prawn

Etymology 1
First attested early 1400s as various forms, , , and , which present no clear cognates in languages other than English. The forms suggest a hypothetical form *prægn, where *æg would have evolved into Middle English *ay, but it is unclear if the word is of Germanic origin, from another European language, or loaned from a. In the Isle of Wight, a word prankle ("prawn") is recorded and thought to be related. Century, following Skeat, suggested transposition of an unrecorded Old French *parne, *perne related to 🇨🇬, Old Italian perna and diminutive pernochie, parnocchie, glossed as "shrimps or prawne, fishes" by John Florio, but the OED considers Florio's entry incorrect and the suggested connection semantically and phonologically implausible.

From the idea of discarding the head of a prawn before eating it.

Noun

 * 1) A crustacean of the suborder.
 * 2)  A crustacean, sometimes confused with shrimp.
 * : A woman with an attractive body but an unattractive face.
 * 1)  A fool, an idiot.
 * 1)  A fool, an idiot.

Translations

 * Afrikaans: garnaal
 * Albanian:
 * Arabic: جَمْبَرِي, رُوبِيَان
 * Hijazi Arabic: قَمْبَري
 * Armenian: մանր ծովախեցգետին
 * Assamese: মিছা মাছ, নিচলা মাছ
 * Azerbaijani: ,
 * Belarusian: крэве́тка
 * Bengali:, , ইচলা, ইচলি
 * Bulgarian:
 * Burmese: ,
 * Catalan:
 * Cebuano: pansat
 * Chechen: креветка
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, ,
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Erzya: креветка
 * Esperanto: peneo
 * Estonian: krevett, garneel
 * Finnish: (iso) katkarapu, jättikatkarapu
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: კრევეტი
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: καρίς
 * Hebrew: חֲסִילוֹנִים
 * Hindi: झींगा
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Indonesian:
 * Irish: cloicheán
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: ,
 * Javanese:
 * Kannada:
 * Kazakh: асшаян, креветка
 * Khmer: ,
 * Korean: 징거미,
 * Kyrgyz: креветка
 * Lao:
 * Latvian: krevete, garnele
 * Lithuanian: krevetė
 * Macedonian: скамп, шкамп
 * Malay:
 * Malayalam:
 * Nootka: łiłimakƛi
 * Norman: grosse chèrvette
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Odia: ଚିଙ୍ଗୁଡ଼ି
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Punjabi: ਝੀਂਗਾ
 * Romagnol: gâmbar
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: шкамп, рачић,
 * Roman:, račić, козица
 * Slovak: kreveta
 * Slovene: kozica, rakec
 * Spanish:, ,
 * Swahili: uduvi
 * Swedish:
 * Sylheti: ꠁꠍꠣ
 * Tagalog: sugpo
 * Tajik: креветка
 * Tamil:
 * Tatar: креветка
 * Telugu:
 * Thai:
 * Tok Pisin: see kindam
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen: krewetka
 * Ukrainian: креве́тка
 * Urdu: جھینگا
 * Uyghur: قىسقۇچپاقا
 * Uzbek: krevetka, mayda qisqichbaqa,
 * Vietnamese:
 * Welsh:
 * Yiddish: פּראָן
 * Zhuang: gungq

Verb

 * 1)  To fish for prawns.

Etymology 2
Alternative spelling of pron (pronounced identically with cot-caught merger), which in turn is a corrupted spelling of porn.