salmon

English

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Wikipedia

Etymology

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

• enPR: să'mən, IPA^(key): /ˈsæmən/

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• Rhymes: -æmən
• (Southern American English, sometimes) IPA^(key): /ˈsælmən/
• (Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈsɑmən/
• (Philippine) IPA^(key): /ˈsalmən/, /ˈsalmon/

Noun

salmon (countable and uncountable, plural salmon or salmons)

1. 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.

   grilled salmon

   salmon paté

   salmon steak

   Synonyms: lax, lox

2. A meal or dish made from this fish.
3. (plural salmons) A pale pinkish-orange colour, the colour of cooked salmon.

   Synonym: salmon pink

   salmon:  

4. The upper bricks in a kiln which receive the least heat.
5. (Cockney rhyming slang) snout (tobacco; from salmon and trout)
   • 1992, “Ebeneezer Goode”, performed by The Shamen:

     Got any salmon?

Derived terms

Related terms

• samlet

Descendants

• → Burmese: ဆယ်လမွန် (hcaila.mwan)
• → Hebrew: סַלְמוֹן (sálmon)
• → Hindi: सामन (sāman)
• → Japanese: サーモン (sāmon)

Translations

Adjective

salmon (not comparable)

1. 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.

Translations

Verb

salmon (third-person singular simple present salmons, present participle salmoning, simple past and past participle salmoned)

1. (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."

See also

• (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, vermilion, vinaceous, vinous, violet red, wine ^{(Category: en:Reds)}

Anagrams

• Almons, Lamson, Lomans, Malson, Sloman, monals

Cebuano

Etymology

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

• Hyphenation: sal‧mon

Noun

salmon

1. salmon; any of several fish in the subfamily Salmoninae
2. rainbow runner (Elagatis bipinnulata)

Esperanto

Noun

salmon

1. accusative singular of salmo

Friulian

Noun

salmon m (plural salmons)

1. salmon

Kabuverdianu

Etymology

From Portuguese salmão.

Noun

salmon

1. rainbow runner, Elagatis bipinnulata

References

• Gonçalves, Manuel (2015) Capeverdean Creole-English dictionary, →ISBN

Middle English

Noun

salmon

1. Alternative form of samoun

Piedmontese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /salˈmuŋ/

Noun

salmon m

1. salmon

Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish salmón.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: sal‧mon
• IPA^(key): /salˈmon/,

Noun

salmón (Baybayin spelling ᜐᜎ᜔ᜋᜓᜈ᜔)

1. salmon (fish)
2. (color) salmon

Further reading

• “salmon”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018