abalone

See also: Abalone

English

WOTD – 30 December 2006

Alternative forms

• avalone (obsolete)

Etymology

From American Spanish abulón, from an indigenous language of the Monterey Bay area such as Rumsen/Southern Ohlone aūlun (“red abalone”)^[1][2]

pink abalone (Haliotis corrugata)

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /æb.əˈləʊ.ni/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /æb.əˈloʊ.ni/, /ˈæb.əˌloʊ.ni/

• Audio (US):

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Noun

abalone (usually uncountable, plural abalones)

1. (Canada, US, Australia) An edible univalve mollusc of the genus Haliotis, having a shell lined with mother-of-pearl. [from mid-19th c.]^[3]
2. (Canada, US, Australia) The meat of the aforementioned mollusc. [from mid-19th c.]

Synonyms

• (UK) ear-shell, (Guernsey) ormer, (New Zealand) paua, pawa, (South Africa) perlemoen

Derived terms

• ass's-ear abalone
• ass's ear abalone (Haliotis asinina)
• Australian abalone (Haliotis iris)
• black abalone (Haliotis crachedorii)
• blacklip abablone (Haliotis rubra)
• Chilean abalone (Concholepas concholepas)
• green abalone (Haliotis fulgens)
• northern abalone (Haliotis kamtschatkana)
• pink abablone (Haliotis corrugata)
• pinto abalone (Haliotis kamtschatkana)
• rainbow abalone (Haliotis iris)
• red abalone (Haliotis rufescens)
• ridged ear abalone (Haliotis scalaris)
• staircase abalone (Haliotis scalaris)
• variable abalone (Haliotis varia)
• virgin abalone (Haliotis iris)
• white abalone (Haliotis sorenseni)

 

Translations

edible univalve mollusc

Ainu: アィペ Arabic: أُذُن اَلْبَحْر f (ʔuḏun al-baḥr) Breton: (please verify) ourmel, (collective noun) (please verify) ourmelenn (br) f Catalan: orella de mar f Central Sierra Miwok: hásˑyny-, hás·yny- Chinese: Cantonese: 鮑魚／鲍鱼 (baau1 jyu4-2) Hakka: 鮑魚／鲍鱼 (pâu-ǹg) Hokkien: 鮑魚／鲍鱼 (pau-hî, pau-hû) Mandarin: 鮑魚／鲍鱼 (zh) (bàoyú), 石決明／石决明 (zh) (shíjuémíng), 鰒魚／鳆鱼 (zh) (fùyú) (archaic) Dutch: zeeoor, abalone m Esperanto: halioto Finnish: merikorva (fi), abaloni (fi) French: ormeau (fr) m, haliotide (fr) f Galician: peneira (gl) f, orella de mar f German: Abalone (de) f, Meerohr n, Seeohr (de) n Greek: αυτί της θάλασσας f (aftí tis thálassas) Hindi: कर्णशुक्ति f (karṇaśukti) Icelandic: sæeyra Indonesian: mata tujuh, kerang mata tujuh (literally “seven-eyed clam”) Irish: cluas mhara f Italian: abalone, orecchia di mare Japanese: 鮑 (ja) (あわび, awabi), アワビ (awabi) Korean: 전복 (ko) (jeonbok) Malay: Jawi: ابالوني Rumi: abalone (ms) Maori: pāua, marapeka Persian: گوش دریا (guš daryâ) Polish: słuchotka f, ucho morskie n Portuguese: haliote (pt) m Russian: абало́н (ru) m (abalón), галио́тис m (galiótis), морско́е у́шко n (morskóje úško) Scottish Gaelic: cluas-mhara f Spanish: oreja de mar f, abulón (es) m, loco (es) m Swedish: havsöra (sv) n, abalone, öronsnäcka (sv) c Tagalog: kabibing-tainga Thai: หอยเป๋าฮื้อ (hɔ̌i-bpǎo-hʉ́ʉ) Turkish: denizkulağı (tr) Vietnamese: bào ngư (vi) Wappo: híle Welsh: clust fôr f

See also

• paua

References

1. “abalone”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
2. “abalone”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
3. Lesley Brown, editor-in-chief, William R. Trumble and Angus Stevenson, editors (2002), “abalone”, in The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles, 5th edition, Oxford, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 1.

Further reading

• Abalone in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
• Abalone on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “abalone”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English abalone, borrowed in the mid-20th century.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.ba.lɔn/

• Audio:

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Noun

abalone m (plural abalones)

1. (cooking, uncommon) the abalone

Synonyms

• (more usual terms for "abalone"): ormeau, haliotis, haliotide, oreille de mer

Further reading

• “abalone”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Malay

Etymology

From English abalone, from American Spanish abulón, from an indigenous language of the Monterey Bay area such as Rumsen (Southern Ohlone aūlun (“red abalone”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [abalone]
• Rhymes: -ne, -e

Noun

abalone (Jawi spelling ابالوني, plural abalone-abalone)

1. abalone (edible univalve mollusc)