# tilapia
## English
### Etymology

From translingual Tilapia, from Tswana tlhapi (“fish”). The drag race slang usage is a reference to the comment by Gia Gunn on entering Ru Paul's Drag Race (season 6) "Just landed like fresh tilapia".

### Pronunciation

* (General American) IPA: /təˈlɑːpiə/
* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /tɪˈlɑːpiə/, /tɪˈlæpiə/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɑːpiə, -æpiə

### Noun

tilapia (plural tilapias or tilapia)
* Any of various edible fish, formerly species of the genus Tilapia, but now placed in other cichlid genera (such as Oreochromis), native to Africa and the Middle East but cultivated worldwide.
    Synonym: St. Peter's fish
** 2006, Tom Waits, Kathleen Brennan, Bottom of the World:Well I dined last night with Scarface Ron On tilapia fishcakes and fried black swan.
* (drag slang) A fishy (resembling a cisgender woman) drag queen; a drag queen who could pass for a woman, as opposed to one who is exaggeratedly feminine.
** 2019 June 13, Sam Damshenas, “Drag Race star Plastique Tiara wants to be a "pioneer" for the queer Asian community”, in Gay Times‎, London: Gay Times Ltd, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2021-08-01:Vietnamese tilapia Plastique Tiara was at the forefront of one of Drag Race's most controversial eliminations earlier this year. Although the Texan performer and biological woman was leaving us gooped week-after-week with her runways, she was – spoiler alert! – eliminated in eighth place after lip-syncing against Miss Vanjie, despite having a better track record.

#### Derived terms

* banded tilapia (Tilapia sparrmanii)
* blackchin tilapia (Sarotherodon melanotheron)
* blackfin tilapia (Sarotherodon linnellii)
* black tilapia (Oreochromis placidus)
* blue tilapia (Oreochromis aureus)
* Graham's tilapia (Oreochromis esculentus)
* Guinean tilapia (Coptodon guineensis)
* kariba tilapia (Oreochromis mortimeri)
* longfin tilapia (Oreochromis macrochir)
* magadi tilapia (Alcolapia grahami)
* mango tilapia (Sarotherodon galilaeus)
* Manyara tilapia (Oreochromis amphimelas)
* Mozambique tilapia (Oreochromis mossambicus)
* Nile tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus)
* Okavango tilapia (Tilapia ruweti)
* Otjikoto tilapia (Tilapia guinasana)
* redbelly tilapia (Coptodon zillii)
* redbreast tilapia (Coptodon rendalli)
* Singida tilapia (Oreochromis esculentus)
* spotted tilapia (Pelmatolapia mariae)
* threespot tilapia (Oreochromis andersonii)
* Wami tilapia (Oreochromis urolepis)
* Zill's tilapia (Tilapia zilli)

#### Translations
## French
### Noun

tilapia m (plural tilapias)
* tilapia

## Polish
### Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /tiˈla.pja/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -apja
* Syllabification: ti‧la‧pia

### Noun

tilapia f
* tilapia

#### Declension
### Further reading

* tilapia in Polish dictionaries at PWN

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /tiˈlapja/ [t̪iˈla.pja]
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -apja
* Syllabification: ti‧la‧pia

### Noun

tilapia f (plural tilapias)
* tilapia

### Further reading

* “tilapia”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10