snack

See also: Snack

Contents

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /snæk/
• Rhymes: -æk

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch snacken (“to snack”).

Noun

snack (plural snacks)

1. A light meal.
2. An item of food eaten between meals.

Synonyms

• (a light meal): See Thesaurus:meal

Derived terms

Derived terms

• snack bar
• snacker
• snackery
• snackette

• snack food
• snackless
• snacky

Translations

a light meal

• Arabic: وَجْبَة خَفِيفَة‎ f (wajba ḵafīfa)
• Burmese: သရေစာ (my) (sa.reca), မုန့် (my) (mun.)
• Catalan: refrigeri m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 零食 (zh) (língshí), 快餐 (zh) (kuàicān), 小吃 (zh) (xiǎochī)

• Czech: svačina (cs) f
• Danish: snack c
• Dutch: tussendoortje (nl) n
• Esperanto: kolaziono, manĝeto
• Finnish: välipala (fi), pikkupurtava
• French: casse-croûte (fr) m or casse-croute (fr) m, hors-d'œuvre (fr) m, goûter (fr) m
• Georgian: წახემსება (c̣axemseba), წასაუზმება (c̣asauzmeba)
• German: Imbiss (de) m, Happen (de) m, Snack (de) m, Jause (de) f (Austria)
• Greek: κολατσιό (el) n (kolatsió)

  Ancient Greek: ἔμβρωμα n (émbrōma)

• Hungarian: falatozás (hu), uzsonna (hu), tízórai
• Ido: repasteto (io)
• Irish: scroid f, raisín m
• Italian: spuntino (it) m

• Japanese: 軽食 (ja) (けいしょく, keishoku), スナック (sunakku)
• Korean: 간단한 식사 (gandanhan siksa), 경식 (ko) (gyeongsik)
• Latin: merenda f
• Macedonian: у́жина f (úžina), за́куска f (zákuska)
• Malay: snek (ms)
• Mongolian: зууш (mn) (zuuš)
• Norwegian: matbit
• Old English: nōngereord n, nōnmete m (midafternoon meal)
• Polish: przekąska (pl) f
• Portuguese: lanche (pt) m, comidinha f, petisco (pt) m
• Quechua: quqawi
• Russian: заку́ска (ru) f (zakúska), переку́с (ru) m (perekús), лёгкая заку́ска f (ljóxkaja zakúska)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Roman: zakuska (sh) f, užina (sh) f

• Spanish: tentempié (es) m, (formal usage) refrigerio m, (figurative usage - also : bocadillo) bocado (es) m, (Mexico) botana (es) f, (Southern Spain) piquislabis m, (Spain standard usage) piscolabis (es) m, (Guatemala) refacción m, (Venezuela, colloquial) bala fría (es) f
• Swedish: mellanmål (sv), fika (sv)
• Tagalog: dautan, meryenda
• Turkish: atıştırmalık (tr), çerez (tr)
• Ukrainian: заку́ска f (zakúska)

an item of food eaten between meals

• Burmese: မုန့် (my) (mun.)
• Catalan: piscolabis (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 零食 (zh) (língshí)

• Czech: svačina (cs) f
• Danish: snack c
• Dutch: tussendoortje (nl)
• Finnish: välipala (fi)
• French: casse-croûte (fr) m or casse-croute (fr) m, grignotage (fr) m
• Georgian: მსუბუქი საჭმელი (msubuki sač̣meli), საუზმეული (sauzmeuli)
• German: Zwischenmahlzeit (de) f
• Greek: κολατσιό (el) n (kolatsió)

  Ancient Greek: ἔμβρωμα n (émbrōma)

• Hungarian: harapnivaló (hu)
• Irish: sneaic f, smailc f
• Italian: merendina (it) f
• Japanese: 間食 (ja) (かんしょく, kanshoku), (especially around 3 pm) おやつ (ja) (oyatsu)
• Kabuverdianu: fatióta

