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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Noun

poultry (usually uncountable, plural poultries)

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

Derived terms

Related terms

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)
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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)
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 (wa) 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)
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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

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Latin: ^{(please verify)} aves altiles
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Vietnamese: ^{(please verify)} gà vẹt, ^{(please verify)} chim nuôi, ^{(please verify)} qué (vi)