Dictionary

dulse en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /dʌls/ (UK, US)
• (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

Borrowed from Irish duileasc, Scottish Gaelic duileasg; compare Welsh delysg.

Meanings

1. (uncountable, usually) A seaweed of a reddish-brown color (Palmaria palmata) which is sometimes eaten, as in Scotland.
   • They worked together on their father's patch: desperately, hungrily, from dawn to nightfall; dragging up dulse from the shore to nourish the stones; [...] but nothing much grew except their own sense of separation. 2002, Joseph O'Connor, Star of the Sea, Vintage, published 2003, page 90:
   • Then Egil said, ‘That happens if you eat dulse, it makes you even thirstier.’ 1997, “Egil's Saga”, in Bernard Scudder, transl., The Sagas of Icelanders, Penguin, published 2001, page 151:

Forms

Deriveds

pepper dulse · shell dulse

Translations (21)

gd duileasg (reddish brown seaweed that is eaten) · da søl (reddish brown seaweed that is eaten) · ko 다시마 (reddish brown seaweed that is eaten) · fr goémon à vache (reddish brown seaweed that is eaten) · ga duileasc (reddish brown seaweed that is eaten) · ga creathnach (reddish brown seaweed that is eaten) · cy delysg (reddish brown seaweed that is eaten) · kl aappilattoq (reddish brown seaweed that is eaten) · de Lappentang (reddish brown seaweed that is eaten) · no søl (reddish brown seaweed that is eaten) · hu vörös pálmaalga (reddish brown seaweed that is eaten) · fi herkkupunakämmen (reddish brown seaweed that is eaten) · fr dulse (reddish brown seaweed that is eaten) · is söl (reddish brown seaweed that is eaten) · fr rhodyménie palmé (reddish brown seaweed that is eaten) · ru тёмно-красная во́доросль (reddish brown seaweed that is eaten) · cmn 達爾斯海藻 /达尔斯海藻 (reddish brown seaweed that is eaten) · fr algue à vache (reddish brown seaweed that is eaten) · pl rodymeria palczasta (reddish brown seaweed that is eaten) · nb søl (reddish brown seaweed that is eaten) · hu vörös pálmamoszat (reddish brown seaweed that is eaten)