tartare sauce

noun

A sauce made from mayonnaise and a chopped mixture of pickled gherkins, capers, olives and shallots; traditionally served with fish or other seafood.

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tartar sauce
OriginFrench sauce tartare →
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Meanings

nountartare sauce (countable and uncountable, plural tartare sauces)

plural tartare sauces · alternative tartar sauce

  1. countableuncountableA sauce made from mayonnaise and a chopped mixture of pickled gherkins, capers, olives and shallots; traditionally served with fish or other seafood.

Synonyms & antonyms

nounmayonnaise with chopped pickles and sometimes capers and shallots and parsley and hard-cooked egg; sauce for seafood especially fried fish

Similar
tartar sauce
Broader
sauce

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

  1. Frenchsauce tartare
  2. Englishtartare sauce

From French sauce tartare.

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Translations

Bulgarian сос тартар
  • сос тартар (sos tartar)sauce served with fish
Catalan salsa tàrtara
  • salsa tàrtarasauce served with fish
Chinese Cantonese 打他汁, 他他醬 /他他酱
  • 打他汁sauce served with fish
  • 他他醬 /他他酱 (taa¹ taa¹ zoeng³)sauce served with fish
  • 他他汁sauce served with fish
Chinese Mandarin 塔塔醬 /塔塔酱, 他他醬 /他他酱
  • 塔塔醬 /塔塔酱 (tǎtǎjiàng)sauce served with fish
  • 他他醬 /他他酱 (tātājiàng)sauce served with fish
  • 他他汁 (tātāzhī)sauce served with fish
  • 塔塔沙司 (tǎtǎ shāsī)sauce served with fish
Czech tatarská omáčka
  • tatarská omáčkasauce served with fish
Finnish tartar-kastike
  • tartar-kastikesauce served with fish
French sauce tartare
  • sauce tartaresauce served with fish
Italian salsa tartara
  • salsa tartarasauce served with fish
Japanese タルタルソース
  • タルタルソース (tarutaru sōsu)sauce served with fish
Korean 타르타르 소스
  • 타르타르 소스 (tareutareu soseu)sauce served with fish
Polish sos tatarski
  • sos tatarskisauce served with fish
Portuguese molho tártaro
  • molho tártarosauce served with fish
Romanian sos tartar
  • sos tartarsauce served with fish
Russian тата́рский со́ус
  • тата́рский со́ус (tatárskij sóus)sauce served with fish
Spanish salsa tártara
  • salsa tártarasauce served with fish
Swedish tartarsås
  • tartarsåssauce served with fish
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“tartare sauce.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/tartare%20sauce. Accessed November 5, 2026.

Chicago

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