salmon

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English

Etymology

From Middle English samoun, samon, saumon, from Anglo-Norman saumon, from Old French saumon, from Latin salmō, salmōn-. Displaced native Middle English lax, from Old English leax (“salmon”). The unpronounced l was later inserted to make the word appear closer to its Latin root (compare words like debt, indict, receipt for the same spelling Latinizations).

The verb sense “ride a bicycle the wrong way down a one-way street” alludes to salmon swimming upstream against the flow of a river to spawn.

Pronunciation

• enPR: să'mən, IPA^(key): /ˈsæmən/
• Rhymes: -æmən
• (Southern US, sometimes) IPA^(key): /ˈsælmən/
• (Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈsɑmən/
• (Dublin) IPA^(key): /ˈsamən/, /ˈsæmən/
• (Philippines) IPA^(key): /ˈsalmən/, /ˈsalmon/

Noun

salmon (countable and uncountable, plural salmon or salmons)

2. (zoology) One of several species of fish, typically of the Salmoninae subfamily, brownish above with silvery sides and delicate pinkish-orange flesh; they ascend rivers to spawn.

   grilled salmon

   salmon paté

   salmon steak

   Synonyms: lax, lox

3. A meal or dish made from this fish.
4. (plural salmons) A pale pinkish-orange colour, the colour of cooked salmon.

   Synonym: salmon pink

5. The upper bricks in a kiln which receive the least heat.
6. (Cockney rhyming slang) snout (tobacco; from salmon and trout)

Derived terms

Related terms

• samlet

Descendants

• → Burmese: ဆယ်လမွန် (hcaila.mwan)
• → Hebrew: סַלְמוֹן (sálmon)
• → Hindi: सामन (sāman)
• → Japanese: サーモン (sāmon)
• → Maori: hāmana

Translations

Adjective

salmon (not comparable)

1. Having a pale pinkish-orange colour.

Translations

Verb

salmon (third-person singular simple present salmons, present participle salmoning, simple past and past participle salmoned)

1. (slang, intransitive) To ride a bicycle the wrong way down a one-way street.
   • 2014: "Salmon, Don't Shoal: Learning The Lingo Of Safe Cycling" by Marc Silver, NPR

     Some cities discourage salmoning with clever signage, like this in London: "If you can read this you are biking the wrong way."

See also

Anagrams

• monals, Lomans, Lamson, Almons, Lamons, Malson, Sloman

Cebuano

Etymology

From English salmon, from Middle English samon, saumon, from Anglo-Norman saumon, from Old French saumon, from Latin salmō, salmōn-. For the jackfish, see Hawaiian salmon.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: sal‧mon

Noun

salmon

1. salmon; any of several fish in the subfamily Salmoninae
2. rainbow runner (Elagatis bipinnulata)

Esperanto

Noun

salmon

1. accusative singular of salmo

Friulian

Noun

salmon m (plural salmons)

1. salmon

Kabuverdianu

Etymology

From Portuguese salmão.

Noun

salmon

1. rainbow runner, Elagatis bipinnulata

References

• Gonçalves, Manuel (2015) Capeverdean Creole-English dictionary, →ISBN

Middle English

Noun

salmon

1. Alternative form of samoun

Piedmontese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /salˈmuŋ/

Noun

salmon m

1. salmon

Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish salmón.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /salˈmon/ [sɐlˈmon̪]
• Rhymes: -on
• Syllabification: sal‧mon

Noun

salmón (Baybayin spelling ᜐᜎ᜔ᜋᜓᜈ᜔)

1. salmon (fish)
2. salmon (color/colour)

Further reading

• “salmon”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018