English seafood definition
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: θαλασσ& iota ;νά (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 seafood definition
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
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)
See also
Etymology 2
From English seafood , which resembles the pronunciation of 師父 / 师父 ( shīfu ) , which is the way the believers refer to him.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
seafood
( Taiwan ) Liu Chin-lung , founder and leader of the cult Rulaizong