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English
Truffles from Mont Ventoux
Etymology
From French truffe (previously trufle )[ 1] (whence Danish and Norwegian trøffel , Swedish tryffel , German Trüffel ),[ 2] which originates from Old Occitan .[ 3]
Pronunciation
Noun
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
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
Macedonian: тартуф m ( tartuf )
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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