# meat
## English
### Etymology

From Middle English mete, from Old English mete (“food”), from Proto-West Germanic *mati, from Proto-Germanic *matiz (“food”), from Proto-Indo-European *meh₂d- (“to drip, ooze; grease, fat”). Cognate with West Frisian mete, Old Saxon meti, Old High German maz (“food”), Icelandic matur, Swedish mat, Gothic 𐌼𐌰𐍄𐍃 (mats).
A -ja- derivation from the same base is found in Middle Dutch and Middle Low German met (“lean pork”), from which Dutch met (“minced pork”) and German Mett (“minced meat”) derive, respectively. Compare also Old Irish mess (“animal feed”) and Welsh mes (“acorns”), English mast (“fodder for swine and other animals”), which are probably from the same root.

### Pronunciation

* enPR: mēt, IPA: /miːt/
* (General American) IPA: /mit/
* Audio (US):(file)
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* Rhymes: -iːt
* Homophones: meet, mete

### Noun

meat (countable and uncountable, plural meats)
* (uncountable) The flesh (muscle tissue) of an animal used as food. [from 14th c.]
    Synonyms: flesh; see also Thesaurus:meat
    Antonym: drink
    A large portion of domestic meat production comes from animals raised on factory farms.
    The homesteading teenager shot a deer to supply his family with wild meat for the winter.
** 1983, Richard Ellis, The Book of Sharks, Knopf, →ISBN, page 144:In many parts of the world, shark meat is an acceptable and desirable form of protein.
** 2010 October 19, Andy Atkins, “Debate on meat-eating does not cut the mustard”, in The Guardian‎:While people who eat no meat at all are identified and identifiable as vegetarians, there is no commonly accepted term for people who eat it only a couple of times a week and are selective about its quality.
* (countable) A type of meat, by anatomic position and provenance. [from 16th c.]
    The butchery's profit rate on various meats varies greatly.
* (now archaic, dialectal) Food, for animals or humans, especially solid food. See also meat and drink. [from 8th c.]
** 1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, Matthew:I was anhongred, and ye gave me meate. I thursted, and ye gave me drinke.
** 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 8, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC, page 232:And he was pleased to accompany them in their death; for, he pined away by abstaining from all manner of meat.
** c. 1605–1608, William Shakespeare, “The Life of Tymon of Athens”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):Your greatest want is, you want much of meat: / Why should you want? Behold, the Earth hath Rootes […].
** 1879, Silas Hocking, Her Benny:As full of fun and frolic as an egg is full of meat.
** 1936, Djuna Barnes, Nightwood, Faber & Faber, published 2007, page 13:The way she said ‘dinner’ and the way she said ‘champagne’ gave meat and liquid their exact difference […].
* (now rare) A type of food, a dish. [from 9th c.]
* (archaic) A meal. [from 9th c.]
** 1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, Matthew viij:And hit cam to passe, thatt Jesus satt at meate in his housse.
* (obsolete) Meal; flour.
* (uncountable) Any relatively thick, solid part of a fruit, nut etc. [from 15th c.]
    The apple looked fine on the outside, but the meat was not very firm.
** 1954, Cothburn O'Neal, The Dark Lady, page 12:She took her spoon and stirred the melted butter into the yellow meat of the yam.
* (slang, vulgar) A penis. [from 16th c.]
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:penis
** 1993, Nancy Friday, Women on top: how real life has changed women's sexual fantasies, page 538:He sits me on the floor (the shower is still beating down on us). He lays me down and slides his huge meat into me.
** 2006, John Patrick, Play Hard, Score Big, page 54:Just the tight, hot caress of his bowels surrounding my meat gave me pleasures I had only dreamed of before that day.
** 2011, Wade Wright, Two Straight Guys, page 41:Both men were completely, and very actively into this face fucking! Suddenly Bill pulled off of Jim's meat and said,
* (colloquial) The best or most substantial part of something. [from 16th c.]
    Synonyms: crux, gist; see also Thesaurus:gist
    We recruited him right from the meat of our competitor.
** 1577, Gerald Eades Bentley, The Arte of Angling:[…] it is time to begin "A Dialogue between Viator and Piscator," which is the meat of the matter.
* (sports) The sweet spot of a bat or club (in cricket, golf, baseball etc.). [from 20th c.]
    He hit it right on the meat of the bat.
* (slang) A meathead.
    Throw it in here, meat.
* (Australian Aboriginal) A totem, or (by metonymy) a clan or clansman which uses it.
** 1949, Vol.XX, Oceania:When a stranger comes to an aboriginal camp or settlement in north-western NSW, he is asked by one of the older aborigines: "What meat (clan) are you?"
** 1973, M. Fennel, A. Grey, Nucoorilma:Granny Sullivan was ‘dead against’ the match at first because they did not know "what my meat was and because I was a bit on the fair side."
** 1977, A. K. Eckermann, Group Organisation and Identity:Some people maintained that she was "sung" because her family had killed or eaten the "meat" (totem) of another group.
** 1992, P. Taylor, Tell it Like it Is:Our family […] usually married the red kangaroo "meat".
** 1993, J. Janson, Gunjies
    That’s a beautiful goanna. […]. He’s my meat, can’t eat him.

