seafood

English

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Etymology

From sea +‎ food.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsiːfuːd/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Hyphenation: sea‧food

Noun

seafood (usually uncountable, plural seafoods)

1. Fish, shellfish, seaweed, and other edible aquatic life.

   Synonym: fruit of the sea

Derived terms

• seafood boil
• seafood fork

 

Translations

fish, shellfish, seaweed and other edible aquatic life

• Afrikaans: seekos
• Albanian: please add this translation if you can
• Arabic: مَأْكُولَات بَحْرِيَّة m pl (maʔkūlāt baḥriyya), طَعَام الْبَحْر m (ṭaʕām al-baḥr)
• Breton: boued-mor (br) m, boued-aod (br) m
• Bulgarian: морски дарове m pl (morski darove)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 海鮮／海鲜 (hoi² sin¹)

  Mandarin: 海鮮／海鲜 (zh) (hǎixiān), 海產食品／海产食品 (hǎichǎn shípǐn), 魚鮮／鱼鲜 (zh) (yúxiān), 海味 (zh) (hǎiwèi), (freshwater seafood from a river) 河鮮／河鲜 (zh) (héxiān), (freshwater seafood from a lake) 湖鮮／湖鲜 (zh) (húxiān), (aquatic product) 水產／水产 (zh) (shuǐchǎn)

• Classical Nahuatl: ātlān chānehqueh
• Czech: dary moře m pl, mořské plody m pl, plody moře m pl
• Dutch: zeevruchten (nl) pl, zeebanket (nl) n
• Finnish: merenantimet pl, merenelävät pl, meren vilja, meriruoka; kalaruoka (fi)
• French: fruits de mer (fr)
• Galician: marisco (gl) m, froito de mar m
• Georgian: ზღვის პროდუქტები (zɣvis ṗrodukṭebi)
• German: Meeresfrüchte (de) pl or f, Meeresfrucht (de) f
• Greek: θαλασσινά (el) n pl (thalassiná)
• Hawaiian: please add this translation if you can
• Hebrew: פֵּירוֹת יָם (he) m pl (perót yam)
• Hungarian: tenger gyümölcsei (hu) pl, tengeri hal/rák/kagyló, halászati termékek pl
• Italian: frutti di mare pl, frutto di mare m
• Japanese: シーフード (ja) (shīfūdo), 海鮮 (ja) (kaisen), 魚介類 (ja) (gyokairui), 海産物 (ja) (kaisanbutsu), 海産食品 (kaisan-shokuhin)
• Kapampangan: pamangan lawut, pamangan dayat, asan danum
• Khmer: គ្រឿងសមុទ្រ (kreuangsâmŭtr)
• Korean: 해산물 (ko) (haesanmul), 해물 (ko) (haemul)
• Lao: ອາຫານທະເລ (ʼā hān tha lē)
• Malay: makanan laut (ms)
• Maori: kaimoana, mātaitai
• Mongolian: далайн хоол (dalajn xool)
• Norwegian: sjømat
• Polish: owoce morza (pl) nvir, frutti di mare (pl) nvir
• Portuguese: fruto do mar (pt) m, marisco (pt) m, frutos do mar (pt)
• Romanian: fructe de mare (ro) n pl
• Russian: (except fish) морепроду́кты (ru) m pl (moreprodúkty)
• Sotho: dijo tsa lewatle
• Spanish: marisco (es) m
• Swahili: chakula cha baharini
• Swedish: fisk och skaldjur
• Tagalog: lamandagat, pagkaing-dagat
• Thai: อาหารทะเล (th) (aa-hǎan-tá-lee)
• Turkish: deniz ürünü, deniz ürünleri (tr) pl
• Vietnamese: hải sản (vi), đồ biển
• Yiddish: פֿיליערוואַרג n (filyervarg), ים־פֿרוכט f (yam-frukht)

Chinese

Etymology 1

From English seafood, which resembles the pronunciation of 屎窟 (si2 fat1, “buttocks”), in turn an ellipsis of 屎窟鬼 (si2 fat1 gwai2, “asshole”).

Pronunciation

• Cantonese (Jyutping): si¹ fut¹

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• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: si¹ fut¹
    • Yale: sī fūt
    • Cantonese Pinyin: si¹ fut⁷
    • Guangdong Romanization: xi¹ fud¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /siː⁵⁵ fuːt̚⁵/

Noun

seafood

1. (Hong Kong Cantonese, neologism, euphemistic) asshole; jerk; shithead

   old seafood [Cantonese]  ―  ou¹ si¹ fut¹ [Jyutping]  ―  (please add an English translation of this usage example)

   老seafood [Cantonese]  ―  lou⁵ si¹ fut¹ [Jyutping]  ―  (please add an English translation of this usage example)

See also

• 老屎窟

Etymology 2

From English seafood, which resembles the pronunciation of 師父／师父 (shīfu) and is the way the believers refer to him. Possibly via Cantonese 師父／师父 (si¹ fu^6-2).

Proper noun

seafood

1. (Taiwan, slang) Liu Chin-lung, founder and leader of the cult Rulaizong