gizzard

English

Etymology

From Middle English gyser, geser, from Old French gesier, giser et al. (French gésier), from Latin gigēria.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɪzəd/

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• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɪzɚd/
• Rhymes: -ɪzə(ɹ)d

Noun

gizzard (plural gizzards)

1. A specialized organ constructed of thick muscular walls found in the digestive tract of some animals, including archosaurs (including crocodilians and birds), earthworms, some gastropods, some fish, and some crustaceans used for grinding up food, often aided by particles of stone or grit.
   • 2016, Justin O. Schmidt, The Sting of the Wild, Johns Hopkins University Press, →ISBN, p. 29

     As fortune has it, kingbirds, like owls, lack a grinding gizzard and regurgitate hard fragments from their meals.

Derived terms

• gizzard shad
• fret the gizzard
• stick in one's gizzard

Translations

portion of the esophagus with ingested grit

• Arabic: قانِصَة f (qāniṣa)
• Armenian: մկանային ստամոքս (mkanayin stamokʻs), քարաճիկ (hy) (kʻaračik), քարճիկ (hy) (kʻarčik)
• Basque: arandoi
• Bulgarian: воденичка f (vodenička)
• Burmese: please add this translation if you can
• Catalan: pedrer
• Cherokee: ᎤᏳᏘ (uyuti)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 腎／肾, 肾 (san⁵, san^5-2)

  Mandarin: 肫 (zh) (zhūn)

• Czech: svalnatý žaludek m
• Danish: kråse
• Dutch: spiermaag
• Esperanto: maĉstomako, kropo
• Finnish: kivipiira (fi), lihasmaha (fi)
• French: gésier (fr) m
• Galician: moella (gl) f, moega (gl) f
• German: Kaumagen m
• Hungarian: zúzógyomor (the organ), zúza (hu) (the food)
• Icelandic: fóarn n
• Ido: gizardo (io)
• Ilocano: batikuleng
• Indonesian: ampela (id)
• Irish: eagaois f
• Italian: ventriglio (it)
• Japanese: 砂嚢 (さのう, sanō, すなぶくろ, sunabukuro)
• Kannada: please add this translation if you can
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• Khmer: please add this translation if you can
• Korean: 모래주머니 (moraejumeoni)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: سیکەتۆرە (sîketore)

• Lao: please add this translation if you can
• Latin: ingluviēs f (the same word also for the craw or crop), gigēria n pl [from 2^nd century AD]
• Latvian: guza (lv) f
• Lithuanian: skilvys m, skilvis m
• Maori: please add this translation if you can
• Maranao: tikolen
• Mongolian: хоолой (mn) (xooloj), багалзуур (mn) (bagalzuur)
• Norwegian: krås m
• Polish: mielec m, żołądek mięśniowy m
• Portuguese: moela (pt)
• Rapa Nui: hatatú
• Romanian: pipotă (ro) f
• Russian: второ́й желу́док m (vtorój želúdok)
• Scottish Gaelic: sgròban m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: жѐлудац m

  Latin: žèludac (sh) m

• Spanish: molleja (es) f
• Swedish: muskelmage (sv)
• Tagalog: balun-balunan
• Thai: กึ๋น (th) (gʉ̌n)
• Turkish: katı (tr), taşlık (tr)
• Vietnamese: mề (vi)
• Welsh: glasog f, crombil m or f
• Zazaki: sorsinek, siyanık

See also

• crop