tilapia

See also: Tilapia, tilápia, and tilapią

English

Nile tilapia, Oreochromis niloticus

Etymology

From translingual Tilapia, from Tswana tlhapi (“fish”). The drag race slang usage is a reference to the comment by Gia Gunn on entering Ru Paul's Drag Race (season 6) "Just landed like fresh tilapia".

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /təˈlɑːpiə/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /tɪˈlɑːpiə/, /tɪˈlæpiə/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ɑːpiə, -æpiə

Noun

tilapia (plural tilapias or tilapia)

2. Any of various edible fish, formerly species of the genus Tilapia, but now placed in other cichlid genera (such as Oreochromis), native to Africa and the Middle East but cultivated worldwide.

   Synonym: St. Peter's fish

   • 2006, Tom Waits, Kathleen Brennan, Bottom of the World:

     Well I dined last night with Scarface Ron
     On tilapia fishcakes and fried black swan.

3. (drag slang) A fishy (resembling a cisgender woman) drag queen; a drag queen who could pass for a woman, as opposed to one who is exaggeratedly feminine.
   • 2019 June 13, Sam Damshenas, “Drag Race star Plastique Tiara wants to be a "pioneer" for the queer Asian community”, in Gay Times‎^[1], London: Gay Times Ltd, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2021-08-01:

     Vietnamese tilapia Plastique Tiara was at the forefront of one of Drag Race's most controversial eliminations earlier this year. Although the Texan performer and biological woman was leaving us gooped week-after-week with her runways, she was – spoiler alert! – eliminated in eighth place after lip-syncing against Miss Vanjie, despite having a better track record.

Derived terms

• banded tilapia (Tilapia sparrmanii)
• blackchin tilapia (Sarotherodon melanotheron)
• blackfin tilapia (Sarotherodon linnellii)
• black tilapia (Oreochromis placidus)
• blue tilapia (Oreochromis aureus)
• Graham's tilapia
• Guinean tilapia (Coptodon guineensis)
• kariba tilapia (Oreochromis mortimeri)
• longfin tilapia (Oreochromis macrochir)
• magadi tilapia (Alcolapia grahami)
• mango tilapia (Sarotherodon galilaeus)
• Manyara tilapia (Oreochromis amphimelas)
• Mozambique tilapia (Oreochromis mossambicus)
• Nile tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus)
• Okavango tilapia (Tilapia ruweti)
• Otjikoto tilapia (Tilapia guinasana)
• redbelly tilapia (Coptodon zillii)
• redbreast tilapia (Coptodon rendalli)
• Singida tilapia
• spotted tilapia (Pelmatolapia mariae)
• threespot tilapia (Oreochromis andersonii)
• Wami tilapia (Oreochromis urolepis)
• Zill's tilapia

 

Translations

any fish of the genus Tilapia

• Arabic: بُلْطِيّ m (bulṭiyy)
• Bikol Central: tilapya
• Bulgarian: ^{(please verify)} тилапия f (tilapija)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 羅非魚 / 罗非鱼 (lo⁴ fei¹ jyu^4-2)

  Mandarin: 羅非魚 / 罗非鱼 (luófēiyú)

• Coptic: ⲣⲁⲙⲓ (rami)
• Esperanto: ^{(please verify)} tilapio
• Finnish: tilapia
• French: tilapia (fr) m
• German: Tilapia f, Tilapie f
• Hebrew: אַמְנוּן (he) m (amnún), מוּשְׁט (he) (musht) (colloquial)
• Italian: tilapia (it) f
• Japanese: ティラピア (tirapia)
• Lingala: libúndú
• Macedonian: ^{(please verify)} тилапија f (tilapija)
• Malayalam: ^{(please verify)} തിലാപ്പിയ (tilāppiya)
• Polish: tilapia (pl) f
• Portuguese: tilápia f
• Russian: ^{(please verify)} тиля́пии f (tiljápii), ^{(please verify)} тила́пии f (tilápii)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ^{(please verify)} тилапија f

  Roman: ^{(please verify)} tilapia f

• Sinhalese: ^{(please verify)} තිලාපි‍යා (tilāpi‍yā)
• Spanish: tilapia (es) f
• Tagalog: tilapya
• Tamil: ^{(please verify)} திலாப்பியா (tilāppiyā)
• Thai: ^{(please verify)} ปลาทิลาเพีย (bplaa tí laa pia)
• Vietnamese: ^{(please verify)} cá rô phi
• Zulu: intilaphi

Polish

tilapia

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tiˈla.pja/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -apja
• Syllabification: ti‧la‧pia

Noun

tilapia f

1. tilapia

Declension

Declension of tilapia

	singular	plural
nominative	tilapia	tilapie
genitive	tilapii	tilapii/tilapij (archaic)
dative	tilapii	tilapiom
accusative	tilapię	tilapie
instrumental	tilapią	tilapiami
locative	tilapii	tilapiach
vocative	tilapio	tilapie

Further reading

• tilapia in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tiˈlapja/ [t̪iˈla.pja]

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -apja
• Syllabification: ti‧la‧pia

Noun

tilapia f (plural tilapias)

1. tilapia

Further reading

• “tilapia”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10