shellfish

English

Cooked mussels

Etymology

From Middle English schellefyssch, shelle fysshe, equivalent to shell +‎ fish.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈʃɛlˌfɪʃ/

Noun

shellfish (countable and uncountable, plural shellfish or shellfishes)

1. An aquatic invertebrate having a shell, such as a mollusc or crustacean, especially when edible.

Translations

aquatic food that has a shell

• Afrikaans: skulpdier
• Arabic: مَحَار‎ m (maḥār)
• Belarusian: малю́ск m (maljúsk)
• Bengali: please add this translation if you can
• Burmese: ခရု (my) (hka.ru.)
• Catalan: marisc (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 貝類 (zh), 贝类 (zh) (bèilèi)

• Danish: skaldyr (da) n
• Dutch: schelpdier (nl) n
• Finnish: (no exact equivalent) äyriäinen (fi), simpukka (fi), osteri (fi); merenelävä (fi)
• French: coquillage (fr) m, fruits de mer (fr)
• Galician: marisco (gl) m
• German: Schalentier n
• Greek: οστρακόδερμο (el) n (ostrakódermo)
• Haitian Creole: fwidmè
• Hindi: कस्तूरा (hi) (kastūrā)
• Hungarian: kagyló (hu)
• Indonesian: kerang (id)
• Irish: sliogán (ga) m
• Italian: crostaceo (it) m, mollusco (it) m
• Japanese: 貝 (ja) (かい, kai), 甲殻類 (ja) (こうかくるい, kōkakurui)
• Javanese: please add this translation if you can
• Kannada: ಚಿಪ್ಪು ಮೀನು (cippu mīnu)

• Korean: 조개 (ko) (jogae)
• Lao: ຫອຍ (hōy)
• Latin: concha f
• Macedonian: школка f (školka)
• Malay: kerang, kerang-kerangan
• Manx: eeast shliggagh m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: skalldyr n

  Nynorsk: skaldyr n

• Persian: صدف‌ماهی‎ (sadaf-mâhi)
• Polish: skorupiak (pl) m
• Portuguese: marisco (pt) m
• Russian: моллю́ск (ru) m (molljúsk) (mollusc), ракообра́зное (ru) n (rakoobráznoje) (crustacean)
• Scottish Gaelic: maorach m
• Spanish: marisco (es) m
• Swahili: please add this translation if you can
• Swedish: skaldjur (sv) n
• Thai: หอย (th) (hɔ̌i)
• Ukrainian: молю́ск m (moljúsk)
• Vietnamese: ốc (vi)
• Volapük: koanaf (vo)
• Welsh: pysgodyn cragen m
• West Frisian: skulpdier n

Further reading

• shellfish on Wikipedia.Wikipedia