nourishment

English

Etymology

From Middle English norisshement, from Middle French, from Old French norissement, from norrir, equivalent to nourish +‎ -ment.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, New York City) IPA^(key): /ˈnʌɹɪʃmənt/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈnɝɪʃmənt/, /ˈnʊɹɪʃmənt/
• Hyphenation: nour‧ish‧ment

Noun

nourishment (countable and uncountable, plural nourishments)

1. The act of nourishing or the state of being nourished.
2. Something that nourishes; food.
   • 2021 May 25, Matthew Futterman, “‘I Am So Freaked Out. I Can’t Even Get My Mind Around It.’”, in The New York Times‎^[1], →ISSN, archived from the original on 3 June 2021:

     Many ultraraces do not include much nourishment from organizers.

Synonyms

• sustenance

Derived terms

• beach nourishment
• overnourishment
• renourishment
• undernourishment

Translations

the act of nourishing or the state of being nourished

• Armenian: սնուցում (hy) (snucʻum)
• Bulgarian: хранене (bg) n (hranene)
• Finnish: ravitseminen (fi), ravituksi tuleminen
• Galician: mantenza (gl) f
• German: Ernährung (de) f
• Hindi: पोषण (hi) m (poṣaṇ)
• Hungarian: táplálás (hu)
• Latin: nūtrimen n, nūtrimentum n
• Portuguese: nutrição (pt) f du
• Russian: кормле́ние (ru) (kormlénije), пита́ние (ru) (pitánije)
• Sanskrit: भरीमन् (sa) n (bharīman)
• Vietnamese: sự nuôi dưỡng

something that nourishes; food

• Afrikaans: voedingskrag
• Albanian: ushqim (sq) f
• Bulgarian: храна (bg) f (hrana)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 營養 / 营养 (zh) (yíngyǎng)

• Egyptian: (šbw)
• Finnish: ravinto (fi)
• French: nourriture (fr) f
• Galician: mantenza (gl) f, alimento (gl) m
• Georgian: კვების (ḳvebis)
• German: Nahrung (de) f, Ernährung (de) f
• Greek:

  Ancient: τροφή f (trophḗ)

• Haitian Creole: nouriti
• Hebrew: מָזוֹן (he) m (mazón)
• Hindi: पोषाहार m (poṣāhār), पोषण (hi) m (poṣaṇ)
• Hungarian: táplálék (hu), tápanyag (hu)
• Japanese: 栄養 (ja) (えいよう, eiyō)
• Lao: ອາຫານ (lo) (ʼā hān)
• Latin: nūtrimen n, nūtrimentum n, sagīna f
• Mirandese: alimiento m
• Norwegian: ernæring (no) m or f
• Plautdietsch: Äten n
• Polish: pożywienie (pl) n
• Portuguese: sustância f, sustança (pt) f, alimento (pt) m
• Russian: пита́ние (ru) n (pitánije)
• Swedish: näring (sv) c
• Vietnamese: dinh dưỡng (vi)
• Yiddish: דערנערונג f (dernerung)

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