chutney
/ˈt͡ʃʌtni/
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chutney noun: a sweet or savory but usually spicy condiment, originally from eastern India, made from a variety of fruits and/or vegetables, often containing significant amounts of fresh green or dried red chili peppers.
Noun
chutney (usually uncountable, plural chutneys)
- A sweet or savory but usually spicy condiment, originally from eastern India, made from a variety of fruits and/or vegetables, often containing significant amounts of fresh green or dried red chili peppers.
- mango chutney
- lemon chutney
- A style of Indo-Caribbean music from the West Indies, associated especially with Trinidad and Tobago.
chutney meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
chutney in Hindi
- condiment
- चटनी caṭnī
chutney in Tamil
- condiment
- சட்னி caṭṉi
chutney in Marathi
- condiment
- चटणी caṭṇī
chutney in Urdu
- condiment
- چَٹْنی caṭnī
More languagesFewer languages
- chutney in Bengali
- চাটনি caṭoni
- chutney in Telugu
- పచ్చడి paccaḍi
- chutney in Malayalam
- ചമ്മന്തി cammanti, ചട്ണി caṭṇi
- chutney in Kannada
- ಚಟ್ಟಣಿ, ಚಟ್ಣಿ, ಚಟ್ನಿ
- chutney in Punjabi
- ਚਟਣੀ caṭṇī
- chutney in Gujarati
- ચટણી caṭṇī
- chutney in Arabic
- تْشَاتْنِي tšātnī
- chutney in Vietnamese
- tương ớt
- Kashmiri
- ژؠٹِنؠ ċyaṭin', ژیٛۆٹ ċyoṭ
Examples of chutney in a sentence
- Eric dipped a piece of the dosa in the coconut chutney.
- Ranjan was busy gorging on mangodas, a spicier variant of the pakoda, dipped in tamarind chutney.
- The dosas all came with coconut chutney and sambar, a lentil broth — good dipping condiments.
Forms of chutney
| plural | chutneys |
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Origin of chutney
Borrowed from Hindustani चटनी (caṭnī) / چَٹْنِی (caṭnī).
Words formed from chutney
Phrases with chutney
Words that rhyme with chutney
Questions about chutney
- What does chutney mean?
- Chutney means a sweet or savory but usually spicy condiment, originally from eastern India, made from a variety of fruits and/or vegetables, often containing significant amounts of fresh green or dried red chili peppers.
- What is chutney in Hindi?
- Chutney in Hindi is चटनी (caṭnī). See Chutney meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is chutney?
- Chutney is a noun.
- How do you pronounce chutney?
- Chutney is pronounced /ˈt͡ʃʌtni/.
- What is the plural of chutney?
- The plural of chutney is chutneys.
Words near chutney in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: chutney (page history and authors); chutney (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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