Hyphenation
la·sa·gnaTurkish pronunciation
lızänyıPronunciation
/ləˈzänyə/ /ləˈzɑːnjə/
Etymology
[ l&-'zän-y& ] (noun.) 1846. From Italian lasagna, lasagne, from Latin lasanum (“cooking pot”) Ancient Greek λάσανον (lasanon, “trivet or stand for a pot”), pl. λάσανα (lasana). Others argue the Italian lasagna originally derived from the Arabic (Semitic) lawzinaj ("almond cake").