breakfast cereal

English

Pronunciation

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Noun

A spoonful of cornflakes with a strawberry and some milk on a spoon.

breakfast cereal (countable and uncountable, plural breakfast cereals)

1. A food made from processed grains, such as maize, oats, wheat or rice, usually eaten for breakfast with milk and sometimes sugar, fruit, etc.

Synonyms

• cereal

Translations

food made from processed grains

• Arabic: حُبُوب الإِفْطَار pl (ḥubūb al-ʔifṭār)
• Armenian: շիլա (hy) (šila)
• Belarusian: кукуру́зныя шматкі́ m pl (kukurúznyja šmatkí)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: ^{(please verify)} 麥片 / 麦片 (mak⁶ pin^3-2)

  Mandarin: (no exact equivalent exists, the following are references only) 早餐穀物 / 早餐谷物 (zǎocān gǔwù), 穀類食品 / 谷类食品 (gǔlèi shípǐn), (technically "rolled oats" but can be understood as cereal) 麥片 / 麦片 (zh) (màipiàn)

• Dutch: ontbijtgranen (nl) n pl (if used in singular it merely means cereal eaten in any form at breakfast)
• Esperanto: matenmanĝa cerealaĵo
• Finnish: aamiaismurot pl, murot pl
• French: céréale de petit déjeuner f, céréales (fr) f pl (used idiomatically)
• German: Frühstücksflocken (de) f pl
• Greek: δημητριακά (el) n pl (dimitriaká)
• Hebrew: דִּגְנֵי בֹּקֶר (he) m pl (dignéi bóqer)
• Hindi: नाश्ते का अनाज m (nāśte kā anāj)
• Hungarian: gabonapehely (hu), (from oats) zabpehely (hu), müzli (hu), (from corn) kukoricapehely (hu), (from rice) rizspehely
• Icelandic: morgunkorn (is) n
• Indonesian: sereal
• Italian: cereale da prima colazione m, cereale da colazione m, cereale (it) m
• Japanese: シリアル (ja) (shiriaru)
• Khmer: នំស្រួយ (num sruəy)
• Korean: 시리얼 (ko) (sirieol)
• Malay: bijirin sarapan
• Māori: pata kai
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: frokostblanding (no) m or f

  Nynorsk: frukostblanding f

• Persian:

  Iranian Persian: بِرِشْتوک (fa) (bereštuk), غَلاتِ صُبْحانِه (ġalât-e sobhâne)

• Polish: płatki śniadaniowe nvir pl
• Portuguese: cereal matinal (pt)
• Romanian: cereale f pl
• Russian: хло́пья (ru) n pl (xlópʹja), кукуру́зные хло́пья (ru) n pl (kukurúznyje xlópʹja), сухо́й за́втрак m (suxój závtrak)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Latin: žitarice za doručak f pl

• Slovene: kosmiči pl
• Spanish: cereal (es) m, confleis m pl (United States), confleys m pl (United States), cereales (es) m pl, cereal desayunador m
• Swedish: flingor (sv), frukostflingor (sv)
• Turkish: kahvaltılık gevrek, mısır gevreği sg
• Ukrainian: пластівці́ m pl (plastivcí)
• Vietnamese: ngũ cốc ăn sáng
• Welsh: grawnfwyd (cy) m

See also

• cornflakes
• muesli
• oat flakes
• oatmeal
• porridge
• Rice Krispies
• rolled oats
• rye flakes