eel

See also: Eel, e’el, eel-, and -eel

English

an eel

Wikispecies

Etymology

From Middle English ele, from Old English ǣl (“eel”), from Proto-Germanic *ēlaz (“eel”), which is of unknown origin. Cognate with West Frisian iel (“eel”), Dutch aal (“eel”), German Low German Aal, Ool (“eel”), German Aal (“eel”), Swedish, Danish and Norwegian ål (“eel”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: ēl, IPA^(key): /iːl/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -iːl
• Homophone: 'e'll

Noun

eel (plural eels)

1. Any freshwater or marine fish of the order Anguilliformes, which are elongated and resemble snakes.
2. The European eel, Anguilla anguilla.

Derived terms

Derived terms

• African eel
• African spoon-nose eel ()
• African longfin eel ()
• African mottled eel ()
• cutthroat eel (family )
• conger eel
• Congo eel (Amphiuma spp. (order Caudata))
• deep-sea spiny eel (family (order ))
• duckbill eel (family )
• eelboat
• eelbuck
• eeler
• eelfare
• eelfish
• eelgrass (Zostera spp., [marine], Vallisneria spp. [freshwater])
• eelish
• eellike
• eelpot
• eelpout, eel-pout
• eelskin
• eelspear

• eely
• electric eel (order Gymnotiformes)
• European eel
• fire eel ()
• glass eel
• Japanese eel ()
• longfin eel ()
• moray eel
• mud eel ( (order Urodela))
• pike eel ()
• rubber eel (family (order Gymnophiona))
• sand eel (family Ammodytidae)
• sawtooth eel (family )
• slippery as an eel
• snake eel (family )
• snipe eel (family )
• spaghetti eel (family )
• spiny eel (family (order Synbranchiformes))
• thin eel (genus )
• two-legged eel ( (order Urodela))
• West coast snake eel ()
• worm eel (families , , et al)

Translations

any fish of the order Anguilliformes

• Abenaki: nahômo
• Afrikaans: aal (af), paling (af)
• Albanian: ngjalë (sq) f
• Algonquin: mihtúckquashep
• Arabic: أَنْقَلِيس m (ʔanqalīs)

  Egyptian Arabic: حَنَشْ m (ḥanaš)

  Hijazi Arabic: أَنْقَليس m (ʾangalīs)

  Levantine, North: أَنْكَلِيس m (ʾankalīs)

  Levantine, South: حَنْكَلِيس m (ḥankalīs)

  Moroccan Arabic: نُونَة m (nūna)

• Armenian: օձաձուկ (hy) (ōjajuk)
• Asturian: anguila f
• Basque: aingira
• Bau Bidayuh: bodung
• Belarusian: ву́гар m (vúhar), вуго́р m (vuhór)
• Bengali: বানমাছ (banomach)
• Breton: silienn (br) m
• Bulgarian: змио́рка (bg) f (zmiórka)
• Burmese: ငါးရှဉ့် (my) (nga:hrany.)
• Catalan: anguila (ca) f
• Cayuga: gǫ́ːdeh
• Central Melanau: beduong
• Ch'orti': utuʼ čay
• Cherokee: ᏢᏕᎦ (tlvdega)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 鰻魚／鳗鱼, 鳗鱼 (maan⁴ jyu²)

  Mandarin: 鰻魚／鳗鱼 (zh), 鳗鱼 (zh) (mányú), 鰻／鳗 (zh), 鳗 (zh) (mán), 鱔魚／鳝鱼 (zh) (shànyú), 鳝鱼 (zh) (shànyú)

  Min Nan: 鰻／鳗 (muâ), 鱸鰻／鲈鳗 (zh-min-nan) (lô͘-môa), 海鰻／海鳗 (zh-min-nan) (hái-môa), 烏耳鰻／乌耳鳗 (zh-min-nan) (o͘-hī-môa)

• Cornish: sylli f
• Corsican: anguilla
• Creek: acv´ppv
• Czech: úhoř (cs) m
• Dalmatian: anǧola
• Danish: ål (da) c, ålefisk c
• Daur: kotmaal
• Dhivehi: ވެނ (ven)
• Dutch: paling (nl) m, aal (nl) m (before it can spawn), palingachtigen pl
• Elfdalian: ål m
• Esperanto: angilo
• Estonian: angerjas (et), angerjalised
• Faroese: állur m, álur m
• Finnish: ankerias (fi), ankeriaskala
• French: anguille (fr) f
• Friulian: bisat m
• Galician: airoa (gl) f, anguía (gl) f
• Georgian: გველთევზა (ka) (gveltevza, literally “snake fish”), გველთევზასნაირნი pl (gveltevzasnairni)
• German: Aal (de) m, Aalartige pl
• Greek: χέλι (el) n (chéli)

  Ancient: ἔγχελυς f (énkhelus)

