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- 1.1 Alternative forms
- 1.2 Etymology
- 1.3 Pronunciation
- 1.4 Noun
  - 1.4.1 Usage notes
  - 1.4.2 Derived terms
  - 1.4.3 Translations
- 1.5 Anagrams
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- 2.1 Etymology
- 2.2 Pronunciation
- 2.3 Noun
  - 2.3.1 Derived terms
  - 2.3.2 Descendants

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English

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English Wikipedia has an article on:lasagnaWikipedia

Alternative forms

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lasagne (this form is the one typically used in British English)

Etymology

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From Italian lasagna (and its plural lasagne), possibly from Vulgar Latin *lasania, from Latin lasanum (“cooking pot”), from Ancient Greek λάσανον (lásanon, “trivet or stand for a pot”). Others argue the Italian lasagna originally derived from the Arabic لَوْزِينَج (lawzīnaj, “almond cake”).

Pronunciation

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(Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ləˈzɑː.njə/, /ləˈzæn.jə/, /ləˈsɑː.njə/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
(General American) IPA(key): /ləˈzæn.jə/, /ləˈzɑ.njə/
(Canada) IPA(key): /ləˈzɑ.njə/
(New Zealand) IPA(key): /lɘˈsɐː.njɘ/, /lɘˈzɐː.njɘ/

Noun

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lasagna (countable and uncountable, plural lasagnas or lasagne)

A flat sheet of pasta.
An Italian baked dish comprising layers of such pasta with various ingredients (usually a meat ragù (chiefly Bolognese), a fish ragù or a vegetarian/vegetable ragù with bechamel sauce).
- 2013, James Lee Burke, Light of the World, New York, N.Y.: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 299:I’m going to fix you a cup of coffee and a plate of lasagna.
(by extension) A combination or layering of things.
- 1996, Lance Olsen, Time Famine: A Novel:Kristofer'd gotten it through his head shortly after their arrival to swim naked in the lake, such as it was, and his skin blemished into a lasagna of red hives, white welts, and disarming yellowish spots.
- 2008, Body & Soul:Unfortunately, typical mattresses are often a lasagna of nonbiodegradable synthetics, pesticides, and potentially carcinogenic toxins.
- 2011, Thorsten Botz-Bornstein, Inception and Philosophy: Ideas to Die for, Open Court Publishing, →ISBN, page 280:It's sort of a lasagna of ideas about time and dreams.
- 2013, Molly Harper, How to Run with a Naked Werewolf, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN:“Everything about us is just one layer of lies after another. We're a lasagna of lies. This is a terrible basis for a relationship.”
- 2020, Rebecca E. Hirsch, Garfield's Guide to Lasagna: Cooking Nature's Perfect Food, Lerner Publications, →ISBN, page 20:CHOCOLATE LASAGNA / Who says lasagna is only a main dish? Serve this easy, no-bake lasagna for dessert. / Ingredients / 2 3.9-ounce packages (110 g) instant chocolate pudding mix / 2 cups (473 mL) milk / 8 ounces (227g) whipped topping / 16 graham crackers, chocolate or plan / 1 1/2 cups (75g) mini marshmallows / chocolate syrup
- 2025 September 23, Tom Lamont, “The human stain remover: what Britain’s greatest extreme cleaner learned from 25 years on the job”, in The Guardian‎[1]:When you have lifted a layered lasagne of toilet paper and semen from the floor of a submarine yard in Barrow-in-Furness, there’s not much left in the world that can scare you.

Usage notes

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In Italian, lasagna refers to one flat sheet of pasta and its plural form, lasagne, refers to the dish. This distinction may also be observed in English, but only rarely in American and Canadian English.
At any rate, lasagne and lasagna are homophones in most accents, so this would only be a written distinction.
When the dish is referred to as lasagne (rather than lasagna), lasagnes is sometimes found as the plural form, referring to multiple dishes or varieties.

Derived terms

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lasagna code
lasagna lizard
Mexican lasagna
nutellasagna

Translations

[edit] flat sheet of pasta

Catalan: lasanya (ca) f
Chinese: Mandarin: 麵皮 / 面皮 (zh) (miànpí)千層麵 / 千层面 (zh) (qiāncéngmiàn)
Estonian: lasanjeplaat
Finnish: lasagnelevy (fi)
Galician: lasaña (gl) f
German: Lasagneplatte (de) f
Greek: λαζάνια (el) (lazánia)
Hungarian: lasagna lap
Indonesian: lasagna (id), lasanya
Italian: lasagna (it) f
Japanese: ラザニア (ja) (razania), ラザニエ (razanie)
Korean: 라자냐 (rajanya) (proscribed), 라사냐 (rasanya) (standard, uncommon)
Norwegian: Bokmål: lasagneplate m or f Nynorsk: lasagneplate f
Persian: لازانیا (lâzânyâ), خمیربرگ (fa) (xamirbarg)
Polish: lasagne (pl) n pl, lazanie, lazania (pl) f (informally)
Portuguese: lasanha (pt) f
Russian: лаза́нья (ru) f (lazánʹja)
Swedish: lasagneplatta c
Turkish: lazanya (tr)

baked dish

Arabic: لَازَانْيَا f (lazanyā)
Armenian: լազանյա (lazanya)
Bulgarian: лазаня f (lazanja)
Catalan: lasanya (ca) f
Chinese: Mandarin: 意大利千層麵 / 意大利千层面 (Yìdàlì qiāncéngmiàn), 千層麵 / 千层面 (zh) (qiāncéngmiàn), 烤寬麵條 / 烤宽面条 (kǎokuān miàntiáo)
Czech: lasagne (cs) f pl, lazaně f pl (rare, nonstandard)
Danish: lasagne (da) c
Dutch: lasagne (nl) f
Esperanto: lazanjo, lasanjoj pl
Estonian: lasanje
Finnish: lasagne (fi)
French: lasagne (fr) f
Galician: lasaña (gl) f
German: Lasagne (de) f
Icelandic: lasanja n, lasagna n
Indonesian: lasagna (id), lasanya
Interlingua: lasagna
Italian: lasagna (it) f (chiefly in the plural)
Japanese: ラザニア (ja) (razania), ラザーニャ (razānya)
Korean: 라자냐 (rajanya) (proscribed), 라사냐 (rasanya) (standard, uncommon)
Ladino: tayarine
Lithuanian: lazanija f
Norwegian: Bokmål: lasagne m Nynorsk: lasagne m
Persian: لازانیا (lâzânyâ)
Polish: lasagne (pl) n pl, lazanie, lazania (pl) (informally)
Portuguese: lasanha (pt) f
Russian: лаза́нья (ru) f (lazánʹja)
Spanish: lasaña (es) f
Swedish: lasagne (sv) c
Thai: ลาซัญญา (laa-san-yâa)
Turkish: lazanya (tr)

Anagrams

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Alagnas, Laganas, galanas