bouillabaisse

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bouillabaisse

/ˈbuːjəˌbeɪs/ UK
/-ˌbɛs/ UK
/ˌbuːjəˈbeɪs/ UK
/ˈbujəˌbeɪs/ US
/ˌbujəˈbeɪs/ US

Rhymes with -eɪs, -eɪz

Where it comes from

Borrowed from French bouillabaisse, from Occitan bolhabaissa, bouiabaisso, possibly a compound of bolhir (“to boil”) + abaissar (“to lower (the temperature)”).

noun bouillabaisses

countable, uncountable A type of fish soup or stew from Provence, France. And here's an inn, not rich and splendid, / But still in comfortable case; / The which in youth I oft attended, / To eat a bowl of Bouillabaisse. // This Bouillabaisse a noble dish is— / A sort of soup, or broth, or brew, / Or hotchpotch of all sorts of fishes, / That Greenwich never could outdo; /
broadly, countable, figuratively, uncountable A chaotic, disorganized mixture; a confused hodgepodge. La Sirène du Mississipi is a synthesis of the work he [François Truffaut] has been doing during the preceding six or eight years, a great bouillabaisse of [Jean] Renoir, [Alfred] Hitchcock, [Humphrey] Bogart, [Antoine] Doinel, [...]
Similar: bouillabaisse, bric-a-brac, catch-all, clamjamfrey, cocktail, rummage, salad, anthology, gallery, gatherum, congeries, crazyquilt

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noun type of fish stew or soup from Provence

Español	bullabesa
한국어	부야베스 buyabeseu
日本語	ブイヤベース buiyabēsu
中文	馬賽魚湯 /马赛鱼汤 Mǎsài yútāng
Português	bouillabaisse
Français	bouillabaisse
Deutsch	Bouillabaisse
Italiano	bouillabaisse
Ελληνικά	μπουγιαμπέσα bougiampésa
Русский	буйабе́с bujabés
עברית	בּוּיָאבֶּז buyabéz

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@misc{bouillabaisse_2026,
  title = {bouillabaisse},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/bouillabaisse},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}