sweetbread

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈswiːtbɹɛd/
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• General-American: /ˈswitˌbɹɛd/
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Apparently from sweet + bread, though the reason is not immediately evident. Possibly connected with Dutch zwezerik, whose etymology is also unclear.

Compound of sweet + bread.

34 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Bulgarian: момици (momici) — pancreas or thymus gland of an animal as food
• Catalan: lletó — pancreas or thymus gland of an animal as food
• Dutch: (thymus) zwezerik — pancreas or thymus gland of an animal as food
• Finnish: haima (pancreas) — pancreas or thymus gland of an animal as food
• Finnish: kateenkorva (thymus) — pancreas or thymus gland of an animal as food
• French: (pancreas/thymus gland of calf/lamb) ris — pancreas or thymus gland of an animal as food
• Galician: molexa — pancreas or thymus gland of an animal as food
• German: Bries — pancreas or thymus gland of an animal as food
• German: Kalbsmilch — pancreas or thymus gland of an animal as food
• German: Milke — pancreas or thymus gland of an animal as food
• Greek: γλυκάδι (glykádi) — pancreas or thymus gland of an animal as food
• Ancient Greek: πάγκρεας (pánkreas) — pancreas or thymus gland of an animal as food
• Irish: briseán — pancreas or thymus gland of an animal as food
• Irish: briseán milis — pancreas or thymus gland of an animal as food
• Irish: dúlia — pancreas or thymus gland of an animal as food
• Italian: animelle — pancreas or thymus gland of an animal as food
• Japanese: シビレ (shibire) — pancreas or thymus gland of an animal as food
• Navajo: alohkʼeʼ — pancreas or thymus gland of an animal as food
• Norman: brie — pancreas or thymus gland of an animal as food
• Norwegian Bokmål: brissel — pancreas or thymus gland of an animal as food
• Norwegian Bokmål: kalvebrissel — pancreas or thymus gland of an animal as food
• Persian: خوشگوشت (xoš-gušt) — pancreas or thymus gland of an animal as food
• Polish: trzustka — pancreas or thymus gland of an animal as food
• Polish: grasica — pancreas or thymus gland of an animal as food
• Portuguese: moleja — pancreas or thymus gland of an animal as food
• Romanian: momiță — pancreas or thymus gland of an animal as food
• Russian: сла́дкое мя́со (sládkoje mjáso) — pancreas or thymus gland of an animal as food
• Russian: поджелу́дочная железа́ (podželúdočnaja železá) — pancreas or thymus gland of an animal as food
• Serbo-Croatian: бризла — pancreas or thymus gland of an animal as food
• Serbo-Croatian: brizla — pancreas or thymus gland of an animal as food
• Spanish: molleja — pancreas or thymus gland of an animal as food
• Spanish: lechecilla — pancreas or thymus gland of an animal as food
• Swedish: kalvbräss — pancreas or thymus gland of an animal as food
• Turkish: uykuluk — pancreas or thymus gland of an animal as food