English Translation of "Umay"

I can't think of a word or phrase that could be applied generically, but as you note you can indicate that you are tired of or bored with/of/by a particular food; you've had enough of it.

More emphatically, you might be sick of that food, having had plenty of it, indeed having had your fill of it. You're weary of it, even fed up with it, because you've eaten your weight of it.

But the above can be interpreted as saying the food is not generally appetizing, rather than that you've gorged on it. Thanks to the constant pathologization of our emotions and to phrases like metal fatigue entering mainstream use, one could more jokingly describe being "sick of" a food as an actual kind of sickness:

It's dinnertime, but after 4 hours at the Mediterranean Festival, I've developed a serious case of schwarma fatigue.

I overdosed on unagi at the all-you-can-eat sushi restaurant.

If I were tired of eating tofu dishes, for example, I would say that I am tofu'd out.

Let me just add that umay doesn't always indicate fullness (well, at least in my house). It could also indicate greasy and fatty foods when you've eaten enough to feel dizzy of the taste but you're not necessarily full.

So, in this case, we use umay in the same way as the word nauseating but the word itself isn't always used as nauseating.

I think that it's pretty hard to translate it since it can be used in different contexts.

I'm a Filipino and I agree with the word fed up. That's closer to what we mean by "umay". We say "umay" when we had enough of something, either pertaining to a certain food, attitude of a person, or even to the person itself.

"Being fed up with eating the same food" implies that you have been eating that food for, say, days. As in: I don't feel like eating chicken yet again.

In contrast, umay, from my understanding, means that you are saturated with a certain taste. For example: you were given a big slice of chocolate cake... you've eaten most of it but really can't get yourself to eat any more because it feels like you would, like KuyaDan says, start feeling nausea otherwise.

"Overkill" might be a possible translation, I would say.

“Umay” has no English equivalent. “Umay” is more than just fed up or sated. Umay is when you’re eating a particular food (say, roast pork), and your taste buds are looking for something more, a different taste to break the sameness of the roast pork. You’re not full, nor are you bored with the taste of roast pork. You just want a taste break, or a taste filler, so that when you go back to the roast pork, there’s renewed vigor in your taste buds. That’s why we have “atchara,” (pickled papaya) which is “pampatanggal umay” (anti-imay) served during big meals.

Accepting there may be no direct translation with the full nuances of umay, the word glut or glutted may be close:

I'm glutted with roast pork.

I've had a glut of roast pork.

While it still has a general sense of "being full", the first four forms below (when used with an object) focus on too much of that thing, and not just being full in general.

glut
verb (used with object), glutted, glutting.

1. to feed or fill to satiety; sate: to glut the appetite.

2. to feed or fill to excess; cloy.

3. to flood (the market) with a particular item or service so that the supply greatly exceeds the demand.

4. to choke up: to glut a channel.

verb (used without object), glutted, glutting.

5. to eat to satiety or to excess.

noun

6. a full supply.

7. an excessive supply or amount; surfeit.

8. an act of glutting or the state of being glutted.

Source: Dictionary.com

I came across this site as I’m also looking for the English word for “umay”. I think saturated would be appropriate. Like: Im feeling a little too saturated with this fish that I want something to drench my cravings (or perhaps taste bud)

I would use "satiated" to describe the fatigue from a certain type of food or even a whole feast! Satiety contextually gives a sense of having anything initially well desired but getting too much of it as to begin resisting it. The feeling of having eaten too much fatty or oily food, for example. That is the effect of the Filipino word "umay" (pronounced ooh-mai, with mai pronounced like the mai in siomai), which could be both a noun (satiety) or adjective (satiated).

1. https://www.tagaloglang.com/umay/

umay

to be tired of a certain thing, usually of the same kind of food

Nakakaumay ito.

This is tiresome.

2. https://www.pepper.ph/five-possible-explanations-behind-umay/

5 Possible Explanations Behind Umay

3. https://philnews.ph/2020/04/08/umay-in-english-tagalog-to-english-translation-of-umay/

Umay could be described as being tired by a certain thing. It could also mean peeving due to an act, event, or situation. Here’s how you use it in sentences.

I’m getting tired of this day.

Keep doing what you’re doing Peter! I’m really getting tired of you.

You’d get tired of Esther always asking questions about the movie earlier.

I’m getting tired of what you’re doing, Peter.

I’m getting tired of the food I’m eating. It’s always the same every day.

is umay close to jaded?

Jaded- tired, bored, or lacking enthusiasm, typically after having had too much of something

Generally, there is no exact translation of umay in English, this is something unique in Philippine culture. The best way is to describe what is umay to be clear and understood by non- Filipino audience.