salmon

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• Southern-US, sometimes: /ˈsælmən/
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• Canada: /ˈsɑmən/
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• /ˈsamən/ Dublin
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• /ˈsæmən/ Dublin
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• /ˈsalmən/ Philippines and non-native speakers' English
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• /ˈsalmon/ Philippines and non-native speakers' English
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From Middle English samoun, samon, saumon, from Anglo-Norman saumon, from Old French saumon, from Latin salmō, salmōn-. Widely displaced native Middle English lax, from Old English leax (whence modern dialectal lax). The unpronounced l was later inserted to make the word appear closer to its Latin root (compare words like debt, indict, receipt for the same spelling Latinizations). The verb sense “ride a bicycle the wrong way down a one-way street” alludes to salmon swimming upstream against the flow of a river to spawn.

* (Idaho, river): named after the fish, salmon

From Hebrew שַׂלְמוֹן (salmown).

183 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Catalan: salmó — colour
• Catalan: salmonat — colour
• Dutch: zalmkleurig — colour
• Dutch: zalmkleurige — colour
• Finnish: lohenpunainen — colour
• German: lachsfarben — colour
• Hungarian: lazacszínű — colour
• Icelandic: laxbleikur — colour
• Macedonian: розовопорто́калов (rozovoportókalov) — colour
• Polish: łososiowy — colour
• Portuguese: salmão — colour
• Russian: оранжево-ро́зовый (oranževo-rózovyj) — colour
• Spanish: asalmonado — colour
• Spanish: salmón — colour
• Volapük: salmakölik — colour
• Cherokee: ᏌᎵᎹ (salima) — biblical character
• Abenaki: mskwamagw — fish
• Ahtna: łukʼae — fish
• Ainu: カムイチェㇷ゚ (kamuy-cep) — fish
• Albanian: koran — fish
• Albanian: lekën — fish
• Aleut: adgayux — fish
• Arabic: حُوت سُلَيْمَان (ḥūt sulaymān) — fish
• Arabic: سَلَمُون (salamūn) — fish
• Arabic: سلمون (sálamun) — fish
• Arabic: سلمون (salmōn, salamōn) — fish
• Arabic: سلمون (salamun) — fish
• Arabic: سلمون (sálamon) — fish
• Arabic: سلمون (sálamun) — fish
• Armenian: սաղմոն (saġmon) — fish
• Asturian: salmón — fish
• Azerbaijani: qızılbalıq — fish
• Basque: izokin — fish
• Belarusian: ласо́сь (lasósʹ) — fish
• Bengali: স্যামন (sêmon) — fish
• Breton: eog — fish
• Bulgarian: сьо́мга (sjómga) — fish
• Burmese: ဆယ်လမွန် (hcaila.mwan) — fish
• Catalan: salmó — fish
• Chechen: морзахчӏара (morzaxčʼara) — fish
• Cherokee: ᏎᎼᏂ (semoni) — fish
• Chinese Cantonese: 三文魚 /三文鱼 — fish
• Chinese Mandarin: 三文魚 /三文鱼 (sānwényú) — fish
• Chinese Mandarin: 鮭魚 /鲑鱼 (guīyú) — fish
• Cornish: eghek — fish
• Cornish: sowman — fish
• Naskapi: ᐅᒐᓱᒪᒄ class animate (uchaasuumaakw) — fish
• Czech: losos — fish
• Danish: laks — fish
• Dutch: zalm — fish
• Elfdalian: laks — fish
• Esperanto: salmo — fish
• Estonian: lõhe — fish
• Faroese: laksur — fish
• Finnish: lohikala — fish
• Finnish: lohi — fish
• French: saumon — fish
• West-Frisian: salm — fish
• Friulian: salmon — fish
• Galician: salmón — fish
• Galician: irce — fish
• Georgian: ორაგული (oraguli) — fish
• German: Lachs — fish
• German: Salm — fish
• Greek: σολομός (solomós) — fish
• Greenlandic: kapisilik — fish
• Gujarati: સામન (sāman) — fish
• Haida: sg̱waag̱an — fish
• Halkomelem: stseelhtun — fish
