Does every language have a synonym for tasty?

Factual Questions
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As my wife and I were enjoyed our muy sabroso lunch at On the Border today, I considered the word “tasty.” Thinking about it, “tasty” doesn’t convey any more information than does the word"good," but it only applies to food. I wondered if every other language has a synonym for “tasty” that follows these two rules:

  1. It generally only applies to food or the sense of taste.
  2. It has few, if any, meanings outside the realm of food.

Spanish gives us sabroso, while Japanese provides oishii. What others are there?

2

Delicieux, savoureux, gouteux (from the most common to the most rarely used word), and possibly some others I can’t think about right now in french.

3

I believe it is köstlich in German.

4

In korean it is “ma shee suh”

5

In German you say, “Das smeckt mir gut,” literally, “That tastes me good.”

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In Hebrew: “Ta’im”.

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“Smakelijk” in Dutch

“Lekker” would be the more usual thing to say, but “lekker” can be used for other things; Weather, a tasty female - or man, etc. It can even be meant sarcasticly. Like: “Lekker is that”, when meaning quite the opposite.

But when you have a bite out of a delicious chocolate cake, you usually say: “Mmmmm, Lekker!” ::drool:: :slight_smile:

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If the English (who are notoriously bad at the whole food thing) managed to come up with ‘tasty,’ I imagine all cultures did. :wink:

9

:smiley: :smiley: :smiley:

10

Slight nitpick, but “tasty” does have some figurative usage outside of food, in the sense of “pleasant, agreeable, attractive.”

Back in the 80’s, it was pretty a pretty common expression amongst my just-out-of-high-school crowd, as in “a tasty three minute song like their last single” (quotes from the OED).

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In China, the word is “hao tze” which literally translates to “good eat”

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Polish: smaczne, smaczny or smaczna, depending on what kind of noun you’re describing.

13

I had a friend in high school who used it in a sense somewhat like that, and sometimes I still do it. I doubt he knew it was also popular in the 80s.

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Finnish has ‘maukas’ which derives from ‘maku’ much the same way as tasty from taste. Pretty commonly used too, and only applies to food.

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Are we considering tasty distinct from, say, delicious? To me, while it says ‘good food’ it has connotations of ‘with lots of taste.’ I would be more likely to describe a curry than an ice-cream as tasty, though I would understand if I read that.

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“gostoso” in Portuguese. Like "lekker"or “tasty”, it can also be used to describe people, events, basically anything that causes pleasure.

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In Tagalog (Filipino) it’s masarap and it does specifically mean “tasty.”

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In Singlish, it’s shiok, pronounced “shee-oak.”