different between tuna vs albacore

English

Pronunciation

• (General Australian, UK) enPR: tyo?o'n?, IPA^(key): /?tju?.n?/
• (US) enPR: to?o'n?, IPA^(key): /?t(j)u.n?/
• Rhymes: -u?n?

Etymology 1

From American Spanish alteration of the Spanish atún, from Arabic ????? (tunn, “tuna”) from Latin thunnus, itself from Ancient Greek ?????? (thúnnos), from ???? (thún?), "I rush, dart along").

Noun

tuna (countable and uncountable, plural tuna or tunas)

1. Any of several species of fish of the genus Thunnus in the family Scombridae.
   • 1887, John White, The Ancient History of the Maori, 84:

     Tuna was carried down by the flood; and when Maui saw him in the net he stretched forth his arm and with a blow of his stone axe smote Tuna and cut off his head, and it and the tail fell into the ocean. ... The head became fish, and the tail became the koiro (ngoiro—conger-eel).

2. The edible flesh of the tuna.

Synonyms

• tuna fish, tunny

Derived terms

• yellowfin tuna

Translations

References

See also

• tuna on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Thunnus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

Etymology 2

From Taíno.

Noun

tuna (plural tunas)

1. The prickly pear, a type of cactus native to Mexico in the genus Opuntia.
2. The fruit of the cactus.

Translations

See also

• xoconostle

Further reading

• Opuntia on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Opuntia on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Opuntia on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Anagrams

• -naut, aunt, naut., tuan

Akawaio

Etymology

From Proto-Carib *tuna.

Noun

tuna

1. water
2. rain

References

• Journal of the Walter Roth Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, issue 13 (2001), page 12: "(Both Kapon and Pemon groups use tuna to mean "water", but Pemon employ konok which specifically means "rain" - a word which is lacking in the Akawaio language so that tuna is used to refer to rain and to water in general.)"

Apalaí

Noun

tuna

1. water

See also

• paru

References

• Edward Henry Koehn, Sally Sharp Koehn, Vocabulário Básico, Apalaí-Português Dicionário da Língua Apalaí (1995), page 52

Bagua

Noun

tuna

1. water

References

• Aquiles, Pérez, Los puruhuayes, volume 2, page 314 (1970)
• Willem F. H. Adelaar, The Languages of the Andes

Carijona

Noun

tuna

1. (Carijona) water

Synonyms

• túuna (Hianacoto)

References

• Las lenguas indígenas de América y el español de Cuba (1993)

Cebuano

Etymology

From Proto-Philippine *tuna, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *tuna, from Proto-Austronesian *tuNa.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: tu?na

Noun

tuna

1. The name of a small, glossy-black, worm-like snake, deadly poisonous, found in moist places in grasses and weeds, possibly the blind snake.

Chaima

Noun

tuna

1. water

References

• Bartolomé Tavera-Acosta, En el sur: (Dialectos indígenas de Venezuela) (1907), page 317

Chamorro

Verb

tuna

1. (transitive) to laud, to praise

Cumanagoto

Noun

tuna

1. water

References

• Bartolomé Tavera-Acosta, En el sur: (Dialectos indígenas de Venezuela) (1907), page 317
• Misiones jesuíticas en la Orinoquía (1625-1767) (1992, José del Rey Fajardo, Universidad Católica del Táchira), page 573: agua Tam. tuna; Map. tuna; Yab. tuna; Chai, tuna; Cum. tuna;

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?tuna]

Noun

tuna f

1. ton (unit of weight)

Further reading

• tuna in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• tuna in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

French

Pronunciation

• Homophones: tunas, tunât

Verb

tuna

1. third-person singular past historic of tuner

Galibi Carib

Etymology

From Proto-Carib *tuna.

Noun

tuna

1. water

References

• The Languages of the Andes (2004, Willem F. H. Adelaar, Pieter C. Muysken)

Hixkaryana

Etymology

From Proto-Carib *tuna.

Noun

tuna

1. water

Usage notes

• This term is obligatorily unpossessed.

References

• Languages of the Amazon (2012, ?ISBN, page 170

Indonesian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?tu.na]
• Hyphenation: tu?na

Etymology 1

From Arabic ?????? (tunna), ????? (tunn), from Latin thunnus, from Ancient Greek ?????? (thúnnos), from ???? (thún?, “I rush, dart along”).

