name
Meaning 1
A surname from Italian.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
calamari
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.
Sound
Pronunciation
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kăləmä'rē
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/kæləˈmɑːɹi/
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rhymes with -ɑːɹi
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CMU ARPABET: K AA0 L AA0 M AA1 R IY0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
Squid as food, especially cooked in the form of calamari rings.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: cooking, food, lifestyle
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noun
Meaning 3
Squid, the mollusk.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable, usually
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noun
Meaning 4
(Italian cuisine) squid prepared as food
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: squid, calamary
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: seafood
History
Etymology
Borrowed from Italian Calamari.
Borrowed from Italian calamari, plural of calamaro, from Latin calamarius, from calamus, from Ancient Greek κάλαμος (kálamos, “reed, ink pen”).
Across languages
Translations
20 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Arabic: صُبّيط (ṣobbēṭ) — as food
- Chinese Mandarin: 魷魚 /鱿鱼 (yóuyú) — as food
- Danish: blæksprutte — as food
- Finnish: mustekala — as food
- French: calmar — as food
- German: Tintenfisch — as food
- Greek: καλαμάρι (kalamári) — as food
- Greek: καλαμαράκια (kalamarákia) — as food
- Italian: totano — as food
- Italian: calamaro — as food
- Japanese: カラマリ (karamari) — as food
- Norwegian: akkar — as food
- Polish: kalmar — as food
- Polish: kałamarnica — as food
- Portuguese: lula — as food
- Russian: кальма́р (kalʹmár) — as food
- Serbo-Croatian: lignje — as food
- Spanish: calamares — as food
- Swedish: calamares — as food
- Turkish: kalamar — as food