different between vegan vs vegetable

English

Etymology

Clipping of vegetarian or vegetable, 1944. Coined by Donald Watson of the Vegan Society and first appeared in The Vegan News.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?vi???n/, /?ve???n/, /?v?d???n/
• Homophones: vaguen (one pronunciation), Vegan
• Rhymes: -i???n, -e???n
• Hyphenation: ve?gan

Adjective

vegan (not comparable)

1. (of a product or practice, especially food) Not containing animal products (meat, eggs, milk, leather, etc) or inherently involving animal use.
2. (of a person) Committed to avoiding any product or practice that inherently involves animal use.

3. Relating to vegans or veganism. [from 1944]

Translations

Noun

vegan (plural vegans)

1. A person who does not eat, drink or otherwise consume any animal products [from 1944]
2. A person committed to avoiding products and practices that inherently involve animal use, including all foods containing animal products, and to abstaining from direct and intentional harm to animals as far as possible; an adherent to veganism.

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• vegetarian
• vegetarianism

References

Further reading

• vegan on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Ganev, Vange, ganev

Czech

Noun

vegan m

1. vegan (veganism supporter)

Declension

Derived terms

• veganka (feminine form)

Related terms

• veganský
• veganství n

See also

• vegetarián m
• vegetariánství n

German

Etymology

Borrowed from English vegan.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ve??a?n/
• Rhymes: -a?n

Adjective

vegan (comparative veganer, superlative am vegansten)

1. vegan

Declension

Further reading

• “vegan” in Duden online

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

Borrowed from English vegan, a clipping of either vegetarian or vegetable. Coined by Donald Watson of the Vegan Society and first appeared in The Vegan News.

Noun

vegan m (definite singular veganen, indefinite plural veganer, definite plural veganene)

1. a vegan

Synonyms

• veganer

Related terms

• vegansk
• veganisme

References

• “vegan” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

Borrowed from English vegan.

Noun

vegan m (definite singular veganen, indefinite plural veganar, definite plural veganane)

1. a vegan

Synonyms

• veganar

Related terms

• vegansk

References

• “vegan” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?be?an/, [?be.??ãn]

Noun

vegan m (plural vegans or vegan)

1. a vegan

   Synonym: vegano

Swedish

Noun

vegan c

1. vegan, person who does not use animal products.

Declension

See also

• vegetarian

English

Etymology

From Middle English vegetable, from Old French vegetable, from Latin veget?bilis (“able to live and grow”), derived from veget?re (“to enliven”). Displaced Old English wyrt (“herb, vegetable, plant, crop, root”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?v?d??t?b?l/, /?v?d???t?b?l/
• (US, Canada) IPA^(key): /?v?d???t?b?l/, /?v?d??t?b?l/, /?v?t??t?b?l/

Noun

vegetable (plural vegetables)

1. Any plant.
   • 1837, The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal (volume 23, page 222)

     That he might ascertain whether any of the cloths of ancient Egypt were made of hemp, M. Dutrochet has examined with the microscope the weavable filaments of this last vegetable.

2. A plant raised for some edible part of it, such as the leaves, roots, fruit or flowers, but excluding any plant considered to be a fruit, grain, herb, or spice in the culinary sense.

   Synonyms: veg, veggie

3. The edible part of such a plant.

   Synonyms: veg, veggie

4. (figuratively, derogatory) A person whose brain (or, infrequently, body) has been damaged so that they cannot interact with the surrounding environment; a person in a persistent vegetative state.

   Synonym: cabbage

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Adjective

vegetable (not comparable)

1. Of or relating to plants.
2. Of or relating to vegetables.

Translations

Further reading

• vegetable on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• vegetable (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia