kelp

See also: Kelp

English

Etymology

14th c., from Middle English culp, culpe, kilp, but of unknown ultimate origin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɛlp/, enPR: kĕlp

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ɛlp

Noun

kelp (countable and uncountable, plural kelps)

1. Any of several large brown seaweeds (order Laminariales).
   • 2021 June 26, “Why New England is going wild for wet weeds”, in The Economist‎^[1], →ISSN:

     Underneath the area demarcated by the buoys, Ms Puckett plants kelp—a type of seaweed—on long ropes that resemble washing lines.

2. The calcined ashes of seaweed, formerly used in glass and iodine manufacture.

Hyponyms

• kombu

Meronyms

• stipe

Derived terms

• bull kelp (Nereocystis luetkeana, etc)
• kelp crab
• kelp forest
• kelp salmon

Descendants

• → French: kelp
• → German: Kelp
• → Spanish: quelpo

Translations

large seaweed of order Laminariales

• Catalan: varec m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 海帶／海带 (zh) (hǎidài), 海带 (zh) (hǎidài), 昆布 (zh) (kūnbù)

• Czech: kelpa f
• Dutch: zeewier (nl) n
• Faroese: tari m
• Finnish: kelppi, taarimainen levä
• French: laminaire (fr) f, kelp (fr) m, goémon (fr) m, varech (fr) m
• Galician: golfe (gl) m, soga (gl) f, golfeira f
• German: Seetang (de) m, Tang (de) m, Kelp (de) n
• Icelandic: þari m
• Irish: ceilp f
• Japanese: 昆布 (ja) (こんぶ, konbu, こぶ, kobu), コンブ (konbu)
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• Korean: 다시마 (dasima), 켈프 (kelpeu)
• Maori: rimurapa, kōauau, pakakā, pakakē
• Norwegian: tare m
• Polish: listownicowiec m
• Portuguese: alga marinha f
• Romanian: laminaria (ro) f, varec (ro) n
• Russian: бу́рая во́доросль f (búraja vódoroslʹ), ламина́рия (ru) f (laminárija)
• Scottish Gaelic: ceilp f
• Spanish: quelpo m
• Swedish: kelp (sv)
• Vietnamese: tảo bẹ
• Volapük: varäk
• Welsh: môr-wiail

calcined ashes of seaweed

• Danish: kelp (da) c
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Verb

kelp (third-person singular simple present kelps, present participle kelping, simple past and past participle kelped)

1. (intransitive) To gather kelp.
   • 2018, John Walter Sutherland, Resurrection Road (page 94)

     Just before we reached Seward the pilot got a radio message that a fishing boat in Thumb Cove had some kelp […] Neither of us had ever kelped before but there wasn't much to it, and we started bringing in full boxes back to Eads' barge.

Derived terms

• kelper

Further reading

• kelp on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

References

• “kelp”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.
• Skeat, Walter William (1993): The Concise Dictionary of English Etymology

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French

Etymology

From English kelp.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɛlp/

Noun

kelp m (plural kelps)

1. kelp

   Synonyms: goémon, varech

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Spanish

Noun

kelp m (plural kelps)

1. Alternative form of quelpo