lobster

English

lobster (1)

Etymology

From Middle English lopster ‎(“lobster”), 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. (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)
• Asturian: llocántaru m
• Azeri: xərçəng (az), omar
• Basque: otarraina
• Belarusian: ама́р m ‎(amár)
• Bengali: গলদা ‎(gôlda)
• Bulgarian: ома́р m ‎(omár)
• Burmese: ပုဇွန်ထုတ်ကြီး ‎(pu.jwanhtutkri:)
• Catalan: llagosta f, llamàntol 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)

• Czech: humr (cs) m
• Danish: hummer c
• Dhivehi: އި‎ހި ‎(i‎hi)
• Dupaninan 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
• Georgian: ასთაკვი ‎(astaḳvi), კიბო ‎(ḳibo), ლობსტერი ‎(lobsṭeri)
• German: Hummer (de) m
• Greek: αστακός (el) m ‎(astakós)
• Guaraní: tuku
• Haitian Creole: oma
• 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)
• Norman: honmard m
• Kazakh: омар ‎(omar)
• Khmer: បង្កងសមុទ្រ ‎(bɑŋkɑɑŋ sa’mot), បង្កងសៅទាវ ‎(bɑŋkɑɑŋ sav tie vɔɔ)
• Korean: 가재 (ko) ‎(gajae), 바닷가재 (ko) ‎(badatgajae)
• Kyrgyz: омар ‎(omar)
• Lao: ກຸ້ງໃຫຍ່ ‎(kung nyai), ໂກ່ມ ‎(kōm)
• Latin: cammarus m
• Latvian: omārs m
• Lithuanian: omaras m
• Macedonian: ја́стог m ‎(jástog)
• Malay: udang kara
• Manx: gimmagh m
• Navajo: chʼoshtsoh bíláshgaantsohí
• Norwegian: hummer (no)
• 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)
• Scottish Gaelic: giomach m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: јастог m, ^{(please verify)} хлап m

  Roman: jastog (sh) m, ^{(please verify)} hlap (sh) m

• Slovak: morský rak m
• Slovene: jástog (sl) m
• Spanish: langosta (es) f
• Swedish: hummer (sv) c
• Tagalog: ulang
• Thai: กุ้งก้ามกราม ‎(gûng-gâam-graam)
• Tongan: uo
• Turkish: ıstakoz (tr)
• Turkmen: omar
• Ukrainian: ома́р (uk) m ‎(omár)
• Urdu: لابسٹر ‎(lābsṭar)
• Uzbek: omar
• Vietnamese: tôm hùm (vi), tôm rồng (vi)
• Volapük: humar (vo)
• Waray-Waray: banagan
• Welsh: cimwch (cy) m, cimychiaid pl

See also

• crawfish
• crayfish
• prawn
• shrimp
• yabby
• Lobster on Wikipedia.en.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, bolters, trobles