gravlax

English

WOTD – 18 February 2011

Alternative forms

• gravadlax, gravad lax
• gravlaks (from Norwegian)

Etymology

Borrowed from Swedish gravlax, a compound of grava (“to dry-cure in salt and sugar”) + lax (“salmon”).

Pronunciation

gravlax (on the right)

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɡɹavˌlaks/

  • Audio (Southern England):

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈɡɹɑvˌlɑks/
• Rhymes: -æks, -ɑːks

Noun

gravlax (uncountable)

1. Salmon dry-cured in salt, seasoned with dill and sugar, and served usually thinly sliced as an appetizer.

Translations

appetizer of dry-cured salmon

• Armenian: գրաավիլոհի (graavilohi), գրավլաքս (gravlakʻs)
• Belarusian: гра́ўлакс m (hráŭlaks)
• Bulgarian: гравлакс m (gravlaks)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 醃製鮭魚／腌制鲑鱼 (yānzhì guīyú), 醃製三文魚／腌制三文鱼 (yānzhì sānwényú)

• Danish: gravad laks c
• Estonian: soolalõhe, kergsoolalõhe, graavilõhe
• Finnish: graavilohi (fi)
• French: gravlax (fr) m, gravelax (fr) m
• German: Graved Lachs m, Gravlax m
• Icelandic: graflax (is) m
• Japanese: グラブラックス (guraburakkusu)
• Korean: 그라브락스 (geurabeurakseu)
• Limburgish: graafzalm (li) m
• Norwegian: gravlaks m, graven laks m
• Portuguese: gravlax m
• Russian: гра́авилохи m (gráaviloxi), гра́влакс (ru) m (grávlaks)
• Swedish: gravlax (sv) c, gravad lax c
• Turkish: somon tuzlama

Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Swedish gravlax, a compound of grava (“to dry-cure in salt and sugar”) + lax (“salmon”).

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ɡɾaˈvlaks/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ɡɾaˈvlaks/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ɡɾaˈvlakʃ/

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɡɾaˈvlakʃ/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɡɾaˈvlakʃ/
  • (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɡɾaˈblakʃ/ [ɡɾaˈβlakʃ]

Noun

gravlax m (uncountable)

1. gravlax (appetizer of dry-cured salmon)

Swedish

gravlax med hovmästarsås

Alternative forms

• gravad lax

Etymology

A compound of grava (“to dry-cure in salt and sugar”) +‎ lax (“salmon”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡrɑːvˌlaks/

Noun

gravlax c (uncountable)

1. gravlax (appetizer of dry-cured salmon)

Declension

Declension of gravlax

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	gravlax	gravlax
	definite	gravlaxen	gravlaxens
plural	indefinite	—	—
	definite	—	—

Coordinate terms

• hovmästarsås

References

• gravlax in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• gravlax in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)