oyster

Etymology
From, from , reinforced or superseded by , which is from , (compare modern French ); both lines (Old English and Old French) from , from. .

Noun

 * 1) Any of certain marine bivalve mollusks, especially those of the family  (the true oysters), usually found adhering to rocks or other fixed objects in shallow water along the seacoasts, or in brackish water in the mouth of rivers.
 * 2) The delicate oyster-shaped morsel of dark meat contained in a small cavity of the bone on each side of the lower part of the back of a fowl.
 * 3) A pale beige color tinted with grey or pink, like that of an oyster.
 * 4)  A person who keeps secrets.
 * 5)  Something at one's disposal.
 * 6)  A shoplifter.
 * 1)  A person who keeps secrets.
 * 2)  Something at one's disposal.
 * 3)  A shoplifter.
 * 1)  Something at one's disposal.
 * 2)  A shoplifter.
 * 1)  A shoplifter.

Translations

 * Abenaki: als
 * Afrikaans:
 * Albanian: stridhe
 * Arabic: مَحَار
 * Egyptian Arabic: إسترديا
 * Gulf Arabic: محار
 * Hijazi Arabic: مَحَار
 * Armenian:
 * Azerbaijani: istridyə
 * Basque: ostra
 * Belarusian: ву́стрыца
 * Bengali:
 * Breton: istr
 * Bulgarian:
 * Burmese:
 * Catalan:
 * Central Melanau: tirem
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 蠔
 * Mandarin:, 海蠣子, 蠔子,
 * Cornish: estren
 * Corsican: ,
 * Czech: ústřice
 * Danish: østers
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: ostro
 * Estonian: auster
 * Faroese: ostra
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * Georgian:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: ὄστρεον, τῆθος, γλυκομαρίς
 * Greenlandic:
 * Haitian Creole: zwit
 * Hawaiian: kio
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: ,
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian:
 * Irish:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:, ,
 * Javanese: kerang
 * Kazakh: устрица
 * Khmer: ខ្យងស្មិត,, ងាវសមុទ្រ
 * Kimaragang: kubili
 * Korean:
 * Kyrgyz: устрица
 * Lao: ຫອຍນາງລົມ, ຫອຽນາງລົມ
 * Latin: ostrea
 * Latvian: austere
 * Lithuanian:
 * Louisiana Creole: zwit
 * Luxembourgish: Auster
 * Macedonian: острига
 * Malagasy:
 * Malay:
 * Malayalam:
 * Manx: ooastyr
 * Maori:
 * Mi'kmaq: mntmu, tmtmu
 * Mohegan-Pequot: apon
 * Mongolian:
 * Murik (New Guinea): kabaŋk
 * Navajo: chʼosh yoołgai bitsʼaʼígíí, chʼosh yoołgai bitsʼaʼí íiyisígíí
 * Norman: hitre
 * North Frisian: Skruk
 * Northern Sami:
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: østers
 * Occitan:
 * Old English: ostre
 * Persian: گوشماهی
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: eisir, oisir
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: каменица, оштрига
 * Roman: ,
 * Sinhalese: බෙල්ලා
 * Slovak: ustrica
 * Slovene:
 * Sorbian:
 * Lower Sorbian: wustrica
 * Upper Sorbian: wustrica
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: talaba
 * Tajik: гӯшмоҳӣ
 * Tamil:
 * Thai: ,
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen: ustrisa
 * Tày: cắp pai, cắp cuồng
 * Ukrainian: у́стриця
 * Unami: sisawin
 * Urdu: شکتی
 * Uzbek: ustritsa
 * Vietnamese:
 * Volapük:
 * Walloon:
 * Welsh: llymarch, wystrys
 * West Coast Bajau: tigom
 * West Frisian: oester
 * Yiddish: אויסטער
 * Yoruba: ìsán
 * Zulu: ukhwathu


 * Arabic: مَحَار
 * Hijazi Arabic: مَحَار
 * Bulgarian:
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 蠔
 * Mandarin:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: ὄστρεον
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: ,
 * Kazakh: устрица
 * Korean:
 * Latin: ostrea
 * Macedonian: о́стрига, о́стриги
 * Navajo: chʼosh yoołgai bitsʼaʼígíí
 * Persian: گوشماهی, اویستر
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: каменица
 * Roman:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Vietnamese: ,
 * Walloon:


 * French:
 * German: Pfaffenschnittchen, Pfaffenstückchen


 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Finnish: osterinharmaa
 * Spanish:


 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Finnish:
 * Russian: за́мкнутый челове́к
 * Spanish:

Adjective

 * 1) Of a pale beige colour tinted with grey or pink, like that of an oyster.

Verb

 * 1)  To fish for oysters.