poultry

See also: Poultry

English

Etymology

From Middle English pultrie, from Old French pouleterie, from poulet, diminutive of poule (“hen”), from Latin pullus (“chick”).

Pronunciation

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• IPA^(key): /ˈpɒltɹi/, /ˈpəʊltɹi/
• IPA^(key): /ˈpoʊltɹi/

Noun

poultry (usually uncountable, plural poultries)

1. Domestic fowl (e.g. chickens, ducks, turkeys, and geese) raised for food (either meat or eggs).
2. The meat from a domestic fowl.

Derived terms

• poultryman
• poultrywoman

Related terms

• poult
• poulter
• poulterer
• pullet

Translations

domestic fowl

• Arabic: دَجَاج m (dajāj), دَوَاجِن f pl (dawājin)

  Egyptian Arabic: دواجن f pl (dawagen)

  Moroccan Arabic: دجاج m (djāj)

• Armenian: ընտանի թռչուններ pl (əntani tʻṙčʻunner)
• Bashkir: ҡош-ҡорт (qoş-qort)
• Bulgarian: птица (bg) (ptica)
• Catalan: aviram (ca), volateria
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 家禽 (zh) (jiāqín)

• Czech: drůbež (cs) f
• Dutch: pluimvee (nl) n
• Esperanto: kortobirdo, kortobirdaro
• Finnish: siipikarja (fi)
• French: (collective) volaille (fr) f, volailles (fr) f pl, basse-cour (fr) f
• German: Geflügel (de) n
• Greek: πουλερικά (el) n pl (pouleriká)
• Hungarian: baromfi (hu)
• Indonesian: unggas (id)
• Irish: éanlaith f
• Japanese: 家禽 (ja) (かきん, kakin); (category or group) 家禽類 (かきんるい, kakin-rui)
• Macedonian: живина f (živina)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Malay: unggas domestik
• Norman: volaille f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: fjærfe n, fjørfe n

  Nynorsk: fjørfe n

• Persian: ماکیان (fa) (mâkiyân)
• Polish: drób (pl) m
• Portuguese: ave doméstica f, ave de capoeira f, ave de corte f
• Russian: дома́шняя пти́ца f (domášnjaja ptíca)
• Scanian: fyğle n
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic script: живина f (živina), перад f (perad)

  Roman script: živina (sh) f (živina), perad (sh) f

• Slovak: hydina (sk) f
• Slovene: perutnina (sl) f
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: pjerina f

• Spanish: aves de corral
• Swedish: fjäderfä (sv) n
• Volapük: (collective) bödem (vo)
• Walloon: poytreye (wa) f, poyes f pl

fowl meat

• Arabic:

  Moroccan Arabic: دجاج m (djāj)

• Armenian: թռչնամիս (hy) (tʻṙčʻnamis)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 禽肉 (qínròu)

• Danish: fjerkræ (da) n
• Dutch: pluimvee (nl) n, gevogelte (nl)
• Esperanto: birdaĵo, kortobirdaĵo
• Finnish: lintu (fi), linnunliha (fi)
• German: Geflügel (de) n
• Greek: πουλερικό (el) n (poulerikó)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Hebrew: עוֹף (he) m ('of)
• Indonesian: daging unggas
• Japanese: 家禽 (ja) (かきん, kakin); (category or group) 家禽類 (かきんるい, kakin-rui)
• Macedonian: живина f (živina)
• Polish: drób (pl) m
• Portuguese: carne de ave f
• Russian: мя́со (mjáso) домашней (domašnej) птицы (pticy) (mjáso domášnej ptícy) n
• Slovene: perutnina (sl) f
• Spanish: carne de ave, pollería
• Walloon: poye (wa) f, polet m

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Latin: ^{(please verify)} aves altiles
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Vietnamese: ^{(please verify)} gà vẹt, ^{(please verify)} chim nuôi, ^{(please verify)} qué (vi)

Further reading

• poultry on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• poultry farming on Wikipedia.Wikipedia