Flesh in Different Languages
Discover 'Flesh' in 134 Languages: Dive into Translations, Hear Pronunciations, and Uncover Cultural Insights.
Flesh
Afrikaans vlees | ||
Albanian mish | ||
Amharic ሥጋ | ||
Arabic لحم | ||
Armenian միս | ||
Assamese মাংস | ||
Aymara aycha | ||
Azerbaijani ət | ||
Bambara farisogo | ||
Basque haragia | ||
Belarusian мякаць | ||
Bengali মাংস | ||
Bhojpuri गूदा | ||
Bosnian meso | ||
Bulgarian плът | ||
Catalan carn | ||
Cebuano unod | ||
Chinese (Simplified) 肉 | ||
Chinese (Traditional) 肉 | ||
Corsican carne | ||
Croatian meso | ||
Czech maso | ||
Danish kød | ||
Dhivehi މަސް | ||
Dogri गेश्त | ||
Dutch vlees | ||
English flesh | ||
Esperanto karno | ||
Estonian liha | ||
Ewe ŋutilã | ||
Filipino (Tagalog) laman | ||
Finnish liha | ||
French la chair | ||
Frisian fleis | ||
Galician carne | ||
Georgian ხორცი | ||
German fleisch | ||
Greek σάρκα | ||
Guarani so'o | ||
Gujarati માંસ | ||
Haitian Creole vyann | ||
Hausa nama | ||
Hawaiian ʻiʻo | ||
Hebrew בשר | ||
Hindi मोटापा | ||
Hmong nqaij | ||
Hungarian hús | ||
Icelandic hold | ||
Igbo anụ ahụ | ||
Ilocano lasag | ||
Indonesian daging | ||
Irish flesh | ||
Italian carne | ||
Japanese 肉 | ||
Javanese daging | ||
Kannada ಮಾಂಸ | ||
Kazakh ет | ||
Khmer សាច់ | ||
Kinyarwanda inyama | ||
Konkani मास | ||
Korean 육체 | ||
Krio bɔdi | ||
Kurdish goşt | ||
Kurdish (Sorani) گۆشتی مرۆڤ | ||
Kyrgyz эт | ||
Lao ເນື້ອຫນັງ | ||
Latin carnes | ||
Latvian miesa | ||
Lingala mosuni | ||
Lithuanian kūnas | ||
Luganda omubiri | ||
Luxembourgish fleesch | ||
Macedonian месо | ||
Maithili मॉस | ||
Malagasy nofo | ||
Malay daging | ||
Malayalam മാംസം | ||
Maltese laħam | ||
Maori kikokiko | ||
Marathi देह | ||
Meiteilon (Manipuri) ꯎꯅꯁꯥ | ||
Mizo tisa | ||
Mongolian махан бие | ||
Myanmar (Burmese) ဇာတိပကတိ | ||
Nepali मासु | ||
Norwegian kjøtt | ||
Nyanja (Chichewa) thupi | ||
Odia (Oriya) ମାଂସ | ||
Oromo foon | ||
Pashto غوښه | ||
Persian گوشت | ||
Polish ciało | ||
Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) carne | ||
Punjabi ਮਾਸ | ||
Quechua aycha | ||
Romanian carne | ||
Russian плоть | ||
Samoan aano | ||
Sanskrit मांस | ||
Scots Gaelic feòil | ||
Sepedi nama | ||
Serbian месо | ||
Sesotho nama | ||
Shona nyama | ||
Sindhi گوشت | ||
Sinhala (Sinhalese) මස් | ||
Slovak mäso | ||
Slovenian meso | ||
Somali hilib | ||
Spanish carne | ||
Sundanese daging | ||
Swahili mwili | ||
Swedish kött | ||
Tagalog (Filipino) laman | ||
Tajik гӯшт | ||
Tamil சதை | ||
Tatar ит | ||
Telugu మాంసం | ||
Thai เนื้อ | ||
Tigrinya ስጋ | ||
Tsonga nyama | ||
Turkish et | ||
Turkmen et | ||
Twi (Akan) nam | ||
Ukrainian плоть | ||
Urdu گوشت | ||
Uyghur گۆش | ||
Uzbek go'sht | ||
Vietnamese thịt | ||
Welsh cnawd | ||
Xhosa inyama | ||
Yiddish פלייש | ||
Yoruba ẹran ara | ||
Zulu inyama |
Etymology & Notes
| Language | Etymology / Notes |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | "Vlees" is cognate with the Dutch word "vlees" and the German word "Fleisch." |
| Albanian | In Albanian, "mish" can also refer to "meat" or "a cooked meat dish". |
| Amharic | In Amharic, the word "ሥጋ" also means "the physical body" or "the material world". |
| Arabic | The word "لحم" is derived from the Semitic root "L-H-M", meaning "to be moist" or "to be tender", and can also refer to the edible portions of meat in Arabic culinary traditions. |
| Armenian | "Միս" can also refer to "meat," while its adjective form can also indicate someone as having a "stocky" body." |
| Azerbaijani | The Azerbaijani word "ət" is also used to refer to other body parts, such as muscle and organs. |
| Basque | The Basque word "haragia" is also used figuratively to refer to "meat" or "flesh of a person." |
