meal

Etymology 1
From, from , from , from , from.

Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬,, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬; and (from Proto-Indo-European) with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬. Related to 🇨🇬.

Noun
But for my sone wepe ye never a dele.
 * 1)   Food that is prepared and eaten, usually at a specific time, and usually in a comparatively large quantity (as opposed to a snack).
 * 2) * c1450, Secreta Secretorumː
 * He that will cast meal upon meal is not able to have (a) long life.
 * 1) * c1500, The King and the Hermitː
 * I have been there and taken deal / And have had many (a) merry meal.
 * 1) * 1535?, Dyfference Astronː
 * But above all things beware that thou eat not till thou feel thy stomach empty and that it hath made good digestion of the first meal.
 * 1) * 1569, Fenton, Wondersː
 * Besides he was so fantastical and unruly in his appetites, that he used no common meats at his meals, but was fed with the combs of cocks, the tongues of peahens.
 * 1) * 1640, Richard Brathwait, Ar't asleep Husband? A BOULSTER LECTURE, Stored with all variety of witty Jests, merry Tales, and other pleasant passages; extracted from the choycest Flowers of Phi∣losophy, Poesy, ancient and moderne Historyː
 * Give me but so many meals, and thou shalt find me one of the strongest Turkish males that ever English gennet bore.
 * 1) * 1796, Robert Bage, Hermsprong: or, Man As He Is Notː
 * This letter was written whilst my hostess of the George was preparing the last meal I ever was to eat.
 * 1) * 1835, Edgar Allan Poe, The Unparalleled Adventure of One Hans Pfaallː
 * Puss, who seemed in a great measure recovered from her illness, now made a hearty meal of the dead bird, and then went to sleep with much apparent satisfaction.
 * 1) * 2016, Melissa Clark, Consider This Permission to Eat Burrata for Dinner in ː
 * In this recipe, I go even further, adding a robust salad to turn a lone cheese into a satisfying summer meal.
 * 1)  Food served or eaten as a repast.
 * 2) * a1450, The Macro Playsː
 * If thou wilt fare well at meat and meal, come and follow me.
 * 1)  A break taken by a police officer in order to eat.
 * 2)  A time or an occasion.
 * 3) * The Lamentation of the Virgin Mary (MS. Cantab., Ff. ii., 38, fol. 47.), in: 1847, Thomas Wright (editor), The Chester Plays: A Collection of Mysteries founded upon scriptural Subjects, and formerly represented by the Trades of Chester at Whitsuntide, vol. II, p. 208f.:
 * Ye wolde wepe at every mele;
 * 1) * a1450, The Macro Playsː
 * If thou wilt fare well at meat and meal, come and follow me.
 * 1)  A break taken by a police officer in order to eat.
 * 2)  A time or an occasion.
 * 3) * The Lamentation of the Virgin Mary (MS. Cantab., Ff. ii., 38, fol. 47.), in: 1847, Thomas Wright (editor), The Chester Plays: A Collection of Mysteries founded upon scriptural Subjects, and formerly represented by the Trades of Chester at Whitsuntide, vol. II, p. 208f.:
 * Ye wolde wepe at every mele;
 * 1)  A time or an occasion.
 * 2) * The Lamentation of the Virgin Mary (MS. Cantab., Ff. ii., 38, fol. 47.), in: 1847, Thomas Wright (editor), The Chester Plays: A Collection of Mysteries founded upon scriptural Subjects, and formerly represented by the Trades of Chester at Whitsuntide, vol. II, p. 208f.:
 * Ye wolde wepe at every mele;
 * Ye wolde wepe at every mele;
 * You would weep at every meal, but for my son you never weep a deal.
 * 1) * a1400?-a1470?, in: 1999/2006, The Governance of England: Otherwise called The Difference between an Absolute and a Limited Monarchy. By Sir John Fortescue. A Revised Text edited with Introduction, Notes, and Appendices by Charles Plummer, p. 132:
 * by occasion whereoff thai woll than at every mele groche with the kinge
 * by occasion whereof they will, then at every meal, grouch with the king
 * 1) * a1450, Henry Lovelich, The History of the Holy Grailː
 * Which was to them a sorry meal.
 * 1) * a1450, Henry Lovelich, Merlinː
 * Also soon as the dragons together feal, betwixt them shall begin a sorry meal.
 * 1) * a1450, The York Playsː
 * What mean ye.. to make mourning at ilk a meal?
 * 1) * 1481, William Caxton, Reynard the Foxː
 * I shall do late you have so much that ten of you should not eat it at one meal.
 * 1) * a1500, Alexander-Cassamus Fragmentː
 * Of all the day throughout, keep I no better meal than on her to think.
 * 1) * c1500, In A Chyrchː
 * Thou couth well weep at every meal.

Usage notes

 * In the fourth sense, meal is a and is usually found in the archaic/obsolete phrase "at every (ilk a) meal" meaning "on every occasion", compare also "at ilk a tide". It fell out of common usage in the late 15th century. Also, "at one meal" sometimes meant, ,  or ; see also 🇨🇬. "To keep (the) meal" probably used to mean "to use/spend one's time". A "sorry meal" used to mean a "grim occasion" such as a fight, setback, mishap or some sort of other misfortune.