#### Usage notes

* The sense "flesh of an animal used as food" is often understood to exclude fish and other seafood. The exclusion of poultry from the category of meat has become outdated.

#### Derived terms

* all garnish and no meat
* antimeat
* Australian as a meat pie
* bakemeat
* batmeat
* bear meat
* beat one's meat
* beat the meat
* bushmeat
* bush meat
* camel meat
* cat meat
* catmeat
* cat's meat
* chew the meat and spit out the bones
* chicken's-meat
* clean meat
* cockmeat
* coconut meat
* cold meat
* cold meat box
* cold meat cart
* cold meat train
* commodity meat
* cow meat
* crab meat
* crabmeat
* cuckoo's meat
* cultured meat
* dark meat
* dead meat
* deer meat
* deli meat
* dog meat
* don't get your meat where you get your bread
* double-dead meat
* duckmeat
* ducksmeat
* duck's-meat
* easy meat
* fancy meat
* fleshmeat
* forcemeat
* fragrant meat
* fresh meat
* fuck-meat
* fuckmeat
* girlmeat
* goatmeat
* ground meat
* horsemeat
* I don't eat meat
* inmeat
* kangaroo meat
* light meat
* lone-star-tick meat allergy
* loose-meat sandwich
* luncheon meat
* lunch meat
* mad as a meat axe
* make meat
* mammalian meat allergy
* man-meat
* meat-and-potatoes
* meat and potatoes
* meat and three
* meat and two veg
* meat ant
* meatarian
* meat assault
* meatatarian
* meat ax
* meat axe
* meatbag
* meatball
* meat bee
* meat biscuit
* meatbot
* meat box
* meatcake
* meatcase
* meat-chopper
* meat crayon
* meat curtains
* meat dealer
* meat diaper
* meat draw
* meat-eater
* meateater
* meat eater
* meat-eating
* meated
* meatface
* meatfest
* meat flaps
* meat floss
* meatfluencer
* meat fly
* meatfork
* meatful
* meat glue
* meat grinder
* meatgrinder
* meathead
* meatheaded
* meat hook, meathook
* meat house
* meatilicious
* meat injection
* meat in the room
* meatish
* meat jelly
* meat jun
* meatless
* meatlike
* meat loaf
* meatloaf
* meat lovers'
* meatman
* meat market
* meatness
* meat offering
* meat on one's bones
* meat on the bones
* meatpacker
* meatpacking
* meat pad
* meat-pie
* meat pie
* meatpole
* meat puppet
* meatpuppet
* meat rack
* meat raffle
* meat robot
* meat rod
* meat safe
* meat-safe
* meat-safe cot
* meat sauce
* meat scepter
* meat sceptre
* meat shield
* meatshot
* meat shot
* meat-space
* meat space
* meatspace
* meat stick
* meatsuit
* meat sweats
* meat tea
* meat thermometer
* meat ticket
* meat tray
* meat wagon
* meat-wagon
* meatware
* meat wool
* meatworker
* meatworks
* meaty
* meatza
* meet-meat merger
* milk before meat
* minced meat
* mock meat
* monkey meat
* more sauce than meat
* mystery meat
* mystery meat navigation
* Natchitoches meat pie
* nonmeat
* noonmeat
* nutmeat
* one man's meat is another man's poison
* piece of meat
* pigmeat
* plates of meat
* rapemeat
* red meat
* red meat allergy
* red meat radish
* roast-meat clothes
* room meat
* rose meat
* salt meat
* sausage meat
* sharkmeat
* sheepmeat
* sidemeat
* smoked meat
* smoke meat
* snakemeat
* sousemeat
* soymeat
* spoonmeat
* spoon-meat
* star meat
* sweater meat
* sweatmeat
* sweetmeat
* synthetic meat
* the other white meat
* think meat
* tick-induced meat allergy
* tick meat allergy
* tiger meat
* variety meat
* whalemeat
* white meat
* wildmeat

