cornflakes

See also: Cornflakes and corn flakes

English

A bowl of cornflakes.

Alternative forms

• corn flakes

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈkɔːnfleɪks/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈkɔɹnfleɪks/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

cornflakes pl (normally plural, singular cornflake)

1. A breakfast cereal made from toasted flakes of maize.

Derived terms

• piss in someone's cornflakes
• shit in someone's cornflakes

Descendants

Descendants

• → Bulgarian: корнфле́йкс (kornfléjks)
• → Danish: cornflakes
• → German: Cornflakes
• → Greek: κορνφλέικς (kornfléiks)
• → Icelandic: kornflex
• → Norwegian Bokmål: cornflakes
• → Norwegian Nynorsk: cornflakes
• → Polish: cornfleksy
• → Russian: ко̀рнфле́кс (kòrnfléks, kòrnflɛ́ks, kòrnflɛ́jks)
• → Swedish: cornflakes

Translations

breakfast cereal — see also cornflake

• Arabic: رَقَائِق ذُرَة f pl (raqāʔiq ḏura)

  Hijazi Arabic: كورن فليكس m (kōrn flēks)

• Bulgarian: корнфле́йкс m (kornfléjks)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 玉米片 (zh) (yùmǐpiàn), 粟米片 (sùmǐpiàn)

• Cornish: yskans (collective)
• Czech: kukuřičné lupínky pl
• Danish: cornflakes pl
• Esperanto: maizflokoj pl
• Finnish: maissihiutaleet pl
• French: flocons de maïs m pl
• Galician: flocos de millo m pl
• German: Cornflakes (de) pl
• Greek: κορνφλέικς (el) n pl (kornfléiks)
• Hindi: कॉर्नफ़्लेक्स (kŏrnafleks)
• Icelandic: kornflex, kornflögur
• Irish: calóga arbhair f pl
• Italian: fiocchi di mais m pl, cornflakes (it) m pl
• Japanese: コーンフレーク (kōnfurēku)
• Korean: 콘플레이크 (ko) (konpeulleikeu)
• Lezgi: кӏекер (ḳeker)
• Malay: emping jagung
• Māori: kāngarere
• Navajo: tséʼástʼéítsooí
• Persian: کرن فلکس (korn fleks)
• Polish: płatki kukurydziane nvir pl, cornfleksy nvir pl
• Portuguese: flocos de milho m pl, sucrilhos m pl
• Russian: кукуру́зные хло́пья (ru) n pl (kukurúznyje xlópʹja), хло́пья (ru) n pl (xlópʹja), ко̀рнфле́кс (ru) m (kòrnfléks, kòrnflɛ́ks, kòrnflɛ́jks)
• Slovak: kornfleksy m pl
• Spanish: copos de maíz m pl, hojuelas maiceras f pl, cornfleiks m pl
• Swedish: cornflakes (sv) pl, flingor (sv) pl, majsflingor (sv) pl
• Turkish: mısır gevreği sg
• Ukrainian: кукурудзяні пластівці m pl (kukurudzjani plastivci)
• Vietnamese: bánh bột ngô nướng
• Yiddish: פּאַפּשוי־שנייעלעך (papshoy-shneyelekh)

References

• corn flakes on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “corn flakes”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 2000, →ISBN.
• “cornflakes”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.

Anagrams

• cloak ferns

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: corn‧flakes

Noun

cornflakes

1. corn flakes; plural of cornflake

Italian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English corn flakes.

Pronunciation

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

cornflakes n (uncountable)

1. corn flakes

Romanian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English corn flakes.

Noun

cornflakes n (uncountable)

1. corn flakes

Declension

singular only	indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	cornflakes	cornflakesul
genitive-dative	cornflakes	cornflakesului
vocative	cornflakesule

Swedish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English corn flakes.

Noun

cornflakes n

1. a cornflake

   Synonyms: flinga, majsflinga

2. corn flakes

   Synonyms: flingor, majsflingor

Declension

Declension of cornflakes

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	cornflakes	cornflakes
	definite	cornflakeset	cornflakesets
plural	indefinite	cornflakes	cornflakes
	definite	cornflakesen	cornflakesens

Declension of cornflakes

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	-	-
	definite	-	-
plural	indefinite	cornflakes	cornflakes
	definite	cornflakesen	cornflakesens