breadcrumb

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• US: /ˈbɹɛdˌkɹʌm/
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• CMU ARPABET: B R EH1 D K R AH1 M Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From bread + crumb. The computing and figurative senses allude to the German fairy tale Hansel and Gretel, where Hansel leaves a trail of breadcrumbs to find the way back home when venturing into the woods.

82 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Afrikaans: broodkrummel — tiny piece of bread
• Arabic: بُقْسُمَاطْ (buqsumāṭ) — tiny piece of bread
• Arabic: بُقْسُمَاط (bugsumāṭ) — tiny piece of bread
• Chinese Cantonese: 麵包屑 /面包屑 — tiny piece of bread
• Chinese Cantonese: 麵包糠 /面包糠 (min6 baau1 hong1) — tiny piece of bread
• Chinese Mandarin: 麵包屑 /面包屑 (miànbāoxiè) — tiny piece of bread
• Chinese Mandarin: 麵包糠 /面包糠 (miànbāokāng) — tiny piece of bread
• Czech: strouhanka — tiny piece of bread
• Dutch: broodkruimel — tiny piece of bread
• Esperanto: panero — tiny piece of bread
• Finnish: leivänmuru — tiny piece of bread
• Finnish: korppujauho — tiny piece of bread
• French: miette de pain — tiny piece of bread
• French: miette — tiny piece of bread
• French: panure — tiny piece of bread
• Galician: migalla — tiny piece of bread
• Galician: faragulla — tiny piece of bread
• Galician: frangulla — tiny piece of bread
• Galician: fungalla — tiny piece of bread
• Galician: migallo — tiny piece of bread
• Galician: miga — tiny piece of bread
• German: Brotkrümel — tiny piece of bread
• German: Brotkrume — tiny piece of bread
• German: Brosame — tiny piece of bread
• German: Brösel — tiny piece of bread
• Greek: ψίχα (psícha) — tiny piece of bread
• Greek: τρίμμα (trímma) — tiny piece of bread
• Greek: ψίχουλο (psíchoulo) — tiny piece of bread
• Hebrew: פירורי לחם \ פֵּרוּר (perúrey lehém) — tiny piece of bread
• Hungarian: kenyérmorzsa — tiny piece of bread
• Hungarian: prézli — tiny piece of bread
• Hungarian: zsemlemorzsa — tiny piece of bread
• Icelandic: brauðmylsna — tiny piece of bread
• Indonesian: panir — tiny piece of bread
• Irish: grabhróg aráin — tiny piece of bread
• Irish: bruscar aráin — tiny piece of bread
• Italian: briciola — tiny piece of bread
• Italian: pangrattato — tiny piece of bread
• Italian: mollica — tiny piece of bread
• Japanese: パン屑 (pankuzu) — tiny piece of bread
• Japanese: パン粉 (panko) — tiny piece of bread
• Korean: 빵 부스러기 (ppang buseureogi) — tiny piece of bread
• Korean: 빵가루 (ppanggaru) — tiny piece of bread
• Malay: serdak roti — tiny piece of bread
• Malay: serbuk roti — tiny piece of bread
• Norwegian Bokmål: brødrasp — tiny piece of bread
• Norwegian Nynorsk: brødrasp — tiny piece of bread
• Persian: مغز نان (maġz-e nân) — tiny piece of bread
• Polish: bułka tarta — tiny piece of bread
• Polish: okruszek chleba — tiny piece of bread
• Portuguese: migalha — tiny piece of bread
• Portuguese: farelo — tiny piece of bread
• Portuguese: pão ralado — tiny piece of bread
• Romanian: firimitură — tiny piece of bread
• Romanian: pesmet — tiny piece of bread
• Russian: хле́бная кро́шка (xlébnaja króška) — tiny piece of bread
• Russian: кро́шка (króška) — tiny piece of bread
• Sicilian: muḍḍica — tiny piece of bread
• Slovak: strúhanka — tiny piece of bread
• Slovene: krušna drobtina — tiny piece of bread
• Spanish: miga — tiny piece of bread
• Spanish: migaja — tiny piece of bread
• Turkish: ekmek kırıntısı — tiny piece of bread
• Vietnamese: bột chiên xù — tiny piece of bread
• Vietnamese: vụn bánh mì — tiny piece of bread
• Yiddish: ברייזל (breyzl) — tiny piece of bread
• Chinese Mandarin: 麵包屑導航 /面包屑导航 — trail of hyperlinks
• Czech: drobečková navigace — trail of hyperlinks
• Finnish: leivänmurut — trail of hyperlinks
• French: fil d'Ariane — trail of hyperlinks
• Marathi: ब्रेडक्रंब (breḍakramba) — trail of hyperlinks
• Polish: okruszek chleba — trail of hyperlinks
• Catalan: empanar — to sprinkle breadcrumbs on food
• Chinese Mandarin: 撒麵包屑 /撒面包屑 (sǎ miànbāoxiè) — to sprinkle breadcrumbs on food
• Finnish: leivittää — to sprinkle breadcrumbs on food
• Hungarian: paníroz — to sprinkle breadcrumbs on food
• Hungarian: bepaníroz — to sprinkle breadcrumbs on food
• Japanese: パン粉を撒く — to sprinkle breadcrumbs on food
• Korean: 빵가루를 뿌리다 (ppanggaru-reul ppurida) — to sprinkle breadcrumbs on food
• Polish: posypywać bułką tartą — to sprinkle breadcrumbs on food
• Polish: posypać bułką tartą — to sprinkle breadcrumbs on food
• Slovene: panirati — to sprinkle breadcrumbs on food