"pork belly" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-pork belly.wav Forms: pork bellies [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|-|+}} pork belly (usually uncountable, plural pork bellies)
  1. A boneless cut of fatty meat from the belly of a pig. Wikipedia link: pork belly Tags: uncountable, usually Synonyms: belly pork Related terms: side of bacon Translations (boneless cut of fatty meat): varklies (Afrikaans), свіна́я грудзінка (svinája hrudzinka) [feminine] (Belarusian), 三層肉 /三层肉 (zh-min-nan) [Hokkien] (Chinese), 五花腩 (ng⁵ faa¹ naam⁵) (Chinese Cantonese), 豬腩肉 /猪腩肉 (zyu¹ naam⁵ juk⁶) (Chinese Cantonese), 五花肉 (wǔhuāròu) (Chinese Mandarin), 豬腩 /猪腩 (zhūnǎn) (Chinese Mandarin), 三層肉 /三层肉 (sāncéngròu) (Chinese Mandarin), porsaankylki (Finnish), poitrine de porc [feminine] (French), Schweinebauch [masculine] (German), 三層肉 /三层肉 (sâm-chhèn-ngiuk) (Hakka Chinese), samcan (Indonesian), 삼겹살 (samgyeopsal) (Korean), spectile [neuter] (Latin), boczek [masculine] (Polish), свина́я груди́нка (svinája grudínka) [feminine] (Russian), panza de cerdo [feminine] (Spanish), sidfläsk [neuter] (Swedish), fläsk (note: often implies pork belly when a component in dishes) [neuter] (Swedish), liempo (Tagalog), หมูสามชั้น (mǔu-sǎam-chán) (Thai), ba chỉ (Vietnamese), ba rọi (Vietnamese)

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