pareve
pa·re·ve/ˈpɑɹəvə/adjective
pareve is an adjective meaning “Of food: that has no meat or milk in any form as an ingredient” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled P-A-R-E-V-E and has 3 syllables (pa·re·ve), and it appears about once in every 59 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does pareve mean?
adjective
- 1
Of food: that has no meat or milk in any form as an ingredient.
My mom made a pareve casserole with soy hot dogs.
- 2
Neutral, bland, inoffensive.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce pareve?
- UK /ˈpɑː.ɹə.və/
- US /ˈpɑɹəvə/
- US /ˈpɑɹəv/
Pareve has 3 syllables, split pa·re·ve in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-pareve.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of pareve
- parev
- parve
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is pareve?
Pareve appears about once in every 59 million words in written English, the 240,237th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does pareve come from?
Borrowed from Yiddish פּאַרעוו, פּאַרעווע (parev, pareve), of uncertain origin.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).