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salmon

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See also: Salmon and salmón

English

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Etymology

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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

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Noun

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

Derived terms

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(terms derived from salmon (noun)):
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Descendants

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Adjective

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salmon (not comparable)

  1. Having a pale pinkish-orange colour.
    • 1977, John Le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy, Folio Society, published 2010, page 155:
      Smiley and Guillam perched disconsolately beneath it, on a bench of salmon velvet.

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Verb

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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.

See also

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redsedit

Anagrams

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Cebuano

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Etymology

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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

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  • Hyphenation: sal‧mon

Noun

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salmon

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

Esperanto

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Noun

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salmon

  1. accusative singular of salmo

Friulian

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Noun

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salmon m (plural salmons)

  1. salmon

Kabuverdianu

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Etymology

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From Portuguese salmão.

Noun

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salmon

  1. rainbow runner, Elagatis bipinnulata

References

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

Middle English

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Noun

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salmon

  1. Alternative form of samoun

Piedmontese

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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salmon m

  1. salmon

Tagalog

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Spanish salmón.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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salmón (Baybayin spelling ᜐᜎ᜔ᜋᜓᜈ᜔)

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

Further reading

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