#### Descendants

* Sranan Tongo: meti

#### Translations

Abkhaz: ажьы (ažə)
Afar: cado
Afrikaans: vleis (af)
Ahom: 𑜃𑜢𑜤𑜰𑜫 (nü0)
Ai-Cham: naːn⁴
Ainu: カㇺ (kam)
Albanian: mish (sq)
Amharic: ሥጋ (śəga)
Andi: рикьи (rikkˡʼi)
Arabic: لَحْم m (laḥm)
Egyptian Arabic: لحمة f (láḥma)
Iraqi Arabic: لحم f (laḥam)
San'ani Arabic: شركة f (šerkeh)
South Levantine Arabic: لحمة f (laḥme)
Aramaic:
Classical Syriac: ܒܣܪܐ (besrā)
Archi: акь (akˡʼ)
Armenian: միս (hy) (mis)
Aromanian: carne f
Ashkun: mos
Assamese: মাংস (maṅxo), মঙহ (moṅoh)
Asturian: carne (ast) f
Avar: гьан (han)
Azerbaijani: ət (az)
Baluchi: گوشت (gošt)
Bashkir: ит (it)
Basque: haragi, okela
Bats: დითხ (ditx), დითხი̆ (ditxĭ)
Bavarian: Fleisch
Beja: shaat
Belarusian: мя́са (be) n (mjása)
Bengali: মাংস (bn) (maṅśo), গোশত (bn) (gōśot)
Berber:
Central Atlas Tamazight: ⴰⴽⵙⵓⵎ m (aksum)
Kabyle: aksum m
Tachawit: aksum (shy) m
Bhojpuri: मांस (māns)
Bikol Central: karne (bcl)
Borôro: ködü
Bouyei: noh
Breton: kig (br) m
Brunei Malay: daging
Bulgarian: месо́ (bg) n (mesó)
Burmese: အသား (my) (a.sa:), မံသ (my) (mamsa.)
Carpathian Rusyn: мнясо n (mnjaso)
Catalan: carn (ca) f
Cebuano: unod, karne
Chadong: naːn⁴
Chamicuro: pekano
Chechen: жижиг (žižig)
Cherokee: ᎭᏫᏯ (hawiya)
Chichewa: nyama
Chinese:
Cantonese: 肉 (juk$^6$)
Dungan: жу (řu)
Eastern Min: 肉 (nṳ̆k)
Gan: 肉 (nyiuh$^6$)
Hakka: 肉 (ngiuk)
Hokkien: 肉 (zh-min-nan) (jio̍k / lio̍k / he̍k / hia̍k)
Jin: 肉 (rou$^3$ / rueh$^4$)
Mandarin: 肉 (zh) (ròu)
Northern Min: 肉 (nṳ̀)
Wu: 肉 ($^8$zoq)
Xiang: 肉 (rou$^6$)
Chukchi: тэкичгын (tėkičgyn)
Chuvash: аш (aš)
Coptic: ⲁⲃ m (ɑb) (Sahidic), ⲁϥ m (af) (Bohairic)
Crimean Tatar: et
Czech: maso (cs) n
Dalmatian: cuarne f, kuarno
Danish: kød (da) n
Dongxiang: migva
Drung: sha
Dutch: vlees (nl) n
Dzongkha: ཤ (sha)
Eastern Arrernte: kere
Eastern Cham: ꨣꨯꨤꨱꨥ (ralauw)
Eastern Khanty: њӑви (njăwi)
Egyptian: (jwf)
Elfdalian: tjyöt n
Erzya: сывель (sïveľ)
Esperanto: viando (eo)
Estonian: liha (et)
Even: улрэ (ulrə)
Evenki: уллэ (ullə)
Faroese: kjøt (fo) n
Finnish: liha (fi)
French: viande (fr) f
Friulian: cjâr f, cjar f, čhâr f
Galician: carne (gl) f
Georgian: ხორცი (ka) (xorci), ჩიჩია (čičia) (baby language)
German: Fleisch (de) n
Gothic: 𐌼𐌹𐌼𐌶 n (mimz), 𐌼𐌰𐍄𐍃 m (mats)
Greek: κρέας (el) n (kréas)
Ancient: κρέας n (kréas)
Doric: κρῆς n (krês)
Greenlandic: neqi
Gujarati: ગોશ્ત n (gośt), માંસ n (mā̃s)
Haitian Creole: vyann
Hausa: nama (ha)
Hawaiian: ʻiʻo
Hebrew: בָּשָׂר (he) f (basár)
Hindi: गोश्त (hi) m (gośt), मांस (hi) m (māns), माँस (hi) m (mā̃s), लहम (hi) m (laham)
Hungarian: hús (hu)
Ibaloi: afag (traditional), apag
Icelandic: kjöt (is) n
Ido: karno (io)
Indonesian: daging (id)
Ingush: дулх (dulx)
Iranun: daging
Irish: feoil (ga) f