| Belarusian | Мякаць is derived from the Proto-Slavic word *męso, which also meant "meat" or "flesh". |
| Bengali | The word "মাংস" in Bengali is derived from the Sanskrit word "मांस" (māṃsa), which also means "flesh". In some contexts, it can also refer to "meat" or "animal tissue". |
| Bosnian | It also means "the side" in mathematics, like in "mesoscale," or "mesothelioma." |
| Bulgarian | The Old Church Slavonic word "плътъ" (plĭtŭ) also means "the people," from Proto-Slavic *plьtь "body, life, family" |
| Catalan | The word "carn" in Catalan comes from the Latin "caro" and can also refer to meat or the human body. |
| Cebuano | The Cebuano word "unod" has alternate meanings that include one's "true self" and "meat from an animal's thigh." |
| Chinese (Simplified) | In Chinese, "肉" can also mean "meat", "flesh and blood", or "relatives" |
| Chinese (Traditional) | In some contexts, the Chinese character 肉 (pronounced "rou") can also refer to plants, animals, and even people. |
| Corsican | The Corsican word "carne" can also refer to "meat" or "animal". |
| Croatian | Meso also means 'village', 'hamlet' or 'settlement'. |
| Czech | The Czech word "maso" also refers to the meat consumed as food. |
| Danish | The Danish word "kød" is derived from the Proto-Germanic word "*keti-**, meaning meat or flesh, and is related to the English word "cattle". |
| Dutch | The Dutch word "vlees" derives from the Proto-West Germanic root "*flaisk" and can also refer to the meat of animals. |
| Esperanto | The Esperanto word 'karno', meaning 'flesh or meat', originates from the Indo-European root '*k̑r̥so', which also appears in Germanic words like 'corpse' or 'carcass'. |
| Estonian | Liha also refers to the 'body of an animal' and, figuratively, to 'relatives' or 'comrades'. |
| Finnish | The word "liha" can also refer to the soft, inner part of fruits or vegetables. |
| French | The French word 'la chair' originally denoted the living parts of an animal, with the specific meaning of 'flesh' being a more recent application. |
| Frisian | In Frisian, "fleis" also refers to the soft and fleshy parts of fruit and vegetables. |
| Galician | In Galician, "carne" can also mean "meat" or "flesh of a fruit." |
| Georgian | The Georgian word "ხორცი" also refers to various animal products, including leather and wool. |
| German | The word "Fleisch" is derived from the Proto-Germanic word "*flaisk" which also meant "meat". |
| Greek | In Greek mythology, `σάρκα` also means the personification of flesh and a daughter of Erebus and Nyx |
| Gujarati | The word "માંસ" (flesh) in Gujarati also has the alternate meaning of "body". |
| Haitian Creole | The word "vyann" also means "meat" in Haitian Creole. |
| Hausa | The Hausa word "nama" can also refer to the meat of sacrificial animals or the dried flesh of a corpse. |
| Hawaiian | 'Iʻo' can also refer to an area covered in volcanic lava. |
| Hebrew | בשר can also refer to humans or animals in a general sense, similar to the English word "creature". |
| Hindi | "मोटापा" (flesh) refers to "the fleshy substance of an animal," "fleshiness" or "abundance," "a large piece," or "corpulence," related to "mass" or "weight." |
| Hmong | The word "nqaij" in Hmong is derived from the Proto-Hmong-Mien word "*n̥gaj" and the Proto-Tai word "*ŋaːj"} |
| Hungarian | The word "hús" is derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *ḱwe-ws- "to swell", and is cognate with the English word "flesh". |
| Icelandic | In Icelandic, "hold" also means "to hold, to keep, to grasp" and "to prevent from moving". |
| Igbo | The Igbo word "anụ ahụ" also encompasses spiritual qualities and the essence of a being. |
