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”)

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.]
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 jyu^4-2)

  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
• 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

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)