Curry

Definition: Curry

Curry

Noun

1. (East Indian cookery) a pungent dish of vegetables or meats flavored with curry powder and usually eaten with rice.

Verb

1. Season with curry.

2. Treat by incorporating fat; "curry tanned leather".

3. Give a neat appearance to; "groom the dogs"; "dress the horses".

Date "curry" was first used: sometime around 1300. (references)

Domain	Definition
Slang in 1811	CURRY. To curry favour; to obtain the favour of a person be coaxing or servility. To curry any one's hide; to beat him. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Curry is a distinctively spiced dish which is common in Indian cuisine but is found in the cuisine of many countries. It refers to a meat or vegetable dish usually eaten with rice. There is no rigid definition of the term curry refers to, but to most people in the west, curry is what you might eat in a Indian resturant or curry house. Well-known dishes include Korma, Madras, Vindaloo, Butter Chicken and Rogan Josh. Curry is usually eaten with rice and is often acompanied by breads like naan, roti or popadums.

In Indian cuisine, curry is a sauce - sometimes considered a soup - made by stirring yoghurt into a roux of ghee (clarified butter) and besan (chick pea flour). The spices added vary, but usually include turmeric and black mustard seed.

In English cuisine, the word curry denotes a dish flavored with curry powder, usually roasted until it turns fairly dark. This is especially true for non-vegetarian dishes. There is Lamb Curry, Chicken Curry, Beef Curry and so on.

English Indian restaurants have developed the Curry to such a level that it has become an integral part of English Cuisine. Some Indian food is actually exported from the United Kingdom to India and there was an instance of an Englishman asking for a local curry to be sent to Australia (which has also taken to the curry with enthusiasm).

English curries are generally arranged by strengths that roughly follow the order below in terms of strength (going from mild to very hot indeed):

Korma
Madras
Vindaloo
Phaal

Also England has been the home of two Indian dishes that are now becoming more familiar worldwide, namely Chicken Tikka Massala and the Balti (which is a curry designed to be eaten with a large naan bread).

In the late 1990s, chicken tikka masala was commonly referred to as the "English national dish", being apparently the single commonest dish in the country, available (albeit in frozen, microwavable form) on intercity rail trains, and even used as a pizza topping.

Curries are not confined to India and the United Kingdom, English style curry resturants are common and increasingly popular in Australia and New Zealand. Other countries have their own varietys of curry, well know examples include:

Thailand: green and red curries
Malasia & Indonesia: rendang's
South Africa: Cape malay curries

Other countries which have their own varietys of curry include: Burma, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Singapore

Ingredients

Thickeners

Onions
Cream
Coconut milk
Yoghurt
Nuts

Spices

turmeric
cumin seeds
cinnamon
cloves
red chillis
pepper
mustard seeds
fenugreek seeds
poppy seeds
fennel
cardamom
saffron
coriander (whole)

Sour ingredients

Tomato
Vinegar
Tamarind
Yoghurt
Lime

Fresh Herbs and Spices

garlic
ginger
coriander leaves
curry leaves
Bay leaf
lime leaves aka Kaffir lime leaves
green chillies

Curry powder aka Massala Powder is a spice mixture of widely varying composition developed by the British during their colonial rule of India as a means of approximating the taste of Indian cuisine at home. Curry powder has no place in actual Indian cuisine. Massala means Sauce, and this is the name given to the thick pastey liquid sauce of combined spices and ghee(melted butter)/butter/palm oil/coconut milk.

Curry leaves are the young leaves of the curry tree (Chalcas koenigii), a member of the Rutaceae family that grows wild and in gardens all over India. They must be used fresh, as they lose their delicate flavor when dried. Curry leaves are not an ingredient in, and have nothing to do with, curry powder.

Haskell Curry was a logician. The verb to curry is used in his honor in Functional programming -- see currying.

Curry is also a Tamil (language spoken in South India) word that means coal.

