venison

venison

English

Venison steaks

Etymology

From Middle English venisoun, venesoun, from Anglo-Norman veneisun, venesoun, venesun (“meat of large game, particularly deer or boar; hunt”), from Latin vēnātiō, vēnātiōnem (“hunt; meat from a hunt”), formed on vēnātus, perfect participle of vēnor (“I hunt”). Doublet of venatio and venation.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈvɛ.nɪ.zən/, /ˈvɛn.zən/, /ˈvɛ.nɪ.sən/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈvɛ.nɪ.sən/, /ˈvɛ.nɪ.zən/
• Rhymes: -ɛnɪzən, -ɛnɪsən

Noun

venison (countable and uncountable, plural venisons)

1. The meat of a deer.

   After shooting a deer, field dressing is the next step necessary for high quality venison.

2. (South Africa) The meat of an antelope.
   • 2007, Gregory Simon Bull, Marketing fresh venison in the Eastern Cape Province using a niche marketing strategy (thesis), page xcix
3. (obsolete) The meat of any wild animal that has been hunted rather than raised domestically.

Synonyms

• deer meat, deerflesh

Translations

the meat of a deer

Ainu: ユㇰハル (yukharu) Armenian: եղջերվամիս (hy) (ełǰervamis), եղնիկի միս (ełniki mis) Asturian: venáu (ast) m Basque: oreinki (eu) Bulgarian: еленово месо n (elenovo meso) Catalan: carn de cérvol f Chinese: Cantonese: 鹿肉 (luk6 juk6) Mandarin: 鹿肉 (zh) (lùròu) Czech: zvěřina (cs) f Danish: hjortekød n Esperanto: cervaĵo Estonian: hirveliha Finnish: hirvi (fi), hirvenliha (fi); peura (fi), peuranliha (fi); kauris (fi), kauriinliha (depending on the kind of deer) French: viande de biche f, venaison (fr) f, gibier (fr) Georgian: ირმის ხორცი (irmis xorci) German: Rehfleisch (de) n; (red deer) Wildbret (de) n, Wildfleisch (de) n Greek: ελάφι (el) n (eláfi) Hebrew: בְּשַׂר צְבִי‎ m (b'sar ts'vi) Hungarian: szarvashús (hu) Irish: fiafheoil f (from an adult deer); oiseoil f (from a fawn) Italian: carne di cervo f, cacciagione (it) f Japanese: 鹿肉 (ja) (しかにく, shikaniku) Kazakh: бұғы еті (būğy etı) Korean: 사슴 고기 (saseum gogi), 녹육(鹿肉) (nogyuk) Kyrgyz: бугу эти (bugu eti) Latin: ferīna f Lithuanian: elniena f Macedonian: срнешко n (srneško) Malay: daging rusa Maori: mīti tia Northern Ohlone: ṭoot Ojibwe: waawaashkeshiwi-wiiyaas Plautdietsch: Herschfleesch n Polish: sarnina (pl) f Portuguese: carne de cervo f Romanian: carne de căprioară, carne de vânat, vânat (ro) Russian: олени́на (ru) f (olenína) Scottish Gaelic: sitheann f Slovene: divjačina f Sorbian: Lower Sorbian: źiwinowe měso n Southern Altai: ак-кийиктиҥ эди (ak-kiyiktiŋ edi) Spanish: carne de venado m, carne de ciervo m Swahili: nyama ya kulungu Swedish: hjortkött (sv) Tagalog: karning-usa Thai: เนื้อกวาง (th) Turkish: geyik eti Vietnamese: thịt nai Volapük: stägamit Welsh: cig carw m Zazaki: gostê kosbes

Further reading

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Old French

Alternative forms

• veneisun
• veneson
• venoisun

Etymology

From Latin vēnātiō, vēnātiōnem.

Noun

venison f (oblique plural venisons, nominative singular venison, nominative plural venisons)

1. game (animal to be hunted)
2. meat from a hunted animal

Descendants

• French: venaison
• → English: venison
• → Dutch: venezoen, venizoen

See also

• bisse

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (venaison, supplement)