salmon

Etymology
From, , , from , from , from. Displaced native 🇨🇬, from 🇨🇬. The unpronounced l was later inserted to make the word appear closer to its Latin root (compare words like, , for the same spelling Latinizations).

The verb sense alludes to salmon swimming upstream against the flow of a river to spawn.

Noun

 * 1) One of several species of fish, typically of the  subfamily, brownish above with silvery sides and delicate pinkish-orange flesh; they ascend rivers to spawn.
 * 2) A meal or dish made from this fish.
 * 3)  A pale pinkish-orange colour, the colour of cooked salmon.
 * 4) The upper bricks in a kiln which receive the least heat.
 * 5)  snout (tobacco; from salmon and trout)
 * 1) A meal or dish made from this fish.
 * 2)  A pale pinkish-orange colour, the colour of cooked salmon.
 * 3) The upper bricks in a kiln which receive the least heat.
 * 4)  snout (tobacco; from salmon and trout)
 * 1) The upper bricks in a kiln which receive the least heat.
 * 2)  snout (tobacco; from salmon and trout)

Translations

 * Abenaki: mskwamagw
 * Ahtna: łuk'ae
 * Ainu: カムイチェㇷ゚
 * Albanian: ,
 * Aleut: adgayux
 * Arabic: حُوت سُلَيْمَان, سَلَمُون
 * Egyptian Arabic: سلمون
 * Hijazi Arabic: سلمون
 * Moroccan Arabic: سلمون
 * North Levantine Arabic: سلمون
 * South Levantine Arabic: سلمون
 * Armenian:
 * Asturian:
 * Azerbaijani: qızılbalıq
 * Basque:
 * Belarusian: ласо́сь
 * Bengali: স্যামন
 * Breton:
 * Bulgarian: сьо́мга
 * Burmese: ဆယ်လမွန်
 * Catalan:
 * Central Sierra Miwok: kóˑsomu-
 * Chechen: морзахчӏара
 * Cherokee: ᏎᎼᏂ
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 三文魚
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Cornish: ehek, sowman
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Elfdalian: laks
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian: lõhe
 * Faroese:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Friulian: salmon
 * Galician:, irce
 * Georgian: ორაგული
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Greenlandic: kapisilik
 * Gujarati: સામન
 * Haida: sg̱waag̱an
 * Halkomelem:
 * Vancouver Island: stseelhtun
 * Hebrew: ,
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido:
 * Ingrian: lohi
 * Interlingua:
 * Irish:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: ,
 * Kannada: ಸ್ಯಾಮನ್
 * Kashaya: maqʰa
 * Khmer: សាលម៉ុន
 * Klamath-Modoc: c'iyaal's
 * Korean:
 * Kwak'wala: k̓uta̱la
 * Latin: salmō
 * Latvian: lasis
 * Ligurian: salmón
 * Lithuanian:
 * Low German:
 * Dutch Low Saxon: las
 * German Low German: Lass
 * Lower Tanana: łuk'a
 * Lushootseed: sčədadxʷ
 * Luxembourgish:
 * Macedonian: лосос
 * Manx: braddan
 * Maori: hāmana
 * Middle English: samwn, samoun
 * Mongolian: яргай загас
 * Montagnais:
 * Nanai: дава
 * Naskapi:
 * Norman: saumon, saumaon , sâomoun
 * Northern Sami: luossa
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: laks, laksefisk
 * Occitan:
 * Old English: leax
 * Old Irish: bratán
 * Old Norse: lax
 * Ottoman Turkish: یاین
 * Persian: ماهی آزاد, سالمون
 * Polabian: las
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romani:
 * Kalo Finnish Romani: loolo matšo
 * Romanian:
 * Romansch: salmun
 * Russian: ,
 * Saanich: SĆÁÁNEW̱
 * Scottish Gaelic: bradan
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: ло̏сос
 * Roman:
 * Sinhalese: සෑමන්
 * Skolt Sami: luõss
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Sorbian:
 * Lower Sorbian: łosos
 * Upper Sorbian: łosos
 * Southern Ohlone: huuraka
 * Spanish:
 * Squamish: sts'úḵwi7
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: salmon
 * Tamil: ஸாமன்
 * Tanacross: łuk'a
 * Telugu: సామన్
 * Thai:
 * Tlingit: x̠áat
 * Turkish: ,
 * Ukrainian: лосо́сь
 * Upper Tanana: łuuk
 * Urdu: سامن
 * Uyghur: قايران
 * Vietnamese: cá hồi
 * Volapük:
 * Welsh:, eogiaid
 * West Frisian: salm
 * Yiddish: לאַקס


 * Bulgarian: оранжево-розов
 * Catalan:
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * German:, lachsfarbig, ,
 * Hungarian: lazacszín
 * Icelandic: laxbleikur litur
 * Indonesian: bangbang
 * Interlingua:
 * Italian:
 * Macedonian: розово-портокалова
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: оранжево-ро́зовый цвет,
 * Slovak: lososová
 * Spanish:
 * Turkish:
 * Volapük: salmaköl


 * Indonesian:

Adjective

 * 1) Having a pale pinkish-orange colour.

Translations

 * Catalan:, salmonat
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish:
 * German:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: laxbleikur
 * Interlingua:
 * Macedonian: розовопорто́калов
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: оранжево-ро́зовый
 * Spanish: asalmonado,
 * Volapük: salmakölik


 * Basque: ,

Verb

 * 1)  To ride a bicycle the wrong way down a one-way street.
 * 2) * 2014: "|Don't Salmon, Don't Shoal: Learning The Lingo Of Safe Cycling" by Marc Silver, NPR
 * Some cities discourage salmoning with clever signage, like this in London: "If you can read this you are biking the wrong way."

Etymology
From, from , from , from , from. For the jackfish, see.

Noun

 * 1) ; any of several fish in the subfamily
 * 2) rainbow runner

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) rainbow runner,

Etymology
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