John Dory

English

A John Dory (Zeus faber)

Etymology

Unknown, many theories exist. See the Wikipedia article on John Dory for more.

Noun

John Dory (plural John Dories)

1. An edible marine fish (Zeus faber or Zeus ocellata), having long dorsal spines.

Synonyms

• St Pierre, Peter's fish, St. Peter's fish

Translations

edible marine fish

• Afrikaans: jandorie
• Arabic: ضوري مذهب
• Basque: muxumartin
• Breton: yar-vor (br)
• Catalan: gall (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 日本的鯛／日本的鲷

• Corsican: San Petru
• Dutch: zonnevis (nl) m
• Esperanto: zeŭso
• Finnish: pietarinkala (fi)
• French: saint-pierre (fr) m, dorée (fr) f, zée (fr) m
• Galician: sanmartiño (gl)
• German: Petersfisch m
• Greek: χριστόψαρο (el) n (christópsaro)
• Hebrew: מוריגן הכתם
• Hungarian: kakashal
• Icelandic: pétursfiskur
• Italian: sampietro m
• Japanese: マトウダイ
• Kabuverdianu: pexi-galu
• Kazakh: cолнечник (colneçnik)
• Korean: 달고기 (dalgogi)
• Maori: kuparu
• Norman: Jean-doré m
• Norwegian:

  Nynorsk: sanktpetersfisk

• Ottoman Turkish: دولگر بالغی (dülger balığı)
• Polish: piotrosz m, paszczak (pl) m
• Portuguese: peixe-galo (pt) m, peixe-de-são-pedro m
• Romanian: dulgher mare m
• Russian: со́лнечник (ru) m (sólnečnik)
• Serbo-Croatian: kovač (sh) m, ко̀ва̄ч
• Slovene: kovač (sl) m
• Spanish: pez de San Pedro f
• Swedish: sanktpersfisk c, Sankt Pers fisk c
• Turkish: dülger balığı (tr)
• Ukrainian: сонцевик (soncevyk)
• Vietnamese: cá dây nhật bản
• Welsh: pysgodyn darn arian m

Further reading

• John Dory on Wikipedia.Wikipedia