# restaurant
## English
### Etymology

Borrowed from French restaurant, present participle of the verb restaurer, corresponding to Latin restaurans, restaurantis, present participle of restauro (“I restore”), from the name of the 'restorative' soup served in the first establishments.

### Pronunciation

* (UK) IPA: /ˈɹɛs.t(ə).ɹɒ̃/, /ˈɹɛs.t(ə).ɹɒnt/, /ˈɹɛs.t(ə).ɹ(ə)nt/
* Audio (Received Pronunciation); “a restaurant”:(file)
* (US) IPA: /ˈɹɛs.t(ə)ˌɹɑnt/, /ˈɹɛs.t(ə).ɹənt/
* Hyphenation: res‧tau‧rant

### Noun

restaurant (plural restaurants)
* An eating establishment in which diners are served food, usually by waiters at their tables but sometimes (as in a fast food restaurant) at a counter.
    That Italian restaurant serves some of the best food I've ever had in my life.
** 1935, George Goodchild, chapter 5, in Death on the Centre Court:By one o'clock the place was choc-a-bloc. […] The restaurant was packed, and the promenade between the two main courts and the subsidiary courts was thronged with healthy-looking youngish people, drawn to the Mecca of tennis from all parts of the country.

#### Synonyms

* See also Thesaurus:restaurant

#### Derived terms

* barstaurant
* breastaurant
* bustaurant
* Chinese restaurant process
* Chinese restaurant syndrome
* clubstaurant
* family restaurant
* ghost restaurant
* grocerant
* HoReCa
* HORECA
* impresstaurant
* multirestaurant
* nonrestaurant
* one-arm restaurant
* overhead bridge restaurant
* overhead restaurant
* restaurant car
* restauranteer
* restauranteur
* restaurantgoer
* restaurant-goer
* restaurantish
* restaurantland
* restaurantware
* restauranty
* restaurateur
* resto
* restobar
* restopub

#### Related terms

* restaurateur

#### Descendants

* →? Japanese: レストラン
* → Malay: restoran

#### Translations
### See also

* bar
* cook, chef
* drive-in
* fast food
* grill
* menu, Appendix:Menus
* slow food
* waiter m, waitress f, waitron

## Afrikaans
### Alternative forms

* restourant

### Etymology

From Dutch restaurant, from French restaurant.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /rɛstʊə̯ˈrant/, /rɛstuˈrant/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

restaurant (plural restaurante or restaurants, diminutive restaurantjie)
* restaurant

## Catalan
### Etymology

Borrowed from French restaurant.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central) [rəs.təwˈɾan]
* IPA: (Balearic) [rəs.təwˈɾant]
* IPA: (Valencia) [res.tawˈɾant]
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ant

### Noun

restaurant m (plural restaurants)
* restaurant

### Verb

restaurant
* gerund of restaurar

## Danish
### Etymology

Borrowed from French restaurant.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ʁɛsd̥oˈʁɑŋ]

### Noun

restaurant c (singular definite restauranten, plural indefinite restauranter)
* restaurant

## Dutch
### Etymology

Borrowed from French restaurant.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /rɛstoːˈrɑnt/, /rɛstuˈrɑnt/, /rɛstəˈrɑnt/
* Audio (male voice):(file)
* Audio (female voice):(file)
* Hyphenation: res‧tau‧rant
* Rhymes: -ɑnt

### Noun

restaurant n (plural restaurants or restauranten, diminutive restaurantje n)
* restaurant

#### Usage notes

* Contrary to English, in Dutch this word is not used to refer to fast food establishments, which are instead referred to with terms such as snackbar (or non-generic terminology referring to the type of fast food served, such as dönerzaak, pizzeria, and so forth).
* In Belgium, the plural form restauranten is common and co-exists with the plural form restaurants. In the Netherlands, the plural form restauranten is rare.

#### Derived terms

* afhaalrestaurant
* brugrestaurant
* café-restaurant
* meeneemrestaurant
* pannenkoekenrestaurant
* pizzarestaurant
* snelwegrestaurant
* sterrenrestaurant
* sushirestaurant
* visrestaurant
* wegrestaurant
* zelfbedieningsrestaurant
* ziekenhuisrestaurant

#### Descendants

* Afrikaans: restaurant
* → Caribbean Hindustani: restoránt
* → Caribbean Javanese: rèstoran, lèstoran
* → Indonesian: restoran

## French
### Etymology

From the present participle of restaurer. Corresponds to Latin restaurans, restaurantem.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ʁɛs.tɔ.ʁɑ̃/
* Audio:(file)
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

restaurant m (plural restaurants)
* restaurant

### Participle

restaurant
* present participle of restaurer

#### Related terms

* restaurer
* restauration

#### Descendants

* → Bulgarian: ресторант m (restorant)
* → Bengali: রেস্তোরাঁ m (restōrã)
* → Catalan: restaurant m
* → Danish: restaurant c
* → Dutch: restaurant n
** Afrikaans: restaurant
** → Caribbean Hindustani: restoránt
** → Caribbean Javanese: rèstoran, lèstoran
** → Indonesian: restoran
* → English: restaurant
** →? Japanese: レストラン
** → Malay: restoran
* → German: Restaurant n
* → Hindi: रेस्तराँ m (restarā̃)
* →? Italian: ristorante m
* → Japanese: レストラン (resutoran)
* → Korean: 레스토랑 (reseutorang)
* → Norwegian Bokmål: restaurant m
* → Norwegian Nynorsk: restaurant m
* → Portuguese: restaurante m
* → Romanian: restaurant n
* → Russian: рестора́н (restorán), рестора́нъ (restorán) — Pre-reform orthography (1918)
** → Uzbek: restoran
** → Yakut: эрэстэрээн (erestereen)
* → Spanish: restaurante m
* → Swedish: restaurang c
* → Persian: رستوران (restorân)
* → Turkish: restoran

### Further reading

* “restaurant”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

## Latin
### Verb

restaurant
* third-person plural present active indicative of restaurō

## Norman
### Etymology

Either inherited from Old French or borrowed from French.

### Noun

restaurant m (plural restaurants)
* restaurant

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Etymology

Borrowed from French restaurant.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /rɛstʉˈrɑŋ/

### Noun

restaurant m (definite singular restauranten, indefinite plural restauranter, definite plural restaurantene)
* a restaurant

### References

* “restaurant” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Etymology

Borrowed from French restaurant.

### Noun

restaurant m (definite singular restauranten, indefinite plural restaurantar, definite plural restaurantane)
* a restaurant

### References

* “restaurant” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

## Romanian
### Etymology

Borrowed from French restaurant.

### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Noun

restaurant n (plural restaurante)
* restaurant