botargo

English

Etymology

From Occitan botarga or Italian bottarga (“a type of large sausage, wide breeches”), from Arabic بطارخ‎ (buṭariḫ), from Coptic ⲟⲩⲧⲁⲣⲁⲭⲟⲛ (outarakhon), from Byzantine Byzantine Greek ᾠοτάριχον (ōiotárikhon) = ᾠόν (ōión, “egg”) + τάριχον (tárikhon, “pickled fish”) (compare αβγοτάραχο (avgotáracho)). Related to Italian bottarga, French boutargue.

Noun

botargo (plural botargos or botargoes)

  1. Bottarga; a cake or sausage made from salted mullet roe.
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