Meaning

1 senses
  1. (countable, usually plural, uncountable)Italian pasta-like dumpling(s) made of potato or semolina.

    Nocken, Nockerln, Gnocchi

    ньо́киnʹóki

    ньо́кіnʹóki

    (Italian) a small dumpling made of potato or flour or semolina that is boiled or baked and is usually served with a sauce or with grated cheese

Examples

3 sentences
  1. Briefly remove the boiling water from the heat and carefully put the gnocchi into it one by one.

    deGeben Sie vorsichtig die Gnocchi einzeln in das kochende Wasser, das Sie kurz vom Feuer nehmen.

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  2. The gnocchi at Benedito's restaurant is homemade.

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  3. The gnocchi alla sorrentina at Benedito's restaurant is mouth-watering.

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Translations

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Origin

From Italian gnocchi, plural of gnocco (“dumpling”, literally “lump”), related to nocchio

From Italian gnocchi, plural of gnocco (“dumpling”, literally “lump”), related to nocchio (“knot (in wood)”), a borrowing from Lombardic knohha (“knuckle, bone, knot”), from Proto-Germanic *knukô (“bone”), *kneukaz (“tuber, knuckle”), from Proto-Indo-European *gnew- (“knot, bundle”). Cognate with Middle High German knoche (“bone, knot”) (modern German Knochen), Middle Dutch knoke (“knuckle, knob, knot”), Swedish knoge (“knuckle”). More at knuckle.

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Forms

plural: gnocchi / gnocchis
Singulargnocchi
Pluralgnocchi / gnocchis

regular

Synonyms

1 synonyms

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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