truffle

English

Truffles from Mont Ventoux

Etymology

The word in the Germanic languages (except Icelandic) is a loanword from French truffe (previously trufle)[1] (whence Danish and Norwegian trøffel, Swedish tryffel, German Trüffel)[2], which originates from Old Occitan.[3]

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈtɹʌf.l̩/
Audio (southern England) (file)
Rhymes: -ʌfəl

Noun

truffle (plural truffles)

Any of various edible fungi, of the genus Tuber, that grow in the soil in southern Europe; the earthnut.
Synonym: earthnut
(by analogy) Ellipsis of chocolate truffle (“creamy chocolate confection, in the form of a ball, covered with cocoa powder”).

Derived terms

black truffle
Chinese truffle
chocolate truffle
truffled
truffle hog
truffle oil
truffling
white truffle

Translations

tuber

Afrikaans: truffel, knolswam
Arabic: كَمْأَة‎ f (kamʔa)
North Levantine Arabic: كماية‎ f
Armenian: գետնասունկ (hy) (getnasunk), գերերի (hy) (gereri), բողբուճ (hy) (bołbuč), հողկիթ (hołkitʿ), դոմբալա (hy) (dombala)
Azerbaijani: dombalan
Basque: boilur inan
Bulgarian: трю́фел m (trjúfel)
Catalan: tòfona (ca)
Chinese:
Cantonese: 塊菌／块菌, 块菌 (faai³ kwan²)
Mandarin: 松露 (zh) (sōnglù)
Crimean Tatar: domalan
Czech: lanýž (cs)
Danish: trøffel c
Dutch: truffel (nl)
Faroese: trøfla f
Finnish: tryffeli (fi)
French: truffe (fr) f
German: Trüffel (de) f
Greek: ύτανο n (ýtano), τρούφα (el) f (troúfa)
Ancient: ὕδνον n (húdnon)
Hebrew: כְּמֵהָה‎ (he) f (kmehá), כְּמֵהִין‎ (he) f pl (kmehín)
Hungarian: szarvasgomba (hu)
Icelandic: jarðkeppur
Irish: strufal m
Italian: tartufo (it) m
Japanese: 西洋松露 (ja) (せいようしょうろ, seiyōshōro), トリュフ (ja) (toryufu)
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: دۆمەڵان‎ (domellan)
Northern Kurdish: kiyarik
Latin: tūber (la) n, (New Latin) tertufulus m
Ottoman Turkish: یر الماسی‎ (yer elması)
Persian: قارچ دمبلان‎ (qarc-e-dombalan)
Polish: trufla (pl) f
Portuguese: trufa (pt) f, túbera f
Romanian: trufă (ro)
Russian: трю́фель (ru) m (trjúfelʹ)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: та̀ртуф m
Roman: tàrtuf (sh) m
Slovak: hľuzovka f
Slovene: tartuf m, gomoljika f
Spanish: trufa (es) f
Swedish: tryffel (sv) c
Tagalog: trupo
Welsh: cloren f

chocolate truffle — see chocolate truffle

References

Etymology in Deutsches Wörterbuch von Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm: im Laufe des 18. Jahrhunderts entlehnt aus Französischem neben gewöhnlichem truffe stehendem truffle
Etymology in ODS: "eng. truffle; fra fr. trufle (truffe)"
Le Robert pour tous, Dictionnaire de la langue française, Janvier 2004, p. 1144, truffe

Anagrams

fretful

[1] Etymology in Deutsches Wörterbuch von Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm: im Laufe des 18. Jahrhunderts entlehnt aus Französischem neben gewöhnlichem truffe stehendem truffle

[2] Etymology in ODS: "eng. truffle; fra fr. trufle (truffe)"

[3] Le Robert pour tous, Dictionnaire de la langue française, Janvier 2004, p. 1144, truffe