meal
Mane (English)
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- Food that is prepared and eaten, usually at a specific time, and usually in a comparatively large quantity (as opposed to a snack).
- Food served or eaten as a repast.
- (informal) A break taken by a police officer in order to eat.
- (obsolete) A time or an occasion.
Synonyms
cooked rice
have a meal
cooked food
school meal
subsidised meal
tray of food
vegetable food
coarse powder
midday meal
bowl of rice
Pircarînî
Wekî (IPA) tê bilêvkirin
/miːl/
Etîmolojî (English)
In summary
From Middle English mel, from Old English mǣl (“measure, time, occasion, set time, time for eating, meal”), from Proto-West Germanic *māl, from Proto-Germanic *mēlą, from Proto-Indo-European *meh₁- (“to measure”). Cognate with West Frisian miel, Dutch maal (“meal, time, occurrence”), German Mal (“time”), Mahl (“meal”), Norwegian Bokmål mål (“meal”), Swedish mål (“meal”); and (from Proto-Indo-European) with Ancient Greek μέτρον (métron, “measure”), Latin mensus, Russian ме́ра (méra, “measure”), Lithuanian mẽtas. Related to Old English mǣþ (“measure, degree, proportion”).
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