English
Noun
snack (plural snacks)
- A light meal.
- An item of food eaten between meals.
Translations
a light meal
- Arabic: وَجْبَة خَفِيفَة f (wajba ḵafīfa)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 零食 (zh) (língshí), 快餐 (zh) (kuàicān), 小吃 (zh) (xiǎochī)
- Czech: svačina (cs) f
- 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:
- German: Imbiss (de) m, Happen (de) m, Snack (de) m, Jause (de) f (Austria)
- Greek: κολατσιό (el) n (kolatsió)
- Hungarian: falatozás (hu), uzsonna (hu), tízórai
- Ido: repasteto (io)
- Italian: spuntino (it) m
- Japanese: 軽食 (ja) (けいしょく, keishoku), スナック (sunakku)
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- Korean: 간단한 식사 (gandanhan siksa), 경식 (gyeongsik)
- Macedonian: у́жина f (úžina), за́куска f (zákuska)
- Malay: snek (ms)
- Mongolian: зууш (mn) (zuuš)
- Portuguese: lanche (pt) m, comidinha f
- 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 f
- Swedish: mellanmål (sv), fika (sv)
- Tagalog: dautan, meryenda
- Turkish: atıştırmalık (tr), çerez (tr)
- Ukrainian: закуска f (zakúska)
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an item of food eaten between meals
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- Korean: 간식 (ko) (gansik)
- Khmer: អាហារសម្រន់ (aahaa sɑmrɑn)
- Maori: paramanawa
- Navajo: naalghazhí
- Polish: przekąska (pl) f
- Portuguese: lanche (pt) m
- Russian: заку́ска (ru) f (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 f
- Swedish: mellanmål (sv)
- Thai:
- Turkish: çerez (tr), atıştırmalık (tr)
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Derived terms
See also
Verb
snack (third-person singular simple present snacks, present participle snacking, simple past and past participle snacked)
- to eat a light meal
- to eat between meals
Translations
Derived terms
Etymology 2
See snatch (transitive verb).
Noun
snack (plural snacks)
- (obsolete) A share; a part or portion.
- Alexander Pope
- At last he whispers, "Do, and we go snacks."
Anagrams
Swedish
Pronunciation
Noun
snack n (uncountable)
- (colloquial) talk, speech
Declension
See also