# eat
## English
### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) enPR: ēt, IPA: /iːt/
* (General American) enPR: ēt, IPA: /it/
* Audio (Received Pronunciation):(file)
* Audio (General American):(file)
* Rhymes: -iːt

### Etymology 1

From Middle English eten, from Old English etan (“to eat”), from Proto-West Germanic *etan, from Proto-Germanic *etaną (“to eat”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁édti, from *h₁ed- (“to eat”).

#### Verb

eat (third-person singular simple present eats, present participle eating, simple past ate or (dialectal) et or (obsolete) eat, past participle eaten or (dialectal) etten or (nonstandard) ate)
* To ingest; to be ingested.
** (ambitransitive) To consume (something solid or semi-solid, usually food) by putting it into the mouth and swallowing it.
    Synonyms: consume, swallow; see also Thesaurus:eat
    He's eating an apple. / Don't disturb me now; can't you see that I'm eating?
*** 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 1 Corinthians 8:8, column 2:But meate commendeth vs not to God: for neither if we eate, are we the better: neither if wee eate not, are we the woꝛſe.
*** 1892, Walter Besant, chapter II, in The Ivory Gate […], New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC:At twilight in the summer there is never anybody to fear—man, woman, or cat—in the chambers and at that hour the mice come out. They do not eat parchment or foolscap or red tape, but they eat the luncheon crumbs.
*** 1959, Georgette Heyer, chapter 1, in The Unknown Ajax:But Richmond […] appeared to lose himself in his own reflections. Some pickled crab, which he had not touched, had been removed with a damson pie; and his sister saw […] that he had eaten no more than a spoonful of that either.
*** 2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Noveria:Shepard: Everyone on this station is chafing under Anoleis' extortion. You might end up a hero. Lorik Qui'in: My employers rely on the goodwill of the Executive Board to work here. Wrex: If these "executives" don't blame Anoleis for provoking this, they're fools. You should eat them.
** (intransitive) To consume a meal.
    Synonyms: dine, chow down, feed one's face
    Hyponyms: breakfast, have one's dinner/supper/etc, lunch
    What time do we eat this evening?
*** 2016, VOA Learning English (public domain)
    I eat in the kitchen.
       Audio (US):(file)
** (intransitive, ergative) To be eaten.
    It's a soup that eats like a meal.
*** 1852, The New Monthly Magazine, page 310:I don't know any quarter in England where you get such undeniable mutton—mutton that eats like mutton, instead of the nasty watery, stringy, turnipy stuff, neither mutton nor lamb, that other countries are inundated with.
*** 1863, J[oseph] Sheridan Le Fanu, “In Which the Minstrelsy Proceeds”, in The House by the Church-yard. […], volume I, London: Tinsley, Brothers, […], →OCLC, page 73:[D]ish him with thlitheth of orangeth, barberrieth, grapeth, goothberrieth, and butter; and you will find that he eaths deliciouthly either with farced pain or gammon pain.[D]ish him [the fish] with slices of oranges, barberries, grapes, gooseberries, and butter; and you will find that he eats deliriously either with farced pain or gammon pain.
** (copulative, intransitive) To have a particular quality of diet; to be well-fed or underfed (typically as "eat healthy" or "eat good").
* To use up.
** (transitive, often with up) To destroy, consume, or use up.
    This project is eating up all the money.
*** 1857–1859, W[illiam] M[akepeace] Thackeray, The Virginians. A Tale of the Last Century, volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury & Evans, […], published 1858–1859, →OCLC:His wretched estate is eaten up with mortgages.
** (transitive, programming, informal) To consume (an exception, an event, etc.) so that other parts of the program do not receive it.
*** 2005, Wallace B. McClure, Gregory A. Beamer, John J. Croft IV, Professional ADO.NET 2, page 246:A bigger problem, however, is that if you catch/eat an exception and do nothing with it, you are very likely introducing subtle bugs in your application that will be next to impossible to track down.
** (transitive, informal, of a device) To damage, destroy, or fail to eject a removable part or an inserted object.
    The VHS recorder just ate the tape and won't spit it out.
