seafood

English

Etymology

sea +‎ food

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈsiːfuːd/

Noun

seafood (usually uncountable, plural seafoods)

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

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
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)
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)
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) m pl
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 (vi)

Chinese

Etymology

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 example)

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

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