soup
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
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surfing
Etymology: The noun is from Middle English soupe, sowpe, from Old French soupe, souppe, sope, from Late Latin suppa (“sopped bread”), from Proto-Germanic *supô (compare Middle Dutch sope (“broth”)). Doublet of sop and zuppa. See also sup and supper.
The verb is from the noun.
Inflected forms:
form: soups
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: soop
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: soups
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: souping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: souped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: souped
pos: verb
tags: past
form: soop
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: Any of various dishes commonly made by combining liquids, such as water or stock, with other ingredients, such as meat and vegetables, that contribute the food value, flavor, and texture.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Pho is a traditional Vietnamese soup.
Soupes dorye. — Take gode almaunde mylke […] caste þher-to Safroun an Salt […]
gloss: Any of various dishes commonly made by combining liquids, such as water or stock, with other ingredients, such as meat and vegetables, that contribute the food value, flavor, and texture.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: Any of various dishes commonly made by combining liquids, such as water or stock, with other ingredients, such as meat and vegetables, that contribute the food value, flavor, and texture.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: Any mixture or substance suggestive of soup consistency.
pos: noun
tags: countable
figuratively
uncountable
examples: The cleanup job would turn out to be possibly second only to body-recovery duty in terms of being a job that nobody wanted to get assigned to. Imagine, for a moment, a thick soup of oil, paper, ink, clothing, raw meat and other fresh provisions, and worse, that had all been left to collect together in semi-warm water, all enclosed in a large metal container that had then been subjected to heating by first fire and then repeated warm Hawaiian days, and then left to ferment for over a month, and then with most of the water drained away and all the remaining solid and semi-liquid mass collecting together in pools and heaps across multiple decks, still in a relatively-enclosed environment.
gloss: Any mixture or substance suggestive of soup consistency.
pos: noun
tags: countable
figuratively
slang
uncountable
gloss: Any mixture or substance suggestive of soup consistency.
pos: noun
tags: US
countable
figuratively
slang
uncountable
gloss: Any mixture or substance suggestive of soup consistency.
pos: noun
tags: countable
figuratively
uncountable
examples: […]who lounged hungry and lonesome through Houston seeking jazz or sex or soup[…]
gloss: Any mixture or substance suggestive of soup consistency.
pos: noun
tags: countable
figuratively
uncountable
gloss: Any mixture or substance suggestive of soup consistency.
pos: noun
tags: countable
figuratively
uncountable
examples: primordial soup
gloss: Any mixture or substance suggestive of soup consistency.
pos: noun
tags: UK
countable
figuratively
informal
often
uncountable
with-definite-article
examples: B. Wickham had also the disposition and general outlook on life of a ticking bomb. In her society you always had the uneasy feeling that something was likely to go off at any moment with a pop. You never knew what she was going to do next or into what murky depths of soup she would carelessly plunge you. [...] “It may be fun for her,” I said with one of my bitter laughs, “but it isn't so diverting for the unfortunate toads beneath the harrow whom she plunges so ruthlessly in the soup.”
gloss: Any mixture or substance suggestive of soup consistency.
pos: noun
tags: countable
figuratively
uncountable
gloss: Any mixture or substance suggestive of soup consistency.
pos: noun
tags: countable
figuratively
uncountable
gloss: To feed: to provide with soup or a meal.
pos: verb
tags: uncommon
examples: I'm blessed if I've heard about any thing but kangaroo-tail soup all the while I was at Launceston. They souped me there night and day.
Now laughing together thaws our human ice; long before Swindon it was a talking match, —at Swindon who so devoted as Captain Dolignan,—he handed them out—he souped them,—he tough-chickened them,—he brandied and cochinealed one, and he brandied and burnt-sugared the other;
"I was so mad, I let him wait half an hour to-night before I souped him."
She cooked huge stock pots and souped her dogs once a day.
I souped the dogs, and went in for a bite. I ended up going back out and making my pups a full meal, then went back in and pigged out myself.
gloss: To develop (film) in a (chemical) developing solution.
pos: verb
examples: That girl Vivienne, by the way, once worked as a secretary in the workshop of The Rotarian, began "souping" her own snapshots at home, went from there to top rank as a New York color photographer specializing in small children […]
"Then perhaps it won't surprise you to learn Annie's taking over the Sunday social column," Roz said. "You photo-guys'll be souping her film."
And her camera position had been completely out of his sight. Satisfied that she'd gotten everything she'd needed - much more, in fact - she went back inside and got to work. Jill had souped her first photographs while she'd been on […]
By 6 pm Beau and I are back at the paper, souping the film, when Woody rushes into the room.
gloss: To proselytize by feeding the impoverished as long as they listen to one's preaching.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
examples: Was the priest who denounced those books of the National Board as "souping books" the patron of a national school?
