Caviar is the processed, salted roe of certain species of fish, most notably the sturgeon. It is commercially marketed worldwide as a delicacy and is eaten as a garnish or a spread; for example, with hors d'?uvres. Etymology The word caviar entered English from Turkish, but there are various purported etymologies of the word. While some claim that it was the Turkish who first generated the word khavyar, some say it derives from the Persian word ??????? (), meaning "the roe-generator"; others say chav-jar, which means "cake of power", a reference to the ancient Persian practice of eating caviar in stick form as a kind of elixir.[LINK: http://leda.law.harvard.edu/leda/data/504/Gordon.html] LEDA at Harvard Law School - A Brief History of Caviar In Persian, the word refers to both the sturgeon and its roe; in Russian, the word (ikra)

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