Isan: please add this translation if you can
Italian: carne (it) f
Iu Mien: orv
Japanese: 肉 (ja) (にく, niku), 身 (ja) (み, mi)
Jarai: mơnŏng
Javanese: iwak (jv), ulam (jv), daging (jv)
Kabyle: aksum m
Kaingang: nĩ
Kamkata-viri: mus
Kashubian: miãso
Kazakh: ет (et)
Khiamniungan Naga: nyèih
Khinalug: лыкка (lɨkːa)
Khmer: សាច់ (km) (sac), មំសៈ (km) (mĕəngsaʼ)
Kikai: 肉 (しし, shishi), 身 (みー, mī)
Kom (Cameroon): njwò
Korean: 고기 (ko) (gogi), 살 (ko) (sal), -육(肉) (-yuk) (in compounds)
Kriol: bif
Kristang: kandri
Kunigami: 肉 (しー, shī, ししー, shishī), 身 (み, mi) (in compounds)
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: گۆشت (goşt)
Northern Kurdish: goşt (ku)
Kyrgyz: эт (ky) (et)
Lak: дикӏ (dikʼ)
Lao: ຊີ້ນ (lo) (sīn), ເນຶ້ອ (nưa)
Latgalian: gale
Latin: carō (la) f
Latvian: gaļa (lv) f
Lutuv: saa
Laz: xorǯi
Lezgi: йак (jak), як (äk)
Ligurian: càrne f
Lithuanian: mėsa
Low German: Fleesch n
Lü: ᦋᦲᧃᧉ (tsiin²)
Lushootseed: biac
Luxembourgish: Fleesch (lb)
Macedonian: месо (mk) n (meso)
Maguindanao: sapu
Mak (China): naːn⁴
Malagasy: hena (mg)
Malay: daging (ms)
Malayalam: ഇറച്ചി (ml) (iṟacci); മാംസം (ml) (māṁsaṁ)
Maltese: laħam m
Manchu: ᠶᠠᠯᡳ (yali)
Manx: feill f
Maonan: naːn⁴
Maore Comorian: nyama class 9/10
Maori: kiko, mīti (mi)
Maranao: sapo'
Marathi: मांस n (māusa)
Mingrelian: ხორცი (xorci)
Miyako: 肉 (しぃーしぃ, sï̄sï), 身 (むっ, mm, みㇲ゙, miz)
Moksha: сиволь (sivoľ)
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: мах (mn) (max)
Mongolian: ᠮᠢᠬ᠎ᠠ (mik-a)
Mpade: shu
Mwani: nyama
Nahuatl:
Classical: nacatl
Highland Puebla: nacat
Mecayapan: nacaꞌ
Northern Puebla: nacatl
Tetelcingo: nacatl
Nanai: уликсэ (ulikse)
Navajo: atsįʼ
Neapolitan: ciacella f, carne, carn, carna
Ngazidja Comorian: nyama class 9/10
North Frisian: Meet (Sylt)
Northern Amami Ōshima: 肉 (しし, shishi), 身 (みー, mī)
Northern Mansi: нё̄выль (në̄vylʹ)
Northern Sami: biergu
Northern Thai: please add this translation if you can
Norwegian:
Bokmål: kjøtt (no) n
Nynorsk: kjøt n, kjøtt n
Occitan: carn (oc) f
Okinawan: 肉 (しし, shishi), 身 (み, mi) (in compounds)
Okinoerabu: 肉 (しし, shishi), 身 (みー, mī)
Old Church Slavonic:
Cyrillic: мѧсо n (męso)
Old English: flǣsċ n
Old Javanese: dagiṅ
Old Occitan: please add this translation if you can
Old Portuguese: carne
Old Prussian: mēnsa
Oromo: foon
Ossetian: фыд (fyd), дзидза (ʒiʒa)
Pacoh: xách, xéich
Pali: maṁsa
Pannonian Rusyn: месо n (meso)
Pashto: غوښه (ps) f (ǧwëẍa)
Persian:
Dari: گوشْت (gōšt), لَحْم (lahm)
Iranian Persian: گوشْت (gušt), لَحْم (lahm)
Phu Thai: please add this translation if you can
Pite Sami: bärrgo
Pitjantjatjara: kuka
Plautdietsch: Fleesch n
Polish: mięso (pl) n
Portuguese: carne (pt) f
Prasuni: musuk
Punjabi:
