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English
Etymology
From Middle English samoun, samon, saumon, from Anglo-Norman saumon, from Old French saumon, from Latin salmō, salmōn-. Widely displaced native Middle English lax, from Old English leax (whence modern dialectal lax). The unpronounced l was later inserted to make the word appear closer to its Latin root (compare words like debt, indict, receipt 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
Noun
salmon (countable and uncountable, plural salmon or salmons)
- (zoology) 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.
- A meal or dish made from this fish.
- (plural salmons) A pale pinkish-orange colour, the colour of cooked salmon.
- Synonym: salmon pink
- salmon:
- The upper bricks in a kiln which receive the least heat.
- (Cockney rhyming slang) snout (tobacco; from salmon and trout)
- 1992, “Ebeneezer Goode”, performed by The Shamen:
- Got any salmon?
Derived terms
terms derived from salmon (noun)
- Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar)
- Australian salmon
- bay salmon (Salmo salar)
- beaked salmon (Gonorynchus spp.)
- black salmon (Salmo salar)
- blueback salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka)
- Brazilian salmon pink tarantula (Lasiodora parahybana)
- Burnett salmon
- caplin-scull salmon (Salmo salar)
- cherry salmon (Oncorhynchus masou)
- Chinook salmon
- chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha)
- chum salmon (Oncorhynchus keta)
- coho salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch)
- colonial salmon
- Cornish salmon
- Danube salmon (Hucho hucho)
- Dawson river salmon (Scleropages leichardti)
- dog salmon (Oncorhynchus keta)
- fresh-water salmon (Salmo salar)
- giant salmon carp (Aaptosyax grypus)
- humpbacked salmon
- humpback salmon (Oncorhynchus gorbuscha)
- jack salmon
- kelp salmon
- king-of-the-salmon
- King Salmon
- king salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha)
- kokanee salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka)
- landlocked salmon
- land-locked salmon (Salmo salar)
- lomilomi salmon
- lomi salmon
- Nova Scotia salmon
- outside salmon (Salmo salar)
- Pacific salmon (Oncorhynchus spp.)
- pink salmon (Oncorhynchus gorbuscha)
- quinnat salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha)
- red salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka)
- rock salmon
- saber-toothed salmon
- salmon and trout
- salmon-bellied racer (Mastigodryas melanolomus)
- salmonberry (Rubus spectabilis)
- salmon bites
- salmon caviar
- salmon-coloured
- salmon-crested cockatoo (Cacatua moluccensis)
- salmon day
- salmon gum (Eucalyptus spp.)
- salmonid
- salmon killer
- salmon ladder
- salmon leap
- salmon peel
- salmon pink
- Salmon River, salmon river
- salmon shark (Lamna ditropis)
- salmon-striped swamp frog (Limnodynastes salmini)
- salmon trout (Salmo gairdneri)
- sea salmon
- Sebago salmon (Salmo salar)
- silver salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch, Salmo salar)
- smoked salmon
- smoked salmon socialist
- sockeye salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka)
- spring salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha)
- Tyee salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha)
- white salmon
Related terms
Descendants
Translations
fish
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colour
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Adjective
salmon (not comparable)
- 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
colour
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- The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.
Verb
salmon (third-person singular simple present salmons, present participle salmoning, simple past and past participle salmoned)
- (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."
- 2014: "Salmon, Don't Shoal: Learning The Lingo Of Safe Cycling" by Marc Silver, NPR
See also
- 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
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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
- salmon; any of several fish in the subfamily Salmoninae
- rainbow runner (Elagatis bipinnulata)
Esperanto
Noun
salmon
- accusative singular of salmo
Friulian
Noun
salmon m (plural salmons)
Kabuverdianu
Etymology
From Portuguese salmão.
Noun
salmon
References
- Gonçalves, Manuel (2015), Capeverdean Creole-English dictionary, →ISBN
Middle English
Noun
salmon
- alternative form of samoun
Piedmontese
Pronunciation
Noun
salmon m
Tagalog
Etymology
Pronunciation
- (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /salˈmon/ [sɐlˈmon̪]
- Rhymes: -on
- Syllabification: sal‧mon
Noun
salmón (Baybayin spelling ᜐᜎ᜔ᜋᜓᜈ᜔)
Further reading
- “salmon”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
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