 * Meal, in the sense of "time" or "occasion", also survives in other set phrases, such as, , etc.

Hyponyms

 * See also Thesaurus:meal

Translations

 * Abkhaz: афатә
 * Afrikaans: maaltyd
 * Albanian:
 * Amharic:
 * Arabic:, أكلة
 * Aragonese: virolla
 * Armenian: ,
 * Aromanian: ngustáre
 * Assamese: সাঁজ
 * Asturian:
 * Avar: кванай
 * Aymara: ququ
 * Azerbaijani: ,
 * Bashkir:
 * Basque:
 * Belarusian: е́жа
 * Bengali:
 * Breton:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Burmese:
 * Catalan:
 * Central Atlas Tamazight: ⵜⵉⵔⵎⵜ
 * Chamicuro: nuka'c̈homachi
 * Chechen: даар, яахӏума
 * Cherokee: ᎠᎵᏍᏓᏴᏗ
 * Chichewa:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Corsican: pastu, ripastu
 * Crimean Tatar: aş
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dhivehi:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:, manĝo
 * Estonian: söök
 * Ewe:
 * Extremaduran:
 * Faroese: máltíð
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Friulian:
 * Galician:
 * Georgian:, ჭამა
 * German: ,
 * Alemannic German: Mohl
 * Greek: ,
 * Ancient: σιτίον, σίτησις, δόρπον
 * Gujarati:
 * Haitian Creole: repa, manje
 * Hausa:
 * Hawaiian: ʻaina, pāʻina
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: ,
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido:
 * Igbo:
 * Indonesian: ,
 * Ingrian: adria
 * Interlingua: repasto
 * Irish: proinn,, séire
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:, , ,
 * Kazakh:, ас
 * Khmer:
 * Korean: 끼니,, ,
 * Kyrgyz:
 * Latin:
 * Latvian:
 * Lithuanian:
 * Macedonian: оброк, јадење
 * Malay:
 * Malayalam:
 * Maltese: ikel
 * Manchu: ᠪᡠᡩ᠋ᠠ
 * Manx: lhongey
 * Maori: kamenga
 * Marathi: भोजन, जेवण
 * Mòcheno: mol
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic: ,
 * Mongolian: ᠬᠣᠭᠤᠯᠠ, ᠪᠤᠳᠠᠭ᠎ᠠ
 * Nahuatl: tlemolli, tlacualizpan
 * Nepali:, खाना
 * Ngazidja Comorian: shahula
 * Norman: r'pas
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: ,
 * Nynorsk: måltid
 * Occitan:
 * Odia:
 * Old English: mǣl
 * Old Norse: mál
 * Ossetian: хӕрд
 * Ottoman Turkish: مانجه
 * Pashto:
 * Persian:
 * Polish:, ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Punjabi:
 * Rajasthani:
 * Romanian:
 * Romansch: past, tschavera
 * Russian:, , ,
 * Sanskrit:
 * Scots:
 * Scottish Gaelic: biadh
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: о̀брок, је̏ло
 * Roman: ,
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:, obed
 * Somali:
 * Sorbian:
 * Lower Sorbian: jěza
 * Upper Sorbian: jědź
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish: ,
 * Tajik:
 * Tamil:
 * Tarifit: mašša
 * Thai: ,
 * Tibetan: ལྟོ
 * Tocharian B: yesti
 * Turkish:, ,
 * Turkmen: nahar
 * Tuvan: чем
 * Ukrainian:, стра́ва
 * Urdu:
 * Uyghur:
 * Uzbek:, ,
 * Vietnamese: ,
 * Volapük:
 * Walloon:
 * Welsh:, pryd o fwyd
 * White Hmong: pluas mov
 * Wolof:
 * Xhosa:
 * Yiddish: מאָלצײַט
 * Yucatec Maya: haanal
 * Zulu:

Etymology 2
From, from , from , from , from.

Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬 (🇨🇬), 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, Tocharian A/B /, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬. More at.

Noun

 * 1)  The coarse-ground edible part of various grains often used to feed animals; flour or a coarser blend than flour.

Translations

 * Bulgarian:
 * Cherokee: ᎢᏌ
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Estonian: jahu
 * Faroese: mjøl
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: ფქვილი
 * German: ,
 * Greek:, χονδράλευρο
 * Hebrew:
 * Italian:
 * Korean: ,
 * Latin: farina
 * Latvian:
 * Manx: meinn
 * Marathi: पीठ
 * Old English: melu
 * Old Norse: mjǫl
 * Plautdietsch: Mäl
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Thai:
 * Turkish: ,
 * Ukrainian:, мука́
 * Yiddish: מעל

Verb

 * 1)  To yield or be plentiful in meal.

Etymology 3
Variation of (compare 🇨🇬), from, , from , , from , from. More at.

Noun

 * 1)  A speck or spot.
 * 2) A part; a fragment; a portion.

Verb

 * 1)  To defile or taint.

Etymology
From, cognate to 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬 with the same origin.

Noun

 * 1) steep, scarped shore region
 * 2)  boondocks

Noun

 * 1) meaning

Etymology
From, from , from , from. .

Verb

 * 1) enjoy