    John is late for the meeting because the photocopier ate his report.
*** 1991, Shane Black, The Last Boy Scout (movie)
    No! There's a problem with the cassette player. Don't press fast forward or it eats the tape!
** (transitive, informal, of a vending machine or similar device) To consume money (or other instruments of value, such as a token) deposited or inserted by a user, while failing to either provide the intended product or service or return the payment.
    The video game in the corner just ate my quarter.
*** 1977, Nancy Dowd, Slap Shot (movie)
    Hey! This stupid [soda vending] machine ate my quarter.
* (transitive, informal) To cause (someone) to worry.
    Synonyms: bother, disturb, worry
    What's eating you?
* (transitive, business) To take the loss in a transaction.
** 1988, George Gallo, Midnight Run (movie)
    I have to have him in court tomorrow, if he doesn't show up, I forfeit the bond and I have to eat the $300,000.
** 1999, Ronald S. Beitman, Liquor Liability: A Primer for Winning Your Case, page 27:The server made an error when taking the order. The bartender prepared two scorpion bowls. When the error was realized the bartender was faced with having to "eat" the extra scorpion bowl […]
** 2011, Lorenzo Carver, Venture Capital Valuation:When they were doing it with the valuation professionals, they were billing the client, but the valuation professional in a lot of those early cases had to eat the cost of showing the auditor how the auditors' test model was incorrect.
* (transitive, slang) To be injured or killed by (something such as a firearm or its projectile), especially in the mouth.
** 1944, William Faulkner, Leigh Brackett, Jules Furthman, The Big Sleep (screenplay)
    I risk my whole future, the hatred of the cops and Eddie Mars' gang. I dodge bullets and eat saps.
** 1991, Stephen King, Needful Things:And, of course, there was Brian Rusk, who had eaten a bullet at the ripe old age of eleven.
** 1997, A. A. Gill, "Diary" (in The Spectator, 1 November 1997):
    Friends are only necessary in the ghastly country, where you have to have them, along with rubber boots and a barometer and secateurs, to put off bucolic idiocy, a wet brain, or eating the 12-bore.
** 2012, Kaya McLaren, How I Came to Sparkle Again: A Novel, St. Martin's Press, →ISBN:Mike had been to other calls where someone had eaten a gun. He knew to expect teeth embedded in the ceiling and brains dripping off it.
** 2017, Edward W. Robertson, Stardust, Edward W. Robertson:The animal was sweating and scared and MacAdams was surprised when they finished up without either of them eating a kick.
** 2018, Daniel Tomazic, Of Bullies and Men: Young Adult Fiction, →ISBN, page 18:There was a resounding smacking noise and Georgy was sure Philip had just eaten a fist.
* (ambitransitive) To corrode or erode.
    The acid rain ate away the statue.  The strong acid eats through the metal.
* (transitive, slang) To perform oral sex (on a person or body part).
    Synonyms: eat out; see also Thesaurus:oral sex
    Eat me!
    I ate his ass.
    Yeah, eat that dick / eat that pussy.
* (stative, slang) To be very good; to rule, to slay.
    Synonyms: devour, eat and leave no crumbs, bang, rock, slap; see also Thesaurus:excel
    You ate that performance!
    This song eats!
** 2024 June 21, Jason P. Frank, “Who Else Needs to Work It Out on a Remix?”, in Vulture‎:Lorde and Charli XCX confronted each other via song like some kind of alt-pop musical-theater number, and it ate. “The girl, so confusing version with lorde,” like all the best pop music, features multiple moments that burrow into your brain and refuse to leave, giving you no other choice but to simply relisten to the track.
* (transitive, slang) To annex.

