grouper

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈɡɹuːpə(ɹ)/
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• rhymes with -uːpə(ɹ)
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• CMU ARPABET: G R UW1 P ER0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From Portuguese garoupa (“grouper”). Compare garrupa.

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *grewbh-der. Proto-Germanic *kruppazder. Frankish *kruppbor. Vulgar Latin *cruppus Italian gruppobor. French groupebor. ▲ Italian gruppobor. English group Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere English -er English grouper From group + -er.

35 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Asturian: meru — fish
• Bulgarian: групър (grupǎr) — fish
• Catalan: mero — fish
• Catalan: anfós — fish
• Catalan: nero — fish
• Chinese Cantonese: 石斑 (sek6 baan1) — fish
• Chinese Mandarin: 石斑魚 /石斑鱼 (shíbānyú) — fish
• Czech: kanic — fish
• Finnish: meriahven — fish
• French: mérou — fish
• Galician: mero de altura — fish
• German: Zackenbarsch — fish
• Greek: ροφός (rofós) — fish
• Hebrew: דַּקָּר — fish
• Hungarian: fűrészessügér — fish
• Irish: garúpach — fish
• Italian: cernia — fish
• Japanese: ハタ (hata) — fish
• Japanese: 羽太 (hata) — fish
• Latin: acernia — fish
• Malay: kerapu — fish
• Malayalam: കലവ (kalava) — fish
• Navajo: dáádílí — fish
• Portuguese: garoupa — fish
• Russian: гру́пер (grúper) — fish
• Russian: ка́менный о́кунь (kámennyj ókunʹ) — fish
• Serbo-Croatian: kijerna — fish
• Sicilian: cirenga — fish
• Spanish: mero — fish
• Spanish: cherna — fish
• Tagalog: lubo — fish
• Turkish: orfoz — fish
• Vietnamese: cá mú — fish
• Welsh: grwper — fish
• Wolof: coof — fish