gizzard

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɪzəd/
• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɪzəɹd/

Noun

gizzard (plural gizzards)

1. A portion of the esophagus of either a bird or an annelid that contains ingested grit and is used to grind up ingested food before it is transferred to the stomach.

Derived terms

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

Translations

portion of the esophagus with ingested grit

• Arabic: حَوْصَلة f (ḥawṣala) (the same word also for the craw or crop)
• Armenian: մկանային ստամոքս (mkanayin stamokʻs), քարաճիկ (hy) (kʻaračik), քարճիկ (hy) (kʻarčik)
• Bulgarian: воденичка f (vodenička)
• Burmese: please add this translation if you can
• Catalan: pedrer
• 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 f, morzoa
• German: Kaumagen m
• Hungarian: zúzógyomor (the organ), zúza (hu) (the food)
• Icelandic: fóarn n
• Ido: gizardo (io)
• 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)
• 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: please add this translation if you can
• Maori: please add this translation if you can
• Mongolian: хоолой (mn) (xooloj), багалзуур (mn) (bagalzuur)
• Norwegian: krås m
• Polish: mielec m, żołądek mięśniowy m
• Portuguese: moela (pt)
• Romanian: pipota 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)
• Thai: กึ๋น (th) (gʉ̌n)
• Turkish: katı (tr), taşlık (tr)
• Vietnamese: mề (vi)
• Welsh: glasog f, crombil m or f

See also

• crop