##### Conjugation

$^†$ Archaic or obsolete. $^1$ Dialectal.

##### Derived terms

* all-eating
* all-you-can-eat
* anteating
* appetite comes with eating
* ass eating
* binge eat
* binge eating
* binge eating disorder
* bitch eating crackers
* bite to eat
* bone-eating snot flower worm
* cat that ate the canary
* chalk-eating weasel
* cheese eating
* cheese-eating
* cheese-eating surrender monkey
* cheese-eating surrender monkeys
* clean eating
* comfort-eat
* comfort eating
* competitive eating
* could eat the arse out of a low flying duck
* could eat the crotch out of a low flying duck
* could eat the crutch from a low flying duck
* crab-eating fox
* crab-eating frog
* crab-eating macaque
* crab-eating raccoon
* crab-eating rat
* crab-eating zorro
* dog eat dog
* dog-eat-dog
* don't shit where you eat
* eat a bag of dicks
* eatability
* eatable
* eat a burger
* eat a dick
* eatage
* eat-all-you-can
* eat and leave no crumbs
* eat and run
* eat an elephant one bite at a time
* eat ass
* eatathon
* eat away
* eat away at
* eat beaver
* eat boiled crow
* eat cookie
* eat crow
* eat cunt
* eat dirt
* eat down
* eater
* eatertainment
* eatery, eaterie
* eat for breakfast
* eat for two
* eat from someone's hand
* eat from the palm of someone's hand
* eat humble pie
* eat in
* eat-in
* eating
* eating ass
* eating club
* eating-disordered
* eating establishment
* eating knife
* eat into
* eat it
* eat lead
* eat like a bird
* eat like a horse
* eat like an animal
* eat like a pig
* eat my ass
* eat my dust
* eat my shorts
* eat one's cake and have it too
* eat one's dinners
* eat one's emotions
* eat one's feelings
* eat one's fill
* eat one's gun
* eat one's hat
* eat one's head off
* eat one's heart
* eat one's heart out
* eat one's own
* eat one's own dog food
* eat one's pride
* eat one's seed corn
* eat one's terms
* eat one's Wheaties
* eat one's words
* eat one's young
* eat-out
* eat out
* eat out of someone's hand
* eat out of the palm of someone's hand
* eat pussy
* eats
* eat shit
* eat someone alive
* eat someone for breakfast
* eat someone out of house and home
* eat someone's dust
* eat someone's heart
* eat someone's lunch
* eat something up
* eat something up with a spoon
* eat the baby
* eat the bread of idleness
* eat the leek
* eat the mic
* eat the onion
* eat the rich
* eat the seed corn
* eat to windward
* eat twat
* eat up
* eat up with a spoon
* eat what you kill
* eatworthy
* fire eating
* fish-eating grin
* fish-eating rat
* flesh-eating
* flesh-eating disease
* floor one could eat off
* fress
* go and eat coke
* good enough to eat
* grin like a mule eating briars
* have one's cake and eat it
* have one's cake and eat it too
* have you eaten
* heat-and-eat
* how the cow ate the cabbage
* I could eat a brick
* I could eat a horse
* I don't eat beef
* I don't eat fish
* I don't eat meat
* I don't eat pork
* lotus-eating
* maneating
* man-eating
* meat-eating
* miseat
* monkey-eating eagle
* never eat shredded wheat
* never eat soggy waffles
* never eat soggy wheat
* night eating syndrome
* noneating
* opium-eating
* outeat
* overeat
* pay-as-you-eat
* pussy eating
* real men don't eat quiche
* seedeating
* selective eating disorder
* shit-eating grin
* shit-eating smile
* sleep-eat
* sleepeat
* smile like a mule eating briars
* sometimes you eat the bear and sometimes the bear eats you
* the cat would eat fish but would not wet her feet
* the dog ate my homework
* the proof is in the eating
* the proof of the pudding is in the eating
* the vine that ate the South
* toadeating
* undereat
* uneat
* uneating
* what's eating
* what's eating you
* what's eating you?
* worm-eaten
* you are what you eat

