mutton

Signification (Anglais)

Noun

1. (countable, uncountable) The meat of sheep used as food.
2. (countable, uncountable) The meat of a goat, urial, or other caprine.
3. (archaic, countable, uncountable) A sheep.
4. (countable, slang, uncountable) Em, a unit of measurement equal to the height of the type in use.
5. (countable, obsolete, slang, uncountable) A prostitute.
6. (countable, historical, uncountable) An old Anglo-French gold coin impressed with the image of a lamb.

Adj

deaf.

Concepts

mouton

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viande de mouton

viande ovine

agneau

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Synonymes

lamb

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sheep

🐑

mouton

ram

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sheepmeat

wether

goat-meat

sheep meat

leg of lamb

Aries

♈

longwool

baa-lamb

flesh

🥩

Traductions

Hammelfleisch

carnero

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Schaffleisch

carne di montone

montone

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carne de carnero

schapevlees

carne de carneiro

Hammel

carne di pecora

carneiro

🐏

schaap

🐑

Schöpsenfleisch

carne ovina

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/ˈmʌtn̩/

Étymologie (Anglais)

Hérité de moyen anglais: motoun

In summary

From Middle English motoun, moton, from Old French mouton (“sheep”), from Vulgar Latin moltō, from Gaulish *multon-, from Proto-Celtic *moltos (“ram, wether”). Doublet of mouton.