flesh
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: lifestyle
religion
Etymology: From Middle English flesh, flesch, flæsch, from Old English flǣsċ, from Proto-West Germanic *flaiski, from Proto-Germanic *flaiski, from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₁ḱ- (“to tear, peel off”).
Cognates
Cognate with Yola vleash, vlesh (“flesh”), North Frisian flaasch, flaosk, Fleesk, fleäsk, floask, flääsk, flååsch (“flesh, meat”), Saterland Frisian Flaask (“flesh, meat”), West Frisian fleis (“flesh, meat”), Cimbrian blòas, vlaisch, vlòas (“flesh, meat”), Dutch vlees, vleesch (“flesh, meat”), German Fleisch (“flesh, meat”), German Low German and Luxembourgish Fleesch (“flesh, meat”), Vilamovian fłaś (“meat; muscle”), Yiddish פֿלייש (fleysh, “flesh, meat”), Danish flæsk (“pork; bacon”), Faroese, Icelandic, and Norwegian Nynorsk flesk (“pork; bacon”), Swedish fläsk (“pork”).
Inflected forms:
form: fleshes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: fleshes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: fleshing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: fleshed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: fleshed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: The soft tissue of the body, especially muscle and fat.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: The flesh of chicken, fowl, and turkey has much shorter fibre than that of ruminating animals, and is not intermingled with fat,—the fat always being found in layers directly under the skin, and surrounding the intestines.
gloss: The skin of a human or animal.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: Bare arms, bare legs, bare torso.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
uncountable
usually
gloss: Animal tissue regarded as food; meat (but sometimes excluding fish).
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: Thenne syr launcelot sayd / fader what shalle I do / Now sayd the good man / I requyre yow take this hayre that was this holy mans and putte it nexte thy skynne / and it shalle preuaylle the gretely / syr and I wille doo hit sayd sir launcelot / Also I charge you that ye ete no flesshe as longe as ye be in the quest of the sancgreal / nor ye shalle drynke noo wyne / and that ye here masse dayly and ye may doo hit
The fleſh that twycheth any vnclene thinge ſhall not be eaten. but burnt with fire: and all that be clene in their fleſh, maye eate fleſh. Yf any ſoule eate of the fleſh of the peaceofferynges, that pertayne vnto the Lorde and hys vnclenneſſe yet apon him, the ſame ſoule ſhall periſſhe from amonge his peoole.^([sic]) Moreouer yf a ſoule twych any vnclene thinge, whether it be the vnclenneſſe of man or of any vnclene beeſt or any abhominacion that is vnclene: ãd thẽ eate of the fleſh of the peaceoffrynges whiche pertayne vnto the Lord, that ſoule ſhall periſſh from his people.
Chicken is already the most popular meat in the US, and is projected to be the planet’s favourite flesh by 2020.
gloss: The human body as a physical entity.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: And the preaſt ſhall put on his lynen albe and his lynen breches apon his fleſh, and take awaye the aſſhes whiche the fire of the burntſacrifice in the altare hath made, and put them beſyde the alter, […]
In my political/cultural mythology Carl remained this larger-than-life figure […] But knowing Carl, the fantasy made flesh, was a different experience. The keen mind that wrote "A Gay Manifesto" was even more perceptive and challenging in real life.
gloss: The mortal body of a human being, contrasted with the spirit or soul.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: For all flesh is as grasse, and all the glory of man as the flowre of grasse: the grasse withereth, and the flowre thereof falleth away.
For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that yee cannot doe the things that yee would.