"Souping" in Peterstown came to an end, and Una had enough to do with her full school and ignorant scholars to deaden the sting of her grief for the time.
It was suggested that the briefs should be distributed generally; but they could not be spread as they were at Manchester, Liverpool, and Leeds, where briefs where "souped" out.
Yes, and it was all done in pure charity, no souping swaddling mixture whatever. The Fitz-Ffoulkes had none of that about them .
Before long we passed a Scripture-reader (such the driver said he was), reading a book as a priest does his breviary. I though him not out of place; for anything madder than the whole system of "souping" it is hard to imagine. In Kerry you see signs of it here and there, as you do in Connemara.
I ask, Sir, what right has the hon. Member to call any Protestant minister a souping parson?.
Related words: supper
porridge
stew
Derived words: alphabet soup
beef soup
beer soup
bird's nest soup
black sesame soup
black soup
bread soup
brown Windsor soup
canned soup
chicken noodle soup
chicken soup
condensed soup
cow cod soup
crazy as a soup sandwich
cream soup
dessert soup
dog's soup
duck soup
egg drop soup
egg flower soup
electric soup
fisherman's soup
French onion soup
soup to nuts
fruit soup
hot and sour soup
in the soup
Italian wedding soup
Italian Wedding soup
Lady Curzon soup
laughing soup
leek soup
lunatic soup
macaroni soup
Mexican dry soup
miso soup
mock turtle soup
moon soup
nonsoup
noodle soup
no soup for you
nsala soup
oxtail soup
Palestine soup
pea soup
pea-soup fog
pea soup fog
pepperpot soup
polygon soup
primeval soup
primordial soup
quantum soup
Saturday soup
sauerkraut soup
shark fin soup
she-crab soup
shit soup
shot soup
soup and fish
soup-and-fish
soup-and-fish suit
soup base
soup beans
soup bone
soup bowl
soup du jour
soup dumpling
souped-up
souper
soupfin
soup fire
soupful
soupify
souping
soup kitchen
soup legs
soupless
souplike
soupline
soupmaker
soup mandel
soup meagre
soup of the day
soup plate
soup run
soup sandwich
soup-shaped
soup spoon
soupspoon
soup strainer
soup-to-nuts
soup up
soupy
spring soup
stagger soup
stewp
stone soup
tag soup
that's the ticket for soup
too many cooks spoil the soup
turtle soup
vegetable soup
wedding soup
wine soup
winter melon soup
word soup
Xavier soup
Translations:
lang: Afrikaans
word: sop
lang: Akan
word: nkwan
lang: Alabama
word: okchi
lang: Albanian
word: supë
lang: Southern Altai
word: мӱн
roman: mün
lang: Southern Altai
word: суп
roman: sup
lang: Alutor
word: эпаӈа
roman: epaŋa
lang: Amharic
word: ሾርባ
roman: šorba
lang: Arabic
word: شُورَبَة
roman: šūraba
lang: Arabic
word: شُرْبَة
roman: šurba
lang: Arabic
word: حَسَاء
roman: ḥasāʔ
lang: Arabic
word: شوربة
roman: šōrba
lang: Arabic
word: شُرْبة
roman: šurba
lang: Aragonese
word: sopa
lang: Armenian
word: սուպ
roman: sup
lang: Armenian
word: ապուր
roman: apur
lang: Aromanian
word: supâ
lang: Assamese
word: চুৰুহা
roman: suruha
lang: Asturian
word: sopa
lang: Avar
word: чурпа
roman: čurpa
lang: Azerbaijani
word: şorba
lang: Azerbaijani
word: aş
lang: Bashkir
word: аш
roman: aş
lang: Basque
word: zopa
lang: Belarusian
word: суп
roman: sup
lang: Belarusian
word: ю́шка
roman: júška
lang: Bengali
word: শিড়া
roman: śiṛa
lang: Central Bikol
word: sabaw
lang: Breton
word: soubenn
lang: Bulgarian
word: су́па
roman: súpa
lang: Bulgarian
word: чорба́
roman: čorbá
lang: Burmese
word: စွပ်ပြုတ်
roman: cwapprut
lang: Burmese
word: ဟင်းချို
roman: hang:hkyui
lang: Carpathian Rusyn
word: сёрба
roman: sjorba
lang: Catalan
word: sopa
lang: Cebuano
word: sabaw
lang: Chagatai
word: شوربا
roman: šwrbā
lang: Chechen
