herring

See also: Herring

English

A school of herring.

Wikispecies

Etymology

From Middle English hering, from Old English hǣring, from Proto-West Germanic *hāring (“herring”), further etymology unknown. Possibly derived from Proto-Germanic *hērą (“hair”) +‎ -ing, due to the similarity of their fine bones to hair. Cognate with Scots hering, haring (“herring”), Saterland Frisian Hiering, Häiring (“herring”), West Frisian hjerring (“herring”), Dutch haring (“herring”), German Low German Hereng, Hering (“herring”), German Hering (“herring”). French hareng, Norman ĥéren, Latin haringus, etc. are borrowings from Germanic.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈhɛɹɪŋ/

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• Rhymes: -ɛɹɪŋ

Noun

herring (plural herrings or herring)

1. A type of small, oily fish of the genus Clupea, often used as food.
   • 1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 4, in Mr. Pratt's Patients:

     Then he commenced to talk, really talk. and inside of two flaps of a herring's fin he had me mesmerized, like Eben Holt's boy at the town hall show. He talked about the ills of humanity, and the glories of health and Nature and service and land knows what all.

2. Fish in the family Clupeidae.
3. Fish similar to those in genus Clupea, many of those in the order Clupeiformes.

Derived terms

• Atlantic herring (Clupea harengus)
• Baltic herring (Clupea harengus membras)
• English herring (Clupea harengus)
• herringbone
• longfin herring ()
• matjes herring
• Pacific herring ()
• red herring
• round herring ()
• thread herring ()
• wolf herring ()

Translations

fish in Clupea

• Arabic:

  Egyptian Arabic: رنجة f (ringa)

• Armenian: ծովատառեխ (hy) (covataṙex)
• Azerbaijani: siyənək
• Belarusian: селядзе́ц m (sjeljadzjéc)
• Bulgarian: хе́ринга f (héringa)
• Catalan: areng (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 希靈魚／希灵鱼, 希灵鱼 (hei¹ ling¹ jyu^4*2)

  Mandarin: 鯡魚／鲱鱼 (zh) (fēiyú), 鲱鱼 (zh) (fēiyú)

• Chukchi: нучунуч, нучут pl
• Cornish: hernen wynn f
• Czech: sleď (cs) m
• Danish: sild (da) c
• Dutch: haring (nl) m
• Esperanto: haringo
• Estonian: heeringas
• Faroese: sild f
• Finnish: silli (fi), silakka (fi), haili (fi)
• French: hareng (fr) m
• Galician: arengue m, arenga (gl) f
• German: Hering (de) m
• Greek: ρέγγα (el) f (rénga), ρέγκα (el) f (régka)
• Greenlandic: ammassassuaq (kl)
• Hebrew: מָלִיחַ (he) (malíaẖ), דג מלוח (he) m (dag malúaẖ)
• Hungarian: hering (hu)
• Icelandic: síld (is) f
• Ido: haringo (io)
• Irish: scadán m
• Italian: aringa (it) f
• Japanese: ニシン (ja) (nishin), 鰊 (ja) (にしん, nishin)
• Kazakh: майшабақ (maişabaq)
• Korean: 청어 (ko) (cheong'eo)
• Latin: chalcis f, merlucius m, aringus m, allec n
• Latvian: strimala (lv) f, reņģe f, siļķe (lv) f
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• Lithuanian: silkė f
• Luxembourgish: Hierk (lb) m
• Manx: skeddan m, ree ny marrey m
• Maori: aua
• Nootka: ƛusmit
• Norman: héthan m (Jersey), herreng m (Guernsey), ĥéren m (France)
• Northern Sami: sildi
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: sild (no) m or f

  Nynorsk: sild f

• Old Norse: síld f, síl n
• Polish: śledź (pl) m
• Portuguese: arenque (pt) m
• Romanian: hering (ro) m
• Russian: сельдь (ru) f (selʹdʹ), (colloquial) селёдка (ru) f (seljódka)
• Saterland Frisian: Hiering
• Scottish Gaelic: sgadan m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: слеђ m, харинга f

  Roman: sleđ (sh) m, haringa (sh) f

• Slovak: sleď m
• Slovene: sled (sl) m
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: jerjeg m, jerježk m

  Upper Sorbian: jerij m, harjenk m

• Spanish: arenque (es) m
• Sudovian: sīlecke
• Swedish: sill (sv) c, strömming (sv) c
• Turkish: ringa (tr)
• Turkmen: takgaz
• Ukrainian: оселе́дець m (oselédecʹ)
• Venetian: renga f
• Vietnamese: cá trích
• Volapük: rün (vo), (Clupea harengus) hareng
• Walloon: herin (wa) m, soret (wa) m, inglitin m
• Welsh: pennog (cy) m (North), ysgadan pl (South)
• West Frisian: hjerring
• Yiddish: הערינג m (hering)

fish in Clupeidae

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fish resembling Clupea in Clupeiformes

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See also

• buckling
• kipper
• stockfish