Dictionary Definition
egg
Noun
1 animal reproductive body consisting of an ovum
or embryo together with nutritive and protective envelopes;
especially the thin-shelled reproductive body laid by e.g. female
birds
2 oval reproductive body of a fowl (especially a
hen) used as food [syn: eggs]
3 one of the two male reproductive glands that
produce spermatozoa and secrete androgens; "she kicked him in the
balls and got away" [syn: testis, testicle, orchis, ball, ballock, bollock, nut]
Verb
1 throw eggs at
2 coat with beaten egg; "egg a schnitzel"
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Etymology
From Old Norse egg, from Germanic *ajja-, by Holtzmann's Law from Proto-Indo-European *oh₂ujom (stem *oh₂ujo-).Noun
- In the context of "zoology|countable": An approximately spherical or ellipsoidal body produced by birds, snakes, insects and other animals housing the embryo during its development.
- The egg of a domestic fowl as an item of food.
- The contents of one or more (hen's usually) eggs as a culinary
ingredient, etc.
- I also determine the minimal amount of egg required to make good mayonnaise.
- In the context of "biology|countable": The female primary cell, the ovum.
Translations
body housing an embryo
- Estonian: muna
- Finnish: muna
- Italian: uovo
- Lao: ໄຂ່
- West Frisian: aai
food item
- Estonian: muna
- Finnish: muna, kananmuna
- Italian: uovo
- Lao: ໄຂ່
- West Frisian: aai
culinary ingredient
- Estonian: muna
- Finnish: muna, kananmuna
- Italian: uovo
- Lao: ໄຂ່
- West Frisian: aai
ovum
- Estonian: munarakk
- Finnish: munasolu
- Italian: ovulo
- West Frisian: aai
- Afrikaans: eier
- Alabama: hanakbootoklo
- Albanian: ve , vezë
- Arabic:
- Armenian: ձու (dzu)
- Basque: arrautza
- Bengali: ডীম
- Bosnian: jaje
- Breton: vi
- Bulgarian: яйце (jajtse)
- Burmese: ဥ (ú)
- Catalan: ou
- Chamorro: chada'
- Chichewa: dzira
- Chinese: 蛋 (dàn)
- Cornish: oy
- Croatian: jaje
- Czech: vejce, vajíčko
- Danish: æg
- trreq Divehi
- Dutch: ei
- Esperanto: ovo
- Faroese: egg
- French: œuf
- Gaelic: ubh s, uibheacha p
- Georgian: კვერცხი (kvertsxi)
- German: Ei
- Greek: αυγό
- Guaraní: upi'a (t-)
- Guugu Yimidhirr: gundil, wurruun (avoidance language)
- Gujarati: ઇંડું (i.ndu.n)
- Hawaiian: hua, hua moa (hen’s egg)
- Hebrew: ביצה (beitzáh)
- Hindi: अंडा (a.ndā)
- Hungarian: tojás
- Icelandic: egg
- Ido: ovo
- Ilocano: itlog
- Indonesian: telur
- Interlingua: ovo
- Japanese: 卵 (たまご, tamago)
- trreq Kannada
- Khmer: (bporng)
- Korean: 알 (al)
- Kurdish: hêk ,
- Latin: ovum
- Latvian: ola
- Lithuanian: (1): kiaušinėlis , kiaušialąstė ; (2, 3): kiaušinis
- Macedonian: јајца
- Malay: telur
- trreq Malayalam
- Maltese: bajda
- Marathi: अंड (anda) g Marathi
- Maori: heeki, hua
- Nahuatl: totoltetl (3)
- trreq Nepali
- Norwegian: egg
- Old Church Slavonic:
- Old English: æg
- trreq Oriya
- Persian: (toxme morgh)
- Pitjantjatjara: ngampu
- Polish: jajko
- Portuguese: ovo
- Punjabi: ਅਂਡਾ
- Rohingya: andha, dhim
- Romani: ānro
- Romanian: ou
- Russian: (shelled egg) яйцо (jajtsó) ; (egg of a fish, frog etc.) икринка ; (ovum) яйцеклетка
- Sardinian (Campidanese): ou
- Samoan: fua
- Sanskrit: अण्ड
- Scottish Gaelic: ugh
- Serbian:
- Shona: zai, zanda
- Sicilian: ovu
- Slovak: vajce
- Slovene: jajčece (1), jajce (2, 3)
- Spanish: huevo
- Swahili: yai, mayai pl (noun 5/6)
- Swedish: ägg
- Tagalog: itlog
- trreq Tahitian
- Tamazight: ⵜⴰⴳⵍⴰⵢⵜ (taglayt)
- Tamil: முட்டை (muttai)
- trreq Telugu
- Thai: (kai)
- trreq Tok Pisin
- trreq Tongan
- Tupinambá: upi'a (t-)
- Turkish: yumurta, tohum (fertilized)
- Ukrainian: яйце (jajtsé)
