Etymology
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From French truffe (previously trufle)[1] (whence Danish and Norwegian trøffel, Swedish tryffel, German Trüffel),[2] which originates from Old Occitan.[3]
Pronunciation
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truffle (plural truffles)
- Any of various edible fungi, of the genus Tuber, that grow in the soil in southern Europe; the earthnut.
- Synonym: earthnut
- (by analogy) Ellipsis of chocolate truffle (“creamy chocolate confection, in the form of a ball, covered with cocoa powder”).
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Translations
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tuber
- Afrikaans: truffel, knolswam
- Arabic: كَمْأَة f (kamʔa)
- North Levantine Arabic: كماية f
- Armenian: գետնասունկ (hy) (getnasunk), դոմբալա (hy) (dombala)
- Middle Armenian: բողբուճ (boġbuč)
- Azerbaijani: dombalan
- Basque: boilur inan
- Belarusian: тру́фель m (trúfjelʹ), тру́фля f (trúflja)
- Bulgarian: трю́фел m (trjúfel)
- Catalan: tòfona (ca)
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 塊菌/块菌 (faai3 kwan2)
- Mandarin: 松露 (zh) (sōnglù)
- Crimean Tatar: domalan
- Czech: lanýž (cs)
- Danish: trøffel c
- Dutch: truffel (nl)
- Estonian: trühvel
- Faroese: trøfla f
- Finnish: tryffeli (fi)
- French: truffe (fr) f
- German: Trüffel (de) f
- Greek: ύτανο n (ýtano), τρούφα (el) f (troúfa)
- Ancient: ὕδνον n (húdnon)
- Hebrew: כְּמֵהָה (he) f (kmehá), כְּמֵהִין (he) f pl (kmehín)
- Hungarian: szarvasgomba (hu)
- Icelandic: jarðkeppur
- Irish: strufal m
- Italian: tartufo (it) m
- Japanese: 西洋松露 (ja) (せいようしょうろ, seiyōshōro), トリュフ (ja) (toryufu)
- Kurdish:
- Central Kurdish: دۆمەڵان (domellan)
- Northern Kurdish: kiyarik
- Latin: tūber (la) n, (New Latin) tertufulus m
- Ottoman Turkish: یر الماسی (yer elması)
- Persian: قارچ دمبلان (qârč-e dombalân)
- Polish: trufla (pl) f
- Portuguese: trufa (pt) f, túbera f
- Romanian: trufă (ro)
- Russian: трю́фель (ru) m (trjúfelʹ)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: та̀ртуф m
- Roman: tàrtuf (sh) m
- Slovak: hľuzovka f
- Slovene: tartuf m, gomoljika f
- Spanish: trufa (es) f
- Swedish: tryffel (sv) c
- Tagalog: trupo
- Turkish: trüf mantarı
- Ukrainian: трюфель m (trjufelʹ)
- Welsh: cloronen f, cloronen y moch f (summer), cloronen Ffrengig f (black)
- Yiddish: טרופֿליע f (truflye), טריפֿל n (trifl), טרופֿל m (trufl)
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