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Etymology [edit]
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”).
Pronunciation [edit]
eel (plural eels)
- Any freshwater or marine fish of the order Anguilliformes, which are elongated and resemble snakes.
- The European eel, Anguilla anguilla.
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Translations [edit]
any fish of the order Anguilliformes
- Albanian: ngjalë (sq) f
- Algonquin: mihtúckquashep
- Arabic: ثعبان الماء (ar) (ṯuʿbān al-māʾ) m
- Armenian: օձաձուկ (hy) (òjajuk)
- Basque: aingira (eu)
- Belarusian: вугар (be) (vúhar) m
- Bengali: please add this translation if you can
- Bulgarian: змиорка (bg) (zmiórka) f
- 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 (nan) (muâ), 鱸鰻 (nan) (lôo-muâ), 海鰻 (nan) (hái-muâ), 烏耳鰻 (nan) (oo-hī-muâ)
- Creek: acv´ppv
- 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
- Faroese: állur (fo) m, álur (fo) m
- Finnish: ankerias (fi), ankeriaskala (fi)
- French: anguille (fr) f
- Galician: anguía (gl) 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 (ja) (unagi), 鰻 (ja) (うなぎ, unagi)
- Javanese: welut (jv)
- Khmer: អន្ទង់ (km) (ɑntʊəng)
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- Klamath-Modoc: ġawi
- Korean: 장어 (ko) (jangeo)
- Kurdish: marmasî (ku) m
- Sorani: 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: tuna (mi)
- 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) (úgorʹ) m
- Scottish Gaelic: easgann (gd) f
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: јегуља (sh) f, угор (sh) m
- Roman: jegulja (sh) f, ugor (sh) m
- Slovak: úhor (sk) m
- Slovene: jegulja (sl) f
- Spanish: anguila (es) f
- Swahili: mkunga (sw)
- Swedish: ål (sv) c
- Tamil: please add this translation if you can
- Telugu: మలుగు చేప (te) (malugu cEpa)
- Thai: ปลาไหล (th) (bplaa lăi)
- Tibetan: please add this translation if you can
- Tonkawa: nɛswʌlˀ ʌnseːnʌntɪč
- Turkish: yılan balığı (tr)
- Ukrainian: вугор (uk) (vúhor) m
- 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
- Yiddish: please add this translation if you can
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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
Anagrams [edit]
eel
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