caviar

English

Alternative forms

• caviare

Etymology

From Middle French caviar, from Italian caviaro or Ottoman Turkish خاویار (havyar), from Persian خاویار (xâvyâr). Doublet of ajvar.

Pronunciation

• (rhotic) IPA^(key): /ˈkæv.iˌɑɹ/
• (non-rhotic) IPA^(key): /ˈkæv.iˌɑː/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)

Noun

caviar (countable and uncountable, plural caviars)

1. Roe of the sturgeon or of certain other large fish, considered a delicacy.
2. (figurative) Something whose flavor is too fine for the vulgar taste.

Derived terms

• beluga caviar
• black caviar
• Carolina Caviar
• caviarlike
• caviar spoon
• caviar to the general
• cowboy caviar
• gauche caviar
• green caviar
• poor man's caviar
• red caviar
• salmon caviar
• Yorkshire caviar

 

Translations

roe of the sturgeon or other large fish (black caviar)

• Albanian: havjar (sq) m
• Arabic: كَافْيَار m (kafyār)
• Armenian: խավիար (hy) (xaviar)
• Azerbaijani: kürü (az)
• Belarusian: ікра́ f (ikrá), чо́рная ікра́ f (čórnaja ikrá) (black caviar)
• Bulgarian: хайве́р (bg) m (hajvér), че́рен хайве́р m (čéren hajvér) (black caviar), чер хайве́р m (čer hajvér)
• Catalan: caviar (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 魚籽醬; 魚子醬／鱼籽酱; 鱼子酱 (jyu⁴ zi² zoeng³)

  Mandarin: 魚子醬／鱼子酱 (zh) (yúzǐjiàng)

• Czech: kaviár (cs) m
• Danish: kaviar c
• Dutch: kaviaar (nl) m
• Esperanto: kaviaro
• Faroese: styrjurogn n, kaviar n
• Finnish: kaviaari (fi)
• French: caviar (fr) m
• Galician: caviar (gl) m
• Georgian: ხიზილალა (ka) (xizilala)
• German: Kaviar (de) m
• Greek: χαβιάρι (el) n (chaviári)
• Greenlandic: kaviaari
• Hindi: कावीयार (kāvīyār)
• Hungarian: kaviár (hu), ikra (hu)
• Icelandic: kavíar (is) m
• Italian: caviale (it) m
• Japanese: イクラ (ja) (ikura), キャビア (ja) (kyabia)
• Korean: 캐비아 (kaebia), 캐비어 (ko) (kaebieo), 철갑상어알 (cheolgapsang'eoal), 이크라 (ko) (ikeura)
• Macedonian: ка́вијар m (kávijar), и́кра f (íkra)
• Mazanderani: خاویار
• Northern Sami: meađđenmeastu, meađđennjuvddus
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: kaviar m

  Nynorsk: kaviar m

• Persian: خاویار (fa) (xâvyâr)
• Polish: kawior (pl) m, ikra (pl) f
• Portuguese: caviar (pt) m
• Romanian: caviar (ro) n
• Romansch: caviar m
• Russian: икра́ (ru) f (ikrá), чёрная икра́ f (čórnaja ikrá) (black caviar)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: кавијар m, икра f

  Roman: kavijar (sh) m, ikra (sh) f

• Slovak: kaviár m
• Spanish: caviar (es) m
• Swedish: kaviar (sv) c, rysk kaviar c
• Tagalog: bihud
• Thai: คาเวียร์ (kaa-wiia)
• Turkish: havyar (tr)
• Ukrainian: кав'я́р m (kavʺjár), чо́рний кав'я́р f (čórnyj kavʺjár) (black caviar)
• Welsh: cafiar m, cafiâr m
• Yiddish: קאַוויאַר m (kavyar)

red caviar — see ikra

See also

• caviar on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• malosol

Anagrams

• Air Cav, Avaric, variac

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from French caviar, from Italian caviaro or Ottoman Turkish خاویار (havyar), from Persian خاویار (xâvyâr).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central) [kə.βiˈar]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [kə.viˈar]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ka.viˈar]
• Rhymes: -aɾ

Noun

caviar m (plural caviars)

1. caviar

Further reading

• “caviar” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “caviar”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “caviar” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian caviaro or Ottoman Turkish خاویار (havyar), from Persian خاویار (xâvyâr).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka.vjaʁ/

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

caviar m (plural caviars)

1. caviar

Derived terms

• cuillère à caviar

Descendants

• → Danish: kaviar
• → Norwegian Bokmål: kaviar
• → Norwegian Nynorsk: kaviar
• → Swedish: kaviar

Further reading

• “caviar”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from French caviar, from Italian caviaro or Ottoman Turkish خاویار (havyar), from Persian خاویار (xâvyâr).

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ka.viˈaʁ/ [ka.vɪˈah], (faster pronunciation) /kaˈvjaʁ/ [kaˈvjah]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ka.viˈaʁ/ [ka.vɪˈah], (faster pronunciation) /kaˈvjaʁ/ [kaˈvjah]
  • (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /ka.viˈaɾ/ [ka.vɪˈaɾ], (faster pronunciation) /kaˈvjaɾ/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ka.viˈaʁ/ [ka.vɪˈaχ], (faster pronunciation) /kaˈvjaʁ/ [kaˈvjaχ]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ka.viˈaɻ/ [ka.vɪˈaɻ], (faster pronunciation) /kaˈvjaɻ/

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /kaˈvjaɾ/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /kaˈvjaɾ/
  • (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /kaˈbjaɾ/ [kaˈβjaɾ]
  • (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): /kaˈvja.ɾi/

• Hyphenation: ca‧vi‧ar

Noun

caviar m (plural caviares)

1. caviar

Derived terms

• come ovo e arrota caviar

Related terms

• ova
• ovo

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French caviar, from Italian caviaro or Ottoman Turkish خاویار (havyar), from Persian خاویار (xâvyâr).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌkaviˈar/
• Hyphenation: ca‧vi‧ar

Noun

caviar n (uncountable)

1. caviar

   Synonym: icre negre

Declension

declension of caviar (singular only)

	singular
m gender	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) caviar	caviarul
genitive/dative	(unui) caviar	caviarului
vocative	caviarule

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from French caviar, from Italian caviaro or Ottoman Turkish خاویار (havyar), from Persian خاویار (xâvyâr).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kaˈbjaɾ/ [kaˈβ̞jaɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: ca‧viar

Noun

caviar m (plural caviares)

1. caviar
2. (Peru) a leftist, specifically one coming from a wealthy background

Further reading

• “caviar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014