tilapia

See also: Tilapia and tilápia

English

Etymology

New Latin from the genus Tilapia. A latinization of the Tswana word tlhapi (“fish”).

Pronunciation

(General American) IPA^(key): /təˈlɑːpiə/
(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /tɪˈlɑːpiə/, /tɪˈlæpiə/
Rhymes: -ɑːpiə, -æpiə

Noun

tilapia (plural tilapias or tilapia)

Any of various edible fish, of the genus Tilapia, native to Africa and the Middle East but naturalized worldwide.
- 2006, Tom Waits and Kathleen Brennan, “Bottom of the World”:
  Well I dined last night with Scarface Ron
  
  On tilapia fishcakes and fried black swan.

Synonyms

St. Peter's fish

Translations

any fish of the genus Tilapia

Arabic: بلطي‎ (balti)
Bulgarian: тилапия f (tilapija)
Chinese:
Cantonese: 羅非魚 (lo⁴ fei¹ jyu⁴^-²)

Mandarin: 罗非鱼, 羅非魚 (luófēiyú)
Coptic: ⲣⲁⲙⲓ (rami)
Esperanto: tilapio
Finnish: tilapiat
French: tilapia (fr) m
Hebrew: אַמְנוּן‎ (he) m (amnún), מוּשְׁט‎ (he) (musht) (colloquial)
Italian: tilapia (it) f
Japanese: ティラピア (tirapia)
Lingala: libúndú
Macedonian: тилапија f (tilapija)

Malayalam: തിലാപ്പിയ (tilāppiya)
Polish: tilapia (pl) f
Portuguese: tilápia f
Russian: тиля́пии f (tiljápii), тила́пии f (tilápii)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: тилапија f

Roman: tilapia f
Sinhalese: තිලාපි‍යා (tilāpi‍yā)
Spanish: tilapia f
Tagalog: tilapya
Tamil: திலாப்பியா (tilāppiyā)
Thai: ปลาทิลาเพีย (bplaa tí laa pia)
Vietnamese: cá rô phi

Polish

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /tiˈla.pʲa/

Noun

tilapia f

tilapia

Declension

declension of tilapia

	singular	plural
nominative	tilapia	tilapie
genitive	tilapii	tilapii/tilapij
dative	tilapii	tilapiom
accusative	tilapię	tilapie
instrumental	tilapią	tilapiami
locative	tilapii	tilapiach
vocative	tilapio	tilapie

Spanish

Noun

tilapia f (plural tilapias)

tilapia

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