flesh

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From Middle English flesh, flesch, flæsch, from Old English flǣsċ, from Proto-West Germanic *flaiski, from Proto-Germanic *flaiski, from Proto-Indo-European *pleh1ḱ- (“to tear, peel off”). Cognates Cognate with Yola vleash, vlesh (“flesh”), North Frisian flaasch, flaosk, Fleesk, fleäsk, floask, flääsk, flååsch (“flesh, meat”), Saterland Frisian Flaask (“flesh, meat”), West Frisian fleis (“flesh, meat”), Cimbrian blòas, vlaisch, vlòas (“flesh, meat”), Dutch vlees, vleesch (“flesh, meat”), German Fleisch (“flesh, meat”), German Low German and Luxembourgish Fleesch (“flesh, meat”), Vilamovian fłaś (“meat; muscle”), Yiddish פֿלייש (fleysh, “flesh, meat”), Danish flæsk (“pork; bacon”), Faroese, Icelandic, and Norwegian Nynorsk flesk (“pork; bacon”), Swedish fläsk (“pork”).

306 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Akan: ɛnam — body tissue
• Akan: nam — body tissue
• Albanian: mish — body tissue
• Albanian: tul — body tissue
• Arabic: لَحْم (laḥm) — body tissue
• Arabic: لحم (laḥm) — body tissue
• Armenian: միս (mis) — body tissue
• Belarusian: мяса (mjasa) — body tissue
• Belarusian: це́ла (cjéla) — body tissue
• Central Bikol: unod — body tissue
• Bulgarian: месо́ (mesó) — body tissue
• Catalan: carn — body tissue
• Chinese Mandarin: 肉 (ròu) — body tissue
• Czech: maso — body tissue
• Danish: kød — body tissue
• Dutch: vlees — body tissue
• Egyptian: i-W:f-F51:Z2ss (jwf) — body tissue
• Esperanto: karno — body tissue
• Estonian: liha — body tissue
• Faroese: kjøt — body tissue
• Finnish: liha — body tissue
• French: chair — body tissue
• Galician: carne — body tissue
• German: Fleisch — body tissue
• Gothic: 𐌼𐌰𐌼𐌼𐍉 (mammō) — body tissue
• Greek: σάρκα (sárka) — body tissue
• Ancient Greek: σάρξ (sárx) — body tissue
• Hawaiian: ʻiʻo — body tissue
• Hebrew: בָּשָׂר (basár) — body tissue
• Hindi: क्रव्य (kravya) — body tissue
• Hindi: मांस (māns) — body tissue
• White Hmong: nqaij — body tissue
• Hungarian: hús — body tissue
• Icelandic: hold — body tissue
• Ido: karno — body tissue
• Indonesian: daging — body tissue
• Iranun: sapu' — body tissue
• Irish: feoil — body tissue
• Italian: carne — body tissue
• Japanese: 肉 (niku) — body tissue
• Japanese: 身 (mi) — body tissue
• Kaurna: itya — body tissue
• Khmer: សាច់ (sac) — body tissue
• Khmer: មំសៈ (mĕəngsaʼ) — body tissue
• Korean: 살 (sal) — body tissue
• Korean: 고기 (gogi) — body tissue
• Lao: ຊີ້ນ (sīn) — body tissue
• Lao: ມັງສະ (mang sa) — body tissue
• Latgalian: mīsa — body tissue
• Latin: carō — body tissue
• Latvian: miesa — body tissue
• Latvian: ķermenis — body tissue
• Lithuanian: kūnas — body tissue
• Low German: Fleesch — body tissue
• Lutuv: saa — body tissue
• Macedonian: месо (meso) — body tissue
• Malayalam: മാംസം (māṁsaṁ) — body tissue
• Manchu: ᠶᠠᠯᡳ (yali) — body tissue
• Māori: kiko — body tissue
• Māori: uaua — body tissue
• Māori: tōrōpuku — body tissue
• Navajo: atsįʼ — body tissue
• Odia: ମାଂସ (māṁsa) — body tissue
• Persian: گوشت (gušt) — body tissue
• Piedmontese: carn — body tissue
• Plautdietsch: Fleesch — body tissue
• Polish: ciało — body tissue
• Polish: mięso — body tissue