word: чорпа
roman: čorpa
lang: Cherokee
word: ᎤᎦᎹ
roman: ugama
lang: Cheyenne
word: hohpe
lang: Chickasaw
word: ashiila
lang: Chinese Cantonese
word: 湯 /汤
roman: tong¹
lang: Chinese
word: 湯 /汤
roman: thng
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 湯 /汤
roman: tāng
lang: Wu Chinese
word: 湯 /汤
roman: ¹thaon
lang: Chuvash
word: яшка
roman: jaška
lang: Plains-Cree
word: ᒥᒋᒫᐸᕀ
roman: micimâpay
lang: Crimean Tatar
word: şorba
lang: Czech
word: polévka
lang: Danish
word: suppe
lang: Dutch
word: soep
lang: Esperanto
word: supo
lang: Estonian
word: supp
lang: Estonian
word: leem
lang: Even
word: хил
roman: hil
lang: Evenki
word: силэ
roman: silə
lang: Evenki
word: сирба
roman: sirba
lang: Faroese
word: súpan
lang: Finnish
word: keitto
lang: French
word: potage
lang: French
word: soupe
lang: French
word: velouté
lang: Friulian
word: mignestre
lang: Galician
word: sopa
lang: Georgian
word: წვნიანი
roman: c̣vniani
lang: Georgian
word: სუპი
roman: suṗi
lang: German
word: Suppe
lang: Greek
word: σούπα
roman: soúpa
lang: Ancient Greek
word: ζωμός
roman: zōmós
lang: Ancient Greek
word: ἔτνος
roman: étnos
lang: Greek
word: δωμός
roman: dōmós
lang: Greenlandic
word: qajoq
lang: Gujarati
word: સૂપ
roman: sūp
lang: Hausa
word: miya
lang: Hebrew
word: מָרָק
roman: marák
lang: Higaonon
word: sabaw
lang: Hiligaynon
word: sabaw
lang: Hindi
word: सूप
roman: sūp
lang: Hindi
word: शोरबा
roman: śorbā
lang: Hungarian
word: leves
lang: Icelandic
word: súpa
lang: Ido
word: supo
lang: Ilocano
word: digo
lang: Indonesian
word: sup
lang: Indonesian
word: sop
lang: Interlingua
word: suppa
lang: Irish
word: anraith
lang: Middle Irish
word: sésúr
lang: Old Irish
word: brothchán
lang: Italian
word: minestra
lang: Italian
word: brodo
lang: Italian
word: zuppa
lang: Japanese
word: 汁
roman: shiru
lang: Japanese
word: スープ
roman: sūpu
lang: Japanese
word: 露
roman: tsuyu
lang: Kalmyk
word: шөлн
roman: şöln
lang: Kannada
word: ಸಾರು
roman: sāru
lang: Karachay-Balkar
word: шорпа
roman: şorpa
lang: Karaim
word: шорба
roman: şorba
lang: Karelian
word: rokku
lang: Karelian
word: suuppu
lang: Kazakh
word: сорпа
roman: sorpa
lang: Kazakh
word: көже
roman: köje
lang: Kazakh
word: суп
roman: sup
lang: Khakas
word: ӱгре
roman: ügre
lang: Khmer
word: ស៊ុប
roman: sup
lang: Komi-Permyak
word: шыд
roman: šyd
lang: Korean
word: 국
roman: guk
lang: Korean
word: 탕
roman: tang
lang: Korean
word: 수프
roman: supeu
lang: Kumyk
word: шорпа
roman: şorpa
lang: Central Kurdish
word: شۆربە
roman: şorbe
lang: Northern Kurdish
word: şorbe
lang: Kyrgyz
word: сорпо
roman: sorpo
lang: Kyrgyz
word: суп
roman: sup
lang: Ladin
word: jopa
lang: Lao
word: ແກງ
roman: kǣng
lang: Lao
word: ສູປະ
roman: sū pa
lang: Lao
word: ນ້ຳສຸບ
roman: nam sup
lang: Lao
word: ຊຸບ
roman: sup
lang: Latin
word: iūs
lang: Latin
word: iūsculum
lang: Latvian
word: zupa
lang: Latvian
word: vira
lang: Latvian
word: streba
lang: Lezgi
word: сурпа
roman: surpa
lang: Limburgish
word: sóp
lang: Lithuanian
word: sriuba
lang: Livonian
word: zup
lang: Lombard
word: zuppa
lang: Luxembourgish
word: Zopp
lang: Macedonian
word: супа
roman: supa
lang: Macedonian
word: чорба
roman: čorba
lang: Maguindanao
word: sabaw
lang: Malay
word: sup
lang: Malayalam
word: സൂപ്പ്
roman: sūppŭ
lang: Maltese
word: soppa
lang: Manchu
word: ᠰᡳᠯᡝ
roman: sile
lang: Manchu
word: ᡧᠠᠰᡳᡥᠠᠨ
roman: šasihan
lang: Mansaka
word: sabaw
lang: Manx
word: anvroie
lang: Manx
word: awree
lang: Manx
word: sooslagh
lang: Māori
word: hupa
lang: Māori
word: waihāro
lang: Maranao
word: sawaw
lang: Marathi
word: रस्सा
roman: rassā
lang: Marathi
word: सूप
roman: sūp
lang: Michif
word: soup
lang: Mirandese
