EtymologyEdit
Borrowing from French abattoir, from abattre (“to slaughter”) (cognate to abate) + -oir (“-ory”).
PronunciationEdit
abattoir (plural abattoirs)
- A public slaughterhouse for cattle, sheep, etc. [Early 19th century.][1]
- A place likened to a slaughterhouse.[2]
TranslationsEdit
public slaughterhouse
- Afrikaans: slaghuis
- Arabic: مَسْلَخ m (maslaḵ), مَجْزَر m (majzar)
- Egyptian Arabic: سلخانة f (salaxana), مدبح m (madbaḥḥ)
- Moroccan Arabic: ڭرنة f (garna)
- Belarusian: бойня f (bójnja)
- Bulgarian: кланица (bg) f (klánica)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 屠宰場 (zh), 屠宰场 (zh) (túzǎichǎng)
- Czech: jatky f pl
- Dutch: slachthuis (nl) n, abattoir (nl) n, slachterij f
- Esperanto: buĉejo
- Finnish: teurastamo (fi)
- French: abattoir (fr) m
- Friulian: macel m
- German: Schlachthaus (de) n, Schlachthof (de) m
- Greek: σφαγείο (el) n (sfageío)
- Hindi: बूचड़खाना (hi) m (būcaṛkhānā), वधशाला (vadhshālā), कसाईखाना (hi) (kasāeekhānā), वधस्थली (vadhasthalee)
- Hungarian: vágóhíd (hu)
- Icelandic: sláturhús n
- Irish: teach coscartha m, seamlas
- Italian: mattatoio (it) m, macello (it) m
- Japanese: 屠畜場 (とちくじょう, tochikujō), 屠場 (とじょう, tojō, とば, toba), 畜殺場 (ちくさつば, chikusatsuba)
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- Macedonian: кланица f (klanica)
- Malay: rumah sembelihan, rumah potong, rumah sembelih, pejagalan, pembantaian, penjagalan
- Maori: wharepatu
- Norwegian: slakterhus n, slakteri (no) n
- Persian: کشتارگاه (fa) (koštârgâh), سلاخ خانه (fa) (sallâx-xâne)
- Polish: rzeźnia (pl) f, ubojnia f
- Portuguese: matadouro (pt) m, açougue (pt), abatedouro (pt) m
- Romanian: abator (ro) n, măcelărie (ro) f
- Russian: бо́йня (ru) f (bójnja), скотобо́йня (ru) f (skotobójnja)
- Scottish Gaelic: taigh-spadaidh m
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: клаоница f
- Roman: klaonica (sh) f
- Slovak: jatka f
- Slovene: klavnica f
- Spanish: matadero (es) m
- Swedish: slakteri (sv) n, slakthus (sv) n
- Tagalog: bahay-katayan, lapaan
- Turkish: mezbaha (tr)
- Ukrainian: бо́йня (uk) f (bójnja)
- Venetian: maseło m, maçelo
- Vietnamese: lò mổ (vi), lò sát sinh (vi)
- Volapük: pugöp (vo)
- Walloon: abatwer (wa) m
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a place likened to be a slaughterhouse
ReferencesEdit
- ^ Lesley Brown (editor), The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, 5th edition (Oxford University Press, 2003 [1933], ISBN 978-0-19-860575-7), page 2
- ^ American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
