roe

See also: Appendix:Variations of "roe"

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: rō, IPA^(key): /ˈɹəʊ/
• (US) enPR: rō, IPA^(key): /ˈɹoʊ/

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• Rhymes: -əʊ
• Homophones: row (in some senses only), Roe, Rowe, rho

Etymology 1

From Middle English rowe, rowne, roun, rawne, from Old English *hrogn (“spawn, fish eggs, roe”), from Proto-Germanic *hrugnaz, *hrugną (“spawn, roe”), from Proto-Indo-European *krek- (“(frog) spawn”).

Cognate with Dutch roge (“roe”), German Low German Rögen (“roe”), German Rogen (“roe”), Danish rogn, ravn (“roe”), Swedish rom (“roe”), Icelandic hrogn (“roe”), Lithuanian kurkulaĩ (“frog spawn”), Russian кряк (krjak, “frog spawn”).

Alternative forms

• roan, rone, roun, rown, rawn, round (dialectal)
• roughne, roughnes (obsolete)

Noun

roe (countable and uncountable, plural roes)

1. The eggs of fish.
2. The sperm of certain fish.
3. The ovaries of certain crustaceans.

Quotations

• 1988, Alan Hollinghurst, The Swimming-Pool Library, paperback edition, London: Penguin Books, →ISBN, page 40:

  It was quite flavourless, except that, where its innards had been imperfectly removed, silver traces of roe gave it an unpleasant bitterness.

Synonyms

• (sperm): milt

Derived terms

• hard roe
• soft roe
• white roe

Translations

eggs of fish

• Arabic: يَحْمُور m (yaḥmūr)
• Armenian: ձկնկիթ (hy) (jknkitʻ)
• Azerbaijani: kürü (az)
• Basque: arraba
• Belarusian: ікра́ f (ikrá)
• Bulgarian: хайвер (bg) m (hajver)
• Catalan: fresa (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 魚子／鱼子 (zh) (yúzǐ), 魚卵／鱼卵 (zh) (yúluǎn), 鮞／鲕 (zh) (ér)

• Czech: jikra (cs) f, jikry pl
• Danish: rogn (da) c
• Dutch: kuit (nl) m
• Esperanto: frajo (eo)
• Estonian: mari (et), kalamari
• Faroese: rogn n
• Finnish: mäti (fi)
• French: œufs de poisson pl, frai (fr) m
• Galician: míllaras f, coral (gl) m, bragada (gl) f, bragais m pl, ovas f pl
• Georgian: ხიზილალა (ka) (xizilala)
• German: Rogen (de) m
• Greek: αυγοτάραχα (avgotáracha)
• Hungarian: ikra (hu)
• Icelandic: hrogn n
• Ilocano: bugi
• Ingrian: maukku, kalanmarja, mukkura
• Italian: uova (it)
• Japanese: 卵 (ja) (たまご, tamago), 魚卵 (ja) (ぎょらん, gyoran)
• Karakalpak: уўылдырық
• Kazakh: уылдырық (uyldyryq)
• Khakas: ӧрген
• Korean: 알 (ko) (al), 물고기알 (mulgogial), 곤이(鯤鮞) (goni), 어란(魚卵) (ko) (eoran)
• Kyrgyz: икра (ikra), урук (ky) (uruk)
• Lao: ໄຂ່ປາ (khai pā)
• Latin: ova (la) f
• Latvian: ikri
• Lithuanian: ikrai pl
• Macedonian: и́кра f (íkra)
• Malayalam: ഇണർ (ml) (iṇaṟ), പനഞ്ഞിൽ (ml) (panaññil)
• Maori: hua (mi), koua, tōhua, pē, kouaha, pewa ika
• Mi'kmaq: nijinj anim
• Mongolian: түрс (mn) (türs)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: rogn (no) m or f

  Nynorsk: rogn f

• Old Prussian: please add this translation if you can
• Ottoman Turkish: بالق یومورطه‌سی (balık yumurtası)
• Persian: اشپل (fa) (ešpel)
• Polish: ikra (pl) f
• Portuguese: ovas f pl
• Romanian: icre f pl
• Russian: икра́ (ru) f (ikrá)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: икра f, мрест m or f

  Roman: ikra (sh) f, mrest (sh) m or f

• Shan: ၶႆႇပႃ (khài pǎa)
• Slovak: ikra (sk) f
• Slovene: ikra f
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: jagły pl

