truffle

English

Truffles from Mont Ventoux

Etymology

The word in the Germanic languages (except Icelandic) is a loanword from French truffe (previously trufle) (whence Danish and Norwegian trøffel, Swedish tryffel, German Trüffel), which originates from Old Occitan.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɹʌf.l̩/

• Audio (southern England)

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• Rhymes: -ʌfəl

Noun

truffle (plural truffles)

1. Any of various edible fungi, of the genus Tuber, that grow in the soil in southern Europe; the earthnut.

   Synonym: earthnut

2. (by analogy) Ellipsis of chocolate truffle (“creamy chocolate confection, in the form of a ball, covered with cocoa powder”).

Derived terms

• black truffle
• Chinese truffle
• chocolate truffle
• truffled
• truffle hog
• truffle oil
• truffling
• white truffle

 

Translations

tuber

• Afrikaans: truffel, knolswam
• Arabic: كَمْأَة‎ f (kamʾa)

  North Levantine Arabic: كماية‎ f

• Armenian: գետնասունկ (hy) (getnasunk), գերերի (hy) (gereri), բողբուճ (hy) (bołbuč), հողկիթ (hołkitʿ), դոմբալա (hy) (dombala)
• Azerbaijani: dombalan
• Basque: boilur inan
• 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)
• 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
• Persian: قارچ دمبلان‎ (qarc-e-dombalan)
• 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
• Welsh: cloren f

chocolate truffle — see chocolate truffle

Further reading

• truffle on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• fretful