Meaning

6 senses
  1. (uncountable)Dough made from wheat and water and sometimes mixed with egg and formed into various shapes; often sold in dried form and typically boiled for eating.

    Nudeln, Teigwaren, Pasta

    макаро́ныmakaróny, макаро́нные изде́лияmakarónnyje izdélija, па́стаpásta

    макаро́нні ви́робиmakarónni výroby, макаро́ниmakaróny

    shaped and dried dough made from flour and water and sometimes egg

  2. Dough made from wheat and water and sometimes mixed with egg and formed into various shapes; often sold in dried form and typically boiled for eating.

    (broadly, countable, uncountable)Any type of noodle.

  3. (uncountable)A dish or serving of pasta.

    Nudeln, Nudelgericht

    a dish that contains pasta as its main ingredient

  4. (countable)A type of pasta.

  5. A copypasta (block of text which has been copied and pasted from somewhere else, serving as a story or meme).

  6. (Philippines, countable, uncountable)Dental filling.

Examples

191 sentences
  1. Does Tom like pasta?

    Том любить макарони?

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  2. Tom's favorite food is pasta.

    Улюблена їжа Тома — вермішель.

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  3. My mother often makes pasta salad.

    deMeine Mutter macht oft Nudelsalat.

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  4. I cooked the pasta too long.

    ruЯ переварил макароны.

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  5. I eat a lot of pasta.

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
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Русский
By meaning 1
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Deutsch
By meaning 2
dough:
dish or serving:

Origin

Borrowed from Italian pasta (“paste; pasta, noodles”), from Late Latin pasta (“dough, past

Borrowed from Italian pasta (“paste; pasta, noodles”), from Late Latin pasta (“dough, pastry cake, paste”), from Ancient Greek παστά (pastá, “barley porridge”), neuter plural of παστός (pastós, “sprinkled with salt”), from Ancient Greek πάσσω (pássō, “to sprinkle”). Doublet of paste.

Ancient Greek πάσσω (pássō)

Borrowed from Philippine Spanish pasta, from Late Latin pasta (“dough, pastry cake, paste”), from Ancient Greek παστά (pastá, “barley porridge”). Doublet of paste.

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Forms

plural: pastas
Singularpasta
Pluralpastas

regular

Synonyms

5 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • shaped and dried dough made from flour and water and sometimes egg:alimentary paste

Word family

22 related words

See also

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