##### Related terms

* fret
* ort

##### Translations

A-Hmao: 𖼐𖽻𖾏
Abkhaz: афара (afara)
Afrikaans: eet (af)
Ahom: 𑜀𑜢𑜃𑜫 (kin)
Ainu: エ ('e), イペ ('ipe)
Akan: di
Akkadian: 𒅥 (akālu)
Aklanon: kaon
Albanian: ha (sq)
Ambonese Malay: makang, cake
American Sign Language: FlatO@Mouth-PalmBack
Amharic: መብላት (mäblat), በላ (bäla)
Andi: икунну (ikunnu)
Apache:
Western Apache: yiyąą, dáii’da
Arabic: أَكَلَ (ar) (ʔakala) imperfective: يَأْكُلُ (yaʔkulu)
Egyptian Arabic: كل (kal)
Gulf Arabic: كلا (kila)
Aragonese: minchar (an)
Aramaic: ܐܟܠ (ʾekal), אכל
Armenian: ուտել (hy) (utel)
Old Armenian: ուտեմ (utem)
Aromanian: mãc
Assamese: খা (kha)
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܐܵܟ݂ܹܠ (āḵēl)
Asturian: yantar, xintar (ast)
Atayal: niqun
Atikamekw: mitciso
Avar: кваназе (kʷanaze)
Azerbaijani: yemək (az)
Bakhtiari: خردن (xarden)
Bashkir: ашау (aşaw)
Basque: jan (eu)
Bavarian: èssn (Sappada)
Belarusian: е́сці impf (jésci), е́сьці impf (jésʹci) (Taraškievica), з'е́сці pf (zʺjésci)
Bengali: খাওয়া (bn) (khaōẇa)
Bhojpuri: खाइल (khāil)
Bislama: kaekae
Brahui: kunak
Breton: debriñ (br)
Bulgarian: ям (bg) impf (jam), храня́ се impf (hranjá se)
Burmese: စား (my) (ca:), သုံးဆောင် (my) (sum:hcaung), ဘုဉ်းပေး (my) (bhuny:pe:)
Buryat: эдихэ (edixe)
Carpathian Rusyn: ї́сти impf (jísty)
Catalan: menjar (ca)
Cebuano: kaun, kaon
Chechen: даа (daa)
Chichewa: -dya
Chinese:
Cantonese: 食 (yue) (sik$^6$), 吃 (hek$^3$) (formal)
Dungan: чы (čɨ)
Eastern Min: 食 (sĭk / siĕk)
Gan: 吃 (qiah$^6$)
Hakka: 食 (sṳ̍t)
Hokkien: 食 (zh-min-nan) (chia̍h)
Jin: 吃 (ceh$^4$)
Literary Chinese: 餔
Mandarin: 吃 (zh) (chī), 食 (zh) (shí) (literary), 餔 / 𫗦 (zh) (bū) (literary)
Wu: 吃 ($^7$chiq)
Xiang: 吃 (qia$^6$)
Chukchi: ӄамэтвак (qamėtvak)
Chuukese: mongo
Corsican: manghjà (co)
Crimean Tatar: aşamaq
Czech: jíst (cs) impf, sníst (cs) pf
Dalmatian: mančur
Danish: spise (da), æde (da) (used for animals and ill-mannered people)
Dolgan: аһаа
Dutch: eten (nl), vreten (nl) (used for animals; vulgar when applied to people), consumeren (nl)
Middle Dutch: eten
East Central German: assn
Egyptian: (wnm)
Elfdalian: jätå
Esperanto: manĝi (eo)
Estonian: sööma (et)
Even: дебдэй (ʒeʙdəj)
Evenki: девми (ʒewmi)
Faroese: eta (fo)
Fijian: daliga
Finnish: syödä (fi)
Franco-Provençal: mengier
French: manger (fr), bouffer (fr) (slang)
Middle French: manger
Old French: mangier, mengier
Friulian: mangjâ
Galician: comer (gl), gandir
Ge'ez: በልዐ (bälʿä)
Georgian: ჭამა (č̣ama)
German: essen (de), fressen (de) (used for animals or rude for people)
Alemannic German: ässe
Old High German: ezzan, еʒʒan
Gothic: 𐌹𐍄𐌰𐌽 (itan), 𐌼𐌰𐍄𐌾𐌰𐌽 (matjan)
Greek: τρώω (el) (tróo), τρώγω (el) (trógo), εσθίω (esthío) (obsolete)
Ancient: ἔδω (édō), ἐσθίω (esthíō), ἔφαγον (éphagon), βιβρώσκω (bibrṓskō), δαίνυμι (daínumi), τρώγω (trṓgō), πατέομαι (patéomai), σιτέω (sitéō), -φαγέω (-phagéō)
Greenlandic: nerivoq
Guaraní: 'u
Gujarati: ખાવું (khāvũ)
Gullah: nyam
Hadza: please add this translation if you can
Haitian Creole: manje
Hausa: ci (ha)
Hawaiian: ʻai
Hebrew: אָכַל (he) (akhál)
Higaonon: kaun
Hiligaynon: kaon, magkaon, áb-ab
Hindi: खाना (hi) (khānā), लेना (hi) (lenā) (also "to take")
Hittite: 𒂊𒀉𒈪 (e-id-mi)
Hungarian: eszik (hu)
Hunsrik: esse
Icelandic: borða (is), éta (is), eta (is)
Ido: manjar (io)
