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[edit] Etymology
From Middle English ele, from Old English ǣl (“eel”), from Proto-Germanic *ēlaz (“eel”). Cognate with West Frisian iel (“eel”), Dutch aal (“eel”), German Aal (“eel”), Swedish and Danish ål (“eel”).
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eel (plural eels)
- Any fish of the order Anguilliformes which are elongated and resemble snakes. There are freshwater and marine species.
- The European eel, Anguilla anguilla.
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[edit] Translations
any fish of the order Anguilliformes
- Albanian: please add this translation if you can
- Arabic: ثعبان الماء (ar) (thu3baan al-maa’) m.
- Armenian: օձաձուկ (hy) (òjajuk)
- Basque: aingira (eu)
- Bengali: please add this translation if you can
- Bosnian: jegulja (bs) f.
- Bulgarian: змиорка (bg) f. (zmiorka)
- Burmese: ငါးရှဉ့် (my) (ngăshin.)
- Catalan: anguila (ca) f.
- Cayuga: gǫ́ːdeh
- Ch'orti': utuʼ čay
- Cherokee: ᏢᏕᎦ (tlvdega)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 鰻魚 (cmn), 鳗鱼 (cmn) (mányú), 鰻 (cmn), 鳗 (cmn) (mán)
- Min Nan: 鰻 (muâ), 鱸鰻 (lôo-muâ), 海鰻 (hái-muâ), 烏耳鰻 (oo-hī-muâ)
- Creek: acv´ppv
- Croatian: jegulja (hr) f.
- Czech: úhoř (cs) m.
- Dalmatian: anǧola
- Danish: ål (da) c., ålefisk (da) c.
- Dutch: paling (nl) m., aal (nl) m. (before it can spawn), palingachtigen (nl) pl.
- Esperanto: angilo (eo)
- Estonian: angerjas, angerjalised
- Finnish: ankerias (fi), ankeriaskala (fi)
- French: anguille (fr) f.
- Georgian: გველთევზა (gvelt'evza), გველთევზასნაირნი (gvelt'evzasnairni) pl.
- German: Aal (de) m., Aalartige (de) pl.
- Greek:
- Ancient: εγχέλυς (enkhélis) f.
- Modern: χέλι (el) (kheli) n.
- Greenlandic: nimeriaq (kl)
- Hawaiian: puhi
- Hebrew: צְלוֹפָּח (he) (tslopakh)
- Hindi: please add this translation if you can
- Hungarian: angolna (hu)
- Icelandic: áll (is) m.
- Ido: anguilo
- Indonesian: belut (id)
- Irish: eascann (ga) f.
- Italian: anguilla (it) m.
- Japanese: ウナギ, 鰻 (unagi)
- Khmer: អន្ទង់ (km) (ɑntʊəng)
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- Klamath-Modoc: ġawi
- Korean: 장어 (jang-eo)
- Kurdish: مارماسی (ku)
- Lao: please add this translation if you can
- Latin: anguilla (la) f.
- Latvian: zutis m.
- Lithuanian: ungurys m., unguriažuvės pl.
- Luxembourgish: Éil (lb), Laangfësch (lb)
- Macedonian: јагула (mk) (jágula) f.
- Malay: belut (ms)
- Maltese: sallura f.
- Maori: please add this translation if you can
- Mongolian: могой загас (mn) (mogoy zagas)
- Nahuatl: cōāmichin
- Navajo: naʼashǫ́ʼii łóóʼ
- Norwegian: ål (no) m.
- O'odham: wamad watopi
- Occitan: anguila f.
- Old English: ǣl (ang) m.
- Persian: مارماهی (fa) (mârmâhi)
- Polish: węgorz (pl) m., węgorzokształtne (pl) pl.
- Portuguese: enguia (pt) f.
- Romanian: anghilă, țipar
- Russian: угорь (ru) (úgor’) m.
- Scottish Gaelic: easgann (gd) f.
- Serbian:
- Cyrillic: јегуља (sr) f., угор (sr) m.
- Roman: jegulja (sr) f., ugor (sr) m.
- Slovak: úhorotvaré pl.
- Slovene: jegulja (sl) f.
- Spanish: anguila (es) f.
- Swahili: mkunga (sw)
- Swedish: ål (sv) c.
- Tamil: please add this translation if you can
- Telugu: please add this translation if you can
- Thai: ปลาไหล (bplaa lăi)
- Tibetan: please add this translation if you can
- Tonkawa: nɛswʌlˀ ʌnseːnʌntɪč
- Turkish: yılan balığı (tr)
- Ukrainian: вугор (uk) m. (vugor)
- Vietnamese: lươn (vi), cá chình (vi)
- Volapük: (male or female) pil (vo), (male) hipil (vo), (female) jipil (vo), (obsolete) snekafit (vo)
- Walloon: anweye
- Welsh: llysywen (cy) m.
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eel (third-person singular simple present eels, present participle eeling, simple past and past participle eeled)
- To fish for eels
- To move with a sinuous motion like that of an eel
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eel
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