lobster

English

lobster (1)

Etymology

From Middle English lopster, from Old English loppestre (“lobster, spider-like creature”), believed to be a corruption of Latin locusta (“lobster, locust”) + the Old English feminine agent suffix -estre; or from Old English lobbe, loppe (“spider”) + the Old English feminine agent suffix -estre, equivalent to lop +‎ -ster. More at lop.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈlɒb.stə/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈlɑb.stɚ/

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Adjective

lobster (comparative more lobster, superlative most lobster)

1. red-colored, especially from a sunburn.

Noun

lobster (countable and uncountable, plural lobsters)

1. A crustacean of the Nephropidae family, dark green or blue-black in colour turning bright red when cooked, with a hard shell and claws, which is used as a seafood.
2. A crustacean of the Palinuridae family, pinkish red in colour, with a hard, spiny shell but no claws, which is used as a seafood.
3. (slang, historical) A soldier or officer of the imperial British Army (due to their red or scarlet uniform).
4. (slang) An Australian twenty dollar note, due to its reddish-orange colour.

Synonyms

• (British soldier) lobsterback, redcoat

Hyponyms

• (crustacean in Palinuridae): cray, langouste, spiny lobster, rock lobster

Derived terms

Terms derived from lobster

• American lobster
• Andaman lobster
• Arafura lobster
• bight lobster
• Cape lobster
• China lobster
• clawed lobster
• European lobster
• Formosa lobster
• furry lobster
• globster
• Japanese lobster
• lobsterback

• lobster caterpillar
• lobsterer
• lobsterette
• lobsterish
• lobsterlike
• lobster louse
• lobsterman
• lobster pot
• lobster pound
• lobster shift
• lobster thermidor
• lobstery

• Neptune lobster
• New Zealand lobster
• northwest lobster
• Norway lobster
• reef lobster
• rock lobster
• sculpted lobster
• Siboga lobster
• slipper lobster
• spiny lobster
• squat lobster
• true lobster
• velvet lobster

Translations

crustacean

• Abenaki: sôga
• Afrikaans: kreef
• Albanian: karavidhe (sq), gaforre (sq) f
• Arabic: كَرْكَنْد‎ m (karkand)
• Armenian: օմար (hy) (ōmar)
• Assamese: ডাঙৰ মিছামাছ (daṅor misamas)
• Asturian: llocántaru m
• Azerbaijani: xərçəng (az), omar
• Basque: otarraina
• Belarusian: ама́р m (amár)
• Bengali: গলদা (gôlda)
• Breton: legestr (br) m
• Bulgarian: ома́р m (omár)
• Burmese: ပုဇွန်ထုတ်ကြီး (pu.jwanhtutkri:)
• Catalan: llagosta f, llamàntol (ca) m (European lobster), escamarlà m (Norwegian lobster)
• Cebuano: banagan
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 龍蝦, 龙虾 (lung⁴ haa¹)

  Mandarin: 龍蝦 (zh), 龙虾 (zh) (lóngxiā)

  Wu: 龙虾 (lonho)

• Cornish: legest m
• Corsican: gàmbaru
• Czech: humr (cs) m
• Danish: hummer c
• Dhivehi: އިހި‎ (ihi)
• Dupaningan Agta: lobugen
• Dutch: zeekreeft (nl) f, kreeft (nl) f, hommer (nl) m
• Esperanto: omaro
• Estonian: homaar
• Faroese: hummari m
• Finnish: hummeri (fi)
• French: homard (fr) m
• Galician: lumbrigante (gl) m, lubrigante m, lagosta (gl) f
• Georgian: ასთაკვი (astaḳvi), კიბო (ḳibo), ლობსტერი (lobsṭeri)
• German: Hummer (de) m
• Greek: αστακός (el) m (astakós)

  Ancient: ἄστακος m (ástakos), κᾰ́μμᾰρος m (kámmaros)

• Greenlandic: please add this translation if you can
• Guaraní: tuku
• Haitian Creole: oma
• Hawaiian: ula
• Hebrew: סַרְטַן־יָם‎ m (sartan-yam)
• Hiligaynon: karitot, kiritot, lukon
• Hindi: झींगा मछली (jhīṅgā machlī), लॉब्स्टर (lŏbsṭar)
• Hungarian: homár (hu)
• Icelandic: humar (is) m
• Ido: homardo (io)
• Indonesian: udang laut, lobster (id)
• Interlingua: homaro
• Interlingue: homare
• Irish: gliomach (ga) m

• Italian: astice (it) m, aragosta (it) f
• Japanese: 伊勢海老 (ja) (ise ebi), イセエビ (ise ebi), ロブスター (ja) (robusutā)
• Kazakh: омар (omar)
• Khmer: បង្កងសមុទ្រ (bɑŋkɑɑŋ sa’mot), បង្កងសៅទាវ (bɑŋkɑɑŋ sav tie vɔɔ)
• Korean: 가재 (ko) (gajae), 바닷가재 (ko) (badatgajae)
• Kyrgyz: омар (ky) (omar)
• Lao: ກຸ້ງໃຫຍ່ (kung nyai), ໂກ່ມ (kōm)
• Latin: cammarus m, astacus m
• Latvian: omārs m
• Lithuanian: omaras m
• Luxembourgish: Homard, Hummer
• Macedonian: ја́стог m (jástog)
• Malay: udang kara
• Manx: gimmagh m
• Mi'kmaq: jagej anim
• Navajo: tónteel chʼoshtsoh bíláshgaantsohí
• Norman: honmard m (Jersey)
• Northern Sami: please add this translation if you can
• Norwegian: hummer (no)
• Occitan: ligombau (oc)
• Persian: خرچنگ دریایی‎ (xarčang-e daryâyi), روبیان‎ (fa) (rubiyân)
• Polish: homar (pl) m
• Portuguese: lagosta (pt) f
• Romanian: homar (ro) m
• Russian: ома́р (ru) m (omár), ло́бстер (ru) m (lóbstɛr)
• Scots: lapster
• Scottish Gaelic: giomach m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ја̏стог m, ^{(please verify)} хла̑п m

  Roman: jȁstog (sh) m, ^{(please verify)} hlȃp (sh) m

• Slovak: morský rak m
• Slovene: jástog (sl) m
• Spanish: langosta (es) f
• Swedish: hummer (sv) c
• Tagalog: ulang
• Thai: กุ้งมังกร (gûng-mang-gɔɔn)
• Tongan: uo
• Turkish: ıstakoz (tr)
• Turkmen: omar
• Ukrainian: ома́р (uk) m (omár)
• Urdu: لابسٹر‎ (lābsṭar)
• Uyghur: چوڭ راك‎ (chong rak)
• Uzbek: omar
• Vietnamese: tôm hùm (vi), tôm rồng (vi)
• Volapük: humar (vo)
• Walloon: please add this translation if you can
• Waray-Waray: banagan
• Welsh: cimwch (cy) m, cimychiaid pl
• West Frisian: please add this translation if you can
• Zhuang: duzlungzyah

See also

• crawfish
• crayfish
• prawn
• shrimp
• yabby
• lobster on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Verb

lobster (third-person singular simple present lobsters, present participle lobstering, simple past and past participle lobstered)

1. To fish for lobsters.

Translations

To fish for lobsters

Anagrams

• Bolster, Strobel, Stroble, bolster, bolters, reblots, rebolts, trobles