1929 January, Bassett Morgan (Grace Jones), Bimini, first published in Weird Tales, reprinted 1949, in Avon Fantasy Reader, Issue 10,
But death had no gift for me, no power to free me from flesh.
gloss: The evil and corrupting principle working in man.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: The soft, often edible, parts of fruits or vegetables.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: The flesh of black walnuts was a protein-packed winter food carefully hoarded in tall, stilted buildings.
gloss: Tenderness of feeling; gentleness.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
uncountable
usually
examples: There is no flesh in man's obdurate heart.
gloss: Kindred; stock; race.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
uncountable
usually
examples: He is our brother and our flesh.
gloss: A yellowish pink color; the color of some Caucasian human skin.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: She opened [...] a third that was the peachy white that crayon companies used to call “flesh”.
gloss: To reward (a hound, bird of prey etc.) with flesh of the animal killed, to excite it for further hunting; to train (an animal) to have an appetite for flesh.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Before they had fleshed the hounds, however, he recollected himself […].
gloss: To bury (something, especially a weapon) in flesh.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Give me a clean sword and a clean foe to flesh it in.
gloss: To inure or habituate someone in or to a given practice.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
examples: And whosoever could now joyne us together, and eagerly flesh all our people to a common enterprise, we should make our ancient military name and chivalrous credit to flourish againe.
gloss: To glut.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To put flesh on; to fatten.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To remove the flesh from the skin during the making of leather.
pos: verb
Related words: carrion
incarnate
sarcoid
Translations:
lang: Akan
word: ɛnam
lang: Akan
word: nam
lang: Albanian
word: mish
lang: Albanian
word: tul
lang: Arabic
word: لَحْم
roman: laḥm
lang: Arabic
word: لحم
roman: laḥm
lang: Armenian
word: միս
roman: mis
lang: Belarusian
word: мяса
roman: mjasa
lang: Belarusian
word: це́ла
roman: cjéla
lang: Central Bikol
word: unod
lang: Bulgarian
word: месо́
roman: mesó
lang: Catalan
word: carn
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 肉
roman: ròu
lang: Czech
word: maso
lang: Danish
word: kød
lang: Dutch
word: vlees
lang: Egyptian
word: i-W:f-F51:Z2ss
roman: jwf
lang: Esperanto
word: karno
lang: Estonian
word: liha
lang: Faroese
word: kjøt
lang: Finnish
word: liha
lang: French
word: chair
lang: Galician
word: carne
lang: German
word: Fleisch
lang: Gothic
word: 𐌼𐌰𐌼𐌼𐍉
roman: mammō
lang: Greek
word: σάρκα
roman: sárka
lang: Ancient Greek
word: σάρξ
roman: sárx
lang: Hawaiian
word: ʻiʻo
lang: Hebrew
word: בָּשָׂר
roman: basár
lang: Hindi
word: क्रव्य
roman: kravya
lang: Hindi
word: मांस
roman: māns
lang: White Hmong
word: nqaij
lang: Hungarian
word: hús
lang: Icelandic
word: hold
lang: Ido
word: karno
lang: Indonesian
word: daging
lang: Iranun
word: sapu'
lang: Irish
word: feoil
lang: Italian
word: carne
lang: Japanese
word: 肉
roman: niku
lang: Japanese
word: 身
roman: mi
lang: Kaurna
word: itya
lang: Khmer
word: សាច់
roman: sac
lang: Khmer
word: មំសៈ
roman: mĕəngsaʼ
lang: Korean
word: 살
roman: sal
lang: Korean
word: 고기
roman: gogi
lang: Lao
word: ຊີ້ນ
roman: sīn
lang: Lao
word: ມັງສະ
roman: mang sa
lang: Latgalian
word: mīsa
