homard

From an earlier form houmar,^[1] from Middle Low German hummer, from Old Norse humarr (“lobster”), from Proto-Germanic *humaraz. The form homard was probably influenced by Dutch hommer. Cognate with German Hummer (“lobster”), Middle English hemroll (“lobster”).

• ^{(aspirated h)} IPA^(key): /ɔ.maʁ/, IPA^(key): /o.maʁ/

• Audio; “un homard”:

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• (Louisiana) IPA^(key): /hɔ̃mar/

homard m (plural homards)

1. lobster
   • 1758, Histoire Naturelle des Insectes, traduite du Biblia Naturae de Jean Swammerdam, Collection Académique, composée des mémoires, actes ou journaux […] , volume 5 of the series (2 of the subseries), Article III, page 447:

     […] dans les écrevisses & dans les homards, les dents ne sont placées que dans la cavité même de l'estomac […]

     […] in crayfish and lobsters, the teeth are located only inside the stomach cavity […]

• Haitian Creole: oma
• Mauritian Creole: omar
• Seychellois Creole: omar
• → Belarusian: ама́р (amár)
• → Bulgarian: ома́р (omár)
• → Czech: humr
• → Estonian: homaar
• → Hawaiian: ʻōmā
• → Hungarian: homár
• → Polish: homar
• → Romanian: homar
• → Russian: ома́р (omár)
  • → Armenian: օմար (ōmar)
  • → Azerbaijani: omar
  • → Esperanto: omaro
  • → Kazakh: омар (omar)
  • → Latvian: omārs
  • → Lithuanian: omaras
  • → Turkmen: omar
  • → Uzbek: omar
• → Slovak: homár
• → Ukrainian: ома́р (omár)

• écrevisse
• langoustine

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

homard

1. alternative form of homward