different between abattoir vs butcher

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French abattoir, from abattre (“to slaughter”) (cognate to abate) + -oir (“-ory”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?æb.??tw??(?)/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?æb.??tw??/, /?æb.??tw?/
• Hyphenation: ab?at?toir

Noun

abattoir (plural abattoirs)

1. A public slaughterhouse for cattle, sheep, etc. [Early 19^th century.]

2. A place or event likened to a slaughterhouse, because of great carnage or bloodshed.

Translations

See also

• knacker's yard

References

Anagrams

• Baraitot

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French abattoir.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?a?.ba??t?a?r/
• Hyphenation: abat?toir
• Rhymes: -a?r

Noun

abattoir n (plural abattoirs, diminutive abattoirtje n)

1. abattoir, slaughterhouse

Synonyms

• slachthuis, slachterij

French

Etymology

abattre +? -oir

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.ba.twa?/

Noun

abattoir m (plural abattoirs)

1. slaughterhouse; abattoir

Descendants

• ? Dutch: abattoir
• ? English: abattoir
• ? Moore: batoaare
• ? Norwegian Bokmål: abattoir

Descendants

• Norwegian Bokmål: abattoir

Further reading

• “abattoir” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From French abattoir (“abattoir, slaughterhouse”), from both abattre (“to butcher; slaughter for meat”), from Middle French abattre, from Old French abatre (“to knock over, destroy, slaughter”), from Vulgar Latin *abbatere, present active infinitive of *abbat?, *abbatu? (“I beat down, cast down”), from Latin battu? (“I beat, hit, pound, beat up”), from Gaulish, from Proto-Indo-European *b?ed?- (“to stab, dig”) + and from -oir, from Latin -orium or -oria.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /abat????r/
• Rhymes: -??r
• Hyphenation: a?batt?oi?ar

Noun

abattoir n (definite singular abattoiret, indefinite plural abattoirer, definite plural abattoira or abattoirene)

1. (concerning France) an abattoir (a public slaughterhouse for cattle, sheep, etc.)

   Synonyms: slaktehus, slakteri

References

• “abattoir” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?b?t?.?(?)/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?b?t??.?/
• Rhymes: -?t??(?)

Etymology 1

From Middle English buccher, bucher, boucher, bocher, from Anglo-Norman boucher, Old French bouchier (“goat slaughterer”), from Old French bouc (“goat”), from Medieval Latin buccus (“he-goat”), of Germanic origin. More at English buck.

Noun

butcher (plural butchers)

1. A person who prepares and sells meat (and sometimes also slaughters the animals).
2. (figuratively) A brutal or indiscriminate killer.
3. (Cockney rhyming slang, from butcher's hook) A look.
4. (informal, obsolete) A person who sells candy, drinks, etc. in theatres, trains, circuses, etc.

Synonyms

• carnager
• flesher 1
• mayhemist
• slayer 2

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Hindi: ????? (b?ca?)
• ? Urdu: ????? (b?ca?)

Translations

Verb

butcher (third-person singular simple present butchers, present participle butchering, simple past and past participle butchered)

1. (transitive) To slaughter (animals) and prepare (meat) for market.

   Synonyms: kill, slaughter

2. (transitive) To kill brutally.

   Synonyms: massacre, slay

3. (transitive) To ruin (something), often to the point of defamation.

   Synonym: murder

Translations

Etymology 2

butch +? -er

Adjective

butcher

1. comparative form of butch: more butch

Anagrams

• Buchert