• Khmer: អាហារសម្រន់ (aahaa sɑmrɑn)
• Korean: 간식 (ko) (gansik)
• Lao: please add this translation if you can
• Latin: merenda f
• Maori: paramanawa
• Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
• Navajo: naalghazhí
• Nepali: please add this translation if you can
• Polish: przekąska (pl) f
• Portuguese: lanche (pt) m
• Russian: заку́ска (ru) f (zakúska), по́лдник (ru) m (póldnik)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Roman: zakuska (sh) f, užina (sh) f

• Spanish: tentempié (es) m, (formal usage) refrigerio m, (figurative usage - also : bocadillo) bocado (es) m, (Mexico) botana (es) f, (Southern Spain) piquislabis m, (Spain standard usage) piscolabis (es) m, (Guatemala) refacción m, (Venezuela, colloquial) bala fría (es) f
• Swedish: mellanmål (sv)
• Thai: ของว่าง (th) (kɔ̌ɔng-wâang), อาหารว่าง (th)
• Tibetan: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: çerez (tr), atıştırmalık (tr)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout#Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Italian: ^{(please verify)} lo spuntino (it) m
• Mongolian: ^{(please verify)} зууш (mn) (zuuš)
• Spanish: (Ecuador, Guatemala, México) ^{(please verify)} antojito m, ^{(please verify)} aperitivo (es) m, (Mexico) ^{(please verify)} botana (es), (Colombia) ^{(please verify)} pasaboca (es), (Venezuela) ^{(please verify)} pasapalo, ^{(please verify)} pincho (es) m, (Spain) ^{(please verify)} tapa (es) f

• Tagalog: ^{(please verify)} meryenda
• Tibetan: ^{(please verify)} ཁ་ཏོག (kha tog)

See also

• munchies
• fast food
• take-away

Verb

snack (third-person singular simple present snacks, present participle snacking, simple past and past participle snacked)

1. to eat a light meal
2. to eat between meals

Derived terms

• snack down

Translations

to eat a light meal

• Esperanto: manĝeti
• Finnish: syödä välipala
• French: grignoter (fr)
• Georgian: წაიხემსებს (c̣aixemsebs)
• German: jausnen (Austria)

• Macedonian: ужина (úžina)
• Middle High German: naschen
• Russian: заку́сывать (ru) impf (zakúsyvatʹ), закуси́ть (ru) pf (zakusítʹ), переку́сывать (ru) impf (perekúsyvatʹ), перекуси́ть (ru) pf (perekusítʹ)
• Turkish: atıştırmak (tr)

to eat between meals

• Finnish: napostella (fi)
• French: grignoter (fr)
• Japanese: 間食する (kanshoku suru)
• Maori: kōmuramura

• Middle High German: naschen
• Russian: переку́сывать (ru) impf (perekúsyvatʹ), перекуси́ть (ru) pf (perekusítʹ)
• Spanish: picar (es), mecatear (es) (Colombia), merendar (es) (in the afternoon)

Etymology 2

See snatch (transitive verb).

Noun

snack (plural snacks)

1. (obsolete) A share; a part or portion.
   • Alexander Pope

     At last he whispers, "Do, and we go snacks."

Verb

snack (third-person singular simple present snacks, present participle snacking, simple past and past participle snacked)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To snatch.
2. (obsolete, transitive) To bite.
3. (obsolete, transitive) To share.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for snack in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Anagrams

• nacks

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Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English snack, from Middle Dutch snacken (from which snakken).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /snɛk/

• Audio

  (file)

Noun

snack m (plural snacks, diminutive snackje n)

1. snack

Derived terms

• snackbar

Verb

snack

1. first-person singular present indicative of snacken
2. imperative of snacken

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French

Etymology

From English snack, from Middle Dutch snacken.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /snak/

• Audio

  (file)

Noun

snack m (plural snacks)

1. snack bar

Synonyms

• snack-bar

Further reading

• “snack” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from English.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ezˈnak/

Noun

snack m (plural snacks)

1. snack

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Swedish

Etymology

Nominalization of snacka (“to chat, to talk”).

Pronunciation

• audio

  (file)

Noun

snack n (uncountable)

1. (colloquial) talk, speech

Declension

Declension of snack
	Uncountable
	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	snack	snacket	—	—
Genitive	snacks	snackets	—	—

Related terms

• snacka

Derived terms

• snackis
• skitsnack
• snicksnack