# breakfast
## English
### Etymology

From Middle English brekefast, brekefaste, equivalent to break +‎ fast (literally, "to end the nightly fast"), likely a variant of Old English fæstenbryċe, (literally, "fast-breach"). Cognate with Dutch breekvasten (“breakfast”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈbɹɛkfəst/, (South Asia) /ˈbɾeːkˌfaːsʈ/
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* (meal eaten after religious fasting, also): (US) IPA: /ˈbɹeɪkˌfæst/, (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈbreɪkˌfɑːst/

### Noun

breakfast (countable and uncountable, plural breakfasts)
* The first meal of the day, usually eaten in the morning.
    You should put more protein in her breakfast so she will grow.
** 1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iv], page 125, column 2:A ſorry Breakfaſt for my Lord Protector.
** 1921, Ben Travers, A Cuckoo in the Nest, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1925, →OCLC:Peter, after the manner of man at the breakfast table, had allowed half his kedgeree to get cold and was sniggering over a letter. Sophia looked at him sharply. The only letter she had received was from her mother. Sophia’s mother was not a humourist.
* (by extension) A meal consisting of food normally eaten in the morning, which may typically include eggs, sausages, toast, bacon, etc.
    We serve breakfast all day.
* The celebratory meal served after a wedding (and occasionally after other solemnities e.g. a funeral).
* (largely obsolete outside religion) A meal eaten after a period of (now often religious) fasting.
** c. 1693?, John Dryden, Amaryllis
    The wolves will get a breakfast by my death.

#### Usage notes

* In the sense "meal eaten after a period of (now often religious) fasting", the word is more often spelled break-fast or break fast; it is also often pronounced differently.

#### Derived terms

* American breakfast
* bed and breakfast
* bed-and-breakfast
* bed-and-breakfast deal
* bed-and-breakfast transaction
* blend
* blunch
* breakfast bar
* breakfast burrito
* breakfast cereal
* breakfast club
* breakfastcup
* breakfast-equipage
* breakfaster
* breakfast in bed
* breakfastless
* breakfastlike
* breakfast-mate
* breakfast milk
* breakfast of champions
* breakfast potatoes
* breakfast poutine
* breakfast roll
* breakfast sausage
* breakfast set
* breakfast stout
* breakfast tea
* breakfast television
* breakfast tray
* breakfastwards
* breakfastware
* breakfast wrap
* breakfasty
* brekker
* brinner
* brunch
* bruncheon
* brupper
* builder's breakfast
* bushman's breakfast
* cat's breakfast
* champagne breakfast
* continental breakfast
* deskfast
* dingo's breakfast
* dog's breakfast
* eat for breakfast
* eat someone for breakfast
* English breakfast
* English breakfast tea
* full breakfast
* full English breakfast
* Irish breakfast tea
* lumberjack breakfast
* Mexican breakfast
* midbreakfast
* New York breakfast
* Oslo breakfast
* pig's breakfast
* postbreakfast
* power breakfast
* prebreakfast
* second breakfast
* wedding breakfast

#### Descendants

* → Afrikaans: brekfis
* → Irish: bricfeasta
* → Maori: parakuihi
* → Scottish Gaelic: bracaist
* → Portuguese: brequefeste, brequefesta
* → Welsh: brecwast

