escabeche

See also: escabeché and escabèche

English

Etymology

From Spanish escabeche, from Andalusian Arabic اَلسُّكَّبَاج (assukkabáj), from Arabic اَلسِّكْبَاجَة (as-sikbāja), feminine of سِكْبَاج (sikbāj), from Middle Persian *sḵbʾk' (*sikbāg) (whence Persian سکبا (sekbâ)). Possibly related to ceviche. Doublet of sikbaj.

Pronunciation

• (Philippines) IPA^(key): /ʔɛs.kɐˈbɛ.t͡ʃɛ/

Noun

escabeche (countable and uncountable, plural escabeches)

1. A dish of fish (sometimes chicken) first fried then marinated in a spiced vinegar and served cold.

Translations

a dish of fish (sometimes chicken) first fried then marinated in a spiced vinegar and served cold

• Italian: scapece m
• Spanish: escabeche (es) m
• Tagalog: lampahan, eskabetse

Galician

Verb

escabeche

1. inflection of escabechar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /eskaˈbet͡ʃe/ [es.kaˈβ̞e.t͡ʃe]
• Rhymes: -etʃe
• Syllabification: es‧ca‧be‧che

Etymology 1

From Andalusian Arabic اَلسُّكَّبَاج (as-sukkabáj), from Arabic اَلسِّكْبَاجَة (as-sikbāja), feminine of سِكْبَاج (sikbāj), from Middle Persian [script needed] (*sikbāg /⁠*sḵbʾk'⁠/) (whence Persian سکبا (sekbâ)).

Noun

escabeche m (plural escabeches)

1. escabeche
2. pickle (food preserved by pickling in vinegar)

Derived terms

• escabechar

 

Descendants

• → Cebuano: eskabetse
• → English: escabeche
• → French: escabèche
• → Italian: scabeccio
• → Neapolitan: scapece
  • → Italian: scapece
• → Tagalog: eskabetse

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

escabeche

1. inflection of escabechar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

Further reading

• “escabeche”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10