venison

English

Venison steaks

Etymology

From Middle English venisoun, venesoun, from Anglo-Norman veneisun, venesoun, venesun (“meat of large game, particularly deer or boar; hunt”), from Latin vēnātiō, vēnātiōnem (“hunt; meat from a hunt”), formed on vēnātus, perfect participle of vēnor (“I hunt”). Doublet of venatio and venation.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈvɛ.nɪ.zən/, /ˈvɛn.zən/, /ˈvɛ.nɪ.sən/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈvɛ.nɪ.sən/, /ˈvɛ.nɪ.zən/
• Rhymes: -ɛnɪzən, -ɛnɪsən

Noun

venison (countable and uncountable, plural venisons)

1. The meat of a deer.

   After shooting a deer, field dressing is the next step necessary for high quality venison.

2. (South Africa) The meat of an antelope.
   • 2007, Gregory Simon Bull, Marketing fresh venison in the Eastern Cape Province using a niche marketing strategy (thesis), page xcix
3. (obsolete) The meat of any wild animal that has been hunted rather than raised domestically.

Synonyms

• deer meat, deerflesh

Translations

the meat of a deer

• Abenaki: nolkaiia
• Ainu: ユㇰハル (yukharu)
• Armenian: եղջերվամիս (hy) (eġǰervamis), եղնիկի միս (eġniki mis)
• Asturian: venáu (ast) m
• Basque: oreinki (eu)
• Bulgarian: еленово месо n (elenovo meso)
• Catalan: carn de cérvol f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 鹿肉 (luk⁶ juk⁶, luk^6-2 juk⁶)

  Mandarin: 鹿肉 (zh) (lùròu)

• Czech: zvěřina (cs) f
• Danish: hjortekød n
• Esperanto: cervaĵo
• Estonian: hirveliha
• Finnish: hirvi (fi), hirvenliha (fi); peura (fi), peuranliha (fi); kauris (fi), kauriinliha (depending on the kind of deer)
• French: viande de biche f, venaison (fr) f, gibier (fr)
• Georgian: ირმის ხორცი (irmis xorci)
• German: Rehfleisch (de) n; (red deer) Wildbret (de) n, Wildfleisch (de) n
• Greek: ελάφι (el) n (eláfi)
• Hebrew: בְּשַׂר צְבִי m (b'sar ts'vi)
• Hungarian: szarvashús (hu)
• Irish: fiafheoil f (from an adult deer); oiseoil f (from a fawn)
• Italian: carne di cervo f, cacciagione (it) f
• Japanese: 鹿肉 (ja) (しかにく, shikaniku)
• Kazakh: бұғы еті (būğy etı)
• Korean: 사슴 고기 (saseum gogi), 녹육(鹿肉) (nogyuk)
• Kyrgyz: бугу эти (bugu eti)
• Latin: ferīna f
• Lithuanian: elniena f
• Macedonian: срнешко n (srneško)
• Malay: daging rusa
• Maori: mīti tia
• Northern Ohlone: ṭoot
• Ojibwe: waawaashkeshiwi-wiiyaas
• Plautdietsch: Herschfleesch n
• Polish: sarnina (pl) f
• Portuguese: carne de cervo f
• Romanian: carne de căprioară, carne de vânat, vânat (ro)
• Russian: олени́на (ru) f (olenína)
• Scottish Gaelic: sitheann f
• Slovene: divjačina f
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: źiwinowe měso n

• Southern Altai: ак-кийиктиҥ эди (ak-kiyiktiŋ edi)
• Spanish: carne de venado m, carne de ciervo m
• Sranan Tongo: diameti
• Swahili: nyama ya kulungu
• Swedish: hjortkött (sv)
• Tagalog: karning-usa
• Thai: เนื้อกวาง (th)
• Turkish: geyik eti
• Vietnamese: thịt nai
• Volapük: stägamit
• Welsh: cig carw m
• Zazaki: gostê kosbes

Further reading

• “venison”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Old French

Alternative forms

• veneisun
• veneson
• venoisun

Etymology

From Latin vēnātiō, vēnātiōnem.

Noun

venison oblique singular, f (oblique plural venisons, nominative singular venison, nominative plural venisons)

1. game (animal to be hunted)
2. meat from a hunted animal

Descendants

• French: venaison
• → English: venison
• → Dutch: venezoen, venizoen

See also

• bisse

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (venaison, supplement)