abalone

See also Abalone

English

WOTD - 30 December 2006    

Pink abalone.

Etymology

From American Spanish abulón, from Southern Ohlone (Rumsen) aulón. Used in English since the 19th Century.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /æbəˈləʊni/

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Noun

abalone (plural abalones)

1. (US, Australian) An edible univalve mollusc of the genus Haliotis, having a shell lined with mother-of-pearl.

Synonyms

• (UK) ear-shell,
• (Guernsey) ormer
• (New Zealand) pāua, pawa
• (South Africa) perlemoen

Translations

edible univalve mollusc

Breton: ourmel collective noun ourmelenn singular f Central Sierra Miwok: hásˑyny- Chinese: Mandarin: 鮑魚 (cmn), 鲍鱼 (cmn) (bàoyú) Dutch: zeeoor (nl) Finnish: abaloni (fi), punamerikorva (fi) French: ormeau (fr) m., haliotide (fr) f. German: Abalone (de) f., Meerohr (de) n., Seeohr (de) n. Irish: cluas mhara (ga) f.

Italian: abalone (it) Japanese: 鮑 (ja) (あわび, awabi), アワビ (ja) (awabi) Malay: abalon Maori: pāua Polish: słuchotka (pl) f., ucho morskie (pl) n. Russian: абалон (ru) (abalón) m., галиотис (ru) (galiótis) m., морское ушко (ru) (morskóje úško) n. Spanish: oreja de mar (es) f., abulón (es) m., loco (es) m. Vietnamese: bào ngư

See also

• paua n

References

• Abalone on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “abalone” in The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition, Houghton Mifflin Company, 2000.
• “abalone” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, v1.0.1, Lexico Publishing Group, 2006.
• "abalone" in WordNet 3.0, Princeton University, 2006.

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French

Etymology

From English, borrowed in the mid-20th century.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /abalɔn/

Noun

abalone m. (plural abalones)

1. (gastronomy, rare) The abalone.

Synonyms

• (more usual terms for "abalone"): ormeau, haliotis, haliotide, oreille de mer