scallop

English

Wikipedia

A scallop.

Alternative forms

• scollop (rare, chiefly British)

Etymology

From Old French escalope (“shell”).

Pronunciation

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  (rhymes with gallop)
• /skɒl.əp/ (UK, New England) (as if an ‘o’ for the ‘a’) (rhymes with trollop)

Noun

scallop (plural scallops)

1. Any of various marine bivalve molluscs of the family Pectinidae which are free-swimming.
2. A curved projection, making part of a decoration.
3. A fillet of meat, escalope.
4. A form of fried potato.

Usage notes

To specify bivalves, rather than fillets of meat or potatoes, sea scallop and similar terms may be used instead. This is particularly done when several of these are used, such as in cookbooks and in parts of Australia.

Synonyms

• (mollusc): scollop (British), sea scallop (parts of Australia)
• (potato): potato cake (parts of Australia), potato scallop (parts of Australia)

Translations

mollusc

• Arabic: إسكالوب (ar) ('iskaluub) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 扇貝 (cmn), 扇贝 (cmn) (shànbèi)

• Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: kampasimpukka (fi)
• French: coquille Saint-Jacques (fr) (traditionally used only for large species), pétoncle (fr) (used for small species)
• German: Jakobsmuschel (de) f, Pilgermuschel (de) f
• Greek: χτένι (el) (chténi) n 
• Icelandic: hörpuskel (is) f, hörpudiskur (is) m

• Ido: petonklo (io)
• Italian: capasanta (it) f
• Japanese: ホタテガイ (ja), 帆立貝 (ja) (hotategai)
• Jèrriais: scalope f
• Korean: 가리비 (ko) (garibi)
• Navajo: chʼosh bitsʼaʼ doolghasígíí
• Portuguese: vieira (pt)
• Russian: гребешок (ru) (grebešók) m 
• Spanish: vieira (es) f; venera (es) f, concha de peregrino (es) f
• Swedish: mussla (sv); pilgrimsmussla (sv);

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Translations to be checked

• Dutch: Pectinidae (nl)
• Estonian: kammkarp (et)

• French: escalope (fr)
• Lithuanian: Šukutės (lt)
• Vietnamese: con điệp (vi)

Verb

scallop (third-person singular simple present scallops, present participle scalloping, simple past and past participle scalloped)

1. To (be) cut in the shape of a crescent
2. (transitive) to make or cook scallops
3. (transitive) to bake in a casserole (gratin), originally in a scallop shell; especially used in form scalloped
4. (intransitive) to harvest scallops

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