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schnitzel

noun · 4 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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Pronunciation

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  • /ˈʃnɪts(ə)l/
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1

noun

Meaning 1

A dish consisting of fried veal cutlet.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

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Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

A Germanic dish of breaded and deep-fried meat cutlet.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: broadly, countable, uncountable

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Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

3

noun

Meaning 3

A cutlet from this dish.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable

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Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

4

noun

Meaning 4

deep-fried breaded veal cutlets

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: Wiener schnitzel

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: dish

History

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from German Schnitzel (“cutlet”).

Across languages

Translations

37 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Arabic: شْنِيتْزَل (šnītzal) — a meat dish
  • Azerbaijani: шницел — a meat dish
  • Belarusian: шні́цаль (šnícalʹ) — a meat dish
  • Bulgarian: шни́цел (šnícel) — a meat dish
  • Chinese Mandarin: 炸肉片 (zhàròupiàn) — a meat dish
  • Chinese Mandarin: 炸肉排 (zhàròupái) — a meat dish
  • Czech: řízek — a meat dish
  • Czech: šnycl — a meat dish
  • Danish: schnitzel — a meat dish
  • Dutch: schnitzel — a meat dish
  • Finnish: vasikanleike — a meat dish
  • French: schnitzel — a meat dish
  • Gagauz: şniţel — a meat dish
  • German: (paniertes) Schnitzel — a meat dish
  • Hebrew: שְׁנִיצֶל (shnitzel) — a meat dish
  • Hindi: श्नित्सल (śnitsal) — a meat dish
  • Italian: milanesa — a meat dish
  • Japanese: シュニッツェル (shunittseru) — a meat dish
  • Kazakh: шницель (şniţel') — a meat dish
  • Korean: 슈니첼 (syunichel) — a meat dish
  • Lithuanian: šnicelis — a meat dish
  • Macedonian: шни́цла (šnícla) — a meat dish
  • Māori: kikokōripi — a meat dish
  • Persian: شنیتسل (šenitsel) — a meat dish
  • Polish: sznycel — a meat dish
  • Portuguese: schnitzel — a meat dish
  • Romanian: șnițel — a meat dish
  • Russian: шни́цель (šnícelʹ) — a meat dish
  • Serbo-Croatian: шницл — a meat dish
  • Serbo-Croatian: шницла — a meat dish
  • Serbo-Croatian: šnicl — a meat dish
  • Serbo-Croatian: šnicla — a meat dish
  • Spanish: milanesa — a meat dish
  • Swedish: schnitzel — a meat dish
  • Turkish: şnitzel — a meat dish
  • Ukrainian: шні́цель (šnícelʹ) — a meat dish
  • Yiddish: שניצל (shnitsl) — a meat dish