Gurmukhi: ਗੋਸ਼ਤ m (gośat), ਮਾਸ m (mās), ਮੀਟ (mīṭ)
Quechua: aycha
Romani: mas m
Romanian: carne (ro) f
Romansch: charn f (Rumantsch Grischun, Puter, Vallader), carn f (Sursilvan), tgarn f (Sutsilvan), tgern f (Surmiran)
Russian: мя́со (ru) n (mjáso)
S'gaw Karen: ညၣ် (nyà)
Saho: xazo
Samoan: fasi, fasipovi, ʻaʻano
Sango: nyama (sg)
Sanskrit: मांस (sa) n (māṃsá)
Vedic: मांस् (sa) n (mā́ṃs), मास् (sa) n (mā́s)
Sardinian: pètha
Sarikoli: gыxt
Scottish Gaelic: feòil f
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: ме̑со n
Roman: mȇso (sh) n
Shan: ၼိူဝ်ႉ (shn) (nô̰e)
Sherpa: ཤ (sha)
Shughni: ɡūxt
Sicilian: carni (scn) f
Sinhalese: මස් (mas)
Skolt Sami: vueʹǯǯ
Slovak: mäso (sk) n
Slovene: meso (sl) n
Somali: hilib (so)
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: měso n
Upper Sorbian: mjaso n
Sotho: nama (st)
Southern Amami Ōshima: 肉 (しし, shishi), 身 (みー, mī)
Southern Sami: bearkoe
Southern Thai: please add this translation if you can
Spanish: carne (es) f
Svan: ლეღვ (leɣv)
Swahili: nyama (sw) class 9/10
Swedish: kött (sv) n
Tabasaran: йикк (jik̄)
Tachawit: aksum (shy) m
Tagalog: karne, laman
Tahitian: ʻiʻo, ʻīnaʻi
Tajik: гӯшт (tg) (güšt)
Talysh: qujd, (Asalemi) گوژد (gužd)
Tamil: இறைச்சி (ta) (iṟaicci)
Tarifit: aysum m, aksum m
Tashelhit: ⵜⵉⴼⵢⵢⵉ f (tifyyi)
Tat: quşt
Tatar: ит (tt) (it)
Telugu: మాంసం (te) (māṁsaṁ)
Tetum: na'an
Thai: เนื้อ (th) (nʉ́ʉa)
Tibetan: ཤ (sha), གསོལ་དཀྲུམ (gsol dkrum) (honorific form)
Tigrinya: ስጋ (ti) (səga)
Tocharian B: misa
Tok Pisin: mit
Tokunoshima: 肉 (すぃすぃ, sïsï), 身 (みー, mī)
Tongan: kakanoʻi, kanoʻi, kano
Tuamotuan: kiko
Tumbuka: nyama
Turkish: et (tr)
Turkmen: et
Tuvan: эът (èt)
Udi: екъ (eq̇)
Ugaritic: 𐎌𐎛𐎗 (šỉr)
Ukrainian: м'я́со (uk) n (mʺjáso)
Unami: wiyus
Urdu: گوشْت m (gośt), مان٘س m (mā̃s), لَحْم m (lahm)
Uyghur: گۆش (ug) (gösh)
Uzbek: goʻsht (uz)
Venetan: carne f
Vietnamese: thịt (vi)
Volapük: mit (vo)
Waigali: mus
Wakhi: гуш̣т (guṣ̌t)
Walloon: tchå (wa)
Welsh: cig (cy) m
West Frisian: fleis n
White Hmong: nqaij
Wolof: yàpp (wo)
Yaeyama: 肉 (しぃしぃ, sïsï), 身 (みぃー, mï̄)
Yagnobi: ёта (yota)
Yakut: эт (et)
Yámana: antapa
Yiddish: פֿלייש n (fleysh)
Yonaguni: 肉 (ちち, chichi), 身 (みー, mī)
Yoron: 肉 (しし, shishi), 身 (み, mi) (in compounds)
Yup'ik: kemek
Zazaki: goşt (diq)
Zealandic: vleis n, vleês n
Zhuang: noh, nwx
Zulu: inyama (zu) class 9/10
Zuni: shiwe
ǃXóõ: ʘàje :
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### Anagrams

* maté, META, team, mate, Tame, meta, ATEM, Meta, meta-, AEMT, Atem, -mate, tame, Team, Tema

## Latin
### Verb

meat
* third-person singular present active indicative of meō

## Romanian
### Etymology

Borrowed from French méat, from Latin meatus.

### Noun

meat n (plural meaturi)
* meatus