# salmon
## English
### Etymology

From Middle English samoun, samon, saumon, from Anglo-Norman saumon, from Old French saumon, from Latin salmō, salmōn-. Displaced native Middle English lax, from Old English leax (“salmon”). The unpronounced l was later inserted to make the word appear closer to its Latin root (compare words like debt, indict, receipt for the same spelling Latinizations).
The verb sense “ride a bicycle the wrong way down a one-way street” alludes to salmon swimming upstream against the flow of a river to spawn.

### Pronunciation

* enPR: să'mən, IPA: /ˈsæmən/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -æmən
* (Southern US, sometimes) IPA: /ˈsælmən/
* (Canada) IPA: /ˈsɑmən/
* (Philippines) IPA: /ˈsalmən/, /ˈsalmon/

### Noun

salmon (countable and uncountable, plural salmon or salmons)
* (zoology) One of several species of fish, typically of the Salmoninae subfamily, brownish above with silvery sides and delicate pinkish-orange flesh; they ascend rivers to spawn.
    grilled salmon
    salmon paté
    salmon steak
    Synonyms: lax, lox
* A meal or dish made from this fish.
* (plural salmons) A pale pinkish-orange colour, the colour of cooked salmon.
    Synonym: salmon pink
    salmon:
* The upper bricks in a kiln which receive the least heat.
* (Cockney rhyming slang) snout (tobacco; from salmon and trout)
** 1992, “Ebeneezer Goode”, performed by The Shamen:Got any salmon?

#### Derived terms

* Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar)
* Australian salmon
* bay salmon (Salmo salar)
* beaked salmon (Gonorynchus spp.)
* black salmon (Salmo salar)
* blueback salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka)
* Brazilian salmon pink tarantula (Lasiodora parahybana)
* Burnett salmon
* caplin-scull salmon (Salmo salar)
* cherry salmon (Oncorhynchus masou)
* Chinook salmon
* chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha)
* chum salmon (Oncorhynchus keta)
* coho salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch)
* colonial salmon
* Cornish salmon
* Danube salmon (Hucho hucho)
* Dawson river salmon (Scleropages leichardti)
* dog salmon (Oncorhynchus keta)
* fresh-water salmon (Salmo salar)
* giant salmon carp (Aaptosyax grypus)
* humpbacked salmon
* humpback salmon (Oncorhynchus gorbuscha)
* jack salmon
* kelp salmon
* king-of-the-salmon
* King Salmon
* king salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha)
* kokanee salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka)
* landlocked salmon
* land-locked salmon (Salmo salar)
* lomilomi salmon
* lomi salmon
* Nova Scotia salmon
* outside salmon (Salmo salar)
* Pacific salmon (Oncorhynchus spp.)
* pink salmon (Oncorhynchus gorbuscha)
* quinnat salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha)
* red salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka)
* rock salmon
* salmon and trout
* salmon-bellied racer (Mastigodryas melanolomus)
* salmonberry (Rubus spectabilis)
* salmon bites
* salmon caviar
* salmon-coloured
* salmon-crested cockatoo (Cacatua moluccensis)
* salmon day
* salmon gum (Eucalyptus spp.)
* salmonid
* salmon killer
* salmon ladder
* salmon leap
* salmon peel
* salmon pink
* Salmon River, salmon river
* salmon shark (Lamna ditropis)
* salmon-striped swamp frog (Limnodynastes salmini)
* salmon trout (Salmo gairdneri)
* sea salmon
* Sebago salmon (Salmo salar)
* silver salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch, Salmo salar)
* smoked salmon
* smoked salmon socialist
* sockeye salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka)
* spring salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha)
* Tyee salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha)
* white salmon

#### Related terms

* samlet

#### Descendants

* → Burmese: ဆယ်လမွန် (hcaila.mwan)
* → Hebrew: סַלְמוֹן (sálmon)
* → Hindi: सामन (sāman)
* → Japanese: サーモン (sāmon)

#### Translations

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### Adjective

salmon (not comparable)
* Having a pale pinkish-orange colour.
** 1977, John Le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy, Folio Society, published 2010, page 155:Smiley and Guillam perched disconsolately beneath it, on a bench of salmon velvet.

#### Translations

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### Verb

salmon (third-person singular simple present salmons, present participle salmoning, simple past and past participle salmoned)
* (slang, intransitive) To ride a bicycle the wrong way down a one-way street.
** 2014: "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."

### See also

* blood red
* brick red
* burgundy
* cardinal
* carmine
* carnation
* cerise
* cherry
* cherry red
* Chinese red
* cinnabar
* claret
* crimson
* damask
* fire brick
* fire engine red
* flame
* flamingo
* fuchsia
* garnet
* geranium
* gules
* hot pink
* incarnadine
* Indian red
* magenta
* maroon
* misty rose
* nacarat
* oxblood
* pillar-box red
* pink
* Pompeian red
* poppy
* raspberry
* red violet
* rose
* rouge
* ruby
* ruddy
* salmon
* sanguine
* scarlet
* shocking pink
* stammel
* strawberry
* Turkey red
* Venetian red
* vermilion
* vinaceous
* vinous
* violet red
* wine
* alevin
* anadromous
* arctic char
* blackfish
* coarse fish
* gravlax
* grilse
* kelt
* kipper
* lox
* parr
* redfish
* smolt
* sockeye
* trout
* yolk fry

### Anagrams

* monals, Lomans, Lamson, Almons, Lamons, Malson, Sloman

## Cebuano
### Etymology

From English salmon, from Middle English samon, saumon, from Anglo-Norman saumon, from Old French saumon, from Latin salmō, salmōn-. For the jackfish, see Hawaiian salmon.

### Pronunciation

* Hyphenation: sal‧mon

### Noun

salmon
* salmon; any of several fish in the subfamily Salmoninae
* rainbow runner (Elagatis bipinnulata)

## Esperanto
### Noun

salmon
* accusative singular of salmo

## Friulian
### Noun

salmon m (plural salmons)
* salmon

## Kabuverdianu
### Etymology

From Portuguese salmão.

### Noun

salmon
* rainbow runner, Elagatis bipinnulata

### References

* Gonçalves, Manuel (2015) Capeverdean Creole-English dictionary, →ISBN

## Middle English
### Noun

salmon
* Alternative form of samoun

## Piedmontese
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /salˈmuŋ/

### Noun

salmon m
* salmon

## Tagalog
### Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish salmón.

### Pronunciation

* (Standard Tagalog) IPA: /salˈmon/ [sɐlˈmon̪]
* Rhymes: -on
* Syllabification: sal‧mon

### Noun

salmón (Baybayin spelling ᜐᜎ᜔ᜋᜓᜈ᜔)
* salmon (fish)
* salmon (color/colour)

### Further reading

* “salmon”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018