countable and uncountable, plural marmalades)

1. A kind of jam made with citrus fruit, distinguished by being made slightly bitter by the addition of the peel and by partial caramelisation during manufacture. Most commonly made with Seville oranges, and usually qualified by the name of the fruit when made with other types of fruit. [from late 15c.]

   lime marmalade

   thick cut marmalade

   1. Ellipsis of orange marmalade.
2. (obsolete) quince jam

Hypernyms

• jam

 

Derived terms

• marmalade box
• marmalade dropper
• marmalade tree
• marmaladey
• marmalady

 

Translations

citrus jam

• Afrikaans: marmelade
• Arabic: مَرْمَلَاد m (marmalād)
• Armenian: ջեմ (hy) (ǰem), մարմելադ (hy) (marmelad)
• Azerbaijani: marmelad
• Basque: marmelada
• Belarusian: мармела́д m (marmjelád), джэм m (džem)
• Bulgarian: мармалад m (marmalad)
• Catalan: melmelada (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 橙皮占 (caang² pei⁴ zim¹)

  Mandarin: 橘子果醬／橘子果酱 (júzi guǒjiàng), 果醬／果酱 (zh) (guǒjiàng), 果子醬／果子酱 (zh) (guǒzijiàng)

• Czech: marmeláda (cs) f
• Danish: syltetøj
• Dutch: marmelade (nl) f, jam (nl) f, confituur (nl) f
• Esperanto: marmelado
• Estonian: marmelaad
• Finnish: marmeladi (fi), marmelaadi (fi), marmelaati (fi)
• French: confiture (fr) f, confiture d’oranges f, marmelade d’oranges f
• Galician: marmelada (gl) f
• Georgian: მარმელადი (marmeladi)
• German: Marmelade (de) f
• Greek: μαρμελάδα (el) f (marmeláda)

  Ancient Greek: παλάθη f (paláthē)

• Gujarati: please add this translation if you can
• Hindi: मुरब्बा (hi) (murabbā)
• Hungarian: narancsdzsem (hu), narancslekvár (hu), (dated) marmelád (hu)
• Ido: konfitajo (io)
• Indonesian: marmelade (id)
• Irish: marmaláid f
• Italian: marmellata (it) f
• Japanese: マーマレード (māmarēdo)
• Javanese: please add this translation if you can
• Kazakh: мармелад (marmelad)
• Khmer: ដំណាប់ (km) (dɑmnap)
• Korean: 마멀레이드 (ko) (mameolleideu)
• Lao: please add this translation if you can
• Latin: please add this translation if you can
• Latvian: marmelāde f
• Lithuanian: marmeladas m
• Malay: please add this translation if you can
• Malayalam: please add this translation if you can
• Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
• Norman: marmélade f (Guernsey)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: marmelade m, syltetøy (no) n

  Nynorsk: syltetøy

• Persian: مارمالاد (fa) (mârmâlâd)
• Polish: marmolada (pl) f
• Portuguese: geleia (pt) f
• Romanian: marmeladă (ro) f
• Russian: джем (ru) m (džem), пови́дло (ru) n (povídlo), мармела́д (ru) m (marmelád)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: мармелада f, пекмез m, џем m

  Roman: marmelada (sh) f, pekmez (sh) m, džem (sh) m

• Slovak: marmeláda f
• Slovene: marmelada (sl) f
• Spanish: mermelada (es)
• Swedish: marmelad (sv) c
• Telugu: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: marmelat (tr)
• Ukrainian: джем m (džem), пови́дло n (povýdlo), мармеля́да f (marmeljáda)
• Urdu: please add this translation if you can
• Vietnamese: mứt cam
• Welsh: marmalêd
• Yiddish: מאַרמעלאַד m (marmelad)

Verb

marmalade (third-person singular simple present marmalades, present participle marmalading, simple past and past participle marmaladed)

1. (transitive) To spread marmalade on.

Derived terms

• marmalader
• marmalading

 

Translations

to spread marmalade on