pad thai

American

[paht tahy, pad] / ˈpɑt ˈtaɪ, ˈpæd /

noun

Cooking.

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

Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

pad thais

plural

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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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

Noodle Company, which specializes in Thai soups, though you can get the takeout staple pad thai.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 5, 2022

She picked at her pad thai with her chopsticks, mixing it up.

From "Anger Is a Gift" by Mark Oshiro

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