External link

Spicy World Spice List (A list of spices maintained by a Takeaway in London)

Synonyms: Curry

Synonyms: dress (v), groom (v). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Condiment	Salt; mustard, grey poupon mustard; pepper, black pepper, white pepper, peppercorn, curry, sauce piquante; caviare, onion, garlic, pickle; achar, allspice; bell pepper, Jamaica pepper, green pepper; chutney; cubeb, pimento.
Flattery	Verb: flatter, praise to the skies, puff; wheedle, cajole, glaver, coax; fawn upon, faun upon; humor, gloze, soothe, pet, coquet, slaver, butter; jolly; bespatter, beslubber, beplaster, beslaver; lay it on thick, overpraise; earwig, cog, collogue; truckle to, pander to, pandar to, suck up to, kiss the ass of, pay court to; court; creep into the good graces of, curry favor with, hang on the sleeve of; fool to the top of one;s bent; lick the dust.
Friction	Verb: rub, scratch, scrape, scrub, slide, fray, rasp, graze, curry, scour, polish, rub out, wear down, gnaw; file, grind. (reduce to powder).
Love	Get into favor; ingratiate oneself, insinuate oneself, worm oneself; propitiate, curry favor with, pay one's court to, faire l'aimable, set one's cap at, flirt.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Curry

English words defined with "curry": Currie, Curried, Curry powder, curry sauce, currycomb, Currying ♦ fenugreek, fenugreek seed ♦ Greek clover ♦ lamb curry ♦ Mullagatawny ♦ To curry favel, To pick a thank, To rub down, Trigonella foenumgraecum. (references)

Specialty definitions using "curry": combinatory logic ♦ Dress your Jacket ♦ garee ♦ Haskell Curry, Horse. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Curry" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

French (curry), German (curry), Hungarian (curry), Italian (curry), Portuguese (curry), Romanian (curry), Spanish (curry), Swedish (curry).

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	You could argue he'd done it to curry favor with the guards. (The Shawshank Redemption; writing credit: Frank Darabont) I realize that when I met you at the turkey curry buffet, I was unforgivably rude, and wearing a reindeer jumper. (Bridget Jones's Diary; writing credit: Helen Fielding) Ahh, lets see, I'll have the Hindu Curry, Steak and Chips, and a glass of Coke thanks. (Father Ted; writing credit: Graham Linehan; Arthur Mathews) Hannibal Heyes and Kid Curry, the two most successful outlaws in the history of the west. (Alias Smith and Jones; writing credit: Matthew Howard; Glen A. Larson)
Movie/TV Titles	Curry & Chips (1969)
Song Titles	Bad Boy For Life (performing artist: Marc Curry)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
References	The 2001 Report on Curry Powder: World Market Segmentation by City (reference) The 2001 Long-Run Global Growth Prospects for Curry Powder: A Physioeconomic Perspective (reference) The 2003-2008 World Outlook for Indian Curry Powder and Pastes (reference) (more reference examples)

Books	Cooking With Curry (reference) Curry and Rice on Forty Plates. Or the Ingredients of Social Life at "Our Station" in India (reference) Renegade Regionalists: The Modern Independence of Grant Wood, Thomas Hart Benton, and John Steuart Curry (reference) The Curry Book: A Celebration of Memorable Flavors and Irresistible Recipes (reference) (more book examples)

