Mandalorian Food-Related Terms & Phrases

Mandalorian Food-Related Terms & Phrases

Singular/Plural

kai/kaise(p) - food

kai'la - edible

jahaal'got - healthy food, nutritious, good for you

yai'yai - richly nourishing. Dense, high-calorie food, of great importance to people dependent on highly portable field rations

kaihaast/kaihaaste(p) - dry ration

behot/behote(p) - citrusy Mandalorian herb used in beverages, mildly antiseptic and stimulating. "He stopped at each tapcaf along the Chortav Meshurkaane and had a mug of hot shig, then ambled along the market stalls that lined the alley." (501st) "Mereel made her a pot of shig—a tisane made from a plant called behot—before getting on with examining the data." (True Colors)

gi/gise(p) - fish

gihaal/gihaale(p) - dried fish-meal (like pemmican - lasts for years but very pungent smell). "She opened the metal container, letting the pungent aroma of dried smoked fish escape into the kitchen. Gihaal kept for years without refrigeration, one of the staples of Mandalorian ration packs" (501st)

shatual/shatuale(p) - commonly eaten Mandalorian livestock animal. "That’s the shatual, by the way, roasted and sliced." (True Colors) "I say we get started on butchering that shatual if Rav hasn't already prepared it, Mer'ika. Perfect celebratory meal, if we had the whole clan here." (501st)

loras/lorase(p) - meat/flesh

warra/warra'se(p) - warra nuts. "Ooh, you got us some warra nuts! Hot ’n’ spicy, and salt ’n’ sour! Kandosii!" (501st)

papurgaat/papurgaate(p) - fruit

uj'alayi/uj'alayise(p) - dense, very sweet flat cake made of ground nuts, syrup, pureed dried fruit, and spice. "Sometimes Ordo felt just as he did when he was a small child and Skirata first towered above him: part of him was competent far beyond his years, and the rest was hollow terror because the kaminiise were going to kill him, but Skirata had snatched him and his brothers to safety and fed them all on uj’alayi, a sticky-sweet Mandalorian cake." (True Colors)

haarshun/haarshune(p) - thin bread/parchment bread - a thin sheet of bread dried to preserve it, and reconstituted in liquid. Mando ration-pack staple. Made properly, it's so thin you can read through it, hence the name; 'see-bread'.

epar - to eat

eparavur - to feast, devour

isirir - to taste

kai'goran/kai'gorane(p) - chef, someone who prepares food for eating

nadir - to cook/boil

ru'nadi - cooked (in the past)

ven nadi - will cook(future)

ke'nadi - cook (command)

hokaanir - cut/slice

ru'hokaani - cut/slice (past)

ven hokaani - will cut/slice

ke'hokaani - cut/slice (command)

hoshap/hoshape(p) - spoon

gaid/gaide(p) - plate- for armor or food use; armor was often used to heat food over open fires in the field

haili cetare! - "Tuck in! Enjoy! Lit. 'Fill your boots. “The others will show up when they smell the food. Haili cetare. Fill your boots." (501st)

Kaysh guur' skraan - "They love their food.”(Used affectionately)

skraan/skraane(p) - generic slang for a meal or food. “You won’t be fit for much without some decent skraan inside you.” (Order 66)

ori'skraan/ori'skraane(p) - a delicacy, a real treat in terms of food; a blow-out meal, a feast (slang), "big eats"

skraan’ikase/skraan'ikasese(p) - assorted small snacks like meze or tapas - "small eats" - a celebratory meal for Mandos because it can take hours to eat, and the dishes are often fiddly, a contrast to the easy-to-eat, quick meals necessary in the field. "Inside the house, the veshok table was laid with an impressive spread of skraan’ikase, an assortment of small fancy snacks that could be lingered over for hours." (501st)

epar'yaim/epar'yaime(p) - restaurant, canteen

sha’kajir - to have a mealtime conversation/to discuss over the dinner table/sitting down for a meal, like the French "à table" - the word for table comes from the word for level, flat, so the implication is one of equals breaking bread together

shig/shige(p) - tea- any infusion of whatever's available, but usually a mildly stimulant herb with a citrus flavor called behot. "He stopped at each tapcaf along the Chortav Meshurkaane and had a mug of hot shig, then ambled along the market stalls that lined the alley." (501st); "Mereel made her a pot of shig—a tisane made from a plant called behot—before getting on with examining the data." (True Colors)

tihaar/tihaare(p) - alcoholic drink - strong clear spirit made from fruit, like eau de vie. "Every tihaar was different, made from whatever local fruit was available" (501st)

ne'tra gal/ne'tra gale(p) - black ale/ sweet, almost spicy black beer similar to milk stout. "Ordo, sweat-streaked and visibly pleased with himself, halted the game to hand out mugs of ne’tra gal." (501st)

buy'ce gal/buy'ce gale(p) - pint of ale. "The chieftains and neighbors who drank here had become Fett’s cabinet, and if there was any serious attempt at government going on—Mando’ade regarded that as a deeply unhealthy and aruetyc thing—then it would only be tolerated over a buy’ce gal in the tapcaf."

papuur'gal/papuur'gale(p) - wine

pirun/pirune - water

gal’gala - invitation to drink/Let me buy you a drink/Have a drink. “Gal’gala?” (Bloodlines)

galar - pour

Ni copaani buy'ce gal - "I’d like a pint of ale"

Ni copaani buyc'ika cin papuur'gal - "I’d like a glass of white wine, please"

jatisyc - delicious

draluram - vivid - used only of food, to indicate strong, distinct flavor, lit. "bright mouth" - one of the four essentials of Mandalorian cooking

heturam - mouth-burn spicy-"mouthburn" - a sought-after state of intense burning in the mouth brought about by very spicy food

hetikles - nasal-burn spicy-burning sensation in the sinuses brought about by specific spices - Mandalorians prize this. "It was a blisteringly spicy meat-and-vegetable casserole, which had the prized characteristic of hetikles, pungent enough to burn the nasal passages, one of the four qualities in Mando cooking." (Order 66)

tiingilar/tiingilare(p) - spicy meat-and-vegetable casserole

hetikleyc - spicy, as in makes the sinuses burn (a sensation like eating horseradish or wasabi)

janad - spicy

paak - salt

pirpaak/pirpaake(p) - broth, soup. "salted water"

epan/epane(p) - stomach

lalat/lalate(p) - tongue

ni n'epa - "I don't eat it"

emuurir - like, enjoy (food, activities, etc)

haryc b’aalyc - "tired and emotional" - i.e. drunk. "Shysa went quiet and poured a third tihaar for himself. He tilted the bottle at Skirata in a mute offer of a top-up, but Skirata shook his head. If he wanted to get completely haryc b’aalyc—tired and emotional, as Mando’ade called it—then he’d wait until he got home." (501st)

lararyc - drunk (noisy, lively, and fun version)

batnor - blackout drunk

ruik - bittersweet root (chewed on). "Skirata, chewing vigorously on that bittersweet ruik root that he’d recently taken a liking to, stood with his fists in his jacket pockets, watching Jusik stepping delicately between chunks of debris." (Triple Zero) "Skirata was still chewing the ruik. She could smell it on his breath, sweet and floral." (Triple Zero)

neral/nerale(p) - grain, grains

shuk'la gett'se - rushed or ground nuts (topping or ingredient for uj)

uj'ayl/uj syrup - thick & sweet scented syrup used in cooking

pirur - to drink; ru'piru - drank; ven piru - will drink; ke'piru - drink (command)