seafood

English

Etymology

sea +‎ food

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsiːfuːd/

Noun

seafood (usually uncountable, plural seafoods)

1. A colloquial term for fish, shellfish, seaweed, and other edible aquatic life.
2. A nutritional term and culinary term for finned fish and shellfish used as food. In some cultures cartilaginous fish may be included. Contextually, other aquatic animals like tetrapods and aquatic plants like seaweed are excluded from the definition. In the nutritional context, culinary context and in some regional vernacular the term “seafood” is ordinarily differentiated from “meat”, which is defined as a separate category of food.
3. A general term and regional vernacular for edible marine fish and shellfish. In this context “seafood” is sometimes not deemed as its own food category; rather its considered to be a specific subcategory of meat when the broader definitions of “meat” are being used.

Synonyms

fruit of the sea

Hyponyms

• (edible aquatic life): fish, finfish shellfish, molluscs, crustaceans, seaweed, algae, sea mammals

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)
• Breton: boued-mor (br) m, boued-aod (br) m
• Bulgarian: морски дарове m pl (morski darove)
• 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)

• Classical Nahuatl: ātlān chānehqueh
• 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)
• Italian: frutti di mare pl, frutto di mare 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
• Khmer: គ្រឿងសមុទ្រ (kreuangsâmŭtr)
• Korean: 해산물 (ko) (haesanmul)
• Lao: ອາຫານທະເລ (lo) (ʼā hān tha lē)
• Malay: makanan laut (ms)
• Maori: kaimoana, mātaitai
• Mongolian: далайн хоол (dalajn xool)
• Norwegian: sjømat
• Polish: owoce morza (pl) m 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)
• Sotho: dijo tsa lewatle
• Spanish: marisco (es) m
• Swahili: please add this translation if you can
• Swedish: fisk och skaldjur
• Tagalog: lamandagat, pagkaing-dagat
• Thai: อาหารทะเล (th) (aa-hǎan-tá-lee)
• Turkish: deniz ürünü, deniz ürünleri pl
• Vietnamese: hải sản (vi), hải vị (vi)

See also

• seafood on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Chinese

Etymology

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 example)

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

See also

• 老屎窟