Ifè: dzɛ (transitive), dzɛŋɛ́ (intransitive)
Igala: jẹ
Igbo: ri
Indonesian: makan (id)
Ingrian: söövvä
Ingush: даа (daa)
Irish: ith
Isnag: kan
Istriot: magnà
Istro-Romanian: măncå
Italian: mangiare (it)
Japanese: 食べる (ja) (たべる, taberu), 食う (ja) (くう, kuu) (vulgar), 食事する (ja) (しょくじする, shokuji suru), 召し上がる (ja) (めしあがる, meshiagaru) (honorific), 頂く (ja) (いただく, itadaku) (humble)
Jarai: ƀŏng (food except rice), huă (rice)
Javanese: dhahar (jv) (polite), mangan (jv) (casual), nguntal (vulgar), mbadhog (jv) (more vulgar)
Jeju: 먹다 (meokda) (transitive)
Judeo-Italian: אכלר (akhlare)
Kabuverdianu: kume
Kabyle: ečč
Kalmyk: идх (idx)
Kannada: ತಿನ್ನು (kn) (tinnu)
Kashmiri: کھیٛۆن (kh'on)
Kashubian: jesc
Kazakh: жеу (kk) (jeu)
Khasi: bam
Khmer: (colloquial) ញ៉ាំ (km) (ñam), (polite) ពិសា (km) (pisaa), (vulgar) ស៊ី (km) (sii), ហូប (km) (houp), បរិភោគ (km) (bɑɑrephook)
Kikuyu: kũrĩa
Kituba: dia, kudia
Korean: 먹다 (ko) (meokda), 드시다 (deusida) (honorific), 잡수시다 (ko) (japsusida) (honorific), 섭취하다 (ko) (seopchwihada)
Kumyk: ашамакъ (aşamaq)
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: خواردن (xwardin)
Northern Kurdish: xwarin (ku)
Kyrgyz: жеш (ky) (jeş)
Laboya: ya
Ladino: komer, kumer
Lao: ກິນ (lo) (kin), ທານ (thān) (polite), ບໍລິໂພກ (lo) (bǭ li phōk)
Latin: edō (la), comedō, manducō
Latvian: ēst (lv)
Lutuv: ce, ning
Limburgish: aete (li)
Lithuanian: valgyti (lt), ėsti (lt)(used for animals and ill-mannered people)
Lombard: mangià (lmo), magnà (lmo)
Louisiana Creole: manjé, manj (short form)
Low German: eten (nds)
Lü: ᦂᦲᧃ (k̇iin)
Lucumí: yé (transitive), yeun (intransitive)
Luganda: okulya
Luo: chamo
Luwian: 𒀀𒁺𒈾 (aduna)
Luxembourgish: iessen (lb), buffen (slang), friessen (vulgar)
Macedonian: јаде impf (jade)
Maguindanao: kuman
Malay:
Jawi: ماکن (ms), سنتڤ
Rumi: makan (ms), santap (poetic, royalty)
Malayalam: കഴിക്കുക (ml) (kaḻikkuka), തിന്നുക (ml) (tinnuka), ഉണ്ണുക (ml) (uṇṇuka)
Maltese: kiel
Manchu: ᠵᡝᠮᠪᡳ (jembi)
Manx: ee
Maore Comorian: uɗya
Maori: kai (mi), haupa
Maranao: kan
Marathi: खाणे (khāṇe)
Marwari: खाणौ (khāṇau)
Mauritian Creole: manze
Megleno-Romanian: mănǫnc
Middle English: eten
Middle Korean: 먹다〮 (mèktá)
Minangkabau: makan (min)
Mòcheno: èssn
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: идэх (mn) (idex)
Mongolian: ᠢᠳᠡᠬᠦ (idekü)
Mori Bawah: kaa
Mpade: sɨm
Mwani: kurya
Nahuatl: cuā (nah)
Nanai: депури (žepuri), сиаори (śiaori)
Navajo: ayą́ (general), alghał (meat)
Neapolitan: mangià, magnà
Nepali: खानु (ne) (khānu)
Ngazidja Comorian: hula
Nigerian Pidgin: chop, chọp
Nivkh: иньдь (iņd̦)
Norman: mangi
North Frisian: (Föhr-Amrum) iidj, (Sylt) iit
Northern Ohlone: ahmush
Northern Sami: borrat
Northern Thai: ᨠᩥ᩠ᨶ
Northern Yukaghir: лэв- (lew-)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: spise (no), ete (no)
Nynorsk: eta (nn) / ete
Occitan: manjar (oc)
Odia: ଖାଇବା (or) (khāibā)
Ojibwe: wiisini (intransitive), amo (transitive animate), miijin (transitive inanimate)
Okinawan: 食むん (かむん, kamun)
Old Church Slavonic:
Cyrillic: ꙗсти impf (jasti)
Glagolitic: ⱑⱄⱅⰹ impf (ěsti)
Old English: etan
Old Frisian: ita
Old Norse: eta
Old Saxon: etan
Old Tupi: karu, 'u
Olukumi: zẹ́
Oromo: nyaachuu
Ossetian: хӕрын (xæryn)
Pali: khādati
Pannonian Rusyn: єсц impf (jesc), поєсц pf (pojesc)
