salmon
English Edit
Etymology Edit
From Middle English samoun, samon, saumon, from Anglo-Norman saumon, from Old French saumon, from Latin salmō, salmōn-. Displaced native Middle English lax, from Old English leax. The unpronounced l was later inserted to make the word appear closer to its Latin root (compare words like debt, indict, receipt, island 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.
Pronunciation Edit
- enPR: să'mən, IPA(key): /ˈsæmən/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -æmən
- (Southern American English, sometimes) IPA(key): /ˈsælmən/
- (Canada) IPA(key): /ˈsɑmən/
Noun Edit
salmon (countable and uncountable, plural salmon or salmons)
- One of several species of fish, typically of the Salmoninae subfamily, brownish above with silvery sides and delicate pinkish-orange flesh; they ascend rivers to spawn.
- A meal or dish made from this fish.
- (plural salmons) A pale pinkish-orange colour, the colour of cooked salmon.
- Synonym: salmon pink
- salmon:
- The upper bricks in a kiln which receive the least heat.
- (Cockney rhyming slang) snout (tobacco; from salmon and trout)
- 1992, “Ebeneezer Goode”, performed by The Shamen:
- Got any salmon?
Derived terms Edit
- Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar)
- bay salmon (Salmo salar)
- beaked salmon (Gonorynchus spp.)
- black salmon (Salmo salar)
- blueback salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka)
- Brazilian salmon pink tarantula (Lasiodora parahybana)
- Burnett salmon
- caplin-scull salmon (Salmo salar)
- cherry salmon (Oncorhynchus masou)
- Chinook salmon
- chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha)
- chum salmon (Oncorhynchus keta)
- coho salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch)
- colonial salmon
- Cornish salmon
- Danube salmon (Hucho hucho)
- Dawson river salmon (Scleropages leichardti)
- dog salmon (Oncorhynchus keta)
- fresh-water salmon (Salmo salar)
- giant salmon carp (Aaptosyax grypus)
- humpbacked salmon
- humpback salmon (Oncorhynchus gorbuscha)
- jack salmon
- kelp salmon
- King Salmon
- king salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha)
- kokanee salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka)
- landlocked salmon
- land-locked salmon (Salmo salar)
- Nova Scotia salmon
- outside salmon (Salmo salar)
- Pacific salmon (Oncorhynchus spp.)
- pink salmon (Oncorhynchus gorbuscha)
- quinnat salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha)
- red salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka)
- rock salmon
- salmon and trout
- salmon-bellied racer (Mastigodryas melanolomus)
- salmonberry (Rubus spectabilis)
- salmon-coloured
- salmon-crested cockatoo (Cacatua moluccensis)
- salmon day
- salmon gum (Eucalyptus spp.)
- salmonid
- salmon killer
- salmon ladder
- salmon leap
- salmon peel
- salmon pink
- Salmon River, salmon river
- salmon shark (Lamna ditropis)
- salmon-striped swamp frog (Limnodynastes salmini)
- salmon trout (Salmo gairdneri)
- sea salmon
- Sebago salmon (Salmo salar)
- silver salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch, Salmo salar)
- smoked salmon
- smoked salmon socialist
- sockeye salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka)
- spring salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha)
- Tyee salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha)
- white salmon
Related terms Edit
Descendants Edit
- → Burmese: ဆယ်လမွန် (hcaila.mwan)
- → Hebrew: סַלְמוֹן (sálmon)
- → Hindi: सामन (sāman)
- → Japanese: サーモン (sāmon)
Translations Edit
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Adjective Edit
salmon (not comparable)
- Having a pale pinkish-orange colour.
- 1977, John Le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy, Folio Society, published 2010, page 155:
- Smiley and Guillam perched disconsolately beneath it, on a bench of salmon velvet.
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Verb Edit
salmon (third-person singular simple present salmons, present participle salmoning, simple past and past participle salmoned)
- (slang, intransitive) To ride a bicycle the wrong way down a one-way street.
- 2014: "Salmon, Don't Shoal: Learning The Lingo Of Safe Cycling" by Marc Silver, NPR
- Some cities discourage salmoning with clever signage, like this in London: "If you can read this you are biking the wrong way."
- 2014: "Salmon, Don't Shoal: Learning The Lingo Of Safe Cycling" by Marc Silver, NPR
See also Edit
- (reds) red; blood red, brick red, burgundy, cardinal, carmine, carnation, cerise, cherry, cherry red, Chinese red, cinnabar, claret, crimson, damask, fire brick, fire engine red, flame, flamingo, fuchsia, garnet, geranium, gules, hot pink, incarnadine, Indian red, magenta, maroon, misty rose, nacarat, oxblood, pillar-box red, pink, Pompeian red, poppy, raspberry, red violet, rose, rouge, ruby, ruddy, salmon, sanguine, scarlet, shocking pink, stammel, strawberry, Turkey red, Venetian red, vermillion, vinaceous, vinous, violet red, wine (Category: en:Reds)
Anagrams Edit
Cebuano Edit
Etymology Edit
From English salmon, from Middle English samon, saumon, from Anglo-Norman saumon, from Old French saumon, from Latin salmō, salmōn-. For the jackfish, see Hawaiian salmon.
Pronunciation Edit
- Hyphenation: sal‧mon
Noun Edit
salmon
- salmon; any of several fish in the subfamily Salmoninae
- rainbow runner (Elagatis bipinnulata)
Esperanto Edit
Noun Edit
salmon
- accusative singular of salmo
Friulian Edit
Noun Edit
salmon m (plural salmons)
Kabuverdianu Edit
Etymology Edit
From Portuguese salmão.
Noun Edit
salmon
References Edit
- Gonçalves, Manuel (2015) Capeverdean Creole-English dictionary, →ISBN
Middle English Edit
Noun Edit
salmon
- Alternative form of samoun
Piedmontese Edit
Pronunciation Edit
Noun Edit
salmon m
Tagalog Edit
Etymology Edit
Pronunciation Edit
Noun Edit
salmón (Baybayin spelling ᜐᜎ᜔ᜋᜓᜈ᜔)
Further reading Edit
- “salmon”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila: Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, 2018