Meaning

1 senses
  1. (uncountable)Salmon dry-cured in salt, seasoned with dill and sugar, and served usually thinly sliced as an appetizer.

    Graved Lachs, Gravlax

    гра́авилохиgráaviloxi, гра́влаксgrávlaks

Examples

1 sentences
  1. Tom and Mary ate gravlax.

Translations

5 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
appetizer of dry-cured salmon:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
appetizer of dry-cured salmon:

Origin

Borrowed from Swedish gravlax, a compound of grava (“to dry-cure in salt and sugar”) + lax

Borrowed from Swedish gravlax, a compound of grava (“to dry-cure in salt and sugar”) + lax (“salmon”).

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