picnic

English

Etymology

French pique-nique

Pronunciation

• enPR: pĭkʹ-nĭk, IPA: /ˈpɪknɪk/, X-SAMPA: /"pIknIk/
• Rhymes: -ɪknɪk
• Hyphenation: pic‧nic

Noun

picnic (plural picnics)

1. A meal eaten outdoors or in another informal setting.

   We went out for a picnic in the forest.

2. An easy or pleasant task.

   We remind the guests that dealing with this problem is no picnic, and to be patient.

3. (obsolete) An entertainment at which each person contributed some dish to a common table.

Translations

a meal eaten outdoors

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 野餐 (cmn) (yěcān)

• Dutch: picknick (nl) m
• Esperanto: pikniko (eo)
• Finnish: eväsretki (fi)
• French: pique-nique (fr) m, piquenique (fr) m
• German: Picknick (de) n
• Hungarian: piknik (hu)
• Indonesian: piknik (id)
• Japanese: ピクニック (ja) (pikunikku)
• Korean: 피크닉 (ko) (pikeunik)
• Kurdish:

  Sorani: سه‌یران

• Macedonian: излет (mk) (ízlet) m, пикник (mk) (píknik) m
• Maltese: piknik (mt) m, xalata (mt)
• Norwegian: piknik (no) m

  Nynorsk: piknik (nn) m

• Portuguese: piquenique (pt) f
• Russian: пикник (ru) (pikník) m
• Scottish Gaelic: cuirm-chnuic (gd) f
• Spanish: jira (es) f
• Sundanese: botram (su), mayor (su)
• Turkish: piknik (tr)

an easy or pleasant task

• Arabic: مهمة سهلة (ar) (mahámma sáhla) f
• Finnish: huviretki (fi)

• French: jeu d’enfant (fr) m
• Russian: приятное времяпрепровождение (ru) (prijátnoe vremjapreprovoždénije) n

Derived terms

• picnic basket
• picnic box
• picnicker
• picnic sheet
• picnic table

Verb

picnic (third-person singular simple present picnics, present participle picnicking, simple past and past participle picnicked)

1. To eat a picnic.

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Italian

Etymology

English

Noun

picnic m (invariable)

1. picnic (outdoor meal)

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Spanish

Etymology 1

From French.

Etymology 2

English

Noun

picnic m (plural picnic)

1. picnic (outdoor meal)