veal

English

Alternative forms

veale, veel (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English veel, from Anglo-Norman veel, from Latin vitellus, diminutive of vitulus (“calf”). Doublet of vitellus.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /viːl/
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Rhymes: -iːl

Noun

veal (countable and uncountable, plural veals)

The flesh of a calf (i.e. a young bovine) used for food.
Synonym: (nonstandard) calfflesh
(slang, vulgar) The female genitalia. (Can we add an example for this sense?)

Translations

flesh of a calf

Arabic: لَحْم عِجْل‎ m (laḥm ʿijl)
Bulgarian: телешко месо (teleško meso)
Catalan: vedella (ca) f
Chinese:
Cantonese: 牛仔肉 (ngau⁴ zai² juk⁶)
Mandarin: 小牛肉 (zh) (xiǎoniúròu)
Czech: telecí (cs) n
Danish: kalvekød (da) n
Dutch: kalfsvlees (nl) n
Esperanto: bovidaĵo
Estonian: vasikaliha
Finnish: vasikanliha (fi), vasikka (fi)
French: veau (fr) m
Galician: tenreira f
Georgian: ხბოს ხორცი (xbos xorci)
German: Kalbfleisch (de) n
Greek: μοσχάρι (el) n (moschári), μοσχαράκι (el) n (moscharáki)
Hebrew: (בְּשַׂר) עֵגֶל‎ n ((b'sar) 'égel)
Hungarian: borjúhús (hu)
Icelandic: kálfakjöt (is) n
Indonesian: daging sapi muda
Irish: laofheoil f
Italian: vitello (it) m
Japanese: 仔牛肉 (こうしにく, koushiniku)
Korean: 송아지 고기 (song'aji gogi)
Latin: vitulīna f
Latvian: teļa gaļa f
Lithuanian: veršiena f
Luxembourgish: Kalleffleesch n
Macedonian: телешко n (teleško), јунешко n (juneško) (older calf's meat)
Maltese: vitella f
Manx: feill lheiy f
Navajo: béégashii yáázh bitsįʼ
Norman: vieau m
Norwegian:
Bokmål: kalvekjøtt n
Nynorsk: kalvekjøt n, kalvekjøtt n
Old English: ċealf n, ċealfes flǣsċ n
Polish: cielęcina (pl) f
Portuguese: vitela (pt) f
Romanian: carne de vițel f, vițel (ro) m
Russian: теля́тина (ru) f (teljátina)
Scottish Gaelic: feòil-laoigh f
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: телетина f
Roman: teletina (sh) f
Spanish: ternera (es) f
Swedish: kalv (sv), kalvkött (sv) n
Tagalog: karning-guya
Turkish: dana eti (tr)
Ukrainian: теля́тина f (teljátyna)
Volapük: (obsolete) smaxolamit

Verb

veal (third-person singular simple present veals, present participle vealing, simple past and past participle vealed)

To raise a calf for meat production.
- 1811, George B. Worgan, ‎Board of Agriculture (Great Britain), General View of the Agriculture of the County of Cornwall (page 144)
  The division outside the vealing place is for a cow that has, or is near having calf.
- 1852, Thomas Mayne Reid, The Desert Home
  It was about the size of a vealed calf, but shorter in the legs, and much longer in the body.

Anagrams

Leva, Vale, Vela, avel, eval, lave, leva, vale, vela

Estonian

Noun

veal

adessive singular of viga