| Indonesian | In Javanese, "daging" can also refer to the fruit of the jackfruit tree. |
| Irish | The Irish word "feoil" (pronounced "flay-ol") is derived from the Proto-Celtic word "*wlesno-," meaning "flesh" or "meat." |
| Italian | "Carne" can also refer to the meat of animals used for food, in which case it is usually preceded by an article (e.g. la carne, la bistecca). |
| Japanese | The '肉' (niku) character's alternate meaning is 'meat', but also can refer to the flesh of fruits and vegetables. |
| Javanese | The Javanese word "daging" not only means "flesh" but also refers to meat from animals that are commonly eaten, such as chicken, fish, or beef. |
| Kannada | The word 'ಮಾಂಸ' (flesh) in Kannada also refers to the 'pulp' of fruits and vegetables. |
| Kazakh | The word "ет" also means "meat" and is related to the word "едік" (food). |
| Khmer | This Khmer word, which literally means 'flesh', is the same word used to define the 'meat' on a fruit. |
| Korean | 육체 also refers to the physical body of a living being as opposed to their spiritual or emotional side. |
| Kurdish | The Kurdish word "goşt" is derived from the Proto-Indo-European root "*ǵʰews-," meaning "to pour, flow," likely referring to the flowing blood of a slaughtered animal. |
| Kyrgyz | The word "эт" can also mean "body" or "self" in Kyrgyz. |
| Latin | The word 'carnes' relates to 'caro,' also 'flesh,' and 'carduus,' 'thistle.' |
| Latvian | In Latvian, "miesa" also refers to the inner part of a fruit or to the pulp of a berry. |
| Lithuanian | In Sanskrit, the word 'kūnas' means 'body' or 'embodiment'. |
| Luxembourgish | The Luxembourgish word "Fleesch" is derived from the Old High German word "fleisk" and is related to the English word "flesh". |
| Macedonian | The word "месо" can also mean "meat" in Macedonian. |
| Malagasy | The Malagasy word "nofo" can also mean "person" or "human being". |
| Malay | "Daging" in Malay derives from the Proto-Austronesian word *dadiɲ, meaning "body" or "person". |
| Malayalam | The word "മാംസം" is derived from the Sanskrit word "मांसम्" (māṃsam), which also means "flesh". In Malayalam, the word can also be used to refer to the body, especially the human body. |
| Maltese | The word "laħam" is derived from Semitic roots meaning "food" or "meat". |
| Maori | Maori word 'kikokiko' means 'flesh,' 'bone,' 'body,' and 'relative' |
| Marathi | In Marathi, "देह" not only denotes "flesh" but also encompasses one's "body" and "self." |
| Mongolian | The Mongolian word "махан бие" can also mean "body" or "substance". |
| Nepali | In the context of Tantric Buddhism, the term "मासु" can also refer to the physical body of a practitioner. |
| Norwegian | The word "kjøtt" in Norwegian, meaning "flesh," is derived from the Old Norse "kjötr," which also meant "meat" or "food." |
| Nyanja (Chichewa) | "Thupi" also means "body" in Nyanja. |
| Pashto | In Pashto, "غوښه" also refers to the meat of animals, particularly when cooked and consumed as food. |
| Persian | The Persian word "گوشت" (flesh) is derived from the Avestan word "gaosha" meaning "meat" or "cattle". |
| Polish | The Polish word 'ciało' can also refer to the body of water or the thickness of a liquid. |
| Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) | The word "carne" in Portuguese can also refer to meat or the edible part of an animal. |
| Punjabi | The word "ਮਾਸ" can also mean "meat", "substance", or "body". |
| Romanian | The Romanian word "carne" is derived from the Latin "caro" and can also refer to meat from hunted animals. |
| Russian | The Proto-Slavic root "*pьlьtъ" meant "full" and "thick". |
| Samoan | The Proto-Polynesian word for 'aano' is 'aano', meaning the substance of the body |
