kelp

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• General-American, Received-Pronunciation: /kɛlp/
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• General-American, Received-Pronunciation: kĕlp
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• rhymes with -ɛlp
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• CMU ARPABET: K EH1 L P Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Inherited from Middle English *kelpe, culpe, *kilpe (Early Modern English kilpe), of unclear origin, though the attested forms point to Old English *cylp, possibly from Proto-West Germanic *kulpi, from Proto-Germanic *kulpiz (“lump, boll”, referencing the airsacks of species such as bladderwrack and knotweed), potentially a substrate term connected to Latin globus (“globe”) and Proto-Germanic *klumpô (“clump”). If the above theory is accepted, cognate with Low German Kulp, Külp, Kulpe (“lump in the eye, ball, thick nose”), Norwegian Nynorsk kulp (“short tube”), and Swedish kulp (“stout person”); further compare Bavarian Kolpel (“lump of stone”), Icelandic kúlpa (“to protrude”), Low German kulpen, külpen (“to pile up”), Low German Kulpogen (“large eye”), and West Frisian kolpje (“to pout”).

From Middle English kelpe, kylpe, from Old Norse kilpr (“the handle of a vessel, loop”). Related to Old Norse kelpa (“otter trap”).

49 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Catalan: varec — large seaweed of order Laminariales
• Chinese Mandarin: 海帶 /海带 (hǎidài) — large seaweed of order Laminariales
• Chinese Mandarin: 昆布 (kūnbù) — large seaweed of order Laminariales
• Czech: kelpa — large seaweed of order Laminariales
• Dutch: kelp — large seaweed of order Laminariales
• Esperanto: laminario — large seaweed of order Laminariales
• Faroese: tari — large seaweed of order Laminariales
• Finnish: kelppi — large seaweed of order Laminariales
• Finnish: taarimainen levä — large seaweed of order Laminariales
• French: laminaire — large seaweed of order Laminariales
• French: kelp — large seaweed of order Laminariales
• French: goémon — large seaweed of order Laminariales
• French: varech — large seaweed of order Laminariales
• Galician: golfe — large seaweed of order Laminariales
• Galician: soga — large seaweed of order Laminariales
• Galician: golfeira — large seaweed of order Laminariales
• Galician: carromeiro — large seaweed of order Laminariales
• German: Seetang — large seaweed of order Laminariales
• German: Tang — large seaweed of order Laminariales
• German: Kelp — large seaweed of order Laminariales
• Icelandic: þari — large seaweed of order Laminariales
• Irish: ceilp — large seaweed of order Laminariales
• Japanese: 昆布 — large seaweed of order Laminariales
• Japanese: コンブ (konbu) — large seaweed of order Laminariales
• Korean: 다시마 (dasima) — large seaweed of order Laminariales
• Korean: 켈프 (kelpeu) — large seaweed of order Laminariales
• Māori: rimurapa — large seaweed of order Laminariales
• Māori: kōauau — large seaweed of order Laminariales
• Māori: pakakā — large seaweed of order Laminariales
• Māori: pakakē — large seaweed of order Laminariales
• Norwegian: tare — large seaweed of order Laminariales
• Persian: کتانجک (katānjak) — large seaweed of order Laminariales
• Persian: اشنیه (ošniye) — large seaweed of order Laminariales
• Polish: listownicowiec — large seaweed of order Laminariales
• Portuguese: alga marinha — large seaweed of order Laminariales
• Romanian: laminaria — large seaweed of order Laminariales
• Romanian: varec — large seaweed of order Laminariales
• Russian: бу́рая во́доросль (búraja vódoroslʹ) — large seaweed of order Laminariales
• Russian: ламина́рия (laminárija) — large seaweed of order Laminariales
• Scottish Gaelic: ceilp — large seaweed of order Laminariales
• Spanish: quelpo — large seaweed of order Laminariales
• Spanish: kelp — large seaweed of order Laminariales
• Swedish: kelp — large seaweed of order Laminariales
• Vietnamese: tảo bẹ — large seaweed of order Laminariales
• Volapük: varäk — large seaweed of order Laminariales
• Welsh: môr-wiail — large seaweed of order Laminariales
• Danish: kelp — calcined ashes of seaweed
• Finnish: kalsinoitu merileväntuhka — calcined ashes of seaweed
• Polish: spopielony listownicowiec — calcined ashes of seaweed