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/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -iːl

Noun

veal (countable and uncountable, plural veals)

2. The flesh of a calf (i.e. a young bovine) used for food.

   Synonyms: (both nonstandard) calfflesh, calfmeat

3. (slang, vulgar) The female genitalia. (Can we add an example for this sense?)

Derived terms

• bod veal
• rose veal
• try the veal
• veal crate
• veal-skin

 

Translations

flesh of a calf

• Arabic: لَحْم عِجْل m (laḥm ʕijl)
• Basque: txahalki (eu)
• Belarusian: цяляціна f (cjaljacina)
• 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, vitela (gl) 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
• Yiddish: קאַלבנפֿלייש n (kalbnfleysh), קעלבערנס n (kelberns)

Verb

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

1. To raise a calf for meat production.
   • 1811, George B. Worgan, General View of the Agriculture of the County of Cornwall, Great Britain: Board of Agriculture, page 144:

     The division outside the vealing place is for a cow that has had 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

1. adessive singular of viga