dinner

Etymology
From, from , (modern 🇨🇬), from from  +. .

Noun

 * 1) A midday meal.
 * 2) * 1919, Elisabeth P. Stork (translator), Heidi, Johanna Spyri:
 * It was already late for school, so the boy took his time and only arrived in the village when Heidi came home for dinner. "Come to the table now and eat with us. Then you can go up with Heidi, and when you bring her back at night, you can get your supper here."
 * 1) The main meal of the day, often eaten in the evening.
 * 2) * 1993, Mark Berry as "King Harkinian", a character in Animation Magic, Zelda: The Wand of Gamelon, Philips Interactive Media (publ.).
 * "en"
 * "en"

- I wonder what's for dinner.


 * 1) * 2016, VOA Learning English (public domain)
 * I want to cook dinner.
 * 1) An evening meal.
 * I had some friends to dinner two nights ago.
 * 1) A meal given to an animal.
 * 2) A formal meal for many people eaten for a special occasion.
 * 3)  The food provided or consumed at any such meal.
 * 1) A formal meal for many people eaten for a special occasion.
 * 2)  The food provided or consumed at any such meal.
 * 1)  The food provided or consumed at any such meal.
 * 1)  The food provided or consumed at any such meal.

Usage notes

 * There are differences in usage according to the social class of the speaker. Working-class and lower-middle-class speakers in Britain, for example, are more likely to refer to the midday meal as "dinner" and the evening meal as "tea" rather than "supper". Some speakers use common collocations of dinner such as school dinner, Sunday dinner and Christmas dinner to describe meals that they wouldn't otherwise call a dinner.

Translations

 * Afrikaans:, middagmaal, dinee
 * Albanian:
 * Arabic: عَشَاء
 * Egyptian Arabic: عشا
 * Hijazi Arabic: عشا
 * South Levantine Arabic: عشا
 * Armenian:
 * Aromanian: tsinã
 * Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܐ݇ܟ݂ܵܠ݇ܪܲܡܫܵܐ
 * Azerbaijani: axşam yeməyi,
 * Basque:
 * Belarusian: вячэ́ра
 * Bengali: ,
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: ,
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 晚飯
 * Gan: 夜飯
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Czech: ,
 * Danish: ,
 * Dutch:, , ,
 * Esperanto: vespermanĝo
 * Finnish: ,
 * French: ,
 * Friulian: cene
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: სადილი
 * German: ,
 * Greek:, , κύριο γεύμα
 * Ancient: δόρπον, δεῖπνον
 * Hawaiian: ʻaina ahiahi
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi:, रात का भोजन, , ,
 * Hungarian:,  ,
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido:
 * Ingrian: iltain
 * Irish: dinnéar
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Javanese:, jinnair
 * Korean:
 * Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish:
 * Ladin: cëina
 * Latgalian: vakareņis
 * Latin:
 * Latvian: vakariņas
 * Ligurian: çenn-a
 * Lithuanian: vakarienė
 * Lombard:
 * Macedonian: вечера
 * Malay:
 * Maltese: ċena
 * Manx: jinnair
 * Maori: hapa
 * Middle English: dyner
 * Mòcheno: tschai'
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic: оройн хоол, оройн зоог
 * Nahuatl: cochcayotl
 * Navajo: eʼeʼáahgo daʼadánígíí
 * Northern Sami: mállásat
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: middag
 * Occitan:
 * Old English: middægþenung
 * Oromo: irbaata
 * Pashto: ماښامنۍ
 * Persian:
 * Piedmontese: sin-a
 * Plautdietsch: Owentkost
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romagnol: zéna
 * Romanian:, masă de seară
 * Romansch: tschaina
 * Russian:
 * Sardinian: chena, cena
 * Scottish Gaelic: dìnnear
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: вѐчера
 * Roman:
 * Sicilian:
 * Sidamo: hurbaate
 * Slovak: večera
 * Slovene:, južina
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: hapunan
 * Tarifit: amensi
 * Tocharian B: yesti
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: вече́ря
 * Vietnamese: bữa trưa, bữa chiều , bữa tối
 * Walloon:
 * Welsh: ,
 * Yiddish: וועטשערע
 * Yola: dineare
 * Zazaki:, sani


 * Bashkir: аҙыҡ
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Czech:, krmení,
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Lithuanian: ėdalas, jovalas
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic: амьтны хоол
 * Nahuatl: tlemōlli īca yōlcatl
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: ,
 * Slovene: ,


 * Arabic: غَدَاء
 * Egyptian Arabic: غدا
 * Hijazi Arabic: غدا
 * Armenian:
 * Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܟܵܘܸܬܪܵܐ
 * Azerbaijani:, abed , günorta yeməyi
 * Bashkir: төшкө аш
 * Belarusian: абе́д
 * Bengali: ,
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Gan: 昼飯
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:, , ,
 * Finnish: ,
 * French: ,
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: სადილი
 * German:
 * Greek: ,
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi:, , ,
 * Hungarian:
 * Irish: dinnéar
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: ,
 * Khmer: អាហារថ្ងៃត្រង់, បាយថ្ងៃត្រង់
 * Korean:
 * Latvian: pusdienas
 * Lithuanian:
 * Macedonian: ручек
 * Maltese:
 * Maori: tina
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic: өдрийн хоол, үдийн хоол
 * Occitan:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: ручак, обед
 * Roman:, obed
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:, obed
 * Spanish:
 * Ukrainian: обі́д
 * Welsh:


 * Armenian:
 * Bengali:, ,
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech: ,
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: ,
 * Galician:
 * Greek: ,
 * Hindi:, ,
 * Irish: dinnéar
 * Japanese:
 * Mongolian: ,
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: prândio,
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian:, ,
 * Slovene:, banket
 * Spanish:


 * Breton:
 * Interlingua: ,
 * Korean:
 * Sindhi:
 * Spanish:

Verb

 * 1)  To eat a dinner; to dine.
 * 2)  To provide (someone) with a dinner; to dine.
 * 3) * 1887,, A Devout Lover, London: F.V. White & Co., Volume 1, Chapter 11, p. 181,
 * She had taken her about to concerts and exhibitions—she had dinnered her at the Colonies, and suppered her at the New Club.
 * She had taken her about to concerts and exhibitions—she had dinnered her at the Colonies, and suppered her at the New Club.

Synonyms

 * (formal)

Translations

 * Hungarian: ,


 * Maori: tina
 * Russian:
 * Slovene:, , obedovati
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: äta middag

Etymology
From.