#### Translations

Afrikaans: brekfis, ontbyt (af), vroegstuk,
Albanian: sillë (sq) (archaic), mëngjes (sq) m
Aleut: zaavtrikax̂
Arabic: إِفْطَار (ar) m (ʔifṭār), فَطُور m (faṭūr)
Egyptian Arabic: فطار m (fṭār)
Gulf Arabic: ريوق m (ryūg)
Hijazi Arabic: فَطور m (faṭūr)
Iraqi Arabic: ريّوگ m (rayyūg)
Moroccan Arabic: فطور m (fṭūr)
Lebanese Arabic: ترويقة f (terwī'a)
San'ani Yemeni Arabic: صبوح m (ṣabūħ)
South Levantine Arabic: فطور m (fṭūr)
Syrian Arabic: فطور m (fṭūr)
Tunisian Arabic: فطور صباح m (fṭūr ṣbēħ), داجونا m (dēžunē)
Armenian: նախաճաշ (hy) (naxačaš)
Asturian: almuerzu (ast) m
Azerbaijani: səhər yeməyi
Bashkir: иртәнге аш (irtənge aş)
Basque: gosari (eu)
Belarusian: сняда́нак m (snjadának), сне́данне n (snjédannje), сняда́нне n (snjadánnje)
Bengali: নাস্তা (bn) (nasta), প্রাতরাশ (bn) (pratoraś), ছোট হাজরি (bn) (chōṭo hajri)
Bhojpuri: नाश्ता (nāśtā)
Bikol Central: pamahaw (bcl)
Breton: lein (br) f, dijuniñ (br) m
Bulgarian: заку́ска (bg) f (zakúska)
Burmese: နံနက်စာ (my) (namnakca)
Carpathian Rusyn: фры́штик m (frŷ́štyk)
Catalan: esmorzar (ca) m
Chechen: марта (marta)
Chinese:
Cantonese: 早飯 / 早饭 (zou$^2$ faan$^6$), 早餐 (zou$^2$ caan$^1$)
Hokkien: 早頓 / 早顿 (zh-min-nan) (chá-tǹg), 早起 (zh-min-nan) (chá-khí), 早起頓 / 早起顿 (zh-min-nan) (chá-khí-tǹg)
Mandarin: 早飯 / 早饭 (zh) (zǎofàn), 早餐 (zh) (zǎocān)
Czech: snídaně (cs) f
Dalmatian: prinz m
Danish: morgenmad (da) c
Dutch: ontbijt (nl) n
Egyptian: (jꜥw-r)
Elfdalian: frukuost m
Esperanto: matenmanĝo (eo)
Estonian: hommikueine (et), hommikusöök (et)
Faroese: morgunmatur m
Finnish: aamupala (fi), aamiainen (fi)
French: petit déjeuner (fr) m (France), déjeuner (fr) m (Belgium, Switzerland, Cajun and Canadian French)
Galician: almorzo (gl) m
Gallo: déjun m
Georgian: საუზმე (sauzme)
German: Frühstück (de) n, Zmorgen f (Swiss German), (Swiss German) Morgenessen (de) n
Greek: πρωινό (el) n (proïnó), πρόγευμα (el) n (prógevma)
Ancient: ἄριστον n (áriston) (early usage), ἀκράτισμα n (akrátisma) (later usage)
Greenlandic: ullaakkorsiutit pl
Gujarati: નાસ્તો m (nāsto), નાશ્તો m (nāśto), શિરામણ n (śirāmaṇ), નહારી f (nahārī), હાજરી f (hājrī), પ્રાતરાશ m (prātrāś), ચાશ્ત f (cāśt), ઉપાહાર m (upāhār), કલવો m (kalvo), છોટાહાઝરી m (choṭāhājhrī)
Haitian Creole: dejene
Hawaiian: ʻaina kakahiaka
Hebrew: ארוחת בוקר / אֲרוּחָת בֹּקֶר (he) f (arukhát bóker)
Hindi: नाश्ता (hi) m (nāśtā), कलेवा (hi) m (kalevā)
Hungarian: reggeli (hu), früstök (hu) (archaic, dialectal)
Icelandic: morgunmatur (is) m, morgunverður (is) m, árbítur m
Ido: fru-dejuneto, dejuneto (io)
Indonesian: sarapan (id)
Ingrian: murkina, suurus
Interlingua: jentaculo (ia)
Irish: bricfeasta (ga) m, céadphroinn f, béile maidine m, cuid na maidine f
Italian: colazione (it) f, prima colazione f
Ivatan: riagen
Japanese: 朝食 (ja) (ちょうしょく, chōshoku), 朝御飯 (ja) (あさごはん, asagohan), 朝飯 (ja) (あさめし, asameshi)
Jingpho: jahpawt shat (spelling in Myanmar), jahpot shat (spelling in Myanmar)
Kannada: ತಿಂಡಿ (kn) (tiṇḍi), ನಾಷ್ಟಾ (kn) (nāṣṭā)
Kapampangan: abakan
Kazakh: таңертеңгі ас (tañerteñgı as)
Khmer: អាហារពេលព្រឹក (ʼaahaa peil prɨk), បាយពេលព្រឹក (baay peil prɨk), បាយព្រឹក (baay prɨk), បាតរាស (km) (paataʼraah)
Korean: 조반(朝飯) (ko) (joban), 아침 식사 (ko) (achim siksa), 조식(朝食) (ko) (josik), 조식(早食) (ko) (josik)
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: بەرچای (berçay)
Northern Kurdish: taşt (ku), taştê (ku)
Kyrgyz: эртең мененки тамак (erteŋ menenki tamak), эртем (ertem)
Ladin: gusté m
Lao: ເຂົ້າເຊົ້າ (lo) (khao sao), ອາຫານເຊົ້າ (lo) (ʼā hān sao)
Latgalian: reitiškys f pl
Latin: prandium n, ientāculum n
Latvian: brokastis (lv)
Lhao Vo: ne, xe: ([nèʔ t͡sʰe])
Lithuanian: pusryčiai m pl
Lü: ᦃᧁᧉᦋᧁᧉ (ẋaw²tsaw²)
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Luo: please add this translation if you can
Luxembourgish: Kaffi (lb) m
Macedonian: појадок (pojadok), доручек m (doruček)
Malagasy: sakafo maraina
Malay: sarapan (ms)
Malayalam: പ്രഭാത ഭക്ഷണം (prabhāta bhakṣaṇaṁ), പ്രാതൽ (prātal)
