lasagna
nounattested in dialogue
- United Kingdom//ləˈzɑː.njə//
- United Kingdom//ləˈzæn.jə//
- United Kingdom//ləˈsɑː.njə//
- United States//ləˈzæn.jə//
- United States//ləˈzɑ.njə//
A flat sheet of pasta.
noun
- 1
A flat sheet of pasta.
- 2
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).
I’m going to fix you a cup of coffee and a plate of lasagna.
- 3
A combination or layering of things.
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.
Unfortunately, typical mattresses are often a lasagna of nonbiodegradable synthetics, pesticides, and potentially carcinogenic toxins.
It's sort of a lasagna of ideas about time and dreams.
“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.”
Etymology
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”).
Forms
- plural
- lasagnas, lasagne