English

Alternative forms

• caviare

Noun

caviar ‎(countable and uncountable, plural caviars)

1. Roe of the sturgeon or other large fish, considered a delicacy.

Usage notes

• A citation from Jehan Palsgrave's 1530 text Lesclarcissment de la langue françoyse reads "Calver of saulmon, escume de saulmon.". This possibly refers to caviar. If this is the case it predates by some 61 years the earliest usage (1591) of caviar documented in the Oxford English Dictionary.

Derived terms

• caviar to the general
• cowboy caviar

Translations

See also

• caviar on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• malosol

Anagrams

• Avaric

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowing from French caviar, from Ottoman Turkish خاویار ‎(havyar) (Turkish havyar), probably from Persian خاویار ‎(xâvyâr), from خایه ‎(xâye, “egg”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kəβiˈaɾ/
• Rhymes: -aɾ

Noun

caviar m ‎(plural caviars)

1. caviar

French

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish خاویار ‎(havyar) (Turkish havyar).

Pronunciation

Noun

caviar m ‎(plural caviars)

1. caviar

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowing from French caviar, from Ottoman Turkish خاویار ‎(havyar) (Turkish havyar), probably from Persian خاویار ‎(xâvyâr), from خایه ‎(xâye, “egg”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ōwyóm ‎(“egg”).

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ka.ˈvjaɾ/
• Hyphenation: ca‧vi‧ar

Noun

caviar m (plural caviares)

1. caviar

Related terms

• ova
• ovo

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowing from French caviar, from Ottoman Turkish خاویار ‎(havyar) (Turkish havyar).

Pronunciation

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

Noun

caviar n ‎(uncountable)

1. caviar

Declension

Synonyms

• icre negre

Spanish

Noun

caviar m ‎(uncountable)

1. caviar