shrimp

See also SHRIMP

English

Wikipedia

shrimp (crustacean)

Pronunciation

• Audio (US)

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɪmp

Etymology

Middle English schrimpe ‘shrimp, puny person’, from Proto-Germanic *skrimpaz (compare Middle High German schrimpf ‘scratch’, Norwegian skramp ‘thin horse, thin man’), from *skrimpanan (compare Old English scrimman ‘to shrink’, Middle High German schrimpfen ‘to shrink, dry up’, Swedish skrympa ‘to shrink’), from Proto-Indo-European *skremb, *skr̥mb (compare Lithuanian skrembti ‘to crust over, stiffen’).

Noun

shrimp (countable and uncountable; plural shrimp or shrimps)

1. any of many swimming, often edible crustaceans, with slender legs, long whiskers and long abdomens
2. (uncountable) the flesh of the crustaceans
3. (slang) a small, puny or unimportant person

Synonyms

• prawn (Australia and U.K.)

Translations

decapod crustacean

• Arabic: روبيان (ar) (rūbyān) m, جمبري (ar) (jambari) m
• Armenian: ծովախեցգետին (hy) (çovaxec'getin)
• Bau Bidayuh: nang
• Burmese: please add this translation if you can
• Catalan: gamba (ca) f
• Chamicuro: kuchi
• Chechen: креветка
• Cherokee: ᎽᏈ (chr) (muqui)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 蝦 (cmn), 虾 (cmn) (xiā), 毛蝦 (cmn), 毛虾 (cmn) (máoxiā)

• Czech: kreveta (cs) f
• Danish: reje (da) c
• Dutch: garnaal (nl)
• Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
• Estonian: krevett (et)
• Faroese: rækja (fo) f
• Finnish: katkarapu (fi)
• French: crevette (fr) f
• German: Garnele (de) f
• Greek: γαρίδα (el) (garída) f
• Hungarian: garnéla (hu)

• Icelandic: rækja (is) f
• Indonesian: udang (id)
• Italian: gamberetto (it) m
• Japanese: エビ (ja) (ebi) (蝦 (ja), 海老 (ja))
• Javanese: urang (jv)
• Jèrriais: chèrvette f, p'tite chèrvette f
• Malay: udang (ms)
• Maori: tarawera (mi)
• Navajo: táłtłʼááh chʼosh daadánígíí
• Polish: krewetka (pl) f
• Portuguese: camarão (pt) m
• Romanian: crevetă (ro) f
• Russian: креветка (ru) (krevétka) f
• Serbo-Croatian: kozica (sh) f
• Slovak: kreveta (sk) f
• Slovene: kozica (sl) f
• Spanish: camarón (es) m, gamba (es) f, langostino (es) m
• Swedish: räka (sv) c
• Turkish: karides (tr)
• Vietnamese: tôm (vi)
• Volapük: please add this translation if you can

flesh of the crustacean

• Catalan: gamba (ca) f
• Greek: γαρίδα (el) (garída) f

• Spanish: camarón (es) m
• Turkish: karides (tr)

small person

• Finnish: pirpana (fi), ipana (fi)

• Russian: карлик (ru) (karlik) m

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.

Translations to be checked

• Dyirbal: balan mawa (Guwal); balan dunguy (Jalnguy)
• Interlingue: crevette

• Korean: 새우 (sae-u)

Verb

shrimp (third-person singular simple present shrimps, present participle shrimping, simple past and past participle shrimped)

1. (intransitive) to fish for shrimp