• Portuguese: carne — body tissue
• Romanian: carne — body tissue
• Russian: мягкая ткань (mjaxkaja tkanʹ) — body tissue
• Russian: плоть (plotʹ) — body tissue
• Russian: мясо (mjaso) — body tissue
• Russian: те́ло (télo) — body tissue
• Sanskrit: क्रव्य (kravya) — body tissue
• Scottish Gaelic: feòil — body tissue
• Slovene: meso — body tissue
• Spanish: carne — body tissue
• Sranan Tongo: meti — body tissue
• Swahili: chembechembe — body tissue
• Swedish: kött — body tissue
• Tajik: гӯшт (güšt) — body tissue
• Tarifit: aysum — body tissue
• Tarifit: aksum — body tissue
• Telugu: కండ (kaṇḍa) — body tissue
• Thai: เนื้อ (nʉ́ʉa) — body tissue
• Tibetan: ཤ་ (sha) — body tissue
• Tigrinya: ስጋ (səga) — body tissue
• Tok Pisin: mit — body tissue
• Turkish: et — body tissue
• Udmurt: сӥль (siľ) — body tissue
• Ugaritic: 𐎌𐎛𐎗 (šỉr) — body tissue
• Ukrainian: м'я́со (mʺjáso) — body tissue
• Ukrainian: плоть (plotʹ) — body tissue
• Ukrainian: ті́ло (tílo) — body tissue
• Urdu: مانس (mā̃s) — body tissue
• Urdu: گوشت (gośt) — body tissue
• Urdu: لحم (laham) — body tissue
• Uyghur: ئەت (et) — body tissue
• Uzbek: et — body tissue
• Volapük: mid — body tissue
• Walloon: tchå — body tissue
• Welsh: cnawd — body tissue
• Yurok: tewon — body tissue
• Zulu: inyama — body tissue
• Bulgarian: кожа (koža) — skin
• Danish: hud — skin
• Dutch: vel — skin
• Finnish: iho — skin
• French: peau — skin
• Galician: pel — skin
• Galician: pelexo — skin
• German: Haut — skin
• Greek: δέρμα (dérma) — skin
• Ancient Greek: χρώς (khrṓs) — skin
• Hindi: त्वचा (tvacā) — skin
• Hindi: चमड़ा (camṛā) — skin
• Hindi: चमड़ी (camṛī) — skin
• Hindi: खाल (khāl) — skin
• Hungarian: bőr — skin
• Latin: carō — skin
• Portuguese: pele — skin
• Russian: ко́жа (kóža) — skin
• Scottish Gaelic: craiceann — skin
• Spanish: pellejo — skin
• Swahili: ngozi — skin
• Tok Pisin: skin — skin
• Turkish: deri — skin
• Urdu: جلد (jild) — skin
• Urdu: پوست (post) — skin
• Urdu: کھال (khāl) — skin
• Volapük: skin — skin
• Arabic: لَحْمٌ (laḥmun) — animal tissue as food
• Armenian: միս (mis) — animal tissue as food
• Bulgarian: месо (meso) — animal tissue as food
• Catalan: carn — animal tissue as food
• Chinese: 肉 (zh-min-nan) — animal tissue as food
• Danish: kød — animal tissue as food
• Dutch: vlees — animal tissue as food
• Estonian: liha — animal tissue as food
• Finnish: liha — animal tissue as food
• French: chair — animal tissue as food
• French: viande — animal tissue as food
• Galician: carne — animal tissue as food
• German: Fleisch — animal tissue as food
• Greek: κρέας (kréas) — animal tissue as food
• Ancient Greek: κρέας (kréas) — animal tissue as food
• Hindi: मांस (māns) — animal tissue as food
• Hindi: लहम (laham) — animal tissue as food
• Hindi: गोश्त (gośt) — animal tissue as food
• Hungarian: hús — animal tissue as food
• Indonesian: daging — animal tissue as food
• Irish: feoil — animal tissue as food
• Japanese: 肉 (niku) — animal tissue as food
• Latin: carō — animal tissue as food
• Latvian: gaļa — animal tissue as food
• Low German: Fleesch — animal tissue as food
• Malayalam: മാംസം (māṁsaṁ) — animal tissue as food
• Malayalam: ഇറച്ചി (iṟacci) — animal tissue as food
