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Borrowed from Italian parmigiana, shortening of alla parmigiana (“in the Parmesan way”), or, as a noun, of parmigiana di melanzane/melanzane alla parmigiana, the southern Italian dish which is made with eggplant.

parmigiana (not comparable)

  1. (cooking, postpositive) Cooked or served with Parmesan cheese and tomato sauce.

parmigiana (usually uncountable, plural parmigianas)

  1. (in combination) Any dish in which a main ingredient is combined with cheese and coated with tomato sauce before being baked.

    • 2007 June, “Dining & Entertainment”, in Orange County Magazine, page 270:

      Specialties include veal parmigiana, chicken portobello, linguini pescatore, veal marsala, eggplant parmigiana and many others.

    • 2009, Diane Phillips, Slow Cooker: The Best Cookbook Ever with More Than 400 Easy-to-Make Recipes, page 486:

      Traditional chicken Parmigiana with breaded chicken cutlets gets a makeover in the slow cooker. The chicken is stuffed with three cheeses and then set to simmer in an oregano-spiked tomato sauce.

parmigiana di melanzane
  • IPA(key): /par.miˈd͡ʒa.na/
  • Rhymes: -ana
  • Hyphenation: par‧mi‧già‧na

parmigiana

  1. feminine singular of parmigiano
    alla parmigiana ― parmigiana

parmigiana f (plural parmigiane, masculine parmigiano)

  1. (now rare) female equivalent of parmigiano: a woman from Parma
    Synonym: parmense m or f by sense
  2. any food cooked with Parmesan cheese and tomato sauce; any food cooked alla parmigiana; a parmigiana