pad thai

American  

[paht tahy, pad] / ˈpɑt ˈtaɪ, ˈpæd /

noun

Cooking.

• pad thais
  plural

1. a Thai dish of stir-fried rice noodles, fish sauce and other seasonings, and usually tofu, shrimp, bean sprouts, and peanuts.

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• pad thais
  plural

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Etymology

Origin of pad thai

First recorded in 1975-80; from Thai phàtthai, equivalent to phàt “stir-fry, stir-fried, stir-fried food” + tai, thai “Thai”

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Example Sentences

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pad thai

Organic food company Amy’s Kitchen, which started selling frozen pot pies nearly 40 years ago, recently rolled out family-size options for meals like vegetable lasagna, cheese enchiladas and pad thai.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026

A restaurant gives me a plastic bin for my pad thai?

From Slate ● Sep. 23, 2024

She stopped in for a pad thai lunch with a friend on Friday.

From Reuters ● Oct. 27, 2023

In early August, Campoverde Gómez began putting in 12-hour-plus shifts to pay off his debt, one pad thai delivery at a time.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 24, 2023

At dinner that night, his mother pushed her pad thai around the Styrofoam container.

From "Anger Is a Gift" by Mark Oshiro

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