• Māori: kiko — animal tissue as food
• Pashto: غوښه (γwəxa) — animal tissue as food
• Plautdietsch: Fleesch — animal tissue as food
• Portuguese: carne — animal tissue as food
• Russian: мя́со (mjáso) — animal tissue as food
• Russian: плоть (plotʹ) — animal tissue as food
• Scottish Gaelic: feòil — animal tissue as food
• Slovene: meso — animal tissue as food
• Spanish: carne — animal tissue as food
• Swahili: kinofu — animal tissue as food
• Swedish: kött — animal tissue as food
• Tarifit: aysum — animal tissue as food
• Tarifit: aksum — animal tissue as food
• Tigrinya: ስጋ (səga) — animal tissue as food
• Tok Pisin: mit — animal tissue as food
• Turkish: et — animal tissue as food
• Urdu: گوشت (gośt) — animal tissue as food
• Urdu: لحم (laham) — animal tissue as food
• Uyghur: ئەت (et) — animal tissue as food
• Uzbek: et — animal tissue as food
• Walloon: tchå — animal tissue as food
• Zulu: inyama — animal tissue as food
• Armenian: մարմին (marmin) — human body entity
• Belarusian: це́ла (cjéla) — human body entity
• Bulgarian: тяло (tjalo) — human body entity
• Czech: tělo — human body entity
• Danish: krop — human body entity
• French: corps — human body entity
• Galician: corpo — human body entity
• Galician: carne — human body entity
• German: Fleisch — human body entity
• German: Leib — human body entity
• Greek: σάρκα (sárka) — human body entity
• Ido: korpo — human body entity
• Irish: colainn — human body entity
• Latin: carō — human body entity
• Latvian: ķermenis — human body entity
• Mpade: shu — human body entity
• Polish: ciało — human body entity
• Portuguese: corpo — human body entity
• Portuguese: carne — human body entity
• Russian: те́ло (télo) — human body entity
• Scottish Gaelic: feòil — human body entity
• Scottish Gaelic: craiceann — human body entity
• Slovak: telo — human body entity
• Slovene: meso — human body entity
• Slovene: telọ̑ — human body entity
• Spanish: carne — human body entity
• Swahili: ngozi — human body entity
• Tok Pisin: mit — human body entity
• Ukrainian: ті́ло (tílo) — human body entity
• Bulgarian: тлен (tlen) — (religion) mortal body
• Finnish: liha — (religion) mortal body
• French: chair — (religion) mortal body
• Galician: carne — (religion) mortal body
• Haitian Creole: lachè — (religion) mortal body
• Hindi: देह (deh) — (religion) mortal body
• Hungarian: test — (religion) mortal body
• Latin: carō — (religion) mortal body
• Slovene: meso — (religion) mortal body
• Thai: เนื้อหนัง (nʉ́ʉa-nǎng) — (religion) mortal body
• Finnish: liha — (religion) evil, sin, corruption
• French: chair — (religion) evil, sin, corruption
• Galician: carne — (religion) evil, sin, corruption
• Haitian Creole: lachè — (religion) evil, sin, corruption
• Irish: colainn — (religion) evil, sin, corruption
• Latin: carō — (religion) evil, sin, corruption
• Czech: dužina — edible part of fruit/vegetable
• Danish: kød — edible part of fruit/vegetable
• Danish: frugtkød — edible part of fruit/vegetable
• Dutch: vruchtvlees — edible part of fruit/vegetable
• Finnish: malto — edible part of fruit/vegetable
• Finnish: hedelmäliha — edible part of fruit/vegetable
• French: pulpe — edible part of fruit/vegetable
