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Etymology [edit]
From break + fast; to end the nightly fast.
Pronunciation [edit]
breakfast (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
- 1922, Ben Travers, chapter 1, The Cuckoo in the Nest[1]:
- 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.
Derived terms [edit]
Terms derived from the noun "breakfast"
Translations [edit]
first meal of the day
- Afrikaans: ontbyt (af)
- Albanian: mëngjes (sq) m
- Arabic: إفطار (ar) (ʾifṭār) m, فطور (ar) (fuṭūr) m
- Egyptian Arabic: فطار (feṭār) m
- Armenian: նախաճաշ (hy) (naxač̣aš)
- Azeri: səhər yeməyi (az)
- Basque: gosari (eu)
- Belarusian: сняданак (be) (snjadának) m
- Bengali: প্রাতরাশ (bn) (pratôrash)
- Breton: lein (br) f, dijuniñ (br) m
- Bulgarian: закуска (bg) (zakúska) f
- Burmese: မနက်စာ (my) (mănetsa)
- Catalan: esmorzar (ca) m
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: trad. 早飯, simpl. 早饭 (Jyutping: zou2 faan6), trad. and simpl. 早餐 (jyutping: zou2 caan1)
- Mandarin: 早飯 (cmn), 早饭 (cmn) (zǎofàn), 早餐 (cmn) (zǎocān)
- Czech: snídaně (cs) f
- Dalmatian: prinz m
- Danish: morgenmad (da) c
- Dutch: ontbijt (nl) n
- Esperanto: matenmanĝo (eo)
- Estonian: hommikueine (et)
- Faroese: morgunmatur (fo)
- Finnish: aamupala (fi), aamiainen (fi)
- French: petit déjeuner (fr) m (France), déjeuner (fr) m (Belgium, Cajun and Canadian French)
- Galician: almorzo (gl) m
- Georgian: საუზმესაუზმე (ka) (sauzmesauzme)
- German: Frühstück (de) n, Zmorge (de) f (Swiss German), (Swiss German) Morgenessen (de) n
- Greek: πρωινό (el) (proinó) n , πρόγευμα (el) (prógevma) n
- Guernésiais: déjunaïr m
- Gujarati: નાસ્તો (gu) (nāsto)
- Haitian Creole: dejene
- Hawaiian: ʻaina kakahiaka
- Hebrew: ארוחת־בוקר (he) (arukhat-boqer) f
- Hindi: नाश्ता (hi) (nāśtā) m, कलेवा (hi) (kalevā) m
- Hmong: pluag tshais
- Hungarian: reggeli (hu)
- Icelandic: morgunmatur (is) m, morgunverður (is) m, dögurður (is) m, árbítur (is) m
- Ido: fru-dejuneto (io)
- Indonesian: sarapan (id)
- Interlingua: jentaculo (ia)
- Irish: bricfeasta (ga) m
- Italian: colazione (it) f, prima colazione (it) f
- Japanese: 朝食 (ja) (ちょうしょく, chōshoku), 朝御飯 (ja) (あさごはん, asa-gohan) (朝ご飯 (ja)), 朝飯 (ja) (あさめし, asameshi)
- Jèrriais: dêjeuner m
- Kannada: ನಾಷ್ಟಾ (kn) (nāṣṭā)
- Korean: 조반 (ko) (joban) (朝飯 (ko))
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- Kurdish:
- Central Kurdish: بهرچای
- Lao: ເຂົ້າເຊົ້າ (lo) (khao-sao), ອາຫານເຊົ້າ (lo) ('aa-haan-sao)
- Latin: prandium (la) n, ientaculum (la) n
- Latvian: brokastis (lv)
- Lithuanian: pusryčiai (lt) m pl
- Luhya: please add this translation if you can
- Luo: please add this translation if you can
- Macedonian: појадок (mk) (pójadok), доручек (mk) (dóruček) m
- Malagasy: please add this translation if you can
- Malay: sarapan (ms)
- Malayalam: പ്രഭാത (ml) (prabhāta)
- Maltese: kolazzjon (mt) m, brejkfast (mt), fatra (mt) f
- Mauritian Creole: nasta
- Miyako: アサムヌ (asamunu)
- Navajo: abínígo daʼadánígíí
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: frokost (no) m
- Nynorsk: frukost (no) m
- Occitan: dejunar (oc) m
- Ojibwe: gigizhebaa-wiisiniwin
- Persian: صبحانه (fa) (sobhâne), ناشتا (fa) (nâštâ)
- Polish: śniadanie (pl) n
- Portuguese: café da manhã (pt) m, desjejum (pt) f, pequeno-almoço (pt) m, (Angola) mata-bicho (pt) m
- Rajasthani: नास्तौ (nāstau), कलेवौ (kalevau)
- Romanian: mic dejun (ro) n
- Russian: завтрак (ru) (závtrak) m
- Scots: disjune, brakfast
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: доручак (sh) m
- Roman: doručak (sh) m
- Slovak: raňajky (sk) f pl
- Slovene: zajtrk (sl) m
- Sorbian:
- Lower Sorbian: snědanje n
- Upper Sorbian: snědanje (hsb) n
- Sotho: dijo tsa hoseng (st), mofihlolo (st)
- Spanish: desayuno (es) m
- Swahili: chakula cha asubuhi (sw)
- Swedish: frukost (sv) c
- Tagalog: almusál (tl), agahan (tl)
- Tamil: காலையுண்டி (ta) (kālaiyuṇṭi)
- Telugu: ప్రాతఃకాల (te) (prātaḥkāla)
- Thai: ข้าวเช้า (th) (kâao cháo)
- Turkish: kahvaltı (tr)
- Ukrainian: сніданок (uk) (snidánok) m
- Urdu: ناشتا (ur) (nāśtā) m, کلیوا (ur) (kalevā) m
- Uyghur: ناشتا (ug) (nashta)
- Vietnamese: bữa sáng (vi)
- Welsh: brecwast (cy) m, borefwyd (cy) m
- West Frisian: moarnsiten (fy) n, brea-iten (fy) n
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See also [edit]
breakfast (third-person singular simple present breakfasts, present participle breakfasting, simple past and past participle breakfasted)
- (intransitive) To eat the morning meal.
- He breakfasted on pizza and Coke.
- Prior
- First, sir, I read, and then I breakfast.
- (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
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