conch

See also: Conch

English

Conch

Alternative forms

• conk, conque

Etymology

Etymology tree

Pre-Greekbor.?

Ancient Greek κόγχη (kónkhē)bor.

Latin conchabor.

English conch

Borrowed from Latin concha, borrowed from Ancient Greek κόγχη (kónkhē, “a mussel or cockle; a shell-like cavity”). Doublet of concha.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɒnt͡ʃ/, /ˈkɒŋk/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ɒntʃ, -ɒŋk

Noun

conch (plural conches or conchs)

1. A marine gastropod of the family Strombidae which lives in its own spiral shell.
2. The shell of this sea animal.
3. A musical instrument made from a large spiral seashell, somewhat like a trumpet.
4. (architecture) The semidome of an apse, or the apse itself.
5. Synonym of concher (“machine used to refine the flavour and texture of chocolate”).

Derived terms

• Bubonian conch
• cameo conch
• conchiform
• conchite
• conchology
• conchometry
• conker
• deuteroconch
• Eastern Pacific giant conch
• Florida horse conch
• line conch
• macroconch
• microconch
• nucleoconch
• protoconch
• queen conch
• teleoconch

Related terms

• congius

Translations

marine mollusc

• Bhojpuri: शंख (śaṅkh)
• Finnish: siipikotilo
• French: conque (fr) f
• Galician: buguina (gl) f, carlou (gl) m
• German: Muschel (de) f, Meeresschnecke f
• Hindi: शंख (hi) m (śaṅkh)
• Hungarian: kagyló (hu)
• Icelandic: kuðungur (is) m
• Irish: sliogán (ga) m, trumpa sliogáin m
• Korean: 고둥 (godung)
• Malayalam: ശംഖ് (ml) (śaṅkhŭ)
• Māori: wahanui
• Maranao: tamboli'
• Portuguese: búzio (pt) m
• Spanish: caracola (es) f
• Tamil: சங்கு (ta) (caṅku)

shell of this sea animal

• Catalan: conquilla (ca) f, carculla (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 螺貝 / 螺贝 (zh) (luóbèi)

• Finnish: siipikotilon kuori
• French: conque (fr) f
• Galician: buguina (gl) f, carlou (gl) m
• Hindi: शंख (hi) m (śaṅkh)
• Hungarian: kagylóhéj (hu)
• Irish: sliogán (ga) m
• Kabuverdianu: kónxa
• Korean: 조가비 (ko) (jogabi)
• Malayalam: ശംഖ് (ml) (śaṅkhŭ)
• Māori: wahanui
• Portuguese: búzio (pt) m
• Russian: ра́ковина (ru) f (rákovina)
• Spanish: concha (es) f, caracola (es) f
• Tamil: சங்கு (ta) (caṅku)
• Telugu: శంఖము (te) (śaṅkhamu)
• Turkish: deniz kabuğu

musical instrument

• Galician: bucina (gl) f, apupo (gl) m
• Maguindanao: tambuli
• Malayalam: ശംഖ് (ml) (śaṅkhŭ)
• Māori: pūpakapaka, potipoti, pūmoana, pūtātara, pūtoto
• Spanish: concha (es) f, bocina (es)
• Tamil: சங்கு (ta) (caṅku)
• Turkish:

  Ottoman Turkish: بوق (buk)

machine — see concher

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Translations to be checked

• Interlingua: ^{(please verify)} concha
• Malayalam: ^{(please verify)} ശംഖ് (ml) (śaṅkhŭ) (4)
• Volapük: ^{(please verify)} koan (vo)

Verb

conch (third-person singular simple present conches, present participle conching, simple past and past participle conched)

1. To refine the flavour and texture of chocolate by warming and grinding, either in a traditional concher, or between rollers.
2. To play a conch seashell as a musical instrument, by blowing through a hole made close to the origin of the spiral.

Translations

to refine the flavour of chocolate

• German: conchieren (de)

to play a conch seashell