lobster

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈlɒb.stə/
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• General-American: /ˈlɑb.stɚ/
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• US: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
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• rhymes with -ɒbstə(ɹ)
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• CMU ARPABET: L AA1 B S T ER0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From Middle English loppestere, lopster, from Old English loppestre, lopustre, lopystre, of uncertain origin. Some believe it to be a corruption of Latin lō̆custa (“grasshopper, locust”) + the Old English feminine agent suffix -estre. In Latin, the phrase lō̆custa marīna (literally "sea-grasshopper") signified a type of crustacean (shrimp or lobster). Alternatively, from Old English lobbe, loppe (“spider”) + the Old English feminine agent suffix -estre, equivalent to lop + -ster.

159 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Abenaki: sôga — crustacean
• Afrikaans: kreef — crustacean
• Dupaningan Agta: lobugen — crustacean
• Albanian: karavidhe — crustacean
• Albanian: gaforre e madhe — crustacean
• Arabic: كَرْكَنْد (karkand) — crustacean
• Arabic: استاكوزا (ʔistakōza) — crustacean
• Arabic: أم الربيان (umm al-rubiyān) — crustacean
• Arabic: لوبستر (lōbster) — crustacean
• Armenian: օմար (ōmar) — crustacean
• Assamese: ডাঙৰ মিছামাছ (daṅor misamas) — crustacean
• Asturian: llocántaru — crustacean
• Asturian: bugre — crustacean
• Azerbaijani: xərçəng — crustacean
• Azerbaijani: omar — crustacean
• Basque: otarraina — crustacean
• Belarusian: ама́р (amár) — crustacean
• Bengali: গলদা (golda) — crustacean
• Bhojpuri: झींगा (jhīṅgā) — crustacean
• Bonggi: kulakng — crustacean
• Breton: legestr — crustacean
• Bulgarian: ома́р (omár) — crustacean
• Burmese: ပုဇွန်ထုတ်ကြီး (pu.jwanhtutkri:) — crustacean
• Catalan: llagosta — crustacean
• Catalan: llamàntol — crustacean
• Catalan: escamarlà — crustacean
• Cebuano: banagan — crustacean
• Chinese Cantonese: 龍蝦 /龙虾 — crustacean
• Chinese Mandarin: 龍蝦 /龙虾 (lóngxiā) — crustacean
• Chinese Mandarin: 海螯蝦 /海螯虾 (hǎiáoxiā) — crustacean
• Wu Chinese: 龍蝦 /龙虾 — crustacean
• Cornish: legest — crustacean
• Corsican: gàmbaru — crustacean
• Czech: humr — crustacean
• Danish: hummer — crustacean
• Dhivehi: އިހި (ihi) — crustacean
• Dutch: zeekreeft — crustacean
• Dutch: kreeft — crustacean
• Dutch: hommer — crustacean
• Esperanto: omaro — crustacean
• Estonian: homaar — crustacean
• Faroese: hummari — crustacean
• Finnish: hummeri — crustacean
• French: homard — crustacean
• French: langouste — crustacean
• West-Frisian: kreeft — crustacean
• Galician: lumbrigante — crustacean
• Galician: lubrigante — crustacean
• Galician: lagosta — crustacean
• Georgian: ასთაკვი (astaḳvi) — crustacean
• Georgian: კიბო (ḳibo) — crustacean
• Georgian: ლობსტერი (lobsṭeri) — crustacean
• German: Hummer — crustacean
• Greek: αστακός (astakós) — crustacean
• Ancient Greek: ἀστακός (astakós) — crustacean
• Ancient Greek: κάμμαρος (kámmaros) — crustacean
• Haitian Creole: oma — crustacean
• Hawaiian: ula — crustacean
• Hebrew: לוֹבְּסְטֶר (lóbster) — crustacean
• Hiligaynon: karitot — crustacean
• Hiligaynon: kiritot — crustacean
• Hiligaynon: lukon — crustacean
• Hindi: झींगा मछली (jhīṅgā machlī) — crustacean
• Hungarian: homár — crustacean
• Icelandic: humar — crustacean
