calamari

See also: Calamari

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian calamari, plural of calamaro, from Latin calamarius, from calamus, from Ancient Greek κάλαμος (kálamos, “reed, ink pen”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: kăləmä'rē, IPA^(key): /kæləˈmɑːɹi/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɑːɹi

Noun

calamari (countable and uncountable, plural calamaris)

1. squid as food, especially cooked in the form of calamari rings
2. squid, the mollusk, in general

Derived terms

• calamari ring

Translations

as food

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 魷魚／鱿鱼 (zh) (yóuyú)

• Danish: blæksprutte c
• Egyptian Arabic: صُبّيط m (ṣobbēṭ)
• Finnish: mustekala (fi)
• German: Tintenfisch (de) m
• Greek: καλαμάρι (el) n (kalamári), καλαμαράκια n pl (kalamarákia)
• Italian: totano (it) m, calamaro (it) m
• Japanese: カラマリ (karamari)
• Norwegian: akkar (no)
• Polish: kalmar (pl) m, kałamarnica (pl) f
• Portuguese: lula (pt)
• Russian: кальма́р (ru) m (kalʹmár)
• Serbo-Croatian: lignje (sh) f pl
• Spanish: calamares (es) m pl
• Swedish: calamares (sv)
• Turkish: kalamar (tr)

as mollusk — see squid

Anagrams

• alacrima

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka.laˈma.ri/
• Rhymes: -ari
• Hyphenation: ca‧la‧mà‧ri

Noun

calamari m

1. plural of calamaro

Anagrams

• malarica