anchovy

English

line drawing of a Common European Anchovy

Wikispecies

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Spanish anchova, from Genoese (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Ligurian anciôa or related (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Corsican anchjuva, anciua. The term's ultimate origin is unclear; some suggest it may have derived from an unattested (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Vulgar Latin term *apiuva, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin aphyē, apua, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Ancient Greek ἀφύη (aphúē) (which may be formed like Sanskrit अभ्व (ábhva-, “monster”)); others suggest it comes from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Basque antxu, anchu (“dried fish”), from anchuva (“dry”), if that Basque term is not itself derived from Latin via some intermediary.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈæn.tʃə.vi/, /ˈæn.tʃəʊ.vi/, /ænˈtʃəʊ.vi/
• IPA^(key): /ˈæn.tʃoʊ.vi/, /ænˈtʃoʊ.vi/

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Noun

anchovy (plural anchovies)

1. Any small saltwater fish of the Engraulidae family, consisting of 160 species in 16 genera, of which the genus Engraulis is widely sold as food.

Translations

small saltwater fish

• Abkhaz: ақамашьи́а (akamašía)
• Arabic: أَنْشُوفَة سَمَكَة f (ʔanšūfa(t) samaka)
• Armenian: անչոուս (ančʻous), անձրուկ (hy) (anjruk)
• Asturian: bocarte m, anchoa f (as food)
• Azerbaijani: ançous
• Basque: antxoa, bokarta
• Breton: genougamm m
• Bulgarian: аншоа́ (bg) f (anšoá), ха́мсия f (hámsija)
• Catalan: seitó (ca) m, anxova (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 鳳尾魚／凤尾鱼 (zh) (fèngwěiyú), 凤尾鱼 (zh) (fèngwěiyú), 鯷／鳀 (zh) (tí), 鳀 (zh) (tí)

• Cornish: ganowek m
• Czech: ančovička (cs) f, sardel f
• Danish: ansjos (da) c
• Dutch: ansjovis (nl) m
• Esperanto: sardelo, anĉovo
• Estonian: anšoovis
• Faroese: ansjós f
• Finnish: sardelli (fi) (fish), anjovis (fi) (as food)
• French: anchois (fr) m
• Galician: bocareu (gl) m, bocarte (gl) m, anchoa (gl) f (as food)
• Georgian: ქაფშია (kapšia)
• German: Sardelle (de) f
• Greek: γαύρος (el) m (gávros), αντζούγια (el) f (antzoúgia)

  Ancient: ἀφύη f (aphúē)

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• Hungarian: szardella (hu)
• Indonesian: bilis (id)
• Interlingua: anchoa
• Interlingue:
• Irish: ainseabhaí m
• Italian: alice (it) f, acciuga (it) f
• Japanese: 片口鰯 (かたくちいわし, katakuchi-iwashi), カタクチイワシ (katakuchi-iwashi), アンチョビ (anchobi), アンチョビー (anchobī)
• Korean: 멸치 (ko) (myeolchi)
• Latvian: anšovs m
• Lithuanian: ančiuvis
• Malay: bilis
• Maori: kokowhāwhā, korowhāwhā
• Norwegian: ansjos m
• Persian: آنچوی (ânčovi)
• Polish: sardela (pl)
• Portuguese: anchova (pt) f, enchova (pt) f
• Romanian: sardele f, hamsie (ro) f, anșoa (ro) f
• Russian: анчо́ус (ru) m (ančóus), хамса́ (ru) f (xamsá)
• Serbo-Croatian: inćun (sh) m
• Spanish: anchoa (es) f, boquerón (es) m, bocarte
• Tagalog: dilis (tl), dulis, balawbalaw
• Turkish: hamsi (tr)
• Volapük: najov
• Welsh: brwyniad m