Noun
veal (countable and uncountable, plural veals)
- The flesh of a calf (i.e. a young bovine) used for food.
- Synonyms: (both nonstandard) calfflesh, calfmeat
- (slang, vulgar) The female genitalia. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
Translations
flesh of a calf
- Arabic: لَحْم عِجْل m (laḥm ʕijl)
- Basque: txahalki (eu)
- Belarusian: цяляціна f (cjaljacina)
- Bulgarian: те́лешко месо́ n (téleško mesó)
- Catalan: vedella (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 牛仔肉 (ngau4 zai2 juk6)
- Mandarin: 小牛肉 (zh) (xiǎoniúròu)
- Czech: telecí (cs) n
- Danish: kalvekød (da) n
- Dutch: kalfsvlees (nl) n
- Esperanto: bovidaĵo
- Estonian: vasikaliha
- Finnish: vasikanliha (fi), vasikka (fi)
- French: veau (fr) m
- Galician: tenreira f, vitela (gl) f
- Georgian: ხბოს ხორცი (xbos xorci)
- German: Kalbfleisch (de) n
- Greek: μοσχάρι (el) n (moschári), μοσχαράκι (el) n (moscharáki)
- Hebrew: (בְּשַׂר) עֵגֶל n ((b'sar) 'égel)
- Hungarian: borjúhús (hu)
- Icelandic: kálfakjöt (is) n
- Indonesian: daging sapi muda
- Irish: laofheoil f
- Italian: vitello (it) m
- Japanese: 仔牛肉 (こうしにく, koushiniku)
- Korean: 송아지 고기 (song'aji gogi)
- Latin: vitulīna f
- Latvian: teļa gaļa f
- Lithuanian: veršiena f
- Luxembourgish: Kalleffleesch n
- Macedonian: телешко n (teleško), јунешко n (juneško) (older calf's meat)
- Maltese: vitella f
- Manx: feill lheiy f
- Navajo: béégashii yáázh bitsįʼ
- Norman: vieau m
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: kalvekjøtt n
- Nynorsk: kalvekjøt n, kalvekjøtt n
- Old English: ċealf n, ċealfes flǣsċ n
- Polish: cielęcina (pl) f
- Portuguese: vitela (pt) f
- Romanian: carne de vițel f, vițel (ro) m
- Russian: теля́тина (ru) f (teljátina)
- Scottish Gaelic: feòil-laoigh f
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: телетина f
- Roman: teletina (sh) f
- Spanish: ternera (es) f
- Swedish: kalv (sv), kalvkött (sv) n
- Tagalog: karning-guya
- Turkish: dana eti (tr)
- Ukrainian: теля́тина f (teljátyna)
- Volapük: (obsolete) smaxolamit
- Yiddish: קאַלבנפֿלייש n (kalbnfleysh), קעלבערנס n (kelberns)
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Verb
veal (third-person singular simple present veals, present participle vealing, simple past and past participle vealed)
- To raise a calf for meat production.
1811, George B. Worgan, General View of the Agriculture of the County of Cornwall, Great Britain: Board of Agriculture, page 144:The division outside the vealing place is for a cow that has had or is near having calf.
1852, Thomas Mayne Reid, The Desert Home:It was about the size of a vealed calf, but shorter in the legs, and much longer in the body.