caviar

English

Etymology

From French caviar, from Turkish havyar, probably from Persian خاویار (xâvyâr), from خایه (xâye, “egg”).

Noun

caviar (countable and uncountable; plural caviars)

1. roe of the sturgeon or other large fish, considered a delicacy

Translations

roe of the sturgeon or other large fish (black caviar)

• Arabic: كافيار (ar) (kafyār) m
• Armenian: խավիար (hy) (xaviar) 
• Azeri: kürü (az)
• Belarusian: ікра (be) (ikrá) f , чорная ікра (be) (čórnaja ikrá) f  (black caviar)
• Bulgarian: хайвер (bg) (hajvér) m , черен хайвер (bg) (čéren hajvér) m  (black caviar), , чер хайвер (bg) (čer hajvér) m 
• Catalan: caviar (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 魚子醬 (cmn), 鱼子酱 (cmn) (yúzǐjiàng)

• Czech: kaviár (cs) m
• Danish: kaviar (da) c
• Dutch: kaviaar (nl) m
• Esperanto: kaviaro (eo)
• Faroese: kaviar (fo) n
• Finnish: kaviaari (fi)
• French: caviar (fr) m
• German: Kaviar (de) m
• Greek: χαβιάρι (el) (chaviári) n 
• Hindi: कावीयार (hi) (kāvīyār)
• Hungarian: kaviár (hu), ikra (hu)

• Ido: kaviaro
• Italian: caviale (it) m
• Japanese: イクラ (ja) (ikura), キャビア (ja) (kyabia)
• Korean: 캐비아 (ko) (kaebia), 캐비어 (ko) (kaebieo), 철갑상어알 (ko) (cheolgapsang-eoal), 이크라 (ko) (ikeura)
• Mazanderani: خاویار
• Norwegian: kaviar (no) m
• Persian: خاویار (fa) (xâvyâr)
• Polish: kawior (pl) m, ikra (pl) f
• Portuguese: caviar (pt) m
• Romanian: caviar (ro) n
• Russian: икра (ru) (ikrá) f , чёрная икра (ru) (čórnaja ikrá) f  (black caviar)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: кавијар (sh) m, икра (sh) f

  Roman: kavijar (sh) m, ikra (sh) f

• Slovak: kaviár (sk) m
• Spanish: caviar (es) m
• Swedish: kaviar (sv) c
• Turkish: havyar (tr)
• Ukrainian: ікра (uk) (ikrá) f , чорна ікра (uk) (čórna ikrá) f  (black caviar)

red caviar — see ikra

Derived terms

• cowboy caviar

Alternative forms

• caviare

Usage notes

A citation from Jehan Palsgrave's 1530 text Lesclarcissment de la langue françoyse reads "Calver of saulmon, escume de saulmon.". This possibly refers to caviar. If this is the case it predates by some 61 years the earliest usage (1591) of caviar documented in the Oxford English Dictionary.

See also

• Caviar on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• malosol

Anagrams

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Catalan

Etymology

From French caviar, from Turkish havyar, probably from Persian خاویار (xâvyâr), from خایه (xâye, “egg”).

Pronunciation

• IPA: /kəβiˈaɾ/, X-SAMPA: /k@Bi"a4/
• Rhymes: -aɾ

Noun

caviar m (plural caviars)

1. caviar

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French

Pronunciation

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Noun

caviar m (plural caviars)

1. caviar

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Portuguese

Noun

caviar m (plural caviars)

1. caviar

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Spanish

Noun

caviar m (usually uncountable)

1. caviar