lang: Latin
word: carō
lang: Latvian
word: miesa
lang: Latvian
word: ķermenis
lang: Lithuanian
word: kūnas
lang: Low German
word: Fleesch
lang: Lutuv
word: saa
lang: Macedonian
word: месо
roman: meso
lang: Malayalam
word: മാംസം
roman: māṁsaṁ
lang: Manchu
word: ᠶᠠᠯᡳ
roman: yali
lang: Māori
word: kiko
lang: Māori
word: uaua
lang: Māori
word: tōrōpuku
lang: Navajo
word: atsįʼ
lang: Odia
word: ମାଂସ
roman: māṁsa
lang: Persian
word: گوشت
roman: gušt
lang: Piedmontese
word: carn
lang: Plautdietsch
word: Fleesch
lang: Polish
word: ciało
lang: Polish
word: mięso
lang: Portuguese
word: carne
lang: Romanian
word: carne
lang: Russian
word: мягкая ткань
roman: mjaxkaja tkanʹ
lang: Russian
word: плоть
roman: plotʹ
lang: Russian
word: мясо
roman: mjaso
lang: Russian
word: те́ло
roman: télo
lang: Sanskrit
word: क्रव्य
roman: kravya
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: feòil
lang: Slovene
word: meso
lang: Spanish
word: carne
lang: Sranan Tongo
word: meti
lang: Swahili
word: chembechembe
lang: Swedish
word: kött
lang: Tajik
word: гӯшт
roman: güšt
lang: Tarifit
word: aysum
lang: Tarifit
word: aksum
lang: Telugu
word: కండ
roman: kaṇḍa
lang: Thai
word: เนื้อ
roman: nʉ́ʉa
lang: Tibetan
word: ཤ་
roman: sha
lang: Tigrinya
word: ስጋ
roman: səga
lang: Tok Pisin
word: mit
lang: Turkish
word: et
lang: Udmurt
word: сӥль
roman: siľ
lang: Ugaritic
word: 𐎌𐎛𐎗
roman: šỉr
lang: Ukrainian
word: м'я́со
roman: mʺjáso
lang: Ukrainian
word: плоть
roman: plotʹ
lang: Ukrainian
word: ті́ло
roman: tílo
lang: Urdu
word: مانس
roman: mā̃s
lang: Urdu
word: گوشت
roman: gośt
lang: Urdu
word: لحم
roman: laham
lang: Uyghur
word: ئەت
roman: et
lang: Uzbek
word: et
lang: Volapük
word: mid
lang: Walloon
word: tchå
lang: Welsh
word: cnawd
lang: Yurok
word: tewon
lang: Zulu
word: inyama
lang: Bulgarian
word: кожа
roman: koža
lang: Danish
word: hud
lang: Dutch
word: vel
lang: Finnish
word: iho
lang: French
word: peau
lang: Galician
word: pel
lang: Galician
word: pelexo
lang: German
word: Haut
lang: Greek
word: δέρμα
roman: dérma
lang: Ancient Greek
word: χρώς
roman: khrṓs
lang: Hindi
word: त्वचा
roman: tvacā
lang: Hindi
word: चमड़ा
roman: camṛā
lang: Hindi
word: चमड़ी
roman: camṛī
lang: Hindi
word: खाल
roman: khāl
lang: Hungarian
word: bőr
lang: Latin
word: carō
lang: Portuguese
word: pele
lang: Russian
word: ко́жа
roman: kóža
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: craiceann
lang: Spanish
word: pellejo
lang: Swahili
word: ngozi
lang: Tok Pisin
word: skin
lang: Turkish
word: deri
lang: Urdu
word: جلد
roman: jild
lang: Urdu
word: پوست
roman: post
lang: Urdu
word: کھال
roman: khāl
lang: Volapük
word: skin
lang: Bulgarian
word: телесен
roman: telesen
lang: Catalan
word: carn
lang: Chinese Cantonese
word: 肉色
roman: juk⁶ sik¹
lang: Hakka Chinese
word: 肉色
roman: ngiuk-set
lang: Chinese
word: 肉色
roman: zh-min-nan
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 肉色
roman: ròusè
lang: Danish
word: kødfarve
lang: Dutch
word: mensenkleur
lang: French
word: carnation
lang: French
word: chair
lang: Galician
word: carne
lang: German
word: Fleischfarbe
lang: Indonesian
word: merah daging
lang: Japanese
word: 肌色
roman: hadairo
lang: Japanese
word: ペールオレンジ
roman: pēru orenji
lang: Japanese
word: うすだいだい
roman: usudaidai
lang: Korean
word: 살색
roman: salsaek
lang: Korean
word: 살구색
roman: salgusaek
lang: Norwegian
word: hudfarge
lang: Polish
word: cielisty
lang: Portuguese
word: bege
lang: Russian
word: телесный
roman: telesnyj
lang: Spanish
word: carne
lang: Ukrainian
word: тілесний
roman: tilesnyj
lang: German
word: ausarbeiten
lang: German
word: untermauern
lang: Portuguese
word: enfeitar
lang: Swahili
word: jazia