venison

English

Etymology

From Old French venison (meat of large game, particularly deer or boar; hunt), from Latin venatio (hunt; meat from a hunt), formed on venatus, past participle of venari (to hunt).

Noun

venison (uncountable)

1. The meat of a deer.

Synonyms

• deer meat
• deerflesh

Translations

the meat of a deer

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 鹿肉 (cmn) (lùròu)

• Finnish: hirvi (fi), hirvenliha (fi); peura (fi), peuranliha (fi); kauris (fi), kauriinliha (fi) (depending on the kind of deer)
• French: viande de biche f
• German: Rehfleisch n, from red deer: Wildbret n, from red deer: Wildfleisch n
• Irish: fiafheoil (ga) f (from an adult deer); oiseoil (ga) f (from a fawn)
• Italian: carne di cervo f, cacciagione (it) f

• Lithuanian: elniena f
• Macedonian: срнешко (mk) (srneško) n
• Malay: daging rusa (ms)
• Portuguese: carne de cervo n
• Russian: оленина (ru) (olenína) f
• Scottish Gaelic: sitheann (gd) f
• Slovene: divjačina f
• Swahili: nyama ya kulungu (sw)
• Volapük: stägamit (vo), (from a fawn) stägülamit (vo)

External links

• venison at OneLook Dictionary Search

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Old French

Etymology

Latin venatio.

Noun

venison f (oblique plural venisons, nominative singular venison, nominative plural venisons)

1. venison (meat)

Descendants

• English: venison
• French: venaison

See also

• biche, bisse