vegetarian

English

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Vegetarian food.

Etymology

vegetable +‎ -arian; popularized following 1847 foundation of British Vegetarian Society. (Alternatively, it may derive from vegetus +‎ -arian.)

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɛəriən

Noun

vegetarian (plural vegetarians)

1. A person who does not eat animal flesh, or, in some cases, animal products.
   • 1897, Robert Hunter and Charles Morris, Universal Dictionary of the English Language, volume 4, page 5045:

     Vegetarian Society […] A society […] formed at Manchester in 1847, to promote the use of cereals, pulse, and fruit, as articles of diet; and to induce habits of abstinence from fish, flesh, and fowl, as food.

   • 1897, Robert Hunter and Charles Morris, Universal Dictionary of the English Language, volume 4, page 5045:

     vegetarian [...] One who abstains from animal food, living exclusively on vegetables, milk, eggs, and the like. The more strict vegetarians eat vegetables and farinaceous food only, abstaining from eggs, butter, milk, and in some cases, honey.

2. An animal that eats only plants; a herbivore.

Synonyms

• (animal that eats only plants): herbivore (standard term)

Coordinate terms

• (animal that also eats meat): omnivore
• (animal that only eats meat): carnivore
• (person that only eats meat): meatarian, meatatarian

Hyponyms

• (person who does not eat animals): vegan; lactovegetarian, lactarian; lacto-ovo-vegetarian, ovo-lacto-vegetarian, ovolactovegetarian

Translations

person who does not eat any animal flesh

• Arabic: نَباتيّ (ar) (nabaatiyy)
• Catalan: vegetarià (ca) m, vegetariana (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 素食主義者 (cmn), 素食主义者 (cmn) (sùshízhǔyìzhě), 素食者 (cmn) (sùshízhě), 吃素的人 (cmn) (chīsù de rén)

• Czech: vegetarián (cs) m, vegetariánka (cs) f
• Danish: vegetar (da)
• Dutch: vegetariër (nl) m
• Esperanto: vegetarano (eo)
• Finnish: kasvissyöjä (fi), vegetaristi (fi)
• French: végétarien (fr) m, végétarienne (fr) f
• German: Vegetarier (de) m
• Greek: χορτοφάγος (el) (chortofágos) m and f
• Hungarian: vegetáriánus (hu)
• Icelandic: grænmetisæta (is)
• Italian: vegetariano (it) m
• Japanese: 菜食主義者 (ja) (さいしょくしゅぎしゃ, saishoku-shugi-sha), ベジタリアン (ja) (bejitarian)
• Korean: 채식주의자 (ko) (chaesikjuuija)
• Limburgish: greunsaeter (li), gruuensaeter (li)

• Macedonian: вегетаријанец (mk) (vegetarijánec) m, вегетаријанка (mk) (vegetarijánka) f
• Norwegian: vegetarianer (no)
• Persian: گیاهخوار (fa) (giyâhxâr)
• Polish: wegetarianin (pl) m, wegetarianka (pl) f
• Portuguese: vegetariano (pt)
• Romanian: vegetariană (ro) f, vegetarian (ro) m
• Russian: вегетарианец (ru) (vegetariánec) m, вегетарианка (ru) (vegetariánka) f
• Scottish Gaelic: feòil-sheachnair m, glasraichear m, lusair m
• Serbo-Croatian: vegetarijánac (sh) m, vegetarìjānka (sh) f
• Spanish: vegetariano (es) m, vegetariana (es) f
• Swedish: vegetarian (sv) c
• Turkish: vejetaryen (tr) (often misspelt as vejeteryan), etyemez (tr) (very rare)
• Volapük: (male or female) härbatiman (vo), (male) hihärbatiman (vo), (female) jihärbatiman (vo)
• Welsh: llysieuwr (cy) m, llysieuwraig (cy) f
• Yiddish: וועגעטאַריער (yi) (wegetarier)

plant-eating animal

• Czech: býložravec (cs) m
• Danish: planteæder (da) c
• Dutch: herbivoor (nl) m
• Finnish: kasvinsyöjä (fi)
• French: herbivore (fr) m and f
• German: Pflanzenfresser (de) m
• Greek: φυτοφάγο (el) (fytofágo) n
• Hungarian: növényevő (hu)
• Japanese: 草食 (ja) (sōshoku)

• Macedonian: тревопасно (mk) (trevopásno) n
• Polish: roślinożerca
• Romanian: ierbivor (ro) m
• Russian: травоядное (ru) (travojádnoje) n
• Scottish Gaelic: feòil-sheachnair (gd) m, lusair (gd) m, glasraichear (gd) m
• Serbo-Croatian: bȉljojēd (sh) m, bȉljožder (sh) m
• Turkish: otçul (tr)
• Volapük: (male or female) planifidaf (vo), (male) planihifidaf (vo), (female) planijifidaf (vo)

Adjective

vegetarian (comparative more vegetarian, superlative most vegetarian)

1. Of or relating to the type of diet eaten by vegetarians (in all senses).
2. Of a product normally made with meat, having non-meat substitutes in place of meat.
   • 2008, Wil Forbis, Acid Logic: A Decade of Humorous Writing on Pop Culture, Trash Cinema, and Rebel Music, p. 208:

     Is there such a thing as a good tasting vegetarian hot dog? Cuz every one I've tried tasted like smelted tire.

3. (of a person) That does not eat meat.

   I have a vegetarian brother

Translations

relating to the type of diet eaten by vegetarians

• Catalan: vegetarià (ca)
• Dutch: vegetarisch (nl)
• Esperanto: vegetarana (eo)
• Finnish: kasvis-
• French: végétarien (fr)
• German: vegetarisch (de)
• Greek: χορτοφαγικός (el) (chortofagikós) m
• Italian: vegetariano (it)
• Japanese: 菜食主義の (ja) (saishoku-shugi-no) person, 草食の (ja) (sōshoku-no) animal = herbivorous
• Jèrriais: végétarien

• Korean: 채식주의의 (ko) (chaesikjuui-ui) pertaining to vegetarianism
• Latvian: veģetārs (lv)
• Macedonian: вегетаријански (mk) (vegetarijánski)
• Polish: wegetariański (pl) m
• Portuguese: vegetariano (pt)
• Romanian: vegetarial (ro) m
• Russian: вегетарианский (ru) (vegetariánskij)
• Serbo-Croatian: vegetarìjānskī (sh)
• Swedish: vegetarisk (sv)
• Volapük: härbatimik (vo)

of a product normally made with meat, having non-meat substitutes in place of meat

• Jèrriais: végétarien

of a person, that does not eat meat

• Jèrriais: végétarien

Derived terms

• vegetarianism

See also

• fruitarian
• nutarian
• pescetarian
• vegan

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Swedish

Noun

vegetarian c

1. A vegetarian.

Declension

Declension of vegetarian

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Common	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	vegetarian	vegetarianen	vegetarianer	vegetarianerna
genitive	vegetarians	vegetarianens	vegetarianers	vegetarianernas