prawn

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• Received-Pronunciation: /pɹɔːn/
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• Australian, British, New-Zealand, Southern, Standard: /pɹoːn/
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• Australia: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
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• /pɹɔn/ without the cot–caught merger
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• cot-caught-merger: /pɹɑn/
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• Canada: /pɹɒn/
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• Scotland: /pɾɔn/
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• Wales: /pɾɔːn/
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• CMU ARPABET: P R AO1 N Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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First attested early 1400s as various Middle English forms prayne, prane, praune, and prawne, which present no clear cognates in languages other than English. The forms suggest a hypothetical Old English form *prægn, where *æg would have evolved into Middle English *ay, but it is unclear if the word is of Germanic origin, from another European language, or loaned from a substrate. In the Isle of Wight, a word prankle ("prawn") is recorded and thought to be related. Century, following Skeat, suggested transposition of an unrecorded Old French *parne, *perne related to Spanish perna (“a flat shellfish”), Old Italian perna and diminutive pernochie, parnocchie, glossed as "shrimps or prawne, fishes" by John Florio, but the OED considers Florio's entry incorrect and the suggested connection semantically and phonologically implausible. Etymology 1, noun sense 3 ("woman with attractive body and unattractive face") is from the idea of discarding the head of a prawn before eating it.

An alternative spelling of pron (pronounced identically with cot-caught merger), which in turn is a corrupted spelling of porn.

114 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Afrikaans: garnaal — large shrimp
• Arabic: جَمْبَرِي (jambarī) — large shrimp
• Arabic: رُوبِيَان (rūbiyān) — large shrimp
• Arabic: قَمْبَري (gambari) — large shrimp
• Armenian: մանր ծովախեցգետին (manr covaxecʻgetin) — large shrimp
• Assamese: মিছা মাছ (misa mas) — large shrimp
• Assamese: নিচলা মাছ (nisola mas) — large shrimp
• Asturian: esguila — large shrimp
• Azerbaijani: karides — large shrimp
• Azerbaijani: krevet — large shrimp
• Belarusian: крэве́тка (krevjétka) — large shrimp
• Bengali: চিংড়ি (ciṅṛi) — large shrimp
• Bengali: ইঁচা (ĩca) — large shrimp
• Bengali: ইচলা (icola) — large shrimp
• Bengali: ইচলি (icoli) — large shrimp
• Bulgarian: скари́да (skarída) — large shrimp
• Burmese: မျှင် (hmyang) — large shrimp
• Burmese: ပုစွန် (pu.cwan) — large shrimp
• Catalan: gamba — large shrimp
• Cebuano: pansat — large shrimp
• Chechen: креветка (krevetka) — large shrimp
• Chinese Mandarin: 蝦 /虾 (xiā) — large shrimp
• Chinese Mandarin: 明蝦 /明虾 (míngxiā) — large shrimp
• Chinese Mandarin: 對蝦 /对虾 (duìxiā) — large shrimp
• Czech: kreveta — large shrimp
• Danish: reje — large shrimp
• Dutch: garnaal — large shrimp
• Dutch: scampi — large shrimp
• Erzya: креветка (krevetka) — large shrimp
• Esperanto: peneo — large shrimp
• Estonian: krevett — large shrimp
• Estonian: garneel — large shrimp
• Finnish: (iso) katkarapu — large shrimp
• Finnish: jättikatkarapu — large shrimp
• French: crevette — large shrimp
• Galician: gamba — large shrimp
• Georgian: კრევეტი (ḳreveṭi) — large shrimp
• German: Garnele — large shrimp
• Greek: γαρίδα (garída) — large shrimp
• Ancient Greek: καρίς (karís) — large shrimp
• Hebrew: חֲסִילוֹנִים — large shrimp
• Hindi: झींगा (jhīṅgā) — large shrimp
• Hungarian: garnéla — large shrimp
• Icelandic: rækja — large shrimp
• Indonesian: udang — large shrimp
• Irish: cloicheán — large shrimp
• Italian: gambero — large shrimp
• Japanese: エビ (ebi) — large shrimp
• Japanese: 海老 (ebi) — large shrimp
• Javanese: urang — large shrimp
• Kannada: ಸೀಗಡಿ (sīgaḍi) — large shrimp
• Kazakh: асшаян (asşaän) — large shrimp
• Kazakh: креветка (krevetka) — large shrimp
• Khmer: ព្រោន (proon) — large shrimp
• Khmer: បង្គា (bɑɑbɑngkiə) — large shrimp
• Korean: 징거미 (jinggeomi) — large shrimp
• Korean: 새우 (sae'u) — large shrimp
• Kyrgyz: креветка (krevetka) — large shrimp
• Lao: ກຸ້ງ (kung) — large shrimp
• Latvian: krevete — large shrimp
• Latvian: garnele — large shrimp
• Lithuanian: krevetė — large shrimp
• Macedonian: скамп (skamp) — large shrimp
• Macedonian: шкамп (škamp) — large shrimp
• Malay: udang — large shrimp
• Malayalam: ചെമ്മീൻ (cemmīṉ) — large shrimp
• Nootka: łiłimakƛi — large shrimp
• Norman: grosse chèrvette — large shrimp
• Norwegian Bokmål: reke — large shrimp
• Odia: ଚିଙ୍ଗୁଡ଼ି (ciṅguṛi) — large shrimp
• Persian: میگو (meygu) — large shrimp
• Polish: krewetka — large shrimp
• Portuguese: camarão — large shrimp
• Portuguese: pitu — large shrimp
• Punjabi: ਝੀਂਗਾ (jhīṅgā) — large shrimp
• Romagnol: gâmbar — large shrimp
• Romanian: crevetă — large shrimp
• Russian: креве́тка (krevétka) — large shrimp
• Serbo-Croatian: шкамп — large shrimp
• Serbo-Croatian: рачић — large shrimp
• Serbo-Croatian: kozica — large shrimp
• Serbo-Croatian: škamp — large shrimp
• Serbo-Croatian: račić — large shrimp
• Serbo-Croatian: козица — large shrimp
• Slovak: kreveta — large shrimp
• Slovene: kozica — large shrimp
• Slovene: rakec — large shrimp
• Spanish: gamba — large shrimp
• Spanish: camarón — large shrimp
• Spanish: langostino — large shrimp
• Spanish: langostín — large shrimp
• Swahili: uduvi — large shrimp
• Swedish: räka — large shrimp
• Sylheti: ꠁꠍꠣ (isá) — large shrimp
• Tagalog: sugpo — large shrimp
• Tajik: креветка (krevetka) — large shrimp
• Tamil: இறால் (iṟāl) — large shrimp
• Tatar: креветка (krewetqa) — large shrimp
• Telugu: రొయ్య (royya) — large shrimp
• Thai: กุ้ง (gûng) — large shrimp
• Tok Pisin: see kindam — large shrimp
• Turkish: teke — large shrimp
• Ottoman Turkish: تكه (teke) — large shrimp
• Turkmen: krewetka — large shrimp
• Ukrainian: креве́тка (krevétka) — large shrimp
• Urdu: جھینگا (jhīngā) — large shrimp
• Uyghur: قىسقۇچپاقا (qisquchpaqa) — large shrimp
• Uzbek: krevetka — large shrimp
• Uzbek: mayda qisqichbaqa — large shrimp
• Uzbek: qisqichbaqa — large shrimp
• Vietnamese: tôm — large shrimp
• Welsh: corgimwch — large shrimp
• Yiddish: פּראָן (pron) — large shrimp
• Zhuang: gungq — large shrimp