pantry

English

A pantry

Etymology

From Middle English panetrie, from Old French paneterie, related to Latin panis (“bread”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: pănʹ-tri, IPA^(key): /ˈpæntɹi/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈpantɹi/, [ˈpant(ʰ)ɹ̥i]

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈpæntɹi/
  • (without /æ/-tensing) [ˈpænt(ʰ)ɹ̥i]
  • (with /æ/-tensing) [ˈpeənt(ʰ)ɹ̥i]
• Rhymes: -æntɹi

Noun

pantry (plural pantries)

1. A small room, closet, or cabinet usually located in or near the kitchen, dedicated to shelf-stable food storage and/or storing kitchenware, like a larder, but smaller.

   Coordinate terms: larder, root cellar

   • 1960 April, “Restaurant cars and multiple-units”, in Trains Illustrated, page 222:

     Next to the saloon is the pantry, which includes a wine cabinet, J. E. Hall bottle-cooling unit, a Stills Café set and ample cupboard space.

2. (Hong Kong) A break room.

Synonyms

• (room): walk-in pantry, walk-in, larder, press (Irish & Scots)
• (closet): cupboard (UK), kitchen closet, larder, press (Irish & Scots)
• (cabinet): cupboard, kitchen cabinet

Derived terms

• butler's pantry
• food pantry
• pantry check
• pantry moth
• serving pantry

 

Related terms

• (servant overseeing a pantry): pantler, panter

Translations

storage room

• Armenian: մառան (hy) (maṙan), մթերանոց (hy) (mtʻeranocʻ)
• Belarusian: камо́ра f (kamóra), кладо́ўка f (kladóŭka), спіжа́рня f (spižárnja)
• Bulgarian: киле́р m (kilér)
• Catalan: rebost (ca) m
• Cherokee: ᏗᎦᎾᏐᏗᎢ (diganasodii)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 食品儲藏室／食品储藏室 (shípǐn chúcángshì), 備餐間／备餐间 (bèicānjiān), 庋 (zh) (guǐ)

• Czech: spíž (cs) f
• Dutch: voorraadkamer (nl) f, bijkeuken (nl) f, voorraadkast (nl) f
• Estonian: sahver
• Finnish: ruokakomero (fi); pentteri (fi) (nautical), skafferi (fi) (dialectal), konttuuri (fi) (dialectical)
• French: garde-manger (fr) m
• Galician: despensa (gl) f, celeiro (gl) m
• German: Speisekammer (de) f, Vorratskammer (de) f
• Greek: κελλάρι (el) n (kellári), αποθήκη τροφίμων f (apothíki trofímon)
• Hebrew: מְזָוֶה (he) m (mezavé)
• Hungarian: éléskamra (hu), kamra (hu), spájz (hu), spejz (hu)
• Irish: pantrach f, bialann f
• Italian: dispensa (it) f
• Japanese: パントリー (pantorī)
• Korean: 조리실(調理室) (jorisil), 펜트리 (penteuri)
• Latin: cella penaria f, penaria f, cellarium n
• Macedonian: остава f (ostava), шпајз m (špajz) (room), долап m (dolap), килер m (kiler) (closet or cabinet)
• Maori: pātaka kai, pātaka (mi)
• Old English: meteclēofa m
• Persian: آبدارخانه (fa) (âbdâr-xâne)
• Plautdietsch: Koma f, Äteskoma f
• Polish: spiżarnia (pl) f, spiżarka (pl) f
• Portuguese: despensa (pt) f
• Romanian: cămară (ro) f
• Russian: кладова́я (ru) f (kladovája), кладо́вка (ru) f (kladóvka), чула́н (ru) m (čulán)
• Scottish Gaelic: seòmar-bìdh m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: о̏става f, смо̀чница f, шпа̏јза f

  Roman: ȍstava (sh) f, smòčnica (sh) f, špȁjza (sh) f

• Slovak: špajza f, komora f
• Slovene: shramba (sl) f
• Spanish: despensa (es) f
• Swedish: skafferi (sv) n
• Tagalog: paminggalan
• Thai: ตู้กับข้าว (th) (dtûu-gàp-kâao) (cabinet)
• Turkish: kiler (tr)
• Ukrainian: комо́ра (uk) f (komóra), комірчи́на f (komirčýna), комі́рка f (komírka), хи́жа f (xýža), чула́н m (čulán)
• Volapük: viktualacem (vo)
• Welsh: pantri m
• Yup'ik: neqivik

Further reading

• Food storage on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• trypan