Pashto: خوړل (ps) (xwaṛᶕl)
Pennsylvania German: esse
Persian:
Classical Persian: خْوَارْدَن (xwārdan)
Dari: خورْدَن (xurdan)
Iranian Persian: خورْدَن (xordan)
Piedmontese: mangé
Pijin: kaekae
Pipil: -kwa, -cua
Polish: jeść (pl) impf, zjeść (pl) pf, żreć (pl) impf (used for animals and ill-mannered people), szamać (pl)
Portuguese: comer (pt)
Punjabi: ਖਾਣਾ (khāṇā)
Quechua: mikhuy, mikui
Rapa Nui: kai
Romagnol: magnê
Romanian: mânca (ro)
Romansch: mangiar (of people), magliar (animals)
Russian: есть (ru) impf (jestʹ), пое́сть (ru) pf (pojéstʹ), съесть (ru) pf (sʺjestʹ), ку́шать (ru) impf (kúšatʹ), поку́шать (ru) pf (pokúšatʹ), ску́шать (ru) pf (skúšatʹ) (polite and friendly), пита́ться (ru) impf (pitátʹsja) (to feed, to live on), жрать (ru) impf (žratʹ), пожра́ть (ru) pf (požrátʹ), сожра́ть (ru) pf (sožrátʹ) (rude), употребить (ru) pf (upotrebitʹ) (ironically about alcohol)
Sanskrit: अत्ति (sa) (atti), खादति (sa) (khādati)
Sardinian: mandigare
Saterland Frisian: iete
Scottish Gaelic: ith
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: је̏сти impf, јисти impf (Chakavian, Ikavian), по̀јести pf, вѐчерати impf
Roman: jȅsti (sh) impf, jisti impf (Chakavian, Ikavian), pòjesti (sh) pf, vèčerati (sh) impf
Shan: ၵိၼ် (shn) (kǐn)
Sherpa: ཟ (za)
Shilluk: camo
Sicilian: manciàri (scn), manciari (scn)
Sindhi: کائِڻُ
Sinhalese: කනවා (si) (kanawā), වලඳීනවා (walaⁿdīnawā)
Skolt Sami: poorrâd
Slovak: jesť (sk) impf
Slovene: jesti (sl) impf
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: jěsć impf
Upper Sorbian: jěsć impf
Sotho: ja (st)
Spanish: comer (es), jamear (South America), morfar (es) (River Plate), manducar (es), yantar (es), papear (es), gandir (es), manyar (es) (Southern Cone)
Sranan Tongo: nyan
Sundanese: tuang (polite, to others), neda (polite, to oneself), dahar (su) (casual), lebok (animal), nyatu (animal), lolodok (fowl), jajablog (demon)
Swahili: kula (sw)
Swedish: äta (sv)
Sylheti: ꠈꠣꠃꠣ (xáua)
Tagalog: kain (tl), kumain, kainin
Tai Dam: kin, ꪀꪲꪙ
Tajik: хӯрдан (tg) (xürdan)
Tamil: சாப்பிடு (ta) (cāppiṭu), உண் (ta) (uṇ), தின் (ta) (tiṉ) (used for animals, somewhat impolite when applied to people)
Tarantino: mangià
Tatar: ашарга (tt) (aşarga)
Tausug: kaun
Telugu: తిను (te) (tinu), భుజించు (te) (bhujiñcu)
Tetum: han
Thai: กิน (th) (gin), รับประทาน (th) (ráp-bprà-taan) (polite), ทาน (th) (taan), ฉัน (th) (chǎn), แดก (th) (dɛ̀ɛk) (vulgar), เสวย (th) (sà-wə̌əi), บริโภค (th) (bɔɔ-rí-pôok)
Tibetan: ཟ (za), མཆོད (mchod)
Tocharian B: śu-, tāpp-
Tok Pisin: kai
Turkish: yemek (tr)
Turkmen: iýmek
Tuvan: чиир (çiir)
Ugaritic: 𐎀𐎋𐎍 (ảkl)
Ukrainian: ї́сти (uk) impf (jísty), пої́сти pf (pojísty), з'ї́сти pf (zʺjísty)
Urdu: کھانا (khānā)
Uyghur: يېمەك (yëmek)
Uzbek: yemoq (uz)
Venetan: magnar (vec)
Vietnamese: ăn (vi), ăn cơm (vi), xơi (vi)
Waray-Waray: ka-un
Welsh: bwyta (cy)
West Frisian: ite (fy)
Western Bukidnon Manobo: ka'an
Woiwurrung: dhanga
Yagnobi: хварак (xvarak)
Yakut: аһаа (ahaa), сиэ (sie)
Yiddish: עסן (yi) (esn)
Yonaguni: ハイ (hayi)
Yoruba: jẹ (transitive), jẹun (intransitive)
Yucatec Maya: hanal
Yup'ik: ner'uq
Yurok: nepek'
Zazaki: werdene (diq)
Zealandic: ete
Zhuang: gwn
Zulu: -dla
Zyphe: ee
ǃXóõ: ʻâã :
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##### See also

