kaviar

See also: Kaviar, kaviár, and kavíar

English

Noun

kaviar (uncountable)

1. Archaic form of caviar.

Danish

Etymology

From French caviar.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kaviaːr/, [kʰaviˈɑːˀ]

Noun

kaviar c (singular definite kaviaren, not used in plural form)

1. caviar (roe of the sturgeon or other large fish)

Further reading

• “kaviar” in Den Danske Ordbog
• kaviar on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From French caviar.

Noun

kaviar m (definite singular kaviaren, uncountable)

1. caviar

References

• “kaviar” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “kaviar” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From French caviar.

Noun

kaviar m (definite singular kaviaren, uncountable)

1. caviar

References

• “kaviar” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Swedish

Typical Swedish sandwich with hard-boiled eggs and cod roe (kaviar 2) from a tube.

Etymology

From French caviar.

Noun

kaviar c (uncountable)

1. caviar (roe of the sturgeon)
2. creamed smoked roe, Scandinavian sandwich caviar

Usage notes

• Grocery stores now spell "kaviar" for the Swedish product (sandwich caviar) and "caviar" for the "real" (Russian) caviar. The correct dictionary spelling is with "k" in both cases.

Declension

Declension of kaviar
	Uncountable
	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	kaviar	kaviaren	—	—
Genitive	kaviars	kaviarens	—	—

Related terms

• kaviartub
• rysk kaviar
• smörgåskaviar

Further reading

• kaviar in Svensk ordbok.

Volapük

Noun

kaviar (uncountable kaviars)

1. caviar

Declension

declension of kaviar

	singular
nominative	kaviar
genitive	kaviara
dative	kaviare
accusative	kaviari
vocative 1	o kaviar!
predicative 2	kaviaru

• ¹ status as a case is disputed
• ² in later, non-classical Volapük only