caviar

English

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Etymology

From French caviar, from Ottoman Turkish خاویار‎ (havyar) (Turkish havyar), probably from Persian خاویار‎ (xâvyâr), from خایه‎ (xâye, “egg”) (cognate with English egg).

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Noun

caviar (countable and uncountable, plural caviars)

  1. Roe of the sturgeon or other large fish, considered a delicacy.

Usage notes

  • A citation from Jehan Palsgrave's 1530 text Lesclarcissment de la langue françoyse reads "Calver of saulmon, escume de saulmon.". This possibly refers to caviar. If this is the case it predates by some 61 years the earliest usage (1591) of caviar documented in the Oxford English Dictionary.

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Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from French caviar, from Ottoman Turkish خاویار‎ (havyar) (Turkish havyar), probably from Persian خاویار‎ (xâvyâr), from خایه‎ (xâye, “egg”).

Pronunciation

  • (Balearic) IPA(key): /kə.viˈa/
  • (Central) IPA(key): /kə.biˈar/
  • (Valencian) IPA(key): /ka.viˈaɾ/
  • Rhymes: -aɾ

Noun

caviar m (plural caviars)

  1. caviar

French

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish خاویار‎ (havyar) (Turkish havyar).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ka.vjaʁ/
  • Audio(file)

Noun

caviar m (plural caviars)

  1. caviar

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Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from French caviar, from Ottoman Turkish خاویار‎ (havyar) (Turkish havyar), probably from Persian خاویار‎ (xâvyâr), from خایه‎ (xâye, “egg”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ōwyóm (“egg”).

Pronunciation

  • (Portugal) IPA(key): /ka.ˈvjaɾ/
  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /kaviˈaɾ/
  • Hyphenation: ca‧vi‧ar

Noun

caviar m (plural caviares)

  1. caviar

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French caviar, from Ottoman Turkish خاویار‎ (havyar) (Turkish havyar).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˌkaviˈar/
  • Hyphenation: ca‧vi‧ar

Noun

caviar n (uncountable)

  1. caviar

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Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kaˈbjaɾ/, [kaˈβjaɾ]

Noun

caviar m (plural caviares)

  1. caviar
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