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Complete Definition of "meal"

English

Pronunciation
IPA|/miːl/
audio|en-us-meal.ogg|Audio (US)
Rhymes: Rhymes:English:-iːl|-iːl

Etymology 1
Old English mæl|mǣl, from Germanic *mēlo-, from Indo-European *mē- ‘to measure’. Cognate with Dutch maal, German Mal ‘time’, Mahl ‘meal’, Swedish mål; and (from Indo-European) with Greek μέτρον, Latin mensus, Russian мера, Lithuanian metas|mẽtas.

Noun
en-noun

  1. food|Food that is prepared and eaten, usually at a specific time (e.g. breakfast morning meal, lunch noon meal, etc).

Translations
rfc-level|Translations at L3+ (AutoFormat? would have corrected level of Translations)

trreq|Albanian
Arabic: Arab|وجبة (wájba) f
trreq|Armenian
Breton: pred m, predoù p
Bulgarian: ядене (jadene) n
Catalan: àpat m
Chinese: 飯 (fàn)
Crimean Tatar: aş
Croatian: obrok m
Czech: jídlo n
Danish: måltid
Dutch: maaltijd
trreq|Esperanto
trreq|Estonian
Finnish: ateria
French: repas m
Georgian: საჭმელი (sač‘meli), ჭამა (č‘ama)
German: Mahl n
Greek: γεύμα (yévma) n, φαγητό (fayitó) n
Hebrew: ארוחה f
Hindi: भोजन (bhojan)
Hungarian: étkezés
trreq|Icelandic
trreq|Indonesian
Interlingua: repasto
Italian: pasto m
mid
Japanese: 食事 (しょくじ, shokují)
Korean: 끼니 (kkini), 밥 (bap), 식사 (食事, siksa)
Latvian: ēdienreize f, ēdiens f
Lithuanian: valgis m
Malay: hidangan
Marathi: भोजन (bhojan), जेवण (jévann)
Norwegian: måltid
Old English: mæl|mǣl n
Old Norse: mál n
Polish: posiłek m
Portuguese: refeição f
Romanian: masā f
Russian: еда (jedá) f, пища (píshcha) f, снедь (snjed’) f
Sanskrit: भोजन (bhojan)
Scottish Gaelic: biadh m
Serbian: оброк (obrok) m
Spanish: comida f
Swedish: måltid c
Tamazight: ⵜⵉⵔⴻⵎⵜ (tiremt) f
trreq|Tamil
Thai: Thai|อาหาร (aahăan), Thai|เสวย (sàwŏie)
trreq|Turkish
Ukrainian: їжа (jízha) f, страва (stráva) f
trreq|Vietnamese
Yiddish: מאָלצײַט (moltsayt) m

Etymology 2
Old English melu.

Noun
en-noun|-

  1. the coarse-ground edible part of various grains often used to feed animals.

Translations

Dutch: meel n
Georgian: ფქვილი (p‘k‘vili)
German: Mehl n
Greek: πίτουρο (pituro) n
Italian: mangìme m
Korean: 기울 (giul), 밀기울 (mil-giul)
Latvian: ēdiens f
mid
Old English: melu
Old Norse: mjöl
Russian: Cyrl|мука|мука́ (muká) f
Spanish: harina f
Swedish: mjöl n
Thai: Thai|แป้ง (bpâeng)
Yiddish: מעל (mel) f or n

Derived terms
mealy
cornmeal

Anagrams
Elam
lame
male

Category:1000 English basic words
Category:Food and Drink
Category:Meals|*meal


Kurdish

Noun
meal

  1. meaning

Category:Kurdish nouns

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