corn flakes

See also: cornflakes and Cornflakes

English

A bowl of corn flakes.

Noun

corn flakes pl (normally plural, singular corn flake)

1. A breakfast cereal made from toasted flakes of maize.

Derived terms

• piss in someone's cornflakes

Descendants

Descendants

• → Bulgarian: корнфле́йкс (kornfléjks)
• → German: Cornflakes
• → Greek: κορνφλέικς (kornfléiks)
• → Icelandic: kornflex
• → Polish: kornfleksy
• → Russian: корнфле́кс (kornfléks)

Translations

breakfast cereal

• Arabic: رَقَائِق ذُرَة f pl (raqāʔiq ḏura)

  Hijazi Arabic: كورن فليكس m (kōrn flēks)

• Bulgarian: корнфле́йкс m (kornfléjks)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 玉米片 (zh) (yùmǐpiàn), 粟米片 (sùmǐpiàn)

• Cornish: yskans (collective)
• Czech: kukuřičné lupínky pl
• Danish: cornflakes pl
• Esperanto: maizflokoj pl
• Finnish: maissihiutaleet pl
• French: flocons de maïs m pl
• Galician: flocos de millo m pl
• German: Cornflakes (de) pl
• Greek: κορνφλέικς (el) n pl (kornfléiks)
• Hindi: कॉर्नफ़्लेक्स (kŏrnafleks)
• Icelandic: kornflex, kornflögur
• Irish: calóga arbhair f pl
• Italian: fiocchi di mais m pl
• Japanese: コーンフレーク (kōnfurēku)
• Korean: 콘플레이크 (ko) (konpeulleikeu)
• Lezgi: кӏекер (ḳeker)
• Malay: emping jagung
• Maori: kāngarere
• Navajo: tséʼástʼéítsooí
• Persian: کرن فلکس (korn fleks)
• Polish: kornfleksy m pl, płatki śniadaniowe m pl, płatki z kukurydzy m pl, płatki kukurydziane m pl
• Portuguese: flocos de milho m pl
• Russian: кукуру́зные хло́пья n pl (kukurúznyje xlópʹja), хло́пья (ru) n pl (xlópʹja), корнфле́кс (ru) m (kornfléks)
• Spanish: copos de maíz m pl
• Swedish: cornflakes (sv) pl, flingor (sv) pl, majsflingor (sv) pl
• Turkish: mısır gevreği sg
• Ukrainian: кукурудзяні пластівці m pl (kukurudzjani plastivci)
• Vietnamese: bánh bột ngô nướng
• Yiddish: פּאַפּשוי־שנייעלעך (papshoy-shneyelekh)

References

• corn flakes on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “corn flakes”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 2000, →ISBN.
• “corn flakes”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.