Noun

tuna (first-person possessive tunaku, second-person possessive tunamu, third-person possessive tunanya)

1. tuna, any of several species of fish of the genus Thunnus in the family Scombridae.

Etymology 2

From Sanskrit ????? (tu?ati, “crooked”).

Adjective

tuna

1. damaged

Derived terms

Further reading

• “tuna” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Macushi

Noun

tuna

1. water

References

• Bartolomé Tavera-Acosta, En el sur: (Dialectos indígenas de Venezuela) (1907), page 317
• Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald, Languages of the Amazon (2012), page 188

Malay

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tuna/
• Rhymes: -una, -na, -a

Etymology 1

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *tuna, from Proto-Austronesian *tuNa (“freshwater eel”).

Noun

tuna (Jawi spelling ?????, plural tuna-tuna, informal 1st possessive tunaku, impolite 2nd possessive tunamu, 3rd possessive tunanya)

1. The name of a mudsnake or eel with a yellowish body, possibly the marbled eel, Anguilla marmorata.

Hyponyms

• belut tuna
• ular tuna
• tuna sungai

Synonyms

• ikan linang

Etymology 2

From English tuna.

Noun

tuna (Jawi spelling ?????, plural tuna-tuna, informal 1st possessive tunaku, impolite 2nd possessive tunamu, 3rd possessive tunanya)

1. tuna, any of several species of fish of the genus Thunnus in the family Scombridae.

Hyponyms

• ikan tuna

Etymology 3

From Sanskrit ????? (tu?ati, “crooked”).

Noun

tuna (plural tuna-tuna, informal 1st possessive tunaku, impolite 2nd possessive tunamu, 3rd possessive tunanya)

1. wound

Adjective

tuna (plural tuna-tuna)

1. damaged, flawed, injured

Derived terms

Further reading

• "tuna" in Kamus Dewan, Fourth Edition, Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, ?ISBN, 2005.
• “tuna” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

Maori

Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian *tuna, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *tuna, from Proto-Austronesian *tuNa (“freshwater eel”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?t?.n?]

Noun

tuna

1. eel of various species, including the longfin eel (Anguilla dieffenbachii) and shortfin eel (Anguilla australis)

Derived terms

References

• “tuna” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori-English, English-Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, ?ISBN.

Mapoyo

Noun

tuna

1. water

References

• Bartolomé Tavera-Acosta, En el sur: (Dialectos indígenas de Venezuela) (1907), page 317
• Misiones jesuíticas en la Orinoquía (1625-1767) (1992, José del Rey Fajardo, Universidad Católica del Táchira), page 573: agua Tam. tuna; Map. tuna; Yab. tuna; Chai, tuna; Cum. tuna;

Maquiritari

Etymology

From Proto-Carib *tuna.

Noun

tuna

1. water
2. river, watercourse

References

• Ed. Key, Mary Ritchie and Comrie, Bernard. The Intercontinental Dictionary Series, Carib (De'kwana).

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

tuna n

1. definite plural of tun

Opón

Noun

tuna

1. water

Synonyms

• tuná-in'i /tuna-iño

References

• Caminos de historia en el Carare-Opón (1999), page 254: Agua . . . Tuna
• Boletín de la Academia Colombiana (1959): en el Opón-Karare: tuna

Panare

Noun

tuna

1. Alternative form of tïna

References

• Bartolomé Tavera-Acosta, En el sur: (Dialectos indígenas de Venezuela) (1907), page 317
• Jean-Paul Dumont, Under the Rainbow: Nature and Supernature among the Panare (2014)
• Marie-Claude Mattei Müller, Yoroko: a Panare shaman's confidences (1992), page 141

Pemon

Etymology

From Proto-Carib *tuna.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tu?na/

Noun

tuna

1. water

References

• Journal of the Walter Roth Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, issue 13 (2001), page 12: "(Both Kapon and Pemon groups use tuna to mean "water", but Pemon employ konok which specifically means "rain" - a word which is lacking in the Akawaio language so that tuna is used to refer to rain and to water in general.)"

• Katia Nepomuceno Pessoa, Fonologia Taurepang e comparação preliminar da fonologia de línguas do grupo Pemóng (família Caribe) (2006), page 139

Portuguese

Etymology 1

From tunar.

Verb

tuna

1. third-person singular present indicative of tunar
2. second-person singular imperative of tunar

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Spanish tuna (“singing group”).

