"pemmican" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈpɛmɪkən/ Audio: en-us-pemmican.ogg Forms: pemmicans [plural]
Etymology: From Cree ᐱᒦᐦᑳᐣ (pimiihkaan, “pemmican”), from Cree ᐱᒥᕀ (pimiy, “grease, oil, lard”) + -ᐃᐦᑳᐣ (-ihkaan, “hand made”), from Proto-Algonquian *pemyi. Etymology templates: {{der|en|cr|ᐱᒦᐦᑳᐣ||pemmican}} Cree ᐱᒦᐦᑳᐣ (pimiihkaan, “pemmican”), {{der|en|cr|ᐱᒥᕀ||grease, oil, lard}} Cree ᐱᒥᕀ (pimiy, “grease, oil, lard”), {{der|en|alg-pro|*pemyi}} Proto-Algonquian *pemyi Head templates: {{en-noun|-|s}} pemmican (usually uncountable, plural pemmicans)
  1. A food made from meat which has been dried and beaten into a paste, mixed with berries and rendered fat, and shaped into little patties. Tags: uncountable, usually Categories (topical): Foods Translations (food mixture): ame (Cheyenne), ᐱᒦᐦᑳᐣ (pimiihkaan) (Cree), pemmikaani (Finnish), pemmican [masculine] (French), Pemmikan [masculine] (German), wásna (Lakota), tápaharus (Pawnee), pemikan [masculine] (Polish), пеммика́н (pemmikán) [masculine] (Russian), pemmikan [common-gender] (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-pemmican-en-noun-WIOxdIXW Disambiguation of Foods: 80 20 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 2 entries, Pages with entries, Terms with Cheyenne translations, Terms with Cree translations, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with French translations, Terms with German translations, Terms with Lakota translations, Terms with Pawnee translations, Terms with Polish translations, Terms with Russian translations, Terms with Swedish translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 74 26 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 73 27 Disambiguation of Pages with 2 entries: 74 26 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 74 26 Disambiguation of Terms with Cheyenne translations: 75 25 Disambiguation of Terms with Cree translations: 75 25 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 73 27 Disambiguation of Terms with French translations: 77 23 Disambiguation of Terms with German translations: 73 27 Disambiguation of Terms with Lakota translations: 75 25 Disambiguation of Terms with Pawnee translations: 78 22 Disambiguation of Terms with Polish translations: 72 28 Disambiguation of Terms with Russian translations: 75 25 Disambiguation of Terms with Swedish translations: 74 26 Disambiguation of 'food mixture': 96 4
  2. (now rare) A speech or piece of writing that is very condensed, conveying a lot of thought or information in few words. Tags: archaic, uncountable, usually
    Sense id: en-pemmican-en-noun-KTtL1KOC
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: pemican Related terms: jerky

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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