abalone

See also: Abalone

English

WOTD – 30 December 2006

Alternative forms

• avalone (obsolete)

Etymology

Etymology tree

Southern Ohlone aulunbor.

Spanish abulónbor.

English abalone

From American Spanish abulón, from an indigenous language of the Monterey Bay area such as Rumsen/Southern Ohlone aūlun (“red abalone”)

pink abalone (Haliotis corrugata)

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /æb.əˈləʊ.ni/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /æb.əˈloʊ.ni/, /ˈæb.əˌloʊ.ni/
• (Singapore) IPA^(key): /ˈæbəlɒn/

• Audio (US):

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• Audio (Canada):

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• Audio (Australian):

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• Rhymes: -əʊni

Noun

abalone (usually uncountable, plural abalones)

1. (Canada, US, Australia, Hong Kong, Singapore) An edible univalve mollusc of the genus Haliotis, having a shell lined with mother-of-pearl. [mid 19th c.]
   • 1909, John Reed Swanton (translator), edited by John Reed Swanton, Tlingit Myths and Texts, The Poor Man who Caught Wonderful Things:

     After he had brought it close to the canoe, he looked down and saw that it was a great live abalone caught in the flesh. Its color shone out of the water. As it ascended it was so big that all the canoes seemed to come inside of it, and it shone in every one's face

2. (Canada, US, Australia, Hong Kong, Singapore) The meat of the aforementioned mollusc. [mid 19th c.]

Synonyms

• (UK) ear shell, (Guernsey) ormer, (New Zealand) paua, pawa, (South Africa) perlemoen

Derived terms

• ass's-ear abalone
• ass's ear abalone (Haliotis asinina)
• Australian abalone (Haliotis iris)
• black abalone (Haliotis crachedorii)
• blacklip abablone (Haliotis rubra)
• Chilean abalone (Concholepas concholepas)
• green abalone (Haliotis fulgens)
• northern abalone (Haliotis kamtschatkana)
• pink abablone (Haliotis corrugata)
• pinto abalone (Haliotis kamtschatkana)
• rainbow abalone (Haliotis iris)
• red abalone (Haliotis rufescens)
• ridged ear abalone (Haliotis scalaris)
• staircase abalone (Haliotis scalaris)
• variable abalone (Haliotis varia)
• virgin abalone (Haliotis iris)
• white abalone (Haliotis sorenseni)
• withering abalone syndrome

Translations

edible univalve mollusc

• Afrikaans: perlemoen (af)
• Ainu: アィペ
• Arabic: أُذُن اَلْبَحْر f (ʔuḏun al-baḥr)
• Asturian: peñerina (ast) f, oreya (ast) f, oreya de mar (ast) f
• Breton: (singular) ^{(please verify)} ourmel (br), (collective noun) ^{(please verify)} ourmelenn (br) f
• Catalan: orella de mar f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 鮑魚 / 鲍鱼 (baau¹ jyu⁴)

  Hakka: 鮑魚 / 鲍鱼 (pâu-ǹg)

  Hokkien: 鮑魚 / 鲍鱼 (pau-hî, pau-hû)

  Mandarin: 鮑魚 / 鲍鱼 (zh) (bàoyú), 石決明 / 石决明 (zh) (shíjuémíng), 鰒魚 / 鳆鱼 (zh) (fùyú) (archaic)

• Czech: ušeň (cs) f
• Dutch: zeeoor, abalone m
• Esperanto: halioto
• Finnish: merikorva (fi), abaloni (fi)
• French: ormeau (fr) m, haliotide (fr) f
• Galician: peneira (gl) f, orella de mar f
• German: Abalone (de) f, Meerohr n, Seeohr (de) n
• Greek: αυτί της θάλασσας f (aftí tis thálassas)
• Hindi: कर्णशुक्ति f (karṇaśukti)
• Icelandic: sæeyra
• Indonesian: mata tujuh, kerang mata tujuh (literally “seven-eyed clam”), abalone (id)
• Irish: cluas mhara f
• Italian: abalone, orecchia di mare
• Japanese: 鮑 (ja) (あわび, awabi), アワビ (ja) (awabi)
• Korean: 전복 (ko) (jeonbok)
• Malay:

  Jawi: ابالوني

  Rumi: abalone (ms)

• Māori: pāua, marapeka
• Miwok:

  Central Sierra Miwok: hásˑyny-, hás·yny-

• Persian: گوش دریا (guš daryâ)
• Polish: słuchotka f, ucho morskie n
• Portuguese: haliote (pt) m, abalone (pt) m
• Russian: абало́н (ru) m (abalón), галио́тис m (galiótis), морско́е у́шко n (morskóje úško)
• Scottish Gaelic: cluas-mhara f
• Spanish: oreja de mar f, abulón (es) m, loco (es) m
• Swedish: havsöra (sv) n, abalone, öronsnäcka (sv) c
• Tagalog: kabibing-tainga
• Thai: หอยเป๋าฮื้อ (hɔ̌i-bpǎo-hʉ́ʉ)
• Turkish: denizkulağı (tr)
• Vietnamese: bào ngư (vi)
• Wappo: híle
• Welsh: clust fôr f

See also

• paua

Further reading

• Abalone in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
• Abalone on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “abalone”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English abalone, borrowed in the mid-20th century.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.ba.lɔn/

• Audio (France):

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Noun

abalone m (plural abalones)

1. (cooking, uncommon) the abalone

Synonyms

• (more usual terms for "abalone"): ormeau, haliotis, haliotide, oreille de mer

Further reading

• “abalone”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

Malay

Etymology

Borrowed from English abalone, from American Spanish abulón, from an indigenous language of the Monterey Bay area such as Rumsen (Southern Ohlone aūlun (“red abalone”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌabaˈlone/ [ˌʔa.baˈlo.ne]

  • Audio (Malaysia):

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• Rhymes: -one
• Hyphenation: a‧ba‧lo‧ne

Noun

abalone (Jawi spelling ابالوني, plural abalone-abalone or abalone²)

1. abalone (edible univalve mollusc)

   Synonyms: (Indonesia) kerang mata tujuh, (Indonesia) ngarun, (Indonesia) lapar kenyang

Further reading

• "abalone" in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu (PRPM) [Malay Literary Reference Centre (PRPM)] (in Malay), Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017