• Hebrew: סַלְמוֹן (sálmon) — fish
• Hebrew: אִלְתִּית (iltít) — fish
• Hindi: सामन (sāman) — fish
• Hungarian: lazac — fish
• Icelandic: lax — fish
• Ido: salmono — fish
• Ingrian: lohi — fish
• Interlingua: salmon — fish
• Irish: bradán — fish
• Old Irish: bratán — fish
• Italian: salmone — fish
• Japanese: サーモン (sāmon) — fish
• Japanese: 鮭 — fish
• Kannada: ಸ್ಯಾಮನ್ (syāman) — fish
• Khmer: សាលម៉ុន (saalmon) — fish
• Klamath-Modoc: c'iyaal's — fish
• Korean: 연어 (yeoneo) — fish
• Kwak'wala: k̓uta̱la — fish
• Latin: salmō — fish
• Latvian: lasis — fish
• Ligurian: salmón — fish
• Lithuanian: lašiša — fish
• Low German: Lass — fish
• Lushootseed: sčədadxw — fish
• Luxembourgish: Saumon — fish
• Macedonian: лосос (losos) — fish
• Manx: braddan — fish
• Māori: hāmana — fish
• Michif: saamoon — fish
• Middle English: samwn — fish
• Middle English: samoun — fish
• Central Sierra Miwok: kóˑsomu- — fish
• Mongolian: яргай загас (jargaj zagas) — fish
• Nanai: дава (dawa) — fish
• Norman: saumon — fish
• Norman: saumaon — fish
• Norman: sâomoun — fish
• Norwegian Bokmål: laks — fish
• Norwegian Bokmål: laksefisk — fish
• Occitan: salmon — fish
• Southern Ohlone: huuraka — fish
• Old English: leax — fish
• Old Norse: lax — fish
• Pannonian Rusyn: лосос (losos) — fish
• Persian: ماهی آزاد (mâhi-âzâd) — fish
• Persian: سالمون (sâlmon) — fish
• Polabian: las — fish
• Polish: łosoś — fish
• Kashaya: maqha — fish
• Portuguese: salmão — fish
• Kalo Finnish Romani: loolo matšo — fish
• Romanian: somon — fish
• Romansh: salmun — fish
• Russian: лосо́сь (losósʹ) — fish
• Russian: сёмга (sjómga) — fish
• Saanich: SĆÁÁNEW̱ — fish
• Northern Sami: luossa — fish
• Skolt-Sami: luõss — fish
• Scottish Gaelic: bradan — fish
• Serbo-Croatian: ло̏сос — fish
• Serbo-Croatian: lȍsos — fish
• Sinhalese: සෑමන් (sǣman) — fish
• Slovak: losos — fish
• Slovene: losos — fish
• Lower Sorbian: łosos — fish
• Upper Sorbian: łosos — fish
• Spanish: salmón — fish
• Squamish: sts'úḵwi7 — fish
• Swahili: samoni — fish
• Swedish: lax — fish
• Tagalog: salmon — fish
• Tamil: ஸாமன் (sāmaṉ) — fish
• Tanacross: łuk'a — fish
• Lower Tanana: ɬuk'a — fish
• Upper Tanana: łuuk — fish
• Telugu: సామన్ (sāman) — fish
• Thai: แซลมอน (sɛɛl-mɔ̂n) — fish
• Tlingit: x̠áat — fish
• Turkish: som — fish
• Turkish: somon — fish
• Ottoman Turkish: یاین (yayın) — fish
• Ukrainian: лосо́сь (losósʹ) — fish
• Urdu: سامن (sāman) — fish
• Urdu: سلیمانی مچھلی (sulēmānī-machlī) — fish
• Uyghur: قايران (qayran) — fish
• Vietnamese: cá hồi — fish
• Volapük: salm — fish
• Welsh: eog — fish
• Woiwurrung: kur-nur-guil — fish
• Yiddish: לאַקס (laks) — fish
• Yurok: nepuy — fish
• Bulgarian: оранжево-розов (oranževo-rozov) — colour
• Catalan: salmó — colour
• Czech: lososová — colour
• Dutch: zalmkleur — colour
• French: saumon — colour
• Galician: salmón — colour
• German: lachsfarbig — colour
• German: lachsrot — colour
• German: lachsrosa — colour
• Hungarian: lazacszín — colour
• Icelandic: laxbleikur litur — colour
• Indonesian: bangbang — colour
• Interlingua: salmon — colour
• Italian: salmone — colour
• Macedonian: розово-портокалова (rozovo-portokalova) — colour
• Polish: kolor łososiowy — colour
• Portuguese: salmão — colour
• Russian: оранжево-ро́зовый цвет (oranževo-rózovyj cvet) — colour
• Russian: сомон (somon) — colour
• Slovak: lososová — colour
• Spanish: salmón — colour
• Turkish: somon — colour
• Volapük: salmaköl — colour