- Urdu: (an.dā)
- Vietnamese: trứng
- Volapük: nög
- Warlpiri: mula
- Welsh: ŵy
- Zulu: iliqanda, iqanda
Verb
Translations
to throw eggs at
- Finnish: heittää kananmunilla
to encourage
- Finnish: yllyttää
to dip in or coat with beaten egg
- Finnish: kastaa kananmunaan, voidella kananmunalla
Related terms
- bad egg
- boiled egg
- cuckoo’s egg
- curate’s egg
- don't put all your eggs in one basket
- Easter egg
- egg and spoon race
- egg beaters
- egg cup
- egg flip
- egg-nog, eggnog
- egg on
- egg-shell, eggshell
- egg-timer
- egg white
- egg yolk
- fried egg
- golden egg
- good egg
- have egg on one’s face
- nest egg
- over-egg
- poached egg
- power-egg
- scrambled egg, scrambled eggs
- sure as eggs is eggs
See also
Faroese
Pronunciation
[ɛgː]Noun
egg- egg
Declension
Noun
eggDeclension
Icelandic
Pronunciation
[ˈɛɡ̊ː]Etymology 1
Synonyms
- (ovum): eggfruma
Derived terms
Etymology 2
Derived terms
Derived terms
Norwegian
Noun
egg- egg
Swedish
Noun
egg- The sharp edge of a cutting tool.
Homophones
Extensive Definition
Egg may refer to the following:
Biology
- Egg (biology), an ovum together with its shell or outer layer, internal membranes and nutrients for the embryo.
- Egg cell or ovum, a haploid female reproductive cell or gamete.
Food
- Egg (food), usually chicken eggs, but also those of other birds and turtles, as well as those of fish
- Chocolate egg, a confectionery made primarily of chocolate often associated with Easter, the Easter Bunny and Easter Eggs
Geography
- Egg Island (Bahamas)
- Egg, Switzerland, a Swiss municipality
- Egg an der Günz, a municipality in Bavaria, Germany
- Egg, Austria
- The Egg (building), a part of the Empire State Plaza
Entertainment
- Egg (band), an English progressive rock band
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- Egg (album), Egg's debut album
- Eggs (band), an American indie-pop band
- The Egg (funk band), a British electronic funk band
- Mr Egg, acid house musician
Other
- Egg (car), a defunct Swiss car make
- Augustus Egg, a Victorian artist
- Oval, any curve resembling an egg or an ellipse
- An egg, a word for a type of sewing tool, used for darning
- EG&G, a U.S. defense contractor
- Egg Banking plc, an online bank in the United Kingdom
- Eggs (film), a film by Norwegian director Bent Hamer
- Egg (magazine), a Japanese magazine
- EGG, the Arts Show, a former program on PBS
- EGG may stand for electrogastrogram, which records the electrical activity of the stomach muscles during peristalsis
- Elemental Gimmick Gear, a Sega Dreamcast game
- Eggs, the name of extension modules in the Chicken Scheme implementation
egg in Bulgarian: Яйце
egg in Catalan: Ou
egg in Welsh: Ŵy
egg in Danish: Æg (flertydig)
egg in German: Ei (Begriffsklärung)
egg in Spanish: Huevo
egg in French: Œuf
egg in Galician: Ovo
egg in Indonesian: Telur (disambiguasi)
egg in Luxembourgish: Ee (Homonymie)
egg in Dutch: Ei
egg in Dutch Low Saxon: Aai
egg in Japanese: エッグ
egg in Occitan (post 1500): Uòu
egg in Polish: Jajo
egg in Russian: Яйцо (значения)
egg in Simple English: Egg
egg in Slovenian: Jajce (razločitev)
egg in Turkish: Yumurta
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
Anlage,
albumen, boiled eggs,
bud, caviar, coddled eggs, deviled
eggs, dropped eggs, egg cell, egg white, eggs, eggshell, embryo, female gamete, fish eggs,
fried eggs, germ, germen, glair, loins, nucleus, omelet, ooecium, ovicell, ovule, ovum, poached eggs, roe, rudiment, scrambled eggs,
seed, shirred eggs,
souffle, spawn, spermatozoon, stirp, stuffed eggs, vitellus, white, yellow, yolk