• Spanish: huevas (es) f pl
• Swedish: rom (sv)
• Tagalog: bihud
• Tajik: тухм (tg) (tuxm), тухми моҳӣ (tuxmi mohī)
• Tatar: уылдык (tt) (uwıldıq)
• Thai: ไข่ปลา (kài bplaa)
• Tibetan: ཉ་གོང (nya gong)
• Turkish: balık yumurtası (tr), oğulduruk (tr)
• Ukrainian: ікра́ f (ikrá)
• Uzbek: ikra (uz), uvuldiriq (uz)
• Vietnamese: trứng cá (vi)
• Volapük: fitanögem, (sperm) fitaspärmat
• Welsh: gronell f, bol caled m
• West Frisian: kût n

See also

• caviar
• egg

Etymology 2

From Middle English ro, roa, from Old English rā, rāha, from Proto-West Germanic *raihō, from Proto-Germanic *raihô, *raihą, from *róyko-, from Proto-Indo-European *rey- (“spotted, streaked”).

See also Saterland Frisian Räi, Dutch ree, German Reh; also Irish riabh (“tripe, streak”), Latvian ràibs (“spotted”), Russian рябо́й (rjabój, “mottled fur”).

Noun

roe (plural roe or roes)

1. Short for roe deer.
   • c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire, London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act III, scene iii:

     And let his foes like flockes of feareful Roes,
     Purſude by hunters, flie his angry lookes,
     That I may ſee him iſſue Conquerour.

   • 1769, Firishta, translated by Alexander Dow, Tales translated from the Persian of Inatulla of Delhi, volume I, Dublin: P. and W. Wilson et al., page iv:

     The lofty mountains roſe faint to the ſight and loſt their foreheads in the diſtant ſkies: the little hills, cloathed in darker green and ſkirted with embroidered vales, diſcovered the ſecret haunts of kids and bounding roes.

   • 1814, Walter Scott, chapter 12, in Waverley:

     "[...] and we may, God willing, meet with a roe. The roe, Captain Waverley, may be hunted at all times alike; for never being in what is called pride of grease, he is also never out of season, though it be a truth that his venison is not equal to that of either the red or fallow deer. But he will serve to show how my dogs run [...]"

2. A mottled appearance of light and shade in wood, especially in mahogany.

Derived terms

• roebuck

Translations

roe deer — see roe deer

Anagrams

• EOR, ORE, Ore, Ore., REO, o'er, ore, öre, øre

Dutch

Etymology

Shortened form of roede, with regular loss of -de. From Proto-Germanic *rōdō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ru/

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• Hyphenation: roe
• Rhymes: -u

Noun

roe f or m (plural roes, diminutive roetje n)

1. Alternative form of roede
2. bundle of twigs, especially in Sinterklaas folklore

Estonian

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *rooja. Cognate to Finnish ruoja and Votic roojõ (“dirt, mud, dirtiness, dirty”).

Noun

roe (genitive rooja, partitive rooja)

1. faeces, excrement

Declension

Declension of roe (ÕS type 24e/tühi, length gradation)
		singular	plural
nominative		roe	roojad
accusative	nom.
	gen.	rooja
genitive			roojade
partitive		rooja	rooje roojasid
illative		rooja roojasse	roojadesse roojesse
inessive		roojas	roojades roojes
elative		roojast	roojadest roojest
allative		roojale	roojadele roojele
adessive		roojal	roojadel roojel
ablative		roojalt	roojadelt roojelt
translative		roojaks	roojadeks roojeks
terminative		roojani	roojadeni
essive		roojana	roojadena
abessive		roojata	roojadeta
comitative		roojaga	roojadega

Galician

Verb

roe

1. inflection of roer:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Middle French

Etymology

Old French roe < Latin rota.

Noun

roe f (plural roes)

1. wheel (cylindrical device)

Descendants

• French: roue

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From the noun ro.

Verb

roe (imperative ro, present tense roer, passive roes, simple past and past participle roa or roet, present participle roende)

1. (often reflexive, with seg) to calm (ned / down), to soothe

References

• “roe” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

• roa

Etymology

From the noun ro.

Verb

roe (present tense roar, past tense roa, past participle roa, passive infinitive roast, present participle roande, imperative roe/ro)

1. (often reflexive, with seg) to calm (ned / down), to soothe

References

• “roe” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old French

Etymology

Latin rota.

Noun

roe oblique singular, f (oblique plural roes, nominative singular roe, nominative plural roes)

1. wheel (cylindrical device)

Descendants

• French: roue

Spanish

Verb

roe

1. inflection of roer:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative