mince

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• General-American, Received-Pronunciation: /mɪns/
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• rhymes with -ɪns
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• homophone: mints (most US speakers, also common elsewhere)
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• CMU ARPABET: M IH1 N S Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From Middle English mincen, minsen; partly from Old English minsian, ġeminsian (“to make less, make smaller, diminish”), from Proto-West Germanic *minnisōn, from Proto-Germanic *minnisōną (“to make less”); partly from Old French mincer, mincier (“to cut into small pieces”), from mince (“slender, slight, puny”), from Frankish *minsto, *minnisto, superlative of *min, *minn (“small, less”), from Proto-Germanic *minniz (“less”); both from Proto-Indo-European *mey- (“small, little”). Cognate with Old Saxon minsōn (“to make less, make smaller”), Old Dutch minson (“to make smaller”), Gothic 𐌼𐌹𐌽𐌶𐌽𐌰𐌽 (minznan, “to become less, diminish”), Swedish minska (“to reduce, lessen”), Gothic 𐌼𐌹𐌽𐍃 (mins, “slender, slight”). More at min.

159 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Afrikaans: maalvleis — finely chopped meat — see also ground beef
• Western Apache: itsį’ ik’aaní — finely chopped meat — see also ground beef
• Arabic: لَحْم مَفْرُوم (laḥm mafrūm) — finely chopped meat — see also ground beef
• Azerbaijani: qiymə — finely chopped meat — see also ground beef
• Belarusian: фарш (farš) — finely chopped meat — see also ground beef
• Bulgarian: кайма́ (kajmá) — finely chopped meat — see also ground beef
• Catalan: carn picada — finely chopped meat — see also ground beef
• Catalan: carn picolada — finely chopped meat — see also ground beef
• Catalan: carn capolada — finely chopped meat — see also ground beef
• Catalan: carn trinxada — finely chopped meat — see also ground beef
• Chinese Cantonese: 肉碎 (juk6 seoi3) — finely chopped meat — see also ground beef
• Chinese Cantonese: 免治 (min5 zi6) — finely chopped meat — see also ground beef
• Chinese Mandarin: 肉餡 /肉馅 (ròuxiàn) — finely chopped meat — see also ground beef
• Chinese Mandarin: 醢 (hǎi) — finely chopped meat — see also ground beef
• Chinese Mandarin: 碎肉 (suìròu) — finely chopped meat — see also ground beef
• Chinese Mandarin: 免治肉 (miǎnzhìròu) — finely chopped meat — see also ground beef
• Cornish: kig divynys — finely chopped meat — see also ground beef
• Czech: sekaná — finely chopped meat — see also ground beef
• Czech: mleté maso — finely chopped meat — see also ground beef
• Dutch: gehakt — finely chopped meat — see also ground beef
• Estonian: hakkliha — finely chopped meat — see also ground beef
• Finnish: jauheliha — finely chopped meat — see also ground beef
• French: hachis — finely chopped meat — see also ground beef
• French: viande hachée — finely chopped meat — see also ground beef
• German: Hackfleisch — finely chopped meat — see also ground beef
• German: Gehacktes — finely chopped meat — see also ground beef
• German: Hack — finely chopped meat — see also ground beef
• German: Hackepeter — finely chopped meat — see also ground beef
• German: Faschiertes — finely chopped meat — see also ground beef
• Greek: κιμάς (kimás) — finely chopped meat — see also ground beef
• Ancient Greek: περίκομμα (períkomma) — finely chopped meat — see also ground beef
• Ancient Greek: ἰσίκιον (isíkion) — finely chopped meat — see also ground beef
• Hungarian: vagdalt — finely chopped meat — see also ground beef
• Ido: hachajo — finely chopped meat — see also ground beef
• Ido: hachita karno — finely chopped meat — see also ground beef
• Indonesian: daging cincang — finely chopped meat — see also ground beef
• Irish: mionfheoil — finely chopped meat — see also ground beef
• Italian: macinato — finely chopped meat — see also ground beef
• Japanese: 挽肉 (hikiniku) — finely chopped meat — see also ground beef
• Japanese: 肉餡 (nikuan) — finely chopped meat — see also ground beef
• Korean: 민스미트 (minseumiteu) — finely chopped meat — see also ground beef
• Korean: 고기소 (gogiso) — finely chopped meat — see also ground beef
• Latin: minūtal — finely chopped meat — see also ground beef
• Lithuanian: zuikis — finely chopped meat — see also ground beef
• Lithuanian: faršas (semi-finished) — finely chopped meat — see also ground beef
• Macedonian: мелено месо (meleno meso) — finely chopped meat — see also ground beef
• Malay: daging cincang — finely chopped meat — see also ground beef
• Māori: mīti kōnatunatu — finely chopped meat — see also ground beef
• Māori: mīti mōrohe — finely chopped meat — see also ground beef
• Mongolian: татсан мах (tatsan max) — finely chopped meat — see also ground beef
• Mongolian: ᠲᠠᠲᠠᠭᠰᠠᠨ ᠮᠢᠬ᠎ᠠ (tataɣsan miq-a) — finely chopped meat — see also ground beef
• Norwegian Bokmål: kjøttdeig — finely chopped meat — see also ground beef
• Norwegian Bokmål: farse — finely chopped meat — see also ground beef
• Norwegian Nynorsk: kjøttdeig — finely chopped meat — see also ground beef
• Norwegian Nynorsk: kjøtdeig — finely chopped meat — see also ground beef
• Norwegian Nynorsk: farse — finely chopped meat — see also ground beef
• Persian: قیمه (qeyme) — finely chopped meat — see also ground beef
• Polish: mięso mielone — finely chopped meat — see also ground beef
• Portuguese: carne moída — finely chopped meat — see also ground beef
• Punjabi: ਕ਼ੀਮਾ (qīmā) — finely chopped meat — see also ground beef
• Romanian: carne tocată — finely chopped meat — see also ground beef
• Russian: фарш (farš) — finely chopped meat — see also ground beef
• Scottish Gaelic: mions — finely chopped meat — see also ground beef
• Serbo-Croatian: млевено месо — finely chopped meat — see also ground beef
• Serbo-Croatian: мљевено месо — finely chopped meat — see also ground beef
• Serbo-Croatian: mleveno meso — finely chopped meat — see also ground beef
• Serbo-Croatian: mljeveno meso — finely chopped meat — see also ground beef
• Spanish: picadillo — finely chopped meat — see also ground beef
• Spanish: carne picada — finely chopped meat — see also ground beef
• Spanish: carne molida — finely chopped meat — see also ground beef
• Swedish: köttfärs — finely chopped meat — see also ground beef
• Swedish: malet kött — finely chopped meat — see also ground beef
• Turkish: kıyma — finely chopped meat — see also ground beef
• Ottoman Turkish: قیمه (kıyma) — finely chopped meat — see also ground beef
• Ukrainian: фарш (farš) — finely chopped meat — see also ground beef
• Uzbek: qiyma — finely chopped meat — see also ground beef
• Vietnamese: thịt băm — finely chopped meat — see also ground beef
• Vietnamese: thịt vằm — finely chopped meat — see also ground beef
• Welsh: briwgig — finely chopped meat — see also ground beef
• Yiddish: האַקפֿלייש (hakfleysh) — finely chopped meat — see also ground beef
• Yiddish: קרעפּלפֿלייש (kreplfleysh) — finely chopped meat — see also ground beef
• Chinese Mandarin: 扭捏 (niǔnie) — short precise step
• Chinese Mandarin: 扭扭捏捏 (niǔniuniēniē) — short precise step