• Ido: homardo — crustacean
• Indonesian: udang laut — crustacean
• Indonesian: lobster — crustacean
• Ingrian: krapu — crustacean
• Interlingua: homaro — crustacean
• Irish: gliomach — crustacean
• Italian: astice — crustacean
• Italian: aragosta — crustacean
• Italian: gambero di mare — crustacean
• Italian: lupicante — crustacean
• Japanese: 伊勢海老 (ise ebi) — crustacean
• Japanese: イセエビ (ise ebi) — crustacean
• Japanese: オーマル ロブスター (ōmaru) — crustacean
• Kazakh: омар (omar) — crustacean
• Khmer: បង្កងសមុទ្រ (bɑɑbɑngkɑɑng saʼmot) — crustacean
• Khmer: បង្កងសៅទាវ (bɑɑbɑngkɑɑng saw tiəw) — crustacean
• Korean: 가재 (gajae) — crustacean
• Korean: 바닷가재 (badatgajae) — crustacean
• Kyrgyz: омар (omar) — crustacean
• Lao: ກຸ້ງໃຫຍ່ (kung h) — crustacean
• Lao: ໂກ່ມ (kōm) — crustacean
• Latin: cammarus — crustacean
• Latin: astacus — crustacean
• Latvian: omārs — crustacean
• Lithuanian: omaras — crustacean
• Luxembourgish: Homard — crustacean
• Luxembourgish: Hummer — crustacean
• Macedonian: ја́стог (jástog) — crustacean
• Malay: udang kara — crustacean
• Malay: bekara (Labuan) — crustacean
• Malayalam: കൊഞ്ച് (koñcŭ) — crustacean
• Maltese: awwista — crustacean
• Manx: gimmagh — crustacean
• Maranao: odang — crustacean
• Middle English: loppestere — crustacean
• Mi'kmaq: jagej — crustacean
• Mizo: kaikuang — crustacean
• Navajo: tónteel chʼoshtsoh bíláshgaantsohí — crustacean
• Norman: honmard — crustacean
• Norwegian Bokmål: hummer — crustacean
• Norwegian Nynorsk: hummar — crustacean
• Occitan: ligombau — crustacean
• Old English: loppestre — crustacean
• Persian: خرچنگ دریایی (xarčang-e daryâyi) — crustacean
• Persian: روبیان (rubiyân) — crustacean
• Plautdietsch: Humma — crustacean
• Polish: homar — crustacean
• Portuguese: lagosta — crustacean
• Romanian: homar — crustacean
• Russian: ома́р (omár) — crustacean
• Russian: ло́бстер (lóbstɛr) — crustacean
• Scots: lapster — crustacean
• Scottish Gaelic: giomach — crustacean
• Serbo-Croatian: ја̏стог — crustacean
• Serbo-Croatian: хла̑п — crustacean
• Serbo-Croatian: jȁstog — crustacean
• Serbo-Croatian: hlȃp — crustacean
• Slovak: morský rak — crustacean
• Slovene: jástog — crustacean
• Somali: argoosto — crustacean
• Somali: xayawaan — crustacean
• Spanish: langosta — crustacean
• Spanish: bogavante — crustacean
• Spanish: pigua — crustacean
• Spanish: lobagante — crustacean
• Spanish: lubigante — crustacean
• Spanish: llocántaro — crustacean
• Swedish: hummer — crustacean
• Tagalog: ulang — crustacean
• Tajik: харчанги баҳрӣ (xarčang-i bahri) — crustacean
• Thai: กุ้งมังกร (gûng-mang-gɔɔn) — crustacean
• Thai: ล็อบสเตอร์ (lɔ́ps-dtə̂ə) — crustacean
• Tongan: uo — crustacean
• Turkish: ıstakoz — crustacean
• Turkmen: omar — crustacean
• Ukrainian: ома́р (omár) — crustacean
• Ukrainian: ло́бстер (lóbster) — crustacean
• Urdu: لابسٹر (lābsṭar) — crustacean
• Uyghur: چوڭ راك (chong rak) — crustacean
• Uzbek: omar — crustacean
• Vietnamese: tôm hùm — crustacean
• Vietnamese: tôm rồng — crustacean
• Volapük: humar — crustacean
• Waray-Waray: banagan — crustacean
• Welsh: cimwch — crustacean
• Welsh: cimychiaid — crustacean
• Woiwurrung: kur-rite — crustacean
• Woiwurrung: darrak (-burrong) — crustacean
• Woiwurrung: duyang — crustacean
• Woiwurrung: bunggan-gulum — crustacean
• Yiddish: ראַק (rak) — crustacean
• Yiddish: האָמאַר (homar) — crustacean
• Yiddish: לאָבסטער (lobster) — crustacean
• Zhuang: duzlungzyah — crustacean