• Greenlandic: nimeriaq
• Gujarati: બામ માછલી f (bām māchlī)
• Hawaiian: puhi
• Hebrew: צְלוֹפָח (he) (tzlofáḥ)
• Hindi: सर्पमीन f (sarpamīn), ईल (hi) (īl), बाम मछली (bām machlī)
• Hungarian: angolna (hu)
• Icelandic: áll (is) m
• Ido: anguilo (io)
• Indonesian: belut (id)
• Irish: eascann f
• Italian: anguilla (it) m
• Japanese: ウナギ (ja) (unagi), 鰻 (ja) (うなぎ, unagi)
• Javanese: welut (jv)
• Kannada: ನೀರಹಾವು (nīrahāvu)
• Kashubian: wãgòrz m
• Kazakh: жыланбалық (jylanbalyq)
• Khmer: អន្ទង់ (km) (ɑntʊəng)
• Klamath-Modoc: ġawi
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• Korean: 장어 (ko) (jang'eo)
• Kurdish:

  Sorani:

• Lao: ຕົວອ່ຽນ (tūa ʼīan)
• Latin: anguilla f
• Latvian: zutis (lv) m
• Limburgish: aol (li)
• Lithuanian: ungurys m, unguriažuvės pl
• Luxembourgish: Éil (lb), Laangfësch (literally “long fish”)
• Macedonian: јагула f (jagula)
• Malay: belut, ikan mua
• Malayalam: ആരല് (āralŭ), മനഞ്ഞില്മത്സ്യം (manaññilmatsyaṁ), വഴുതിമാറുന്നവന് (vaḻutimāṟunnavanŭ), വിലാഞ്ഞില് (vilāññilŭ)
• Maltese: sallura f
• Manx: astan f
• Maori: tuna
• Marathi: बाम माछली (bām māchlī)
• Mi'kmaq: ga't anim
• Mongolian: могой загас (mn) (mogoj zagas, literally “snake fish”)
• Nahuatl: cōāmichin
• Navajo: naʼashǫ́ʼii łóóʼ (literally “lizard fish”)
• Neapolitan: capitone
• Ngazidja Comorian: mhunga class 3/4
• Northern Sami: ággaras
• Norwegian: ål (no) m
• O'odham: wamad watopi
• Occitan: anguila (oc) f
• Old English: ǣl m
• Old Norse: áll m
• Persian: مارماهی (fa) (mârmâhi)
• Polabian: voďör m
• Polish: węgorz (pl) m, węgorzokształtne pl
• Portuguese: enguia (pt) f
• Romanian: anghilă (ro) f, țipar (ro) m
• Romansch: anguilla f
• Russian: у́горь (ru) m (úgorʹ)
• Scottish Gaelic: easgann f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: јегуља f, угор m

  Roman: jegulja (sh) f, ugor (sh) m

• Sicilian: anghidda (scn) f, ancidda (scn), ncidda (scn), nghidda (scn)
• Slovak: úhor m
• Slovene: jegulja (sl) f, ogór m
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: wugoŕ m

  Upper Sorbian: wuhor m

• Spanish: anguila (es) f
• Swahili: mkunga (sw)
• Swedish: ål (sv) c
• Tagalog: igat
• Tajik: мормоҳӣ (tg) (mormohī)
• Tamil: விலாங்கு (ta) (vilāṅku)
• Telugu: మలుగు చేప (malugu cēpa)
• Thai: ปลาไหล (th) (bplaa lăi)
• Tibetan: སྦྲུལ་ཉ (sbrul nya)
• Tonkawa: nɛswʌlˀ ʌnseːnʌntɪč
• Turkish: yılan balığı (tr) (literally “snake fish”)
• Ukrainian: вуго́р m (vuhór)
• Venetian: bixato (vec) m, bixat m, bixata f, bisato
• Vietnamese: cá chình
• Volapük: (♂♀) pil (vo), (♂) hipil, (♀) jipil (vo), (♂♀) snekafit (older term)
• Walloon: anweye (wa)
• Welsh: llysywen (cy) m
• West Coast Bajau: badung
• West Frisian: iel c
• White Hmong: ntses nab
• Yiddish: ווענגער m (venger)

Anguilla anguilla — see European eel

See also

• elver

Verb

eel (third-person singular simple present eels, present participle eeling, simple past and past participle eeled)

1. To fish for eels.
2. To move with a sinuous motion like that of an eel.

Anagrams

• ELE, Lee, l'ee, lee

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Ingrian

Etymology

Akin to Finnish edellä.

Postposition

eel

1. before

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Middle English

Noun

eel

1. Alternative form of ele

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Mopan Maya

Verb

eel

1. to know, to have knowledge of

References

• Hofling, Charles Andrew (2011). Mopan Maya–Spanish–English Dictionary, University of Utah Press.

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Westrobothnian

Etymology 1

From .

Verb

1. To make fire, to keep a fire for warmth.

   hån ele för nåtta

   He made fire for the night.