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語源

From 中期英語 samoun, samon, saumon, from Anglo-Norman saumon, from Old French saumon, from Latin salmō, salmōn-. Widely displaced native 中期英語 lax, from 古期英語 leax (whence modern dialectal lax). 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.

発音

• enPR: să'mən, IPA: /ˈsæmən/
• 韻: -æmən
• (Southern 米国発音, sometimes) IPA: /ˈsælmən/
• (Canada) IPA: /ˈsɑmən/
• (Dublin) IPA: /ˈsamən/, /ˈsæmən/
• (Philippines, Singapore and non-native speakers' English) IPA: /ˈsalmən/, /ˈsalmon/

名詞

salmon (countable and uncountable, plural salmon or salmons)

1. (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

2. A meal or dish made from this fish.
3. (plural salmons) A pale pinkish-orange colour, the colour of cooked salmon.

   Synonym: salmon pink

   salmon:  

4. The upper bricks in a kiln which receive the least heat.
5. (Cockney rhyming slang) snout (tobacco; from salmon and trout)
   • 1992, “Ebeneezer Goode”, performed by The Shamen:

     Got any salmon?

6. (Sri Lanka) canned fish, usually mackerel.
   • 2018 July 29, Chath Ginige, “Spicy Mackerel Curry”, in akkis kitchen‎ (blog), archived from the original on 23 July 2019:

     Tinned mackerel is confusingly called ‘salmon’ in Sri Lanka. So this dish, in Sinhalese, is salmon hodi, or salmon in gravy. Now that I think on it, all tinned fish in Sri Lanka is called salmon.

   • 2018, Jehan Yusoof, “Sri Lankan canned fish curry(tin fish).”, in Island Smile‎ (blog), archived from the original on 18 June 2025:

     With a thick gravy made up of onions, tomatoes, spices, and coconut milk this Sri Lankan salmon curry might breathe new life to those canned mackerels on your shelf.

   • 2023 April 25, u/LNPOVCO, “What is the liquid in local canned salmon tins?”, in Reddit‎, r/srilanka:

     We manufacture canned markerel fish (salmon)

派生語

関連する語

• samlet

派生した語

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

形容詞

salmon (not comparable)

1. 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.

動詞

salmon (third-person singular simple present salmons, present participle salmoning, simple past and past participle salmoned)

1. (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."

参考

アナグラム

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