seafood

English

Etymology

From sea +‎ food.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsiːfuːd/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Hyphenation: sea‧food

Noun

seafood (usually uncountable, plural seafoods)

1. Food from the sea, including that derived from fish, shellfish, crustaceans, cephalopods, seaweed, algae, marine mammals, and other marine organisms.

   Synonym: fruit of the sea

   • 1929, Robert Dean Frisbee, The Book of Puka-Puka, Eland, published 2019, page 127:

     But most of all, they were jealous because these strangers feasted daily on great turtle, albacore and sail-fish, the sweetest of all seafoods.

   • 2004, David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas, London: Hodder and Stoughton, →ISBN:

     Write about radiation levels in seafood, “safe” pollution limits set by pollutors, government policy auctioned for campaign donations and Seaboard's ex juris police force, and you'll raise the temperature of public awareness, fractionally, towards its ignition point.

2. (by extension) Food from any aquatic source, including not only salt water but also fresh water.
   • For quotations using this term, see Citations:seafood.

Usage notes

• For some users the term excludes algae/seaweed, marine mammals, or other organisms. Food products that are derived, especially industrially, from organisms that are included may also be excluded.

Derived terms

• nonseafood
• seafood boil
• seafooder
• seafood fork
• seafoodie
• seafood queen
• seafoody
• seagan

Translations

fish, shellfish, seaweed and other edible aquatic life

• Afrikaans: seekos
• Albanian: please add this translation if you can
• Arabic: مَأْكُولَات بَحْرِيَّة m pl (maʔkūlāt baḥriyya), طَعَام الْبَحْر m (ṭaʕām al-baḥr)
• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Belarusian: please add this translation if you can
• Breton: boued-mor (br) m, boued-aod (br) m
• Bulgarian: морски дарове m pl (morski darove)
• Carpathian Rusyn: please add this translation if you can
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 海鮮 / 海鲜 (hoi² sin¹)

  Mandarin: 海鮮 / 海鲜 (zh) (hǎixiān), 海產食品 / 海产食品 (hǎichǎn shípǐn), 魚鮮 / 鱼鲜 (zh) (yúxiān), 海味 (zh) (hǎiwèi), (freshwater seafood from a river) 河鮮 / 河鲜 (zh) (héxiān), (freshwater seafood from a lake) 湖鮮 / 湖鲜 (zh) (húxiān), (aquatic product) 水產 / 水产 (zh) (shuǐchǎn)

• Czech: dary moře m pl, mořské plody m pl, plody moře m pl
• Danish: please add this translation if you can
• Dutch: zeevruchten (nl) pl, zeebanket (nl) n
• Finnish: merenantimet pl, merenelävät pl, meren vilja, meriruoka; kalaruoka (fi)
• French: fruits de mer (fr)
• Galician: marisco (gl) m, froito de mar m
• Georgian: ზღვის პროდუქტები (zɣvis ṗrodukṭebi)
• German: Meeresfrüchte (de) pl or f, Meeresfrucht (de) f
• Greek: θαλασσινά (el) n pl (thalassiná)
• Hawaiian: please add this translation if you can
• Hebrew: פֵּירוֹת יָם (he) m pl (perót yam)
• Hungarian: tenger gyümölcsei (hu) pl, tengeri hal/rák/kagyló, halászati termékek pl
• Indonesian: boga bahari, makanan laut (id)
• Irish: please add this translation if you can
• Italian: frutti di mare pl, frutto di mare (it) m
• Japanese: シーフード (ja) (shīfūdo), 海鮮 (ja) (kaisen), 魚介類 (ja) (gyokairui), 海産物 (ja) (kaisanbutsu), 海産食品 (kaisan-shokuhin)
• Kapampangan: pamangan lawut, pamangan dayat, asan danum
• Kashubian: please add this translation if you can
• Khmer: គ្រឿងសមុទ្រ (kreuangsâmŭtr)
• Korean: 해산물 (ko) (haesanmul), 해물 (ko) (haemul)
• Lao: ອາຫານທະເລ (ʼā hān tha lē)
• Macedonian: морски плодови m pl (morski plodovi)
• Malay: makanan laut (ms)
• Manx: please add this translation if you can
• Māori: kaimoana, mātaitai
• Mongolian: далайн хоол (dalajn xool)
• Nahuatl:

  Classical Nahuatl: ātlān chānehqueh

• Norwegian: sjømat
• Pannonian Rusyn: морски плоди m pl (morski plodi)
• Polish: owoce morza (pl) nvir pl, frutti di mare (pl) nvir pl
• Portuguese: fruto do mar (pt) m, marisco (pt) m, frutos do mar (pt)
• Romanian: fructe de mare (ro) n pl
• Russian: (except fish) морепроду́кты (ru) m pl (moreprodúkty)
• Scottish Gaelic: please add this translation if you can
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Latin: morski plodovi m pl

• Slovak: please add this translation if you can
• Slovene: please add this translation if you can
• Sotho: dijo tsa lewatle
• Spanish: marisco (es) m
• Swahili: chakula cha baharini
• Swedish: fisk och skaldjur
• Tagalog: lamandagat, pagkaing-dagat
• Thai: อาหารทะเล (th) (aa-hǎan-tá-lee)
• Turkish: deniz ürünü, deniz ürünleri (tr) pl
• Ukrainian: please add this translation if you can
• Vietnamese: hải sản (vi), đồ biển
• Welsh: bwyd môr m
• Yiddish: פֿיליערוואַרג n (filyervarg), ים־פֿרוכט f (yam-frukht)

References

• “seafood”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Chinese

Etymology 1

From English seafood, which resembles the pronunciation of 屎窟 (si2 fat1, “buttocks”), in turn an ellipsis of 屎窟鬼 (si2 fat1 gwai2, “asshole”).

Pronunciation

• Cantonese (Jyutping): si¹ fut¹

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• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: si¹ fut¹
    • Yale: sī fūt
    • Cantonese Pinyin: si¹ fut⁷
    • Guangdong Romanization: xi¹ fud¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /siː⁵⁵ fuːt̚⁵/

Noun

seafood

1. (Hong Kong Cantonese, neologism, euphemistic) asshole; jerk; shithead

   old seafood [Cantonese]  ―  ou¹ si¹ fut¹ [Jyutping]  ―  (please add an English translation of this usage example)

   老seafood [Cantonese]  ―  lou⁵ si¹ fut¹ [Jyutping]  ―  (please add an English translation of this usage example)

See also

• 老屎窟

Etymology 2

From English seafood, which resembles the pronunciation of 師父 / 师父 (shīfu) and is the way the believers refer to him. Possibly via Cantonese 師父 / 师父 (si¹ fu^6-2).

Proper noun

seafood

1. (Taiwan, slang) Liu Chin-lung, founder and leader of the cult Rulaizong