truffle

English

Truffles from Mont Ventoux

Etymology

Borrowed from French trufle, a variant of truffe (whence also Danish and Norwegian trøffel, Swedish tryffel, German Trüffel), from Old Occitan trufa, a metathesis of Late Latin tufera (plural), from Latin tūber (“truffle”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɹʌf.l̩/
  • (Northern England, Dublin) IPA^(key): /ˈtɹʊf.l̩/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ʌfəl
• Hyphenation: truf‧fle

Noun

truffle (plural truffles)

1. Any of various edible fungi, of the genus Tuber, that grow in the soil in southern Europe; the earthnut.

   Synonym: earthnut

   • 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 137:

     In ancient times, the Romans imported truffles, credited with marked aphrodisiac virtue, from Libya as well as Greece.

2. (by analogy) Ellipsis of chocolate truffle (“creamy chocolate confection, in the form of a ball, covered with cocoa powder”).

Derived terms

• black truffle
• Chinese truffle
• chocolate truffle
• corn truffle
• desert truffle
• false truffle
• magic truffle
• pecan truffle
• truffle butter
• truffled
• truffle hog
• truffle hunter
• truffle hunting
• truffle oil
• truffle pig
• truffler
• truffle shuffle
• truffling
• white truffle

Translations

tuber

• Afrikaans: truffel, knolswam
• Arabic: كَمْأَة f (kamʔa)

  North Levantine Arabic: كماية f

  Baghdadi Arabic: ﭼِﻤَﺔ f (tɕimæ), فَگَع m (fagaʕ)

• Armenian: գետնասունկ (hy) (getnasunk), դոմբալա (hy) (dombala)

  Middle Armenian: բողբուճ (boġbuč)

• Azerbaijani: dombalan
• Basque: boilur inan
• Belarusian: тру́фель m (trúfjelʹ), тру́фля f (trúflja)
• Bulgarian: трю́фел m (trjúfel)
• Catalan: tòfona (ca)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 塊菌 / 块菌 (faai³ kwan²)

  Mandarin: 松露 (zh) (sōnglù)

• Crimean Tatar: domalan
• Czech: lanýž (cs)
• Danish: trøffel c
• Dutch: truffel (nl)
• Estonian: trühvel
• Faroese: trøfla f
• Finnish: tryffeli (fi)
• French: truffe (fr) f
• German: Trüffel (de) f
• Greek: ύτανο n (ýtano), τρούφα (el) f (troúfa)

  Ancient: ὕδνον n (húdnon)

• Hebrew: כְּמֵהָה (he) f (kmehá), כְּמֵהִין (he) f pl (kmehín)
• Hungarian: szarvasgomba (hu)
• Icelandic: jarðkeppur
• Irish: strufal m
• Italian: tartufo (it) m
• Japanese: 西洋松露 (ja) (せいようしょうろ, seiyōshōro), トリュフ (ja) (toryufu)
• Korean: 송로버섯 (ko) (songnobeoseot), 송로 (ko) (songno)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: دۆمەڵان (domellan)

  Northern Kurdish: kiyarik

• Latin: tūber (la) n, (New Latin) tertufulus m
• Macedonian: тартуф m (tartuf)
• Ottoman Turkish: یر الماسی (yer elması)
• Persian: قارچ دمبلان (qârč-e dombalân)
• Polish: trufla (pl) f
• Portuguese: trufa (pt) f, túbera f
• Romanian: trufă (ro)
• Russian: трю́фель (ru) m (trjúfelʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: та̀ртуф m

  Roman: tàrtuf (sh) m

• Slovak: hľuzovka f
• Slovene: tartuf m, gomoljika f
• Spanish: trufa (es) f
• Swedish: tryffel (sv) c
• Tagalog: trupo
• Turkish: domalan, keme, trüf mantarı, domuz elması
• Ukrainian: трюфель m (trjufelʹ)
• Welsh: cloronen f, cloronen y moch f (summer), cloronen Ffrengig f (black)
• Yiddish: טרופֿליע f (truflye), טריפֿל n (trifl), טרופֿל m (trufl)

chocolate truffle — see chocolate truffle

Further reading

• truffle on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• fretful