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lasagna en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ləˈzɑ.njə/ (Canada)
• /ləˈzɑː.njə/ (Received-Pronunciation)
• /ləˈzɑ.njə/ (General-American)
• /lɘˈsɐː.njɘ/ (New-Zealand)
• /ləˈzɑ.ɲjə/ (General-American)
• /ləˈzæn.jə/ (General-American)
• (Southern-England) audio
• /ləˈsɑː.njə/ (Received-Pronunciation)
• /ləˈzæn.jə/ (Received-Pronunciation)
• /lɘˈzɐː.njɘ/ (New-Zealand)

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”).

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) A flat sheet of pasta.
2. (countable, uncountable) 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. 2013, James Lee Burke, Light of the World, New York, N.Y.: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 299:
3. (broadly, countable, uncountable) A combination or layering of things.
   • “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.” 2013, Molly Harper, How to Run with a Naked Werewolf, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN:
   • When you have lifted a layered lasagne of toilet paper and semen from the floor of a submarine yard in Barrow-in-Furness, there’s not much left in the world that can scare you. 2025 September 23, Tom Lamont, “The human stain remover: what Britain’s greatest extreme cleaner learned from 25 years on the job”, in The Guardian:
   • CHOCOLATE LASAGNA / Who says lasagna is only a main dish? Serve this easy, no-bake lasagna for dessert. / Ingredients / 2 3.9-ounce packages (110 g) instant chocolate pudding mix / 2 cups (473 mL) milk / 8 ounces (227g) whipped topping / 16 graham crackers, chocolate or plan / 1 1/2 cups (75g) mini marshmallows / chocolate syrup 2020, Rebecca E. Hirsch, Garfield's Guide to Lasagna: Cooking Nature's Perfect Food, Lerner Publications, →ISBN, page 20:
   • Unfortunately, typical mattresses are often a lasagna of nonbiodegradable synthetics, pesticides, and potentially carcinogenic toxins. 2008, Body & Soul:
   • 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. 1996, Lance Olsen, Time Famine: A Novel:
   • It's sort of a lasagna of ideas about time and dreams. 2011, Thorsten Botz-Bornstein, Inception and Philosophy: Ideas to Die for, Open Court Publishing, →ISBN, page 280:

Forms

Deriveds

nutellasagna · lasagna lizard · lasagna code · Mexican lasagna

Translations (69)

hy լազանյա (baked dish) · is lasagna (baked dish) · ko 라사냐 (baked dish) · ru лаза́нья (flat sheet of pasta) · it lasagna (flat sheet of pasta) · et lasanjeplaat (flat sheet of pasta) · cs lazaně (baked dish) · nl lasagne (baked dish) · tr lazanya (baked dish) · sv lasagneplatta (flat sheet of pasta) · sv lasagne (baked dish) · gl lasaña (baked dish) · pt lasanha (flat sheet of pasta) · pl lazanie (baked dish) · cmn 意大利千層麵 /意大利千层面 (baked dish) · fa لازانیا (baked dish) · et lasanje (baked dish) · pl lazanie (flat sheet of pasta) · id lasagna (flat sheet of pasta) · pl lazania (flat sheet of pasta) · ru лаза́нья (baked dish) · es lasaña (baked dish) · fr lasagne (baked dish) · lt lazanija (baked dish) · da lasagne (baked dish) · nn lasagneplate (flat sheet of pasta) · gl lasaña (flat sheet of pasta) · hi लज़ान्या (flat sheet of pasta) · ja ラザニア (flat sheet of pasta) · lad tayarine (baked dish) · de Lasagne (baked dish) · nb lasagne (baked dish) · ja ラザニア (baked dish) · tr lazanya (flat sheet of pasta) · fi lasagnelevy (flat sheet of pasta) · pt lasanha (baked dish) · id lasanya (baked dish) · pl lasagne (baked dish) · cmn 千層麵 /千层面 (baked dish) · fa لازانیا (flat sheet of pasta) · nb lasagneplate (flat sheet of pasta) · fi lasagne (baked dish) · eo lazanjo (baked dish) · fa خمیربرگ (flat sheet of pasta) · id lasagna (baked dish) · de Lasagneplatte (flat sheet of pasta) · cs lasagne (baked dish) · pl lazania (baked dish) · id lasanya (flat sheet of pasta) · ko 라자냐 (flat sheet of pasta) · eo lasanjoj (baked dish) · nn lasagne (baked dish) · ko 라자냐 (baked dish) · ia lasagna (baked dish) · pl lasagne (flat sheet of pasta) · bg лазаня (baked dish) · ja ラザニエ (flat sheet of pasta) · ca lasanya (baked dish) · hu lasagna lap (flat sheet of pasta) · ar لَازَانْيَا (baked dish) · ko 라사냐 (flat sheet of pasta) · it lasagna (baked dish) · el λαζάνια (flat sheet of pasta) · is lasanja (baked dish) · th ลาซัญญา (baked dish) · ca lasanya (flat sheet of pasta) · cmn 烤寬麵條 /烤宽面条 (baked dish) · ja ラザーニャ (baked dish) · cmn 麵皮 /面皮千層麵 /千层面 (flat sheet of pasta)