lampuga

Italian

una lampuga (sense 2)

Etymology

Unknown. Compare Sicilian lampuca, Spanish lampuga, Maltese lampuka and Tunisian Arabic لامبكة (lāmbuga, “dolphinfish, Coryphaena hippurus”).[1] Possibly related to Lampedusa.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /lamˈpu.ɡa/
Rhymes: -uɡa
Hyphenation: lam‧pù‧ga

Noun

lampuga f (plural lampughe)

common dolphinfish (Coryphaena hippurus)
Synonym: corifena
Stromateus fiatola
Synonyms: (regional) fiatola, fieto

References

Guido Bellatti Ceccoli, Franco Pierno (2006) “Talassozoonimi e terminologia dell'attività ittica d'influenza italiana nel dialetto arabo tunisino”, in Romance Philology (in Tunisian Arabic), volume 59, number 2, →JSTOR, page 225

Further reading

lampuga in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Coryphaena hippurus on the Italian Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^it
Stromateus fiatola on the Italian Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^it

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