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Definition: Prawn |
PrawnNoun1. Any of various edible decapod crustaceans. 2. Shrimp-like decapod crustacean having two pairs of pincers; most are edible. Verb1. Fish for prawns. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "prawn" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1550. (references) |
Etymology: Prawn \Prawn\, noun. [from Old English expression prane, of unknown origin; compare to Latin perna sea mussel.]. (references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Prawns are an edible large shrimp-like crustacean; in Great Britain the name is usually applied to Leander serratus (see shrimp).The word is in Middle English prayne or prane, and no cognate forms are found in any other languages. It has been often connected to the Latin perna, a ham-shaped shellfish, but this is due to an old scholarly error which connected perna and parnocchie with prawne-fishes or shrimps. In fact, the Old Italian perna and pernocchia meant a shellfish which yielded nacre or mother-of-pearl.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Prawn."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
| PRA | English | Northern prawn | Food & Agriculture, Biology & Biotechnology |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonym: PrawnSynonym: shrimp (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Prawn |
| English words defined with "prawn": long-clawed prawn ♦ Macrura ♦ Palaemon australis ♦ river prawn ♦ tropical prawn. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "prawn": squilla. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Amorous Prawn (1962) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Economic History | Kenya | At present, deep sea fishing, prawn and trout farming are in their infancy, but growing rapidly. (references) |
Worker Rights | Seychelles | In July 25 Filipinos who worked at a prawn farm owned by a parastatal company published a notice in the opposition newspaper protesting their working conditions. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Prawn" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 96.82% of the time. "Prawn" is used about 157 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 96.82% | 152 | 25,494 |
| Noun (proper) | 2.55% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 0.64% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 157 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "prawn": mantis prawn ♦ prawn boat ♦ prawn cocktail ♦ river prawn ♦ tropical prawn. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "prawn": prawn-catching, prawn-filled, prawn-flavoured. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "prawn"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | garnaal (shrimp). (various references) | |
Albanian | karakaleca deti, gjuaj për karakaleca deti. (various references) | |
Arabic | قريدس برغوث البحر, صاد القريدس (shrimp), جمبري, اربيان. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | едра скарида, ловя скариди. (various references) | |
Chinese | 蝦 (shrimp), 大虾 (prawns). (various references) | |
Czech | kreveta. (various references) | |
Danish | rødhalet reje (red-tail prawn), dybhavsreje (deepwater prawn, Northern prawn, pink shrimp), dybvandshummer (Dublin Bay prawn, langoustine, Norway lobster, scampi), dybvandsreje (deepwater prawn, Northern prawn, pink shrimp), en art reje (banana prawn, Central American shrimp, endeavour shrimp, fleshy prawn, kuruma prawn, red-tail prawn), jomfruhummer (Dublin Bay prawn, langoustine, Norway lobster, scampi), bananreje (banana prawn), kuruma-reje (kuruma prawn), rynket reje (caramote prawn), reje/trawler (prawn boat), rejebåd (prawn boat, shrimp boat, shrimper), rejeruse (prawn creel, prawn trap), Roskildereje (common prawn), Roskilde-reje (common prawn), rusekurv (prawn creel, prawn trap), kødet reje (fleshy prawn). (various references) | |
Dutch | steurgarnaal (common prawn). (various references) | |
Esperanto | salikoko. (various references) | |
Farsi | میگوگرفتن(ج.ش.), جنس میگو. (various references) | |
Finnish | pohjankatkarapu (deepwater prawn, Northern prawn, pink shrimp), suppilo (funnel), merta (fish-trap, pot), keisarihummeri (Dublin Bay prawn, langoustine, Norway lobster, scampi), katkatroolari (prawn boat), katkaravunpyyntialus (prawn boat, shrimp boat, shrimper), katkarapumerta (prawn creel, prawn trap), katkarapu-laji (banana prawn, caramote prawn, Central American shrimp, common prawn, endeavour shrimp, fleshy prawn, kuruma prawn, parapenacopsis shrimps, red-tail prawn, scarlet shrimp, tropical shrimps). (various references) | |
French | crevette. (various references) | |
German | garnele (shrimp). (various references) | |
Greek | καραβίδα (crawfish, crayfish, Dublin Bay prawn, langoustine, scampi), γαρίδα (shrimp), είδοσ γαρίδασ. (various references) | |
Hebrew | סרטן (cancer, crab). (various references) | |
Hungarian | garnélarák (bunting, palaemon, shrimp). (various references) | |
Italian | granchiolino (crablet, mistake, oversight, shrimp). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 芝海老 , 鰕 (lobster, shrimp), 車蝦 (wheel shrimp), 車海老 , 蛯 (lobster, shrimp), 蝦 (lobster, shrimp), 海老 (lobster, shrimp). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | しばえび, くるまえび (wheel shrimp), えび (lobster, shrimp). (various references) | |
Manx | prayn, prane. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | awnpray.(various references) | |
Portuguese | camarão grande. (various references) | |
Russian | креветка (aesop prawn, common prawn, shrimp), ловить креветок (shrimped). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | vrsta raka, hvatati rakove. (various references) | |
Spanish | gámba (shrimp). (various references) | |
Sranan | sarasara. (various references) | |
Swedish | räka (shrimp). (various references) | |
Turkish | deniz tekesi, büyük karides. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | креветка. (various references) | |
Welsh | corgimwch. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | caris, Leander serratus, Macrobrachium, Macrobrachium spp., Palaemon serratus, Pandalus borealis, Penaeus caramote, Penaeus chinensis, Penaeus japonicus, Penaeus kerathurus, Penaeus merguiensis, Penaeus penicillatus, Penaeus trisulcatus. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "prawn": prawned, prawner, prawners, prawning, prawns. (additional references) | |
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"Prawn" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: parwan, pawna, pawny, prain, prana, prand, Prann, pranny, Praun, praw, prawd, prawl, prawne, precn, prevn, prew, priw, proaw, prowen, prown, prw, rawni, rpan, sprawn. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "prawn" (pronounced prô"n) |
| 3 | -r ô" n | brawn, drawn, overdrawn, redrawn, withdrawn. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-n-p-r-w" | |
-1 letter: pawn, warn, warp, wrap. | |
-2 letters: awn, nap, naw, pan, par, paw, ran, rap, raw, wan, wap, war. | |
-3 letters: an, ar, aw, na, pa. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-n-p-r-w" | |
+1 letter: enwrap, inwrap, pawner, pawnor, prawns, unwrap. | |
+2 letters: enwraps, inwraps, pawners, pawnors, prawned, prawner, predawn, prewarn, spawner, unwraps, warping. | |
+3 letters: manpower, parawing, prawners, prawning, predawns, prewarns, spanworm, spawners, unwarped, warplane, weaponry, wrapping. | |
+4 letters: enwrapped, inwrapped, manpowers, newspaper, paintwork, parawings, prewarned, spanworms, sprawling, unwrapped, warplanes, wrappings. | |
+5 letters: bewrapping, brainpower, enwrapping, inwrapping, newspapers, paintworks, pawnbroker, prewarming, prewarning, prewashing, preweaning, rewrapping, spongeware, superwoman, unwrapping, upwardness, waitperson, wardenship, weaponries, wentletrap, wingspread, womanpower, wraparound. | |
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