word: caldo
lang: Central Sierra Miwok
word: nýp·a-
lang: Mòcheno
word: supp
lang: Mongolian
word: шөл
roman: šöl
lang: Mongolian
word: ᠱᠥᠯᠦ
roman: šölü
lang: Nanai
word: чолон
roman: čolon
lang: Norman
word: soupe
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: suppe
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: suppe
lang: Occitan
word: sopa
lang: Odia
word: ଝୋଳ
roman: jhoḷa
lang: Northern Ohlone
word: paamu
lang: Pannonian Rusyn
word: юха
roman: juxa
lang: Pannonian Rusyn
word: юшка
roman: juška
lang: Papiamentu
word: sòpi
lang: Pashto
word: ښوروا
roman: x̌orwā
lang: Pashto
word: شوروا
roman: šorwā
lang: Dari
word: شورْوَا
roman: šōrwā
lang: Iranian Persian
word: سوپ
roman: sup
lang: Iranian Persian
word: شورْبا
roman: šurbâ
lang: Iranian Persian
word: شورْباه
roman: šurbâh
lang: Iranian Persian
word: یَخْنی
roman: yaxni
lang: Plautdietsch
word: Supp
lang: Polish
word: zupa
lang: Portuguese
word: sopa
lang: Punjabi
word: ਸੂਪ
roman: sūp
lang: Quechua
word: lawa
lang: Romani
word: zumi
lang: Romanian
word: supă
lang: Romanian
word: ciorbă
lang: Russian
word: суп
roman: sup
lang: Russian
word: похлёбка
roman: poxljóbka
lang: Russian
word: уха́
roman: uxá
lang: Russian
word: ю́шка
roman: júška
lang: Northern Sami
word: málli
lang: Samogitian
word: zupė
lang: Sanskrit
word: सूप
roman: sūpa
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: brot
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: су̏па
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: чо́рба
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: ју́ха
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: sȕpa
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: čórba
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: júha
lang: Shor
word: мӱн
roman: mün
lang: Shor
word: мин
roman: min
lang: Sicilian
word: suppa
lang: Sicilian
word: zuppa
lang: Silesian
word: zupa
lang: Sinhalese
word: සුප්
roman: sup
lang: Slovak
word: polievka
lang: Slovene
word: juha
lang: Somali
word: maraq
lang: Lower Sorbian
word: pólewanka
lang: Lower Sorbian
word: zupa
lang: Upper Sorbian
word: poliwka
lang: Upper Sorbian
word: zopa
lang: Sotho
word: sopo
lang: Spanish
word: sopa
lang: Spanish
word: caldo
lang: Sranan Tongo
word: supu
lang: Swahili
word: supu
lang: Swedish
word: soppa
lang: Tagalog
word: sabaw
lang: Tajik
word: шӯрбо
roman: šürbo
lang: Tajik
word: суп
roman: sup
lang: Tamil
word: சூப்
roman: cūp
lang: Lower Tanana
word: todheɬ
lang: Tatar
word: шулпа
roman: şulpa
lang: Tausug
word: sabaw
lang: Telugu
word: చారు
roman: cāru
lang: Telugu
word: పులుసు
roman: pulusu
lang: Thai
word: ซุป
roman: súp
lang: Tibetan
word: ཐུག་པ
lang: Tocharian B
word: yuṣ
lang: Turkish
word: çorba
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: چوربا
roman: çorba
lang: Turkmen
word: çorba
lang: Tuvan
word: мүн
roman: mün
lang: Udmurt
word: шыд
roman: šyd
lang: Ukrainian
word: суп
roman: sup
lang: Ukrainian
word: зу́па
roman: zúpa
lang: Ukrainian
word: ю́шка
roman: júška
lang: Urdu
word: سُوپ
roman: sūp
lang: Urdu
word: یَخْنی
roman: yaxnī
lang: Urdu
word: شورْبا
roman: śorbā
lang: Uyghur
word: شورپا
roman: shorpa
lang: Uzbek
word: shoʻrva
lang: Uzbek
word: sup
lang: Vietnamese
word: canh
lang: Vietnamese
word: nước dùng
lang: Vietnamese
word: nước lèo
lang: Vietnamese
word: súp
lang: Vietnamese
word: soup
lang: Vietnamese
word: xúp
lang: Volapük
word: sup
lang: Waray-Waray
word: sabaw
lang: Welsh
word: cawl
lang: Woiwurrung
word: lil-le-bro
lang: Yakut
word: мин
roman: min
lang: Yakut
word: үөрэ
roman: üöre
lang: Yiddish
word: זופּ
roman: zup
lang: Zazaki
word: şorve
lang: Zhuang
word: dang