salmon

See also: Salmon and salmón

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: să'mən, (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) IPA^(key): /ˈsæmən/
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  Audio (US):

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• (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) Rhymes: -æmən
• (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) IPA^(key): /ˌsæl.mən/ (compare (deprecated template usage) salmonella)

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English samon, saumon, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Anglo-Norman saumon, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French saumon, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin salmō, salmōn-. Displaced native Middle English lax, from Old English leax. The unpronounced l was later inserted to make the word appear closer to its Latin root (compare words like debt, indict, receipt for the same spelling Latinizations).

Noun

salmon (plural salmon)

1. One of several species of fish, typically of the Salmoninae subfamily.
2. (plural salmons) A pale pinkish-orange colour, the colour of cooked salmon.

   salmon:  

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

terms derived from salmon (noun)

• Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar)
• bay salmon (Salmo salar)
• beaked salmon ()
• black salmon (Salmo salar)
• blueback salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka)
• Brazilian salmon pink tarantula ()
• caplin-scull salmon (Salmo salar)
• cherry salmon ()
• chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha)
• chum salmon (Oncorhynchus keta)
• coho salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch)
• Danube salmon (Hucho hucho)
• Dawson river salmon ()
• dog salmon (Oncorhynchus keta)
• fresh-water salmon (Salmo salar)
• giant salmon carp ()
• humpback salmon ()
• king salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha)
• King Salmon
• kokanee salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka)
• land-locked salmon (Salmo salar)
• outside salmon (Salmo salar)
• Pacific salmon (Oncorhynchus spp.)
• pink salmon ()
• quinnat salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha)
• red salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka)
• salmon-crested cockatoo (Cacatua moluccensis)
• salmon gum (Eucalyptus spp.)
• salmon shark ()
• salmon-striped swamp frog ()
• salmon trout (Salmo gairdneri)
• salmon-bellied racer ()
• salmonberry ()
• Sebago salmon (Salmo salar)
• silver salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch, Salmo salar)
• sockeye salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka)
• spring salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha)
• Tyee salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha)
• Nova Scotia salmon
• rock salmon
• salmon and trout
• salmon day
• salmon ladder
• salmon leap
• salmon peel
• salmonid
• smoked salmon

Related terms

• samlet

Translations

fish

• Abenaki: mskwamagw
• Ainu: カムイチェㇷ゚ (kamuy-cep)
• Arabic: حُوت سُلَيْمَان m (ḥūt sulaymān)
• Armenian: սաղմոն (hy) (saġmon)
• Asturian: salmón m
• Basque: izokin (eu)
• Belarusian: ласо́сь m (lasósʹ)
• Breton: eog (br) m
• Bulgarian: сьомга f (sjómga)
• Catalan: salmó (ca) m
• Central Sierra Miwok: kóˑsomu-
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 三文魚／三文鱼 (saam¹ man⁴ jyu^4-2), 三文鱼 (saam¹ man⁴ jyu^4-2)

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

• Cornish: ehek m, sowman m
• Czech: losos (cs) m
• Danish: laks (da)
• Dutch: zalm (nl) m
• Esperanto: salmo (eo)
• Estonian: lõhe
• Faroese: laksur (fo) m
• Finnish: lohikala (fi), lohi (fi)
• French: saumon (fr) m
• Galician: salmón (gl) m
• Georgian: ორაგული (oraguli)
• German: Lachs (de) m
• Greek: σολομός (el) m (solomós)
• Hebrew: סַלְמוֹן (he) m (sálmon), אִלְתִּית (he) f (iltít)
• Hindi: सामन (hi) (sāman)
• Hungarian: lazac (hu)
• Icelandic: lax (is) m
• Ido: salmono (io)
• Interlingua: salmon (ia)
• Irish: bradán (ga) m
• Italian: salmone (it) m
• Japanese: サーモン (sāmon), 鮭 (ja) (さけ, sake; しゃけ, shake)
• Korean: 연어 (ko) (yeoneo)
• Latin: salmō m
• Latvian: lasis m
• Lithuanian: lašiša (lt) f
• Low German:

  Dutch Low Saxon: las

  German Low German: lass

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• Luxembourgish: Saumon (lb) m
• Macedonian: лосос m (lósos)
• Manx: braddan m
• Montagnais: please add this translation if you can
• Naskapi: please add this translation if you can
• Norman: saumon m (Jersey), saumaon m (Guernsey), sâomoun m (continental Normandy)
• Northern Sami: luossa
• Norwegian: laksfisk m
• Old English: leax m
• Old Irish: bratán m
• Old Norse: lax m
• Persian: ماهی آزاد (mâhi-âzâd), سالمون (sâlmon)
• Polish: łosoś (pl) m anim
• Portuguese: salmão (pt) m
• Romani:

  Kalo Finnish Romani: loolo matšo

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

  Cyrillic: ло̏сос m

  Roman: lȍsos (sh) m

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

  Lower Sorbian: łosos m

  Upper Sorbian: łosos m

• Spanish: salmón (es) m
• Swedish: lax (sv)
• Tagalog: salmon
• Tlingit: x̲áat
• Turkish: som (tr), somon (tr)
• Ukrainian: лосось m (losósʹ)
• Urdu: سامن (sāman)
• Vietnamese: cá hồi
• Volapük: salm (vo)
• Welsh: eog (cy) m, eogiaid m pl
• West Frisian: salm
• Yiddish: לאַקס m (laks)

colour

• Catalan: salmó (ca) m
• Czech: lososová f
• Dutch: zalmkleur (nl) f
• Finnish: lohenpunainen (fi)
• French: saumon (fr)
• German: lachsfarben, lachsfarbig, lachsrot, lachsrosa
• Icelandic: laxbleikur litur m
• Interlingua: salmon (ia)
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• Italian: salmone (it) m
• Macedonian: розово-портокалова f (rózovo-portokálova)
• Portuguese: salmão (pt) m
• Russian: оранжево (ru) (oranževo)-ро́зовый (ru) (rózovyj) цвет (ru) (cvet), сомон (ru) (somon)
• Slovak: lososová f
• Spanish: salmón (es) m
• Turkish: somon (tr)
• Volapük: salmaköl

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• Indonesian: ^{(please verify)} salmon (id)
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Adjective

salmon (not comparable)

1. Having a pale pinkish-orange 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

colour

• Dutch: zalmkleurig (nl), zalmkleurige (nl)
• Finnish: lohenpunainen (fi)
• German: lachsfarben
• Icelandic: laxbleikur
• Interlingua: ^{(please verify)} de color salmon
• Macedonian: розовопортокалов m (rozovoportókalov)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Polish: łososiowy (pl)
• Portuguese: salmão (pt)
• Russian: оранжево (ru) (oranževo)-ро́зовый (ru) (rózovyj)
• Spanish: asalmonado, salmón (es)
• Volapük: salmakölik

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

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• Basque: (1) ^{(please verify)} izokinezko, (2) ^{(please verify)} izokin koloreko
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• Catalan: (2) ^{(please verify)} salmonat m, (2) ^{(please verify)} salmonada f

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, vermilion, 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

• Almons, Lamson, Lomans, monals

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Esperanto

Noun

salmon sg

1. accusative singular of salmo