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Truffles from Mont Ventoux
Borrowed from French trufle, a variant of truffe[1] (whence also Danish and Norwegian trøffel, Swedish tryffel, German Trüffel),[2] from Old Occitan trufa, a metathesis of Late Latin tufera (plural), from Latin tūber (“truffle”).[3]
truffle (plural truffles)
- Any of various edible fungi, of the genus Tuber, that grow in the soil in southern Europe; the earthnut.
Synonym: earthnut- 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 137:
In ancient times, the Romans imported truffles, credited with marked aphrodisiac virtue, from Libya as well as Greece.
- 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 137:
- (by analogy) Ellipsis of chocolate truffle (“creamy chocolate confection, in the form of a ball, covered with cocoa powder”).
- black truffle
- Chinese truffle
- chocolate truffle
- corn truffle
- desert truffle
- false truffle
- magic truffle
- pecan truffle
- truffle butter
- truffled
- truffle hog
- truffle hunter
- truffle hunting
- truffle oil
- truffle pig
- truffler
- truffle shuffle
- truffling
- white truffle
tuber
- Afrikaans: truffel, knolswam
- Arabic: كَمْأَة f (kamʔa)
Baghdadi Arabic: ﭼِﻤَﺔ f (tɕimæ), فَگَع m (fagaʕ)
North Levantine Arabic: كماية f - Armenian: գետնասունկ (hy) (getnasunk), դոմբալա (hy) (dombala)
Middle Armenian: բողբուճ (boġbuč) - Azerbaijani: dombalan
- Basque: boilur inan
- Belarusian: тру́фель m (trúfjelʹ), тру́фля f (trúflja)
- Bulgarian: трю́фел m (trjúfel)
- Catalan: tòfona (ca)
- Chinese:
Cantonese: 塊菌 / 块菌 (faai3 kwan2)
Mandarin: 松露 (zh) (sōnglù) - Crimean Tatar: domalan
- Czech: lanýž (cs)
- Danish: trøffel c
- Dutch: truffel (nl)
- Esperanto: trufo (eo)
- Estonian: trühvel
- Faroese: trøfla f
- Finnish: tryffeli (fi)
- French: truffe (fr) f
- German: Trüffel (de) f
- Greek: ύτανο n (ýtano), τρούφα (el) f (troúfa)
Ancient Greek: ὕδνον n (húdnon) - Hebrew: כְּמֵהָה (he) f (kmehá), כְּמֵהִין (he) f pl (kmehín)
- Hungarian: szarvasgomba (hu)
- Icelandic: jarðkeppur
- Irish: strufal m
- Italian: tartufo (it) m
- Japanese: 西洋松露 (ja) (せいようしょうろ, seiyōshōro), トリュフ (ja) (toryufu)
- Korean: 송로버섯 (songnobeoseot), 송로 (songno)
- Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: دۆمەڵان (domellan)
Northern Kurdish: kiyarik - Latin: tūber (la) n, (New Latin) tertufulus m
- Macedonian: тартуф m (tartuf)
- Persian: قارچ دمبلان (qârč-e dombalân)
- Polish: trufla (pl) f
- Portuguese: trufa (pt) f, túbera f
- Romanian: trufă (ro)
- Russian: трю́фель (ru) m (trjúfelʹ)
- Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: та̀ртуф m
Latin: tàrtuf (sh) m - Slovak: hľuzovka f
- Slovene: tartuf m, gomoljika f
- Spanish: trufa (es) f
- Swedish: tryffel (sv) c
- Tagalog: trupo
- Turkish: domalan (tr), keme (tr), trüf mantarı, domuz elması
Ottoman Turkish: یر الماسی (yer elması) - Ukrainian: трюфель m (trjufelʹ)
- Welsh: cloronen f, cloronen y moch f (summer), cloronen Ffrengig f (black)
- Yiddish: טרופֿליע f (truflye), טריפֿל n (trifl), טרופֿל m (trufl)
- ^ Etymology in Deutsches Wörterbuch von Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm: im Laufe des 18. Jahrhunderts entlehnt aus Französischem neben gewöhnlichem truffe stehendem truffle
- ^ Etymology in ODS: "eng. truffle; fra fr. trufle (truffe)"
- ^ Le Robert pour tous, Dictionnaire de la langue française, Janvier 2004, p. 1144, truffe
