Etymology
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Borrowed from Middle French nutrition, from Old French nutricion, from Latin nutritio.
Pronunciation
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nutrition (usually uncountable, plural nutritions)
- (biology) The organic process by which an organism assimilates food and uses it for growth and maintenance.
1822, John Barclay, chapter I, in An Inquiry Into the Opinions, Ancient and Modern, Concerning Life and Organization[1], Edinburgh, London: Bell & Bradfute; Waugh & Innes; G. & W. B. Whittaker, section I, page 2:In the dead state all is apparently without motion. No agent within indicates design, intelligence, or foresight: there is no respiration; no digestion, circulation, or nutrition; […]
- That which nourishes; nutriment.
I accidentally ate a worm which was in my apple - my uncle said the extra nutrition would do me good.
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nutrition
- Albanian: ushqim (sq) m
- Arabic: تَغْذِيَة (ar) f (taḡḏiya), غِذَاء m (ḡiḏāʔ), إِطْعَام m (ʔiṭʕām), اِغْتِذَاء m (iḡtiḏāʔ)
- Armenian: սնուցում (hy) (snucʻum)
- Azerbaijani: qidalanma, qida (az)
- Belarusian: харчава́нне n (xarčavánnje)
- Bengali: গেজা (bn) (geza)
- Bulgarian: хра́нене (bg) n (hránene)
- Burmese: အာဟာရ (my) (ahara.)
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 營養／营养 (jing4 joeng5)
- Hokkien: 營養／营养 (zh-min-nan) (îng-ióng)
- Mandarin: 營養／营养 (zh) (yíngyǎng)
- Czech: výživa (cs) f
- Danish: ernæring
- Dutch: voeding (nl) f
- Estonian: toitumine
- Finnish: ravitsemus (fi)
- French: nutrition (fr) f
- Galician: nutrición (gl) f
- Georgian: კვება (ḳveba)
- German: Ernährung (de) f, Nahrung (de) f, Nutrition (de) f
- Greek: διατροφή (el) (diatrofí), θρέψη (el) f (thrépsi)
- Hebrew: תְּזוּנָה f (t'zuná)
- Hindi: पोषण (hi) m (poṣaṇ), खाद्य (hi) m (khādya), खाना (hi) m (khānā)
- Hungarian: táplálás (hu)
- Icelandic: næring (is) f
- Indonesian: nutrisi (id), gizi (id)
- Irish: oiliúint f
- Italian: nutrizione (it) f
- Japanese: 営養 (ja) (えいよう, eiyō), 栄養 (ja) (えいよう, eiyō)
- Kazakh: тамақтандыру (tamaqtandyru), азықтану (azyqtanu), тамақтану (tamaqtanu)
- Korean: 영양 (ko) (yeong'yang)
- Kyrgyz: азыктандыруу (azıktandıruu), азыктануу (ky) (azıktanuu), тоюттандыруу (ky) (toyuttandıruu), тоюттануу (toyuttanuu)
- Latvian: uzturs m
- Lithuanian: mityba f
- Macedonian: исхрана f (ishrana), прехрана f (prehrana)
- Malayalam: പോഷണം (ml) (pōṣaṇaṁ)
- Maori: taioranga
- Norwegian: ernæring (no)
- Persian: تغذیه (fa) (tağziye), غذا (fa) (ğazâ)
- Polish: żywienie (pl) n, pożywienie (pl) n, odżywianie (pl) n
- Portuguese: nutrição (pt) f
- Romanian: nutrire (ro), nutriție (ro) f
- Russian: пита́ние (ru) n (pitánije)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: и̏схрана f, пре̏храна f
- Roman: ȉshrana (sh) f, prȅhrana (sh) f
- Slovak: výživa f
- Slovene: prehrana (sl) f
- Spanish: nutrición (es) f
- Swedish: näring (sv), näringslära
- Tagalog: paniyahan, paniya
- Tajik: ғизо (tg) (ġizo), хӯрок (tg) (xürok), тағзия (taġziya)
- Thai: โภชนาการ (th) (poo-chá-naa-gaan)
- Turkish: beslenme (tr)
- Turkmen: iýmitlenmek
- Ukrainian: харчува́ння n (xarčuvánnja)
- Uzbek: boqish (uz), oziqlanish
- Vietnamese: sự dinh dưỡng, dinh dưỡng (vi)
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