Maltese: kolazzjon m, brejkfast, fatra f
Maori: parakuihi
Marathi: नाष्टा m (nāṣṭā)
Marwari: नास्तौ (nāstau), कलेवौ (kalevau)
Mauritian Creole: nasta
Mirandese: almuorço
Miyako: アサムヌ (asamunu)
Mòcheno: schelver
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: өглөөний цай (öglöönii caj, literally “morning tea”), өглөөний хоол (öglöönii xool)
Navajo: abínígo daʼadánígíí
Norman: (Guernsey) déjunaïr m, (Jersey) dêjeuner m
Northern Sami: iđitbiebmu, iđitborramuš
Norwegian:
Bokmål: frokost (no) m
Nynorsk: frukost (nn) m
Occitan: dejunar (oc) m
Ojibwe: gigizhebaa-wiisiniwin
Old English: morgenmete, underngereord, undernmete m (any morning meal)
Osage: kaasį́exci wanǫ́bre
Pali: pātarāsa m
Pannonian Rusyn: фриштик m inan (frištik)
Pashto: سهارنۍ f (sahāranǝ́y), ټپن m (ṭapán)
Persian:
Dari: نَاشْتَا (fa) (nāštā), چَایِ صُبْح (čā-yi subh), نَانِ صُبْح (nān-i subh)
Iranian Persian: صُبْحانِه (fa) (sobhâne), ناشْتا (fa) (nâštâ), چاشْت (fa) (čâšt)
Polabian: pridĕbedĕ n, prüpel m
Polish: śniadanie (pl) n
Portuguese: (Brazil) café da manhã (pt), (Portugal) pequeno-almoço (pt), (rare) desjejum (pt), (Angola, Mozambique) mata-bicho (pt)
Romanian: mic dejun (ro) n
Romansch: ensolver m
Russian: за́втрак (ru) m (závtrak)
Sanskrit: प्रातराश (sa) m (prātarāśa), कल्यवर्त (sa) m (kalyavarta)
Scots: disjune, brakfast
Scottish Gaelic: bracaist f
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: до̀ручак m, фру̀штик m
Roman: dòručak (sh) m, frùštik (sh) m
Shan: ၶဝ်ႈၼႂ် (shn) (khāo nǎue)
Slovak: raňajky f pl, frištuk m (dated, colloquial), frištik m (dated, colloquial), fruštik (dated, colloquial)
Slovene: zajtrk (sl) m
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: snědanje n
Upper Sorbian: snědanje n
Sotho: dijo tsa hoseng, mofihlolo
Spanish: desayuno (es) m, parva (es) f
Swahili: chakula cha asubuhi, kiamsha kinywa (sw), kifungua kinywa (sw), staftahi (sw)
Swedish: frukost (sv) c, frulle (sv) c (brekkie)
Tagalog: almusál (tl), agahan (tl)
Tajik: ношто (nošto), ношито (nošito), чошт (čošt)
Tamil: காலையுண்டி (kālaiyuṇṭi)
Telugu: ప్రాతఃకాల (prātaḥkāla)
Thai: ข้าวเช้า (th) (kâao-cháao), อาหารเช้า (th) (aa-hǎan-cháao)
Tibetan: ཚལ་མ (tshal ma)
Turkish: kahvaltı (tr)
Turkmen: ertirlik
Tuvan: эртенги чем (ertengi çem)
Ukrainian: сніда́нок m (snidánok)
Urdu: ناشْتا m (nāśtā), ناشْتَہ m (nāśta), کَلیوا m (kalevā), نَہاری f (nahārī), چاشْت m (cāśt)
Uyghur: ناشتا (nashta)
Uzbek: nonushta (uz)
Vietnamese: bữa sáng
Vilamovian: mügjaasa
Walloon: didjuner (wa) m (more frequently under elided form "ddjuner")
Welsh: brecwast (cy) m, borefwyd (cy) m
West Frisian: moarnsiten n, brea-iten n
White Hmong: pluag tshais
Yakut: сарсыардааҥы аһылык (sarsıardaañı ahılık)
Yiddish: פֿרישטיק n (frishtik)
Yonaguni: 努むってぃぬいー (っとぅむってぃぬいー, ttumutti nu ii)
Zazaki: ara (diq) :

#### See also

* brunch
* jentacular

### Verb

breakfast (third-person singular simple present breakfasts, present participle breakfasting, simple past and past participle breakfasted)
* (intransitive) To eat the morning meal.
** May 14, 1689, Matthew Prior, epistle to Fleetwood Shephard Esq.
    First, sir, I read, and then I breakfast.
** 1847 October 16, Currer Bell [pseudonym; Charlotte Brontë], chapter I, in Jane Eyre. An Autobiography. […], volume II, London: Smith, Elder, and Co., […], →OCLC, page 12:“Oh, he set off the moment he had breakfasted! […]”
** 1941 August, C. Hamilton Ellis, “The English Station”, in Railway Magazine, page 356:Fifty years ago, the traveller might breakfast well at home in London, and take nothing more than a cup of coffee at King's Cross.
* (transitive) To serve breakfast to.
** 1987, Anne McCaffrey, The Lady: A Tale of Ireland, page 269:By seven-thirty she had breakfasted them, provided each with a packed lunch and Thermoses of coffee and tea

#### Synonyms

* break one's fast

#### Translations
### Anagrams

* fast break, fastbreak