Periodicals	Curry County Echoes (reference) (more periodical examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Sunset over New York City. In: "Flug Und Wolken", Manfred Curry, Verlag F. Bruckmann, Munchen, 1932. Credit: America's Coastlines.		The center of New York. In: "Flug Und Wolken", Manfred Curry, Verlag F. Bruckmann, Munchen, 1932. Credit: America's Coastlines.
	Downtown New York in the early morning sun. In: "Flug Und Wolken", Manfred Curry, Verlag F. Bruckmann, Munchen, 1932. Credit: America's Coastlines.		Jim Curry performing maintenance on P-3. Credit: Flying With NOAA.
	James Curry. M.D. & F.A.S. / Francis Simonau delin. Isaac Mills sculp. Credit: National Library of Medicine.		WAVES Aviation Machinist's Mates (AMM) working on a SNJ training plane and its Pratt & Whitney R-1340 radial engine, circa 24 July 1943. They are (from left to right) Seaman 1st Class (AMM) Inez Waits, Seaman 1st Class (AMM) Lucille H. Henderson, Seaman 1st Class (AMM) Mary Anne Gasser, AMM 3rd Class Helen Adams, and Seaman 1st Class (AMM) Leona Curry. Credit: NAVY.
	Manhunt / John Steuart Curry. Credit: Library of Congress.		Charles Forrest Curry, half-length portrait, seated at desk, facing left, with another man. Credit: Library of Congress.
	Orville Wright, Major John F. Curry, and Colonel Charles Lindbergh, who came to pay Orville a personal call at Wright Field, Dayton, Ohio, June 22, 1927. Credit: Library of Congress.		Karachi - Pangborn standing with 2 women and small girl on horse in front of home of English Consul Curry. Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Title	Author	Quote
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man	Joyce, James	They all ate curry.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Travel	Bangladesh	The main local foods are boiled rice and fish, or curry of mutton, beef, or chicken. (references)
	Pakistan	Specialties include kababs, tikka (barbecued spiced chicken, mutton, or beef), korma (meat curry), koftas (meatballs), and pulao (spicy fried rice). (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Curry" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 61.34% of the time. "Curry" is used about 506 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	61.34%	311	16,365
Noun (proper)	38.26%	194	22,014
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	0.39%	2	245,945
Total	100.00%	506	N/A

The following table summarizes the usage of "curry" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.

Name	Usage/Gender	Usage per 100 million Persons	Rank in USA
Curry	Last name	35,000	313
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

Expressions using "curry": curry comb ♦ curry County ♦ curry favor ♦ curry favor with ♦ curry favor with smb. ♦ curry favour ♦ curry favour with ♦ curry favour with smb. ♦ curry powder ♦ curry sauce ♦ Haskell Curry ♦ lamb curry ♦ to curry ♦ To curry favel ♦ To curry favor. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "curry": curry-coloured, curry-comb, curry-combing, curry-combs, curry-eating, curry-face, curry-favouring, curry-house, curry-powder, curry-powders, curry-scented.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "curry"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Afrikaans		kerrie, afros (thrash). (various references)

Albanian		regj (bark, dress), pastroj me kruese, mish me erëza. (various references)

Arabic		‏نظف الجلود, ‏طها (cook, smother, stew), ‏طعام منكه بالكري, ‏ضرب (batter, battery, beat, beat off, belabour, biff, buffet, chastise, connect, description, drub, drubbing, fib, flap, flapping, form, galvanize, genre, go getter, grain, hit, hitting, impact, jabbing, kidney, kind, lace, lace into smb., lam, larrup, let out, lock out, manner, multiplication, multiply, order, overtake, paddle, paste, pasting, patter, poke, pommel, pound, pummel, slash, slosh, sock, sort, stamp, strike, stripe, tan, tanning, thrash, thrashing, thresh, variety, wallop, whip), ‏جلد (belabour, belt, birch, cut, drub, drubbing, endurance, flagellation, flog, flogging, fortitude, gladiatorial, hide, integument, lacing, lambaste, lash, lashing, leather, licking, pasting, patience, scourge, self control, skin, slash, slashing, stamina, sting, sufferance, switch, tan, thrash, thump, toleration, trounce, whip, whipping), ‏الكري بهار هندي. (various references)

Bulgarian		ястие подправено с къри, щавя (bark, tan), чеша с чесало, тамаря, къри, обработвам (arrange, belabor, belabour, cultivate, cure, farm, husband, labor, labour, plough, process, retrieve, till, tool, work, work up), бухам (belabor, belabour, hoot, paddle), бия (bang, beat, chime, club, feeze, go, hammer, hide, hit, kill, knoll, lace, lather, lay, lick, maul, palpitate, peal, pelt, pulsate, pulse, ram, ramrod, ring, rough up, shoot, strike, swingle, thrash, thresh, wallop, welt, whale, whip, whop, zap), подправям с къри. (various references)

