caviar

caviar

English

Alternative forms

• caviare

Etymology

From French caviar, from Italian caviaro or Ottoman Turkish خاویار‎ (havyar), from Persian خاویار‎ (xâvyâr). Doublet of ajvar.

Pronunciation

• (rhotic) IPA^(key): /ˈkæv.iˌɑɹ/
• (non-rhotic) IPA^(key): /ˈkæv.iˌɑː/

• Audio (RP)

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)

Noun

caviar (countable and uncountable, plural caviars)

1. Roe of the sturgeon or of certain other large fish, considered a delicacy.
2. (figurative) Something whose flavour is too fine for the vulgar taste.

Derived terms

• caviar spoon
• caviar to the general
• cowboy caviar
• gauche caviar
• green caviar
• poor man's caviar
• red caviar
• Yorkshire caviar

 

Translations

roe of the sturgeon or other large fish (black caviar)

Albanian: havjar (sq) m Arabic: كَافْيَار‎ m (kafyār) Armenian: խավիար (hy) (xaviar) Azerbaijani: kürü (az) Belarusian: ікра́ f (ikrá), чо́рная ікра́ f (čórnaja ikrá) (black caviar) Bulgarian: хайве́р (bg) m (hajvér), че́рен хайве́р m (čéren hajvér) (black caviar), чер хайве́р m (čer hajvér) Catalan: caviar (ca) m Chinese: Cantonese: 魚籽醬; 魚子醬 (jyu4 zi2 zoeng3) Mandarin: 魚子醬／鱼子酱 (zh) (yúzǐjiàng) Czech: kaviár (cs) m Danish: kaviar c Dutch: kaviaar (nl) m Esperanto: kaviaro Faroese: styrjurogn n, kaviar n Finnish: kaviaari (fi) French: caviar (fr) m Galician: caviar (gl) m Georgian: ხიზილალა (xizilala) German: Kaviar (de) m Greek: χαβιάρι (el) n (chaviári) Greenlandic: kaviaari Hindi: कावीयार (kāvīyār) Hungarian: kaviár (hu), ikra (hu) Icelandic: kavíar (is) m Italian: caviale (it) m Japanese: イクラ (ja) (ikura), キャビア (kyabia) Korean: 캐비아 (kaebia), 캐비어 (ko) (kaebieo), 철갑상어알 (cheolgapsang'eoal), 이크라 (ko) (ikeura) Macedonian: ка́вијар m (kávijar), и́кра f (íkra) Mazanderani: خاویار‎ Northern Sami: meađđenmeastu, meađđennjuvddus Norwegian: Bokmål: kaviar m Nynorsk: kaviar m Persian: خاویار‎ (fa) (xâvyâr) Polish: kawior (pl) m, ikra (pl) f Portuguese: caviar (pt) m Romanian: caviar (ro) n Romansch: caviar m Russian: икра́ (ru) f (ikrá), чёрная икра́ f (čórnaja ikrá) (black caviar) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: кавијар m, икра f Roman: kavijar (sh) m, ikra (sh) f Slovak: kaviár m Spanish: caviar (es) m Swedish: kaviar (sv) c, rysk kaviar c Tagalog: bihud Thai: คาเวียร์ (kaa-wiia) Turkish: havyar (tr) Ukrainian: кав'я́р m (kavʺjár), чо́рний кав'я́р f (čórnyj kavʺjár) (black caviar) Welsh: cafiar m, cafiâr m Yiddish: קאַוויאַר‎ m (kavyar)

red caviar — see ikra

See also

• caviar on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• malosol

Anagrams

• Air Cav, Avaric, variac

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Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from French caviar, from Italian caviaro or Ottoman Turkish خاویار‎ (havyar), from Persian خاویار‎ (xâvyâr).

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /kə.viˈa/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /kə.biˈar/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /ka.viˈaɾ/
• Rhymes: -aɾ

Noun

caviar m (plural caviars)

1. caviar

Further reading

• “caviar” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “caviar”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2023
• “caviar” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.

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French

Etymology

From Italian caviaro or Ottoman Turkish خاویار‎ (havyar), from Persian خاویار‎ (xâvyâr).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka.vjaʁ/

• Audio

  (file)

Noun

caviar m (plural caviars)

1. caviar

Derived terms

• cuillère à caviar

Descendants

• → Danish: kaviar
• → Norwegian Bokmål: kaviar
• → Norwegian Nynorsk: kaviar
• → Swedish: kaviar

Further reading

• “caviar”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from French caviar, from Italian caviaro or Ottoman Turkish خاویار‎ (havyar), from Persian خاویار‎ (xâvyâr).

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ka.viˈaʁ/ [ka.vɪˈah], (faster pronunciation) /kaˈvjaʁ/ [kaˈvjah]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ka.viˈaʁ/ [ka.vɪˈah], (faster pronunciation) /kaˈvjaʁ/ [kaˈvjah]
  • (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /ka.viˈaɾ/ [ka.vɪˈaɾ], (faster pronunciation) /kaˈvjaɾ/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ka.viˈaʁ/ [ka.vɪˈaχ], (faster pronunciation) /kaˈvjaʁ/ [kaˈvjaχ]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ka.viˈaɻ/ [ka.vɪˈaɻ], (faster pronunciation) /kaˈvjaɻ/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /kaˈvjaɾ/

• Hyphenation: ca‧vi‧ar

Noun

caviar m (plural caviares)

1. caviar

Derived terms

• come ovo e arrota caviar

Related terms

• ova
• ovo

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Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French caviar, from Italian caviaro or Ottoman Turkish خاویار‎ (havyar), from Persian خاویار‎ (xâvyâr).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌkaviˈar/
• Hyphenation: ca‧vi‧ar

Noun

caviar n (uncountable)

1. caviar

Declension

declension of caviar (singular only)

	singular
m gender	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) caviar	caviarul
genitive/dative	(unui) caviar	caviarului
vocative	caviarule

Synonyms

• icre negre

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Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from French caviar, from Italian caviaro or Ottoman Turkish خاویار‎ (havyar), from Persian خاویار‎ (xâvyâr).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kaˈbjaɾ/ [kaˈβ̞jaɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: ca‧viar

Noun

caviar m (plural caviares)

1. caviar
2. (Peru) a leftist, specifically one coming from a wealthy background

Further reading

• “caviar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014