horsemeat

English

Alternative forms

• horse meat

Etymology

From horse +‎ meat.

Noun

horsemeat (usually uncountable, plural horsemeats)

1. The meat from a horse.
   • 2015, Ian Marcouse, Andrew Hammond, Nigel Watson, Edexcel Business A Level Year 1: Including AS:

     In January 2013, supermarkets were hit by an extraordinary scandal as it emerged that foods made of processed 'beef' actually contained horsemeat.

Translations

horse meat

• Afrikaans: perdevleis (af)
• Arabic: لَحْم حِصَان m (laḥm ḥiṣān)
• Catalan: carn de cavall
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 馬肉／马肉 (zh) (mǎròu)

• Danish: hestekød (da) n
• Esperanto: ĉevalaĵo
• Finnish: hevosenliha (fi), hevonen (fi)
• French: viande de cheval f
• German: Pferdefleisch (de) n
• Haitian Creole: vyann chwal
• Hungarian: lóhús (hu)
• Icelandic: hrossakjöt (is) n
• Ido: kavalokarno (io)
• Irish: feoil chapaill f
• Japanese: 馬肉 (ja) (ばにく, baniku), 桜肉 (ja) (さくらにく, sakuraniku)
• Korean: 말고기 (malgogi), 마육 (mayuk)
• Lithuanian: arkliena f
• Maltese: laħam taż-żiemel m
• Mongolian: адууны мах (aduuny max)
• Norman: viande dé j'va f (Jersey)
• Polish: konina (pl) f
• Portuguese: carne de cavalo f
• Russian: кони́на (ru) f (konína)
• Spanish: carne de caballo f
• Swedish: hästkött (sv) n
• Vietnamese: thịt ngựa
• Volapük: jevodamit, jevodülamit (young horse)

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