Noun: salmon
| Singular | salmon |
| Plural | salmon; salmons |
Sample Sentences
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grilled salmon
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salmon paté
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salmon steak
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Got any salmon? [1992, “Ebeneezer Goode”, performed by The Shamen:]
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Tinned mackerel is confusingly called ‘salmon’ in Sri Lanka. So this dish, in Sinhalese, is salmon hodi, or salmon in gravy. Now that I think on it, all tinned fish in Sri Lanka is called salmon. [2018 July 29, Chath Ginige, “Spicy Mackerel Curry”, in akkis kitchen (blog), archived from the original on 23 Jul 2019:]
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With a thick gravy made up of onions, tomatoes, spices, and coconut milk this Sri Lankan salmon curry might breathe new life to those canned mackerels on your shelf. [2018, Jehan Yusoof, “Sri Lankan canned fish curry(tin fish).”, in Island Smile (blog), archived from the original on 18 Jun 2025:]
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We manufacture canned markerel fish (salmon) [2023 April 25, u/LNPOVCO, “What is the liquid in local canned salmon tins?”, in Reddit, r/srilanka:]
Nouns inflected like salmon
seiyuu,
sensei,
senryu,
whaanau,
xianbing,
samlor,
salumi,
salmon,
sika deer,
shrimp,
shumai,
eastern moa,
Guarani-Kaiowá,
northern shrimp,
izakaya,
pūkeko,
autopaizuri,
yukata,
yueqin,
panzerotti, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. From Middle English samoun, samon, saumon, from Anglo-Norman saumon, from Old French saumon, from Latin salmō, salmōn-. Widely displaced native Middle English lax, from Old English leax (whence modern dialectal lax). The unpronounced l was later inserted to make the word appear closer to its Latin root (compare words like debt, indict, receipt for the same spelling Latinizations).
2. The verb sense “ride a bicycle the wrong way down a one-way street” alludes to salmon swimming upstream against the flow of a river to spawn. See: Middle English Nouns '
samoun', Latin Nouns '
salmo', Middle English Nouns '
lax', Old English Nouns '
leax'.
Verbs referencing "salmon"
English Nouns
chum salmon.