Noun

tuna f (plural tunas)

1. (music) a college singing group, wearing ornate clothes

Related terms

• tuno

Further reading

• tuna on the Portuguese Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^pt

Pukapukan

Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian *tuna, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *tuna, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *tuna, from Proto-Austronesian *tuNa (“freshwater eel”).

Noun

tuna

1. a kind of fish
2. a striped lagoon eel, toothless and edible

Derived terms

• tuna taupulepule
• tuna wenua
• palu tuna

Further reading

• Te Pukamuna | Pukapuka Dictionary

Purukotó

Noun

tuná

1. water

References

• Vom Roraima zum Orinoco, volume 4
• Revista andina, volume 11 (1993), page 451

Quechua

Noun

tuna

1. prickly pear cactus (Opuntia) and its fruit

Declension

Romanian

Etymology

From Latin ton?re, present active infinitive of ton?, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)tenh?- (“to thunder”).

Verb

a tuna (third-person singular present tun?, past participle tunat) 1st conj.

1. to thunder
2. to speak thunderously

Conjugation

Derived terms

• tunare

Related terms

• detuna
• tunet
• tun

See also

• fulgera
• tr?sni

Samoan

Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian *tuna, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *tuna, from Proto-Austronesian *tuNa.

Noun

tuna

1. eel

Sapará

Noun

tu?ná

1. water

References

• Vom Roraima zum Orinoco, volume 4
• Revista andina, volume 11 (1993), page 451

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?tuna/, [?t?u.na]

Etymology 1

From Taíno [Term?].

Noun

tuna f (plural tunas)

1. prickly pear, the fruit of the nopal cactus (Opuntia, especially Opuntia ficus-indica)

   Synonym: higo de tuna

2. nopal

   Synonyms: nopal, higuera de tuna, higuera de Indias

Usage notes

• Tuna is a false friend, and does not mean a kind of fish in Spanish. The Spanish word for that English meaning of tuna is atún.

Etymology 2

From French tune, possibly from roi de Thunes (“king of Tunis”), a title used by leaders of vagabonds.

Noun

tuna f (plural tunas)

2. (Spain) a college singing group, wearing ornate clothes, called in the Americas estudiantina

Descendants

• ? Portuguese: tuna

Further reading

• Tuna (music) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the main entry.

Noun

tuna f (plural tunas)

1. female equivalent of tuno

Etymology 4

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

tuna

1. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present indicative form of tunar.

Swahili

Verb

tuna

1. first-person plural present affirmative of -wa na

Tamanaku

Noun

tuna

1. water

References

• Bartolomé Tavera-Acosta, En el sur: (Dialectos indígenas de Venezuela) (1907), page 316-7
• Misiones jesuíticas en la Orinoquía (1625-1767) (1992, José del Rey Fajardo, Universidad Católica del Táchira), page 573: agua Tam. tuna; Map. tuna; Yab. tuna; Chai, tuna; Cum. tuna;

Trió

Noun

tuna

1. water

Further reading

• Eithne Carlin, A Grammar of Trio: A Cariban Language of Suriname (2004)

Wayana

Noun

tuna

1. water

References

• Sergio Meira, Primeras observaciones sobre la lengua yukpa (2005) (mentions "wayana tuna he wai " in notes)

Wayumará

Noun

tuná

1. water

References

• Vom Roraima zum Orinoco, volume 4
• Revista andina, volume 11 (1993), page 451

Yabarana

Noun

tuna

1. water

References

• Bartolomé Tavera-Acosta, En el sur: (Dialectos indígenas de Venezuela) (1907), page 317
• Misiones jesuíticas en la Orinoquía (1625-1767) (1992, José del Rey Fajardo, Universidad Católica del Táchira), page 573: agua Tam. tuna; Map. tuna; Yab. tuna; Chai, tuna; Cum. tuna;

English

Etymology

From Portuguese albacor, from Arabic ????????????? (al-bak?ra, “the young camels”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?æl.b?.k??/
• Rhymes: -??(?)

Noun

albacore (plural albacores)

1. A large marine fish Thunnus alalunga of warm seas, having edible flesh.
   • 1929, Robert Dean Frisbee, The Book of Puka-Puka (republished by Eland, 2019; p. 127):

     But most of all, they were jealous because these strangers feasted daily on great turtle, albacore and sail-fish, the sweetest of all seafoods.

Translations