• Finnish: sipsutus — short precise step
• Norwegian: tripping — short precise step
• Polish: kroczek — short precise step
• Chinese Mandarin: 扭捏 (niǔnie) — affected manner
• Chinese Mandarin: 扭扭捏捏 (niǔniuniēniē) — affected manner
• Finnish: hienostelu — affected manner
• Finnish: sievistely — affected manner
• Polish: afektacja — affected manner
• Afrikaans: maal — to chop fine
• Armenian: աղալ (aġal) — to chop fine
• Bulgarian: кълцам (kǎlcam) — to chop fine
• Bulgarian: меля (melja) — to chop fine
• Chinese Cantonese: 切碎 (cit3 seoi3) — to chop fine
• Chinese Mandarin: 剁碎 (duòsuì) — to chop fine
• Dutch: hakken — to chop fine
• Finnish: hienontaa — to chop fine
• Finnish: silputa — to chop fine
• French: hacher — to chop fine
• Galician: picar — to chop fine
• Galician: trillar — to chop fine
• German: hacken — to chop fine
• German: wolfen — to chop fine
• German: kleinhacken — to chop fine
• Greek: ψιλοκόβω (psilokóvo) — to chop fine
• Greek: λιανίζω (lianízo) — to chop fine
• Italian: tritare — to chop fine
• Italian: macinare — to chop fine
• Khmer: ចិញ្ច្រាំ (ceñcram) — to chop fine
• Macedonian: меле (mele) — to chop fine
• Māori: kōnatunatu — to chop fine
• Norman: hadgi — to chop fine
• Norwegian: finhakke — to chop fine
• Persian: خرد کردن (xord-kardan) — to chop fine
• Polish: mielić — to chop fine
• Polish: zmielić — to chop fine
• Portuguese: picar — to chop fine
• Quechua: ichiy — to chop fine
• Romanian: toca — to chop fine
• Russian: кроши́ть (krošítʹ) — to chop fine
• Spanish: picar — to chop fine
• Spanish: repicar — to chop fine
• Spanish: trizar — to chop fine
• Spanish: destrizar — to chop fine
• Swedish: finhacka — to chop fine
• Thai: สับ (sàp) — to chop fine
• Tibetan: བཙབས (btsabs) — to chop fine
• Turkish: kıymak — to chop fine
• Vietnamese: băm — to chop fine
• Vietnamese: bằm — to chop fine
• Bulgarian: смекчавам (smekčavam) — to suppress or weaken the force of
• German: abschwächen — to suppress or weaken the force of
• German: unterdrücken — to suppress or weaken the force of
• German: mildern — to suppress or weaken the force of
• Italian: moderare — to suppress or weaken the force of
• Polish: osłabiać — to suppress or weaken the force of
• Polish: osłabić — to suppress or weaken the force of
• Polish: moderować — to suppress or weaken the force of
• Polish: zmoderować — to suppress or weaken the force of
• Russian: преуменьша́ть (preumenʹšátʹ) — to suppress or weaken the force of
• Chinese Mandarin: 扭捏 (niǔnie) — to walk in short precise step
• Chinese Mandarin: 扭扭捏捏 (niǔniuniēniē) — to walk in short precise step
• Finnish: sipsuttaa — to walk in short precise step
• German: trippeln — to walk in short precise step
• Norwegian: trippe — to walk in short precise step
• Polish: dreptać — to walk in short precise step
• Polish: tuptać — to walk in short precise step
• Polish: drobić — to walk in short precise step
• Quechua: ichiy — to walk in short precise step
• Russian: семенить (semenitʹ) — to walk in short precise step
• Chinese Mandarin: 扭捏 (niǔnie) — to act or talk with affected nicety
• Chinese Mandarin: 扭扭捏捏 (niǔniuniēniē) — to act or talk with affected nicety
• Finnish: sievistellä — to act or talk with affected nicety
• Finnish: keimailla — to act or talk with affected nicety
• Greek: πουστοφέρνω (poustoférno) — to act or talk with affected nicety
• Polish: zachowywać się sztucznie — to act or talk with affected nicety
• Polish: zachować się sztucznie — to act or talk with affected nicety