hamburger

• hamburgher (obsolete)

Shortening of Hamburger sandwich, Hamburger steak, etc., the first element borrowed from German Hamburger (“native of Hamburg”), equivalent to Hamburg +‎ -er.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈhæmˌbɜː.ɡə/, /ˈhæm.bə.ɡə/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈhæmˌbɜɹ.ɡɚ/, /ˈhæm.bəɹ.ɡɚ/
• (Dublin) IPA^(key): /ˈhæmˌbʊɹ.ɡəɹ/, /ˈhæmˌbʊɹ.ɡɐ/, /ˈhæm.bəɹ.ɡəɹ/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -æmbɜː(ɹ)ɡə(ɹ), -æmbə(ɹ)ɡə(ɹ)
• Hyphenation: ham‧burger

hamburger (countable and uncountable, plural hamburgers)

1. A hot sandwich consisting of a patty of cooked ground beef or a meat substitute, in a sliced bun, usually also containing salad vegetables, condiments, or both.

   Synonyms: beefburger, (US, historic) liberty sandwich

   Hypernym: burger

   Hyponyms: cheeseburger, quarter-pounder, slider

   Coordinate terms: chicker burger, veggie burger, soy burger

2. Ingridents used in this type of sandwich:
   1. The patty used in such a sandwich.

      Synonym: hamburger patty

   2. (uncountable) Ground beef, especially that intended to be made into hamburgers.
3. (US, colloquial, somewhat crude) An animal or human, or the flesh thereof, that has been badly injured as a result of an accident or conflict.

   The truck hit the deer and turned it into hamburger.

   I'm going to make you into hamburger if you do that again.

4. (graphical user interface) Ellipsis of hamburger button.

   Coordinate terms: meatball, kebab, bento

5. (US, education, informal) Describing the shape of a rectangular piece of paper folded in half so that it forms a short rectangle.

   Coordinate term: hot dog

hamburger (third-person singular simple present hamburgers, present participle hamburgering, simple past and past participle hamburgered)

1. (transitive, informal) To badly injure or damage (a fleshy part of the body).
   • 1944, C. G. Morris, Hugh B. Cave, “The Fightin’est Ship”: The Story of the Cruiser “Helena”, New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead & Company, page 62:

     The men played baseball on coral diamonds that tore their shoes and clothes and hamburgered their hands.

   • 1981, John Nichols, The Nirvana Blues, New York, N.Y.: Henry Holt and Company, →ISBN, page 283:

     And his tires triggered no Claymore mines or Bouncing Betties that might have hamburgered his vehicle with him in it.

   • 1994, Beatrice Sparks (falsely indicated as editor), It Happened to Nancy: By an Anonymous Teenager, a True Story from Her Diary, Avon Books, published 2005, →ISBN, page 133:

     My tears are like gagged pieces of ice cutting up my eyeballs and hamburgering my face.

   • 2014, Shannon Galpin, Mountain to Mountain: A Journey of Adventure and Activism for the Women of Afghanistan, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin’s Press, →ISBN, page 47:

     It’s a trail that has taken more than its fair share of blood, my first flat tire, and hamburgered my entire forearm on a descent.

   • 2019, Christopher McDougall, Running with Sherman: The Donkey with the Heart of a Hero, New York, N.Y.: Alfred A. Knopf, →ISBN, page 51:

     Ken broke three fingers and hamburgered his legs, but he still got to his feet, chased down his burro, and continued on to the finish line.

   • 2020, Lynn Stansbury, Crossing the Divide, Bloomington, Ind.: iUniverse:

     Why they didn’t both break their necks or get hamburgered by cloven hooves was a mystery.

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• IPA^(key): [ˈɦamburɡr̩]

hamburger m inan

1. hamburger (a hot sandwich consisting of a patty of cooked ground beef, in a sliced bun, sometimes also containing salad vegetables, condiments, or both)

   Synonym: hambáč

• “hamburger”, in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu (in Czech)

Borrowed from English hamburger.

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• Hyphenation: ham‧bur‧ger

hamburger m (plural hamburgers, diminutive hamburgertje n)

1. hamburger

From English hamburger.

• IPA^(key): /ˈhɑm(ˌ)b̥urɡ̊er/, [ˈ(h)ɑm(ˌ)b̥urɡ̊er]
• Rhymes: -urɡer
• Hyphenation: ham‧bur‧ger

hamburger (genitive hamburgeri, partitive hamburgerit or hamburgeri)

1. hamburger

   Synonyms: burger, (colloquial) burks

2. (colloquial) a sign resembling a multi-layered bun, under which a web page menu opens

Declension of hamburger (ÕS type 2/õpik, no gradation)
		singular	plural
nominative		hamburger	hamburgerid
accusative	nom.
	gen.	hamburgeri
genitive			hamburgerite
partitive		hamburgerit	hamburgereid
illative		hamburgerisse	hamburgeritesse hamburgereisse
inessive		hamburgeris	hamburgerites hamburgereis
elative		hamburgerist	hamburgeritest hamburgereist
allative		hamburgerile	hamburgeritele hamburgereile
adessive		hamburgeril	hamburgeritel hamburgereil
ablative		hamburgerilt	hamburgeritelt hamburgereilt
translative		hamburgeriks	hamburgeriteks hamburgereiks
terminative		hamburgerini	hamburgeriteni
essive		hamburgerina	hamburgeritena
abessive		hamburgerita	hamburgeriteta
comitative		hamburgeriga	hamburgeritega

