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abalone

noun · 3 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

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Pronunciation

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  • Received-Pronunciation: /æb.əˈləʊ.ni/
  • General-American: /æb.əˈloʊ.ni/
  • General-American: /ˈæb.əˌloʊ.ni/
  • Singapore: /ˈæbəlɒn/
  • US: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • Canada: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • Australia: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • rhymes with -əʊni
  • CMU ARPABET: AE2 B AH0 L OW1 N IY0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

noun

Meaning 1

An edible univalve mollusc of the genus Haliotis, having a shell lined with mother-of-pearl.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: Australia, Canada, Hong-Kong, Singapore, US, uncountable, usually

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

The meat of the aforementioned mollusc.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: Australia, Canada, Hong-Kong, Singapore, US, uncountable, usually

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

3

noun

Meaning 3

any of various large edible marine gastropods of the genus Haliotis having an ear-shaped shell with pearly interior

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: ear-shell

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: gastropod, univalve

Narrower terms: ormer, sea-ear, Haliotis tuberculata

History

Etymology

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

Across languages

Translations

65 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Afrikaans: perlemoen — edible univalve mollusc
  • Ainu: アィペ — edible univalve mollusc
  • Arabic: أُذُن اَلْبَحْر (ʔuḏun al-baḥr) — edible univalve mollusc
  • Asturian: peñerina — edible univalve mollusc
  • Asturian: oreya — edible univalve mollusc
  • Asturian: oreya de mar — edible univalve mollusc
  • Catalan: orella de mar — edible univalve mollusc
  • Chinese Cantonese: 鮑魚 /鲍鱼 (baau1 jyu4) — edible univalve mollusc
  • Hakka Chinese: 鮑魚 /鲍鱼 (pâu-ǹg) — edible univalve mollusc
  • Chinese: 鮑魚 /鲍鱼 (pau-hî, pau-hû) — edible univalve mollusc
  • Chinese Mandarin: 鮑魚 /鲍鱼 (bàoyú) — edible univalve mollusc
  • Chinese Mandarin: 石決明 /石决明 (shíjuémíng) — edible univalve mollusc
  • Chinese Mandarin: 鰒魚 /鳆鱼 (fùyú) — edible univalve mollusc
  • Czech: ušeň — edible univalve mollusc
  • Dutch: zeeoor — edible univalve mollusc
  • Dutch: abalone — edible univalve mollusc
  • Esperanto: halioto — edible univalve mollusc
  • Finnish: merikorva — edible univalve mollusc
  • Finnish: abaloni — edible univalve mollusc
  • French: ormeau — edible univalve mollusc
  • French: haliotide — edible univalve mollusc
  • Galician: peneira — edible univalve mollusc
  • Galician: orella de mar — edible univalve mollusc
  • German: Abalone — edible univalve mollusc
  • German: Meerohr — edible univalve mollusc
  • German: Seeohr — edible univalve mollusc
  • Greek: αυτί της θάλασσας (aftí tis thálassas) — edible univalve mollusc
  • Hindi: कर्णशुक्ति (karṇaśukti) — edible univalve mollusc
  • Icelandic: sæeyra — edible univalve mollusc
  • Indonesian: mata tujuh — edible univalve mollusc
  • Indonesian: kerang mata tujuh — edible univalve mollusc
  • Indonesian: abalone — edible univalve mollusc
  • Irish: cluas mhara — edible univalve mollusc
  • Italian: abalone — edible univalve mollusc
  • Italian: orecchia di mare — edible univalve mollusc
  • Japanese: 鮑 (awabi) — edible univalve mollusc
  • Japanese: アワビ (awabi) — edible univalve mollusc
  • Korean: 전복 (jeonbok) — edible univalve mollusc
  • Malay: ابالوني — edible univalve mollusc
  • Malay: abalone — edible univalve mollusc
  • Māori: pāua — edible univalve mollusc
  • Māori: marapeka — edible univalve mollusc
  • Central Sierra Miwok: hásˑyny- — edible univalve mollusc
  • Central Sierra Miwok: hás·yny- — edible univalve mollusc
  • Persian: گوش دریا (guš daryâ) — edible univalve mollusc
  • Polish: słuchotka — edible univalve mollusc
  • Polish: ucho morskie — edible univalve mollusc
  • Portuguese: haliote — edible univalve mollusc
  • Portuguese: abalone — edible univalve mollusc
  • Russian: абало́н (abalón) — edible univalve mollusc
  • Russian: галио́тис (galiótis) — edible univalve mollusc
  • Russian: морско́е у́шко (morskóje úško) — edible univalve mollusc
  • Scottish Gaelic: cluas-mhara — edible univalve mollusc
  • Spanish: oreja de mar — edible univalve mollusc
  • Spanish: abulón — edible univalve mollusc
  • Spanish: loco — edible univalve mollusc
  • Swedish: havsöra — edible univalve mollusc
  • Swedish: abalone — edible univalve mollusc
  • Swedish: öronsnäcka — edible univalve mollusc
  • Tagalog: kabibing-tainga — edible univalve mollusc
  • Thai: หอยเป๋าฮื้อ (hɔ̌i-bpǎo-hʉ́ʉ) — edible univalve mollusc
  • Turkish: denizkulağı — edible univalve mollusc
  • Vietnamese: bào ngư — edible univalve mollusc
  • Wappo: híle — edible univalve mollusc
  • Welsh: clust fôr — edible univalve mollusc
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