poultry

See also: Poultry

English

Etymology

From Middle English pultrie, from Old French pouleterie, from poulet, diminutive of poule (“hen”), from Latin pullus (“chick”).

For the development of Middle English /u/ to modern /oʊ/, /əʊ/ before /lt/, /ld/, /ln/, compare boult, boulder, colter/coulter, poultice, shoulder, won't.

Pronunciation

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• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈpɒltɹi/, /ˈpəʊltɹi/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈpoʊltɹi/
• Homophone: paltry (UK)

Noun

poultry (usually uncountable, plural poultries)

1. Domestic fowl (e.g. chickens, ducks, turkeys, and geese) raised for food (either meat or eggs).

   a poultry farmer

2. The meat from a domestic fowl.

   the poultry counter

Derived terms

• poultry wire
• poultryman
• poultrywoman

Related terms

• poult
• poulter
• poulterer
• pullet

Translations

domestic fowl

• Arabic: دَجَاج m (dajāj), دَوَاجِن f pl (dawājin)

  Egyptian Arabic: دواجن f pl (dawāgen)

  Moroccan Arabic: دجاج m (djāj)

• Armenian: ընտանի թռչուններ pl (əntani tʻṙčʻunner)
• Bashkir: ҡош-ҡорт (qoş-qort)
• Belarusian: сво́йская пту́шка f (svójskaja ptúška)
• Bulgarian: птица (bg) (ptica), дома́шна пти́ца f (domášna ptíca)
• Catalan: aviram (ca) m, volateria f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 家禽 (zh) (jiāqín)

• Czech: drůbež (cs) f
• Danish: fjerkræ (da) n
• Dutch: pluimvee (nl) n
• Esperanto: kortobirdo, kortobirdaro
• Finnish: siipikarja (fi)
• French: (collective) volaille (fr) f, volailles (fr) f pl, basse-cour (fr) f
• German: Geflügel (de) n
• Greek: πουλερικά (el) n pl (pouleriká)
• Hungarian: baromfi (hu)
• Indonesian: unggas (id)
• Irish: éanlaith f
• Italian: pollame (it) m
• Japanese: 家禽 (ja) (かきん, kakin); (category or group) 家禽類 (かきんるい, kakin-rui)
• Korean: 가금(家禽) (gageum)
• Macedonian: живина f (živina)
• Malay: unggas domestik, poltri
• Norman: volaille f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: fjærfe n, fjørfe n

  Nynorsk: fjørfe n

• Persian: ماکیان (fa) (mâkiyân)
• Polish: drób (pl) m
• Portuguese: ave doméstica f, ave de capoeira f, ave de corte f
• Russian: дома́шняя пти́ца f (domášnjaja ptíca)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic script: живина f, перад f

  Roman script: živina (sh) f, perad (sh) f

• Slovak: hydina (sk) f
• Slovene: perutnina (sl) f
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: pjerina f

• Spanish: ave de corral f
• Swedish: fjäderfä (sv) n
• Turkish: kümes hayvanları pl
• Ukrainian: сві́йський птах m (svíjsʹkyj ptax), сві́йська пти́ця f (svíjsʹka ptýcja)
• Volapük: (collective) bödem (vo)
• Walloon: poytreye (wa) f, poyes (wa) f pl

fowl meat

• Arabic:

  Moroccan Arabic: دجاج m (djāj)

• Armenian: թռչնամիս (hy) (tʻṙčʻnamis)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 禽肉 (qínròu)

• Danish: fjerkræ (da) n
• Dutch: pluimvee (nl) n, gevogelte (nl)
• Esperanto: birdaĵo, kortobirdaĵo
• Finnish: lintu (fi), linnunliha (fi)
• German: Geflügel (de) n
• Greek: πουλερικό (el) n (poulerikó)
• Hebrew: עוֹף (he) m ('of)
• Indonesian: daging unggas
• Japanese: 家禽 (ja) (かきん, kakin); (category or group) 家禽類 (かきんるい, kakin-rui)
• Macedonian: живина f (živina)
• Maori: kikomanu
• Polish: drób (pl) m
• Portuguese: carne de ave f
• Russian: мя́со пти́цы n (mjáso ptícy)
• Slovene: perutnina (sl) f
• Spanish: pollería
• Walloon: poye (wa) f, polet m

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Latin: ^{(please verify)} aves altiles
• Vietnamese: ^{(please verify)} gà vẹt, ^{(please verify)} chim nuôi, ^{(please verify)} qué (vi)

Further reading

• poultry on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• poultry farming on Wikipedia.Wikipedia