tilapia

From translingual Tilapia, from Tswana tlhapi (“fish”).

• (General American) IPA^(key): /təˈlɑːpiə/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /tɪˈlɑːpiə/, /tɪˈlæpiə/

• Audio (southern England)

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• Rhymes: -ɑːpiə, -æpiə

tilapia (plural tilapias or tilapia)

1. Any of various edible fish, formerly species of the genus Tilapia, but now placed in other cichlid genera (such as Oreochromis), native to Africa and the Middle East but cultivated worldwide.
   • 2006, Tom Waits and Kathleen Brennan, “Bottom of the World”:

     Well I dined last night with Scarface Ron

     On tilapia fishcakes and fried black swan.

• St. Peter's fish

• banded tilapia (Tilapia sparrmanii)
• black tilapia (Oreochromis placidus)
• blackchin tilapia (Sarotherodon melanotheron)
• blackfin tilapia (Sarotherodon linnellii)
• blue tilapia (Oreochromis aureus)
• Guinean tilapia (Coptodon guineensis)
• kariba tilapia (Oreochromis mortimeri)
• longfin tilapia (Oreochromis macrochir)
• magadi tilapia (Alcolapia grahami)
• mango tilapia (Sarotherodon galilaeus)
• Manyara tilapia (Oreochromis amphimelas)
• Mozambique tilapia (Oreochromis mossambicus)
• Nile tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus)
• Otjikoto tilapia (Tilapia guinasana)
• Okavango tilapia (Tilapia ruweti)
• redbelly tilapia (Coptodon zillii)
• redbreast tilapia (Coptodon rendalli)
• spotted tilapia (Pelmatolapia mariae)
• threespot tilapia (Oreochromis andersonii)
• Wami tilapia (Oreochromis urolepis)

• IPA^(key): /tiˈla.pja/

• Audio

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• Rhymes: -apja
• Syllabification: ti‧la‧pia

tilapia f

1. tilapia

• tilapia in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• tilapia in Polish dictionaries at PWN

• IPA^(key): /tiˈlapja/ [t̪iˈla.pja]

• Audio

  (file)

• Rhymes: -apja
• Syllabification: ti‧la‧pia

tilapia f (plural tilapias)

1. tilapia

• “tilapia”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014