dulse

English

WOTD – 23 December 2009

A plate of dulse.

Alternative forms

• dilisk, dillisk, dilsk, dulce

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Irish duileasc, (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Scottish Gaelic duileasg; compare Welsh delysg.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dʌls/

Noun

dulse (usually uncountable, plural dulses)

1. A seaweed of a reddish-brown color (Palmaria palmata) which is sometimes eaten, as in Scotland.
   • 1997, ‘Egil's Saga’, tr. Bernard Scudder, The Sagas of Icelanders, Penguin 2001, page 151:

     Then Egil said, ‘That happens if you eat dulse, it makes you even thirstier.’

   • 2002, Joseph O'Connor, Star of the Sea, Vintage 2003, page 90:

     They worked together on their father's patch: desperately, hungrily, from dawn to nightfall; dragging up dulse from the shore to nourish the stones; [...] but nothing much grew except their own sense of separation.

Derived terms

• shell dulse

Translations

reddish brown seaweed that is eaten

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Danish: søl
• Finnish: dulse-levä, Palmaria palmata -levä
• French: dulse (fr) f, goémon à vache f, algue à vache f, rhodyménie palmé m
• German: Lappentang m
• Hungarian: vörös pálmamoszat, vörös pálmaalga
• Icelandic: söl n
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Irish: duileasc m, creathnach f
• Korean: 다시마 (dasima)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: søl n

  Nynorsk: søl n

• Polish: rodymeria palczasta f
• Russian: тёмно-красная во́доросль (tjómno-krasnaja vódoroslʹ)
• Scottish Gaelic: duileasg m
• Welsh: delysg m

See also

• Palmaria palmata on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• duels, leuds, ludes, slued

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Cebuano

Etymology

From Spanish dulce (“candy, sweets, dessert”), from Latin dulcis.

Noun

dulse

1. (dated) candy, sweets

   Synonyms: kendi, karmelitos

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Ladino

Etymology

From Latin dulcis (compare Spanish dulce).

Adjective

1. sweet, sugary

Noun

1. sweet preserves