salmon

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Pronunciation

• enPR: să'mən, IPA: /ˈsæmən/, X-SAMPA: /"s{m@n/ or IPA: /ˈsɑmən/

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  Rhymes: -æmən

• (Southern US) IPA: /ˌsæl.mən/ (compare salmonella)

Etymology

From Middle English samon, saumon, from Anglo-Norman saumon, from Old French saumon, from Latin salmō, salmōn-. Displaced native Middle English lax, from Old English leax.

Noun

salmon (plural salmon or salmons)

1. One of several species of fish of the Salmonidae family.
2. (plural salmons) A yellowish pink colour, the colour of cooked salmon.

   salmon colour:

3. (Cockney rhyming slang) snout (tobacco; from salmon and trout)
   • 1992, The Shamen (band), Ebeneezer Goode (song)

     Got any salmon?

Synonyms

• (fish): lax
• (smoked salmon): lox
• (colour): salmon pink

Derived terms

Atlantic salmon blueback salmon chinook salmon chum salmon coho salmon humpback salmon king salmon

kokanee salmon Nova Scotia salmon pink salmon quinnat salmon red salmon rock salmon salmon day salmon ladder

salmon leap salmon trout salmonberry salmonid silver salmon smoked salmon spring salmon

Related terms

• samlet

Translations

fish

• Ainu: カムイチェㇷ゚ (kamuy-cep)
• Arabic: حوت سليمان (ar) (ḥūt sulaymān) m
• Armenian: սաղմոն (hy) (saġmon) 
• Basque: izokin (eu)
• Belarusian: ласось (be) (lasósʹ) m 
• Breton: eog (br) m
• Bulgarian: сьомга (bg) (s'ómga) f 
• Catalan: salmó (ca) m
• Central Sierra Miwok: kóˑsomu-
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 三文魚 (cmn), 三文鱼 (cmn) (sānwényú), 鮭魚 (cmn), 鲑鱼 (cmn) (guīyú)

• Cornish: ehek (kw) m, sowman (kw) m
• Czech: losos (cs) m
• Danish: laks (da)
• Dutch: zalm (nl) m
• Esperanto: (♂♀) salmo (eo), (♂) virsalmo (eo), (♀) salmino (eo), (♂♀ offspring) salmido (eo), (♂ offspring) virsalmido (eo), (♀ offspring) salmidino (eo)
• Estonian: lõhe (et)
• Faroese: laksur (fo) m
• Finnish: lohikala (fi)
• French: saumon (fr) m
• German: Lachs (de) m
• Hebrew: סַלְמוֹן (he) (sálmon) m, אִלְתִּית (he) (iltít) f
• Hindi: सामन (hi) (sāman)
• Hungarian: lazac (hu)
• Icelandic: lax (is) m
• Ido: (♂♀) salmono (io), (♂) salmonulo (io), (♀) salmonino (io), (♂♀ offspring) salmonyuno (io), (♂ offspring) salmonyunulo (io), (♀ offspring) salmonyunino (io)
• Interlingua: salmon
• Irish: bradán (ga) m
• Italian: salmone (it) m
• Japanese: サーモン (ja) (sāmon), 鮭 (ja) (さけ, sake; しゃけ, shake)
• Korean: 연어 (ko) (yeoneo)
• Latin: salmō (la) m
• Latvian: lasis (lv) m

• Lithuanian: lašiša (lt) f
• Luxembourgish: Saumon (lb) m
• Macedonian: лосос (mk) (lósos) m
• Manx: braddan (gv) m
• Northern Sami: luossa
• Norwegian: laksfisk (no) m
• Old English: leax (ang) m
• Old Irish: bratán m
• Persian: ماهی آزاد (fa)
• Polish: łosoś (pl) m
• Portuguese: salmão (pt) m
• Romani:

  Kalo Finnish Romani: loolo matšo

• Romanian: somon (ro) m
• Russian: лосось (ru) (losósʹ) m , сёмга (ru) (sjómga) f 
• Scottish Gaelic: bradan (gd) m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ло̏сос (sh) m

  Roman: lȍsos (sh) m

• Skolt Sami: luõss
• Slovak: losos (sk) m
• Slovene: losos (sl) m
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: łosos m

  Upper Sorbian: łosos (hsb) m

• Spanish: salmón (es) m
• Swedish: laxfisk (sv)
• Tlingit: x̲áat
• Turkish: som (tr), somon (tr)
• Ukrainian: лосось (uk) (losósʹ) m 
• Vietnamese: cá hồi (vi)
• Volapük: (♂♀) salm (vo), (♂) hisalm (vo), (♀) jisalm (vo), (♂♀ offspring) salmül (vo), (♂ offspring) hisalmül (vo), (♀ offspring) jisalmül (vo), (♂♀ diminutive) salmil (vo)
• Welsh: eog (cy) m
• Yiddish: לאַקס (yi) (laks) m

colour

• Catalan: salmó (ca) m
• Czech: lososová (cs) f
• Dutch: zalmkleur (nl) f
• Finnish: lohenpunainen (fi)
• French: saumon (fr)
• German: lachsfarben (de), lachsfarbig (de), lachsrot (de), lachsrosa (de)
• Icelandic: laxbleikur litur (is) m

• Interlingua: salmon
• Italian: salmone (it) m
• Macedonian: розово-портокалова (mk) (rózovo-portokálova) f
• Portuguese: salmão (pt) m
• Spanish: salmón (es) m
• Turkish: somon (tr)
• Volapük: salmaköl (vo)

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• Indonesian: salmon (id)

Adjective

salmon (not comparable)

1. Having a yellowish pink colour.
   • 1977, John Le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy, Folio Society 2010, p. 155:

     Smiley and Guillam perched disconsolately beneath it, on a bench of salmon velvet.

Translations

made with salmon

• Dutch: zalm-
• Finnish: lohi-, lohesta
• German: Lachs-
• Interlingua: de salmon
• Macedonian: лососов (mk) (lósosov) m

• Norwegian: lakse- (no)
• Polish: łososiowy
• Portuguese: de salmão
• Russian: лососёвый (ru) (losoc'óvyj) 
• Volapük: (♂♀) salmik (vo)

colour

• Dutch: zalmkleurig, zalmkleurige
• Finnish: lohenpunainen
• German: lachsfarben
• Icelandic: laxbleikur (is)
• Interlingua: de color salmon

• Macedonian: розовопортокалов (mk) (rozovoportókalov) m
• Polish: łososiowy
• Portuguese: salmão (pt)
• Spanish: asalmonado (es), salmón (es)
• Volapük: salmakölik (vo)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Help:How to check translations.

• Basque: izokinezko (1), izokin koloreko (2)
• Catalan: salmonat m (2), salmonada f (2)

See also

• (reds) red; blood red, brick red, burgundy, cardinal, carmine, carnation, cerise, cherry, cherry red, Chinese red, cinnabar, claret, crimson, damask, fire brick, fire engine red, flame, flamingo, fuchsia, garnet, geranium, gules, hot pink, incarnadine, Indian red, magenta, maroon, misty rose, nacarat, oxblood, pillar-box red, pink, Pompeian red, poppy, raspberry, red violet, rose, rouge, ruby, ruddy, salmon, sanguine, scarlet, shocking pink, stammel, strawberry, Turkey red, Venetian red, vermillion, vinaceous, vinous, violet red, wine ^{(Category: en:Reds)}

alevin anadromous arctic char blackfish coarse fish gravlax

grilse kelt kipper lox parr

redfish smolt sockeye trout yolk fry

Anagrams

• monals

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Esperanto

Noun

salmon sg

1. accusative singular of salmo