• Galician: carne — edible part of fruit/vegetable
• Galician: polpa — edible part of fruit/vegetable
• German: Fleisch — edible part of fruit/vegetable
• German: Fruchtfleisch — edible part of fruit/vegetable
• Greek: σάρκα (sárka) — edible part of fruit/vegetable
• Hindi: गुद्दा (guddā) — edible part of fruit/vegetable
• Hindi: गूदा (gūdā) — edible part of fruit/vegetable
• Hungarian: hús — edible part of fruit/vegetable
• Hungarian: gyümölcshús — edible part of fruit/vegetable
• Ido: pulpo — edible part of fruit/vegetable
• Japanese: 果肉 (kaniku) — edible part of fruit/vegetable
• Latin: carō — edible part of fruit/vegetable
• Latvian: mīkstums — edible part of fruit/vegetable
• Māori: kākano — edible part of fruit/vegetable
• Polish: miąższ — edible part of fruit/vegetable
• Portuguese: polpa — edible part of fruit/vegetable
• Portuguese: carne — edible part of fruit/vegetable
• Russian: мя́коть (mjákotʹ) — edible part of fruit/vegetable
• Samoan: ʻaʻano — edible part of fruit/vegetable
• Scottish Gaelic: feòil — edible part of fruit/vegetable
• Spanish: carne — edible part of fruit/vegetable
• Swahili: ngozi — edible part of fruit/vegetable
• Swedish: fruktkött — edible part of fruit/vegetable
• Telugu: గుజ్జు (gujju) — edible part of fruit/vegetable
• Turkish: et — edible part of fruit/vegetable
• Uyghur: ئەت (et) — edible part of fruit/vegetable
• Uzbek: et — edible part of fruit/vegetable
• Volapük: flukapulp — edible part of fruit/vegetable
• Volapük: pulp — edible part of fruit/vegetable
• Bulgarian: телесен (telesen) — colour
• Catalan: carn — colour
• Chinese Cantonese: 肉色 (juk6 sik1) — colour
• Hakka Chinese: 肉色 (ngiuk-set) — colour
• Chinese: 肉色 (zh-min-nan) — colour
• Chinese Mandarin: 肉色 (ròusè) — colour
• Danish: kødfarve — colour
• Dutch: mensenkleur — colour
• French: carnation — colour
• French: chair — colour
• Galician: carne — colour
• German: Fleischfarbe — colour
• Indonesian: merah daging — colour
• Japanese: 肌色 (hadairo) — colour
• Japanese: ペールオレンジ (pēru orenji) — colour
• Japanese: うすだいだい (usudaidai) — colour
• Korean: 살색 (salsaek) — colour
• Korean: 살구색 (salgusaek) — colour
• Norwegian: hudfarge — colour
• Polish: cielisty — colour
• Portuguese: bege — colour
• Russian: телесный (telesnyj) — colour
• Spanish: carne — colour
• Ukrainian: тілесний (tilesnyj) — colour
• Bulgarian: угоявам (ugojavam) — to put flesh on
• Danish: opfede — to put flesh on
• Dutch: vervetten — to put flesh on
• Dutch: verdikken — to put flesh on
• Dutch: aandikken — to put flesh on
• Georgian: ხორცშესხმა (xorcšesxma) — to put flesh on
• German: zunehmen — to put flesh on
• Persian: پرواربندی (parvaarbandi) — to put flesh on
• Portuguese: engordar — to put flesh on
• Swahili: ngozi — to put flesh on
• German: ausarbeiten — To add details
• German: untermauern — To add details
• Portuguese: enfeitar — To add details
• Swahili: jazia — To add details
• Bulgarian: одирам (odiram) — to remove the flesh
• German: entfleischen — to remove the flesh
• Portuguese: descarnar — to remove the flesh
• Spanish: descarnar — to remove the flesh
• Swahili: bambua — to remove the flesh
• Urdu: کھال اتارنا (khāl utārnā) — to remove the flesh