Chinese		�'�喱. (various references)

Czech		kari (curry powder), hřebelcovat konì. (various references)

Danish		strigle (carding comb, cattle comb, cow comb, curry comb, currycomb, dressing, pig scraper, to curry, to dress and to brush, to groom), karrypasta (curry paste), karry pulver (curry powder). (various references)

Dutch		kerrie. (various references)

Esperanto		strigli, kareo. (various references)

Farsi		پرداخت کردن چرم , مالیدن (Blob, Daub, Knead, Rub), شانه یاقشوکردن . (various references)

Finnish		sukia, muokata (break up, dress, prepare, till, work up). (various references)

French		curry, cuire (cure), corroyer, claquer, panser (to curry), donner des coups, étriller (to curry). (various references)

Frisian		ôfrosse (thrash). (various references)

German		striegeln (brush down, comb, curry combs, currycomb, groom, rub down, to curry combs). (various references)

Greek		κολακεύω (adulate, blarney, bootlick, butter up, cajole, cringe, fawn, fawn over, flatter, lick his boots, soft soap, suck up), βυρσοδέφω, ινδικό μπαχαρικό, ξυστρίζω (comb). (various references)

Hebrew		לקרצף (pare, rasp, scrape, wisp). (various references)

Hungarian		curry, erős indiai mártás, erős indiai fűszer, currys mártás, currys étel. (various references)

Indonesian		penggaruk (comb, harrow, rake, scraper), nasi kare, menyamak kulit (taw), kari, gulai. (various references)

Irish		curaí. (various references)

Italian		curry, conciare (beat up, cure, dirty, get dirty, get oneself up, tan), stufare (bore, get tired, smother, stew), strigliare (comb, groom), salsa (dip, dressing, gravy, relish, sauce), adulare (adulate, fawn, flatter, soft soap, wheedle). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		カルメ焼 (caramel, Carlos, curry and rice, curry corner). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		カレー . (various references)

Korean		카� �가루. (various references)

Manx		curree (bog, boggy, marshy), caartey (card, carding, comb, combing, spoil), aarlaghey lesh curree. (various references)

Papiamen		kòri. (various references)

Pig Latin		urrycay

Portuguese		caril. (various references)

Romanian		curry, bate (bark, baste, bastinado, bay, beat, beat up, beetle, belabour, best, blow, box, bruise, buffet, burst, chastise, chime, clap, club, cob, contend, cuff, dash, defeat, drive, drub, flail, flicker, flog, go, hit, horse, knock, knock in, lace, larrup, lash, lash into, lick, mint, paddle, palpitate, Pat, patter, peal, pound, pulsate, pulse, range, rap, rattle, ring, shake up, shine, slap, smite, sound, spank, strike, swinge, switch, tan, tap, tew, thrash, throb, thwack, tick, tinkle, toll, wallop, whip, worst), ţesãla (rub down, whack). (various references)

Russian		кэрри. (various references)

Sepedi		kheri. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		kari, češagijati, štaviti (bark, tan). (various references)

Spanish		arrurruz (arrowroot), curry. (various references)

Swedish		rykta (comb, dress, groom). (various references)

Turkish		tabaklamak (tan), tımar etmek (dress down, groom, rub down), sopalamak (beat with a stick, birch, bludgeon, cane, club, cudgel, ferule), kaşağılamak (comb, dress down, rub down), kaşağı (currycomb, dandy brush), köri ile pişirmek, köri, dayak atmak (bash up, baste, beat, chastise, clobber, cudgel, drub, flog, give a thrashing, give smb. the works, give the stick, hide, Lam, larrup, lather, lay in, lay into, lick, pelt, punish, spifflicate, spiflicate, thrash, trounce, whop), acılı hint yemeği, acılı hint baharatı (curry powder). (various references)

Ukrainian		кері, приправляти кері. (various references)