* drink
* edible
* food

### Etymology 2

From Middle English ete, ate, æte, from Old English ǣt (“food, eating”), from Proto-West Germanic *āt, from Proto-Germanic *ētą (“food, thing to eat”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ed- (“to eat”). Cognate with North Frisian ad, it (“food”), German Aas (“carrion”), Norwegian åt, Icelandic át (“food”).

#### Noun

eat (plural eats)
* (colloquial) Something to be eaten; a meal; a food item.
** 2011, William Chitty, Nigel Barker, Michael Valos, Integrated Marketing Communications, page 167:Eating a Picnic creates a flurry of wafer pieces, flying peanuts and chocolate crumbs. […] As well as being messy, Picnic happens to be a big eat – something of a consumption challenge in fact.

### Anagrams

* eta, æt., -ate, Tea, AET, aet, tea, a.e.t., ETA, aet., TEA, ate, Até, Atë

## Latin
### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈe.at/, [ˈeät̪]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈe.at/, [ˈɛːät̪]

### Verb

eat
* third-person singular present active subjunctive of eō

## Northern Sami
### Pronunciation

* (Kautokeino) IPA: /ˈea̯h(t)/

### Verb

eat
* first-person plural present of ii

## West Frisian
### Etymology

From Old Frisian āwet, āet, from ā (“always, ever”) + *wiht (“thing, creature”) (from Proto-West Germanic *wihti). Compare English owt, aught.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɪə̯t/

### Pronoun

eat
* something, anything
    Antonym: neat

#### Further reading

* “eat”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011