seafood

English

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Etymology

sea +‎ food

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈsiːfuːd/
Audio (Southern England) (file)

Noun

seafood (usually uncountable, plural seafoods)

Fish, shellfish, seaweed, and other edible aquatic life.
Synonym: fruit of the sea

Derived terms

Translations

fish, shellfish, seaweed and other edible aquatic life

Afrikaans: seekos
Albanian: please add this translation if you can
Arabic: مَأْكُولَات بَحْرِيَّة m pl (maʔkūlāt baḥriyya), طَعَام الْبَحْر m (ṭaʕām al-baḥr)
Breton: boued-mor (br) m, boued-aod (br) m
Bulgarian: морски дарове m pl (morski darove)
Chinese:
Cantonese: 海鮮／海鲜 (hoi² sin¹)

Mandarin: 海鮮／海鲜 (zh) (hǎixiān), 海產食品／海产食品 (hǎichǎn shípǐn), 魚鮮／鱼鲜 (zh) (yúxiān), 海味 (zh) (hǎiwèi), (freshwater seafood from a river) 河鮮／河鲜 (zh) (héxiān), (freshwater seafood from a lake) 湖鮮／湖鲜 (zh) (húxiān), (aquatic product) 水產／水产 (zh) (shuǐchǎn)
Classical Nahuatl: ātlān chānehqueh
Czech: dary moře m pl, mořské plody m pl, plody moře m pl
Dutch: zeevruchten (nl) pl, zeebanket (nl) n
Finnish: merenantimet pl, merenelävät pl, meren vilja, meriruoka; kalaruoka (fi)
French: fruits de mer (fr)
Galician: marisco (gl) m, froito de mar m
Georgian: ზღვის პროდუქტები (zɣvis ṗrodukṭebi)
German: Meeresfrüchte (de) pl or f, Meeresfrucht (de) f
Greek: θαλασσινά (el) n pl (thalassiná)
Hawaiian: please add this translation if you can
Hebrew: פֵּירוֹת יָם (he) m pl (perót yam)
Hungarian: tenger gyümölcsei (hu) pl, tengeri hal/rák/kagyló, halászati termékek pl
Italian: frutti di mare pl, frutto di mare m
Japanese: シーフード (ja) (shīfūdo), 海鮮 (ja) (kaisen), 魚介類 (ja) (gyokairui), 海産物 (ja) (kaisanbutsu), 海産食品 (kaisan-shokuhin)
Kapampangan: pamangan lawut, pamangan dayat, asan danum
Khmer: គ្រឿងសមុទ្រ (kreuangsâmŭtr)
Korean: 해산물 (ko) (haesanmul), 해물 (ko) (haemul)
Lao: ອາຫານທະເລ (lo) (ʼā hān tha lē)
Malay: makanan laut (ms)
Maori: kaimoana, mātaitai
Mongolian: далайн хоол (dalajn xool)
Norwegian: sjømat
Polish: owoce morza (pl) nvir, frutti di mare (pl) nvir
Portuguese: fruto do mar (pt) m, marisco (pt) m, frutos do mar (pt)
Romanian: fructe de mare (ro) n pl
Russian: (except fish) морепроду́кты (ru) m pl (moreprodúkty)
Sotho: dijo tsa lewatle
Spanish: marisco (es) m
Swahili: please add this translation if you can
Swedish: fisk och skaldjur
Tagalog: lamandagat, pagkaing-dagat
Thai: อาหารทะเล (th) (aa-hǎan-tá-lee)
Turkish: deniz ürünü, deniz ürünleri pl
Vietnamese: hải sản (vi), đồ biển
Yiddish: פֿיליערוואַרג n (filyervarg), ים־פֿרוכט f (yam-frukht)

Chinese

Etymology 1

From English seafood, which resembles the pronunciation of 屎窟 (si2 fat1, “buttocks”), in turn an ellipsis of 屎窟鬼 (si2 fat1 gwai2, “asshole”).

Pronunciation

Cantonese (Jyutping): si¹ fut¹

Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: si¹ fut¹
  - Yale: sī fūt
  - Cantonese Pinyin: si¹ fut⁷
  - Guangdong Romanization: xi¹ fud¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /siː⁵⁵ fuːt̚⁵/

Noun

seafood

(Hong Kong Cantonese, neologism, euphemistic) asshole; jerk; shithead
old seafood [Cantonese] ― ou¹ si¹ fut¹ [Jyutping] ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)

老seafood [Cantonese] ― lou⁵ si¹ fut¹ [Jyutping] ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)

Etymology 2

From English seafood, which resembles the pronunciation of 師父／师父 (shīfu) and is the way the believers refer to him. Possibly via Cantonese 師父／师父 (si¹ fu^6-2).

Proper noun

seafood

(Taiwan, slang) Liu Chin-lung, founder and leader of the cult Rulaizong

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seafood

English

Etymology

Pronunciation

Noun

Derived terms

Translations

Chinese

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

Noun

See also

Etymology 2

Proper noun