Vietnamese		bột ca ri món ca ri. (various references)

Welsh		ysgrafellu (scrape). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	Murraya koenigii Linnaeus,c.sprengel. (various references)
Old French	900-1400	correier, correier fauvel. (various references)
Anglo-French	1100-1600	curreier. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "curry": currycomb, currycombed, currycombing, currycombs, currying. (additional references)
	Words ending with "curry": scurry. (additional references)
	Words containing "curry": scurrying. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Curry" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: cerr, chry, Corary, corery, Corri, Ctry, cubry, Curaray, curby, curdy, curi, Curr, curra, Curray, curre, curri, Curric, currs, cury, cutry, durry, Mccurry, Mcmurty, qurry, urri. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "curry" (pronounced ku"rē or ker"ē)
3	k er" ē	Currie, scurry.
2	-er" ē	blurry, Burry, flurry, furry, gurry, hurry, murrey, Murry, slurry, Surrey, towery, worry.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-r-r-u-y"
	-1 letter: curr.
	-2 letters: cry, cur.
	Words containing the letters "c-r-r-u-y"
	+1 letter: scurry.
	+2 letters: cursory, mercury.
	+3 letters: carryout, chirrupy, corduroy, currency, curriery, currying, micrurgy.
	+4 letters: carryouts, cartulary, circuitry, corduroys, corruptly, courtyard, currently, currishly, currycomb, cursorily, pruriency, scurrying, surrogacy.
	+5 letters: bunchberry, chartulary, churchyard, circularly, cloudberry, corduroyed, countercry, courtyards, creaturely, currycombs, oracularly, precursory, rubrically, scurrility, squirarchy.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro.

Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
curry	537	curry acura	28
chicken curry	284	curry leaf	28
tim curry	217	indian curry recipe	27
curry college	205	eddy curry	26
chicken curry recipe	202	adam curry	25
curry recipe	125	fish curry	25
ann curry	119	thai curry	25
david curry	75	chicken curry jamaican	24
curry honda	66	chicken curry indian recipe	22
curry village	62	thai curry recipe	22
indian curry	62	curry machine	21
adrianne curry	59	alana curry	21
mark curry	53	coastal curry pilot	21
chicken curry salad	46	indian chicken curry	20
curry powder	45	curry plant	20
susie curry	42	beef curry	20
curry village yosemite	40	ronald curry	18
curry house	40	curry county oregon	18
shrimp curry	31	curry spice	18
curry sauce	29	curry rice	17
		curry jameson	17
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Curry

Definition: Curry

Curry

Noun

Verb

Specialty Definition: Curry

Specialty Definition: Curry

Spices

Sour ingredients

Fresh Herbs and Spices

Synonyms: Curry

Synonyms within Context: Curry

Condiment

Flattery

Friction

Love

Crosswords: Curry

Modern Usage: Curry

Screenplays

Movie/TV Titles

Song Titles

Commercial Usage: Curry

References

Books

Periodicals

Image Slideshow: Curry

Illustrations:Curry

Computer Images:Curry

Photo Album: Curry

Use in Literature: Curry

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Joyce, James

Non-Fiction Usage: Curry

Usage Frequency: Curry

Name Usage Frequency: Curry

Expressions: Curry

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Curry

Modern Translation: Curry

Afrikaans

Albanian

Arabic

Bulgarian

Chinese

Czech

Danish

Dutch

Esperanto

Farsi

Finnish

French

Frisian

German

Greek

Hebrew

Hungarian

Indonesian

Irish

Italian

Japanese Kanji

Japanese Katakana

Korean

Manx

Papiamen

Pig Latin

Portuguese

Romanian

Russian

Sepedi

Serbo-Croatian

Spanish

Swedish

Turkish

Ukrainian

Vietnamese

Welsh

Ancestral Language Translations: Curry

Derivations & Misspellings: Curry

Derivations

Misspellings

Rhyming with "Curry"

Illustrations:
Curry

Computer Images:
Curry