| Scots Gaelic | The word "feòil" can also mean "holiday" or "festival" in Scots Gaelic. |
| Serbian | The word 'месо' can also refer to 'meat' and is the root of the word 'месара' which means 'butcher'. |
| Sesotho | The word 'nama' originates from Khoisan, where it refers to an edible plant. |
| Shona | The word "nyama" in Shona not only signifies "flesh," but also symbolizes the essence of a person, their well-being, and their vulnerability. |
| Sindhi | In Sindhi, “گوشت” (gost) refers to the edible flesh of animals, but it can also mean “meat” or “flesh” in a broader sense. |
| Sinhala (Sinhalese) | The word “මස්” in Sinhala can also refer to the soft edible portion of a fruit. |
| Slovak | The term 'mäso' can also refer to a type of Slovak meat soup. |
| Slovenian | The word meso is also used in Slovenian to describe the middle section of something. |
| Somali | The Somali word "hilib" can also refer to the meat of an animal or the human body, emphasizing its physicality or material substance. |
| Spanish | The Spanish word "carne" is derived from the Late Latin word "carnis" or "carnem," which itself originated from the Proto-Indo-European word "*k̂r̥ós," meaning "flesh" or "blood". |
| Sundanese | Daging is also used to refer to the human body in the phrase daging hirup "the living body" and the meat of an animal in the phrase daging gegeremet "poultry". |
| Swahili | In Swahili, 'mwili' not only means 'flesh', but also 'body', 'substance', and 'essence'. |
| Swedish | Cognate with the English word "meat," and like the English word, "kött" can also refer to the edible part of a plant, such as the fleshy part of a fruit. |
| Tagalog (Filipino) | The word 'laman' also means 'inside' or 'content', highlighting the connection between flesh and the inner essence of a person or thing. |
| Tajik | The word "гӯшт" in Tajik can also refer to the part of an animal suitable for human consumption. |
| Tamil | The word "சதை" (flesh) in Tamil also refers to the muscular or fleshy part of a fruit or vegetable. |
| Telugu | The word "మాంసం" can also refer to a kind of meat or fish that is sold in markets. |
| Thai | "เนื้อ" also means "pulp", "meat", or "content" in Thai. |
| Turkish | The word "et" can also mean "substance, material, essence," or "meat" in Turkish, and is cognate with the Indo-European root *ed- "to eat." |
| Ukrainian | “Плоть” (flesh) derives from the Proto-Indo-European root “*pleḱ-“ (to fold, to plait), akin to “плести” (to weave) and “пласт” (layer). |
| Urdu | The word 'گوشت' (flesh) in Urdu originates from the Persian word 'گوشت' and is also used in Hindi to refer to 'meat or flesh'. In Sanskrit, the word 'गौषम्' translates to 'cow-flesh' and is related to 'गो' (cow). |
| Uzbek | The word "go'sht" is also used to refer to a specific type of Uzbek dish, typically consisting of braised or stewed meat with vegetables. |
| Vietnamese | The word 'thịt' (flesh) in Vietnamese has a similar root to 'thit' (body) and 'thit' (meat) in Old Khmer, indicating a relation to the concept of the physical body. |
| Welsh | The Middle Breton root *knaod may have given rise to the Welsh word cnawd. |
| Xhosa | 'Inyama' is occasionally also metaphorically used to refer to the material or physical assets of a community or a nation. |
| Yiddish | In Yiddish, "פלייש" also means "meat" and is related to the German word "Fleisch". |
| Yoruba | Ẹran ara is derived from the Proto-Yoruboid *ran, meaning "body" or "substance". |
| Zulu | The Zulu word 'inyama' can also refer to meat or food. |
| English | The Old English word 'flǣsc' is related to the word 'flake', referring to skin that is shed. |