noodle

Etymology 1
Borrowed from ), or from its ; further etymology uncertain, probably a variant of, from , and then either:


 * from, (from , , perhaps ultimately related to ) + ; or
 * from, probably from (in the sense of food chopped into small pieces), a diminutive of , the    of , ultimately from.



Noun

 * 1)  A string or flat strip of pasta or other dough, usually cooked (at least initially) by boiling, and served in soup or in a dry form mixed with a sauce and other ingredients.
 * 2)  An object which is long and thin like a noodle (sense 1).
 * 3)  A dumpling cooked by boiling and served in soup; a knaidel or knödel.
 * 4)  The penis.
 * 1)  A dumpling cooked by boiling and served in soup; a knaidel or knödel.
 * 2)  The penis.

Usage notes
In British English, the word noodle (sense 1) is chiefly used to describe Asian or northern-European food items comprising long, thin strands of dough. In American English, noodle can also refer to Italian pasta which in British English would only be referred to as.

Translations

 * Albanian:
 * Arabic: نُودَلْز, شَعْرِيَّة
 * Armenian: ,
 * Azerbaijani:
 * Bashkir: туҡмас
 * Belarusian: ло́кшына
 * Bengali: নুডল
 * Bikol Central: pansit
 * Bulgarian:
 * Burmese:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 麵, 麵條
 * Dungan: фан, мян
 * Gan: 麵
 * Hakka: 麵
 * Hokkien:, 麵條,
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Wu: 麵, 麵條
 * Xiang: 麵
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dongxiang: ghurun
 * Dutch:
 * Dzongkha: རྒྱ་ཐུག
 * Esperanto: nudelo
 * Estonian: nuudel
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * Georgian:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: κολλύρα
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: नूडल, नूडल्स
 * Hungarian:, ,
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian:, mie
 * Irish: núdal
 * Italian:, ,  , tagliolino
 * Japanese:, ,
 * Javanese: ,
 * Kashubian: klósk
 * Kazakh: кеспе
 * Khmer: ,
 * Korean: 누들, ,
 * Kyrgyz:
 * Lao: ,
 * Latin: collȳra
 * Latvian: nūdeles
 * Lisu: ꓟꓰꓽ ꓫꓲꓺ
 * Lithuanian: lakštiniai
 * Lü:
 * Luxembourgish: Nuddel
 * Macedonian: тестенина
 * Malay:
 * Maori: kihu parāoa
 * Marathi: नूडल
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic:, ,
 * Nogai: лакса
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: nudel
 * Nynorsk: nudel
 * Nuosu: ꎭꃃ
 * Occitan:
 * Pashto: مکروني
 * Persian: نودل
 * Polish: kluski,
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Quechua: fidiyu
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: nùdail
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: ну́дле, реза́нац
 * Roman: ,
 * Slovak:, slíž
 * Slovene: rezanec, testenina
 * Spanish: noodle,, tallarín
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: luglog
 * Tajik: макарон, туппа, угро
 * Tamil: நூலடை
 * Tatar:
 * Thai:, , หมี่
 * Tibetan: འཇམ་ཐུག, ནས་རྗེན་ཚ་བ, ཕིང, ཐུག་པ་བག་ཐུག
 * Turkish:, ,
 * Turkmen: ,
 * Ukrainian: лапша́,
 * Urdu: نوڈل
 * Uyghur:
 * Uzbek:
 * Vietnamese:,  ,  , mì dẹt,  , mì mống, mì sợi
 * Welsh:
 * White Hmong: fawm, mij
 * Yiddish: לאָקש


 * Finnish:

Etymology 2
The origin of the is uncertain; it is possibly a variant of. The is derived from the noun.

Noun

 * 1)  A person with poor judgment; a fool.
 * 2)  The brain; the head.
 * 1)  The brain; the head.
 * 1)  The brain; the head.
 * 1)  The brain; the head.
 * 1)  The brain; the head.
 * 1)  The brain; the head.
 * 1)  The brain; the head.

Verb

 * 1)  To fool or trick (someone).
 * 2)  To engage in frivolous behaviour; to fool around or waste time.
 * 1)  To engage in frivolous behaviour; to fool around or waste time.

Etymology 3
Possibly either:


 * a of Shetland  (from, , , originally ) + English  ; or
 * from (unattested), from, from , a  of , from  (and thus a ).

Verb

 * 1)  To hum or sing (a tune) at a low pitch or volume.

Translations

 * Finnish: laulaa möristen, laulaa hiljaa

Etymology 4
The origin of the is uncertain; it is possibly derived:


 * from  (see etymology 3); or
 * from, apparently from  (see etymology 1) +  (a variant of ).

The word was probably also influenced by.

The is probably derived from the verb, though the verb is first attested later. The noun was probably also influenced by.

Verb

 * 1)  To play (a musical instrument or passage of music) or to sing (a passage of music) in an improvisatory or lighthearted manner; also, to play (a series of ornamental notes) on an instrument.
 * 2)  To ponder or think about (something).
 * 3)  To play a musical instrument or to sing in an improvisatory or lighthearted manner; also, to play a series of ornamental notes on an instrument.
 * 4) To ponder or think, especially in an unproductive or unsystematic manner; to muse.
 * 5) To attempt in an informal or uncertain manner; to fiddle.
 * 6) Often followed by about or around: to mess around, to play.
 * 1)  To play a musical instrument or to sing in an improvisatory or lighthearted manner; also, to play a series of ornamental notes on an instrument.
 * 2) To ponder or think, especially in an unproductive or unsystematic manner; to muse.
 * 3) To attempt in an informal or uncertain manner; to fiddle.
 * 4) Often followed by about or around: to mess around, to play.
 * 1) To ponder or think, especially in an unproductive or unsystematic manner; to muse.
 * 2) To attempt in an informal or uncertain manner; to fiddle.
 * 3) Often followed by about or around: to mess around, to play.
 * 1) To ponder or think, especially in an unproductive or unsystematic manner; to muse.
 * 2) To attempt in an informal or uncertain manner; to fiddle.
 * 3) Often followed by about or around: to mess around, to play.
 * 1) Often followed by about or around: to mess around, to play.
 * 1) Often followed by about or around: to mess around, to play.

Translations

 * Finnish: rimputtaa


 * Finnish:

Noun

 * 1)  An improvised passage of music played on an instrument; also, a series of ornamental notes played on an instrument; a trill.

Translations

 * Finnish: rimputtelu

Etymology 5

 * possibly:


 * from  (see etymology 2); or
 * from.

Verb

 * 1) To search  for opals.
 * 2) To obtain (an opal) by searching through mullock.
 * 3)  To clear extraneous material from (an opal).
 * 4)  To search mullock for opals; to fossick.
 * 1)  To search mullock for opals; to fossick.

Translations

 * Finnish: etsiä opaaleita


 * Finnish: löytää opaali


 * Finnish: puhdistaa opaali

Etymology 6


en; perhaps related to.

Verb

 * 1)  To catch (fish (usually very large catfish), turtles, or other aquatic animals) with the hands; also, to catch (fish) using a gaff or fishing spear; to gaff.

Etymology
.

Noun

 * 1)  food