Declension of hamburger (ÕS type 19/seminar, no gradation)
		singular	plural
nominative		hamburger	hamburgerid
accusative	nom.
	gen.	hamburgeri
genitive			hamburgeride
partitive		hamburgeri	hamburgere hamburgerisid
illative		hamburgeri hamburgerisse	hamburgeridesse hamburgeresse
inessive		hamburgeris	hamburgerides hamburgeres
elative		hamburgerist	hamburgeridest hamburgerest
allative		hamburgerile	hamburgeridele hamburgerele
adessive		hamburgeril	hamburgeridel hamburgerel
ablative		hamburgerilt	hamburgeridelt hamburgerelt
translative		hamburgeriks	hamburgerideks hamburgereks
terminative		hamburgerini	hamburgerideni
essive		hamburgerina	hamburgeridena
abessive		hamburgerita	hamburgerideta
comitative		hamburgeriga	hamburgeridega

• hamburger in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)

From English hamburger, from German Hamburger.

• (France) ^{(aspirated h)} IPA^(key): /ɑ̃.bœʁ.ɡœʁ/, /ɑ̃.buʁ.ɡɛʁ/, /ɑ̃.buʁ.ɡœʁ/, /am.bœʁ.ɡœʁ/

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• (Quebec, Missouri, New England, Louisiana) ^{(aspirated h)} IPA^(key): /ambɚɡɚ/

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• Audio (France (Somain)):

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• Rhymes: -œʁ, -ɚ
• Homophone: hamburgers

hamburger m (plural hamburgers)

1. hamburger

   Synonyms: burger, hambourgeois

   Hyponyms: cheeseburger, fishburger

• “hamburger” in the Dictionnaire de l’Académie française, 9th Edition (1992-).
• “hamburger”, in Dictionnaire français en ligne Larousse
• “hamburger” in Dictionnaire Le Robert.
• “hamburger”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

Orthographic borrowing from English hamburger.^[1]

• IPA^(key): [ˈhɒmburɡɛr]
• Hyphenation: ham‧bur‧ger
• Rhymes: -ɛr

hamburger (plural hamburgerek)

1. hamburger (hot sandwich)

   Synonym: (clipping) hambi

• IPA^(key): /amˈbur.ɡer/^[1]
• Rhymes: -urɡer

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hamburger m (invariable)

1. patty

   Synonym: svizzera

2. hamburger

From German Hamburger and English hamburger.

hamburger m (definite singular hamburgeren, indefinite plural hamburgere, definite plural hamburgerne)

1. a Hamburger (person from Hamburg)

   Hamburgerene i klassen snakket tysk.

   The Hamburgers in the class spoke German.

2. a hamburger (fast food)

   Vil du ha pommes til hamburgeren?

   Do you want fries with your hamburger?

• hamburgar (Nynorsk)

• “hamburger” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Borrowed from American English hamburger.

• IPA^(key): /xamˈbur.ɡɛr/

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• Rhymes: -urɡɛr
• Syllabification: ham‧bur‧ger

hamburger m animal (related adjective hamburgerowy)

1. hamburger (ground beef, especially that intended to be made into hamburgers)

   Synonym: burger

   Hypernym: kotlet

2. hamburger (hot sandwich consisting of a patty of cooked ground beef or a meat substitute, in a sliced bun, sometimes also containing salad vegetables, condiments, or both)

   Synonym: burger

   Hypernym: kanapka

   Hyponym: Big Mac

   Coordinate terms: cheeseburger, fishburger

3. (derogatory, ethnic slur) burger (American person)

• “hamburger”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego‎^[1] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• “hamburger”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[2] (in Polish)
• hamburger in PWN's encyclopedia

Unadapted borrowing from English hamburger.

hamburger m or f (plural hamburgers)

1. alternative spelling of hambúrguer

• “hamburger”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “hamburger”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Unadapted borrowing from English hamburger or French hamburger.

hamburger m (plural hamburgeri)

1. hamburger

Borrowed from English hamburger.

• IPA^(key): /xamˈbeɾɡeɾ/ [xãmˈbeɾ.ɣ̞eɾ]
• Rhymes: -eɾɡeɾ
• Syllabification: ham‧bur‧ger

hamburger m (plural hamburgers)

1. (Puerto Rico) hamburger

   Synonym: hamburguesa

• “hamburger”, in Diccionario de americanismos [Dictionary of Americanisms] (in Spanish), Association of Academies of the Spanish Language [Spanish: Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española], 2010

From German Hamburger.

• IPA^(key): [hɑm.ˈbuɾ.ɟæɾ]

hamburger (definite accusative hamburgeri, plural hamburgerler)

1. hamburger