mackerel

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Etymology 1

From Old French maquerel. Further origin unknown.

Noun

mackerel (plural mackerel or mackerels)

1. An edible fish of the family Scombridae, often speckled.
   • 1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 8, in Mr. Pratt's Patients:

     Philander went into the next room […] and came back with a salt mackerel that dripped brine like a rainstorm. Then he put the coffee pot on the stove and rummaged out a loaf of dry bread and some hardtack.

Derived terms

Terms derived from mackerel

• a sprat to catch a mackerel
• Atlantic mackerel
• cero mackerel

• chub mackerel
• double-lined mackerel
• holy mackerel

• horse mackerel
• mackerel scad
• mackerel shark

• mackerel sky
• mackerel snapper
• Spanish mackerel

Related terms

• scombral

Translations

edible fish

• Abenaki: makelo
• Ainu: サバ (saba)
• Armenian: սկումբրիա (skumbria)
• Asturian: xarda
• Belarusian: ску́мбрыя f (skúmbryja)
• Bulgarian: ску́мрия (bg) f (skúmrija)
• Catalan: verat (ca) m, cavalla (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 鯖魚, 鲭鱼 (cing¹ jyu^4-2)

  Mandarin: 鯖魚 (zh), 鲭鱼 (zh) (qīngyú)

• Cornish: briel m
• Czech: makrela (cs) f
• Danish: makrel (da)
• Dutch: makreel (nl) m
• Esperanto: skombro
• Estonian: makrell
• Finnish: makrilli (fi)
• French: maquereau (fr) m
• Galician: xarda (gl) f, macareu m, rinchón (gl) m, correolo (gl) m, pínfano (gl) m, torniño m
• German: Makrele (de) f
• Greek: σκουμπρί (el) n (skoumprí)
• Hebrew: מקרל‏‎ m (makarél), פלמידה‏‎ f (palamída)
• Hungarian: makréla (hu)
• Ido: makrelo (io)
• Irish: ronnach (ga) m, murlas m, maicréal m
• Italian: sgombro (it) m
• Japanese: 鯖 (ja) (さば, saba), サバ (ja) (saba)

• Korean: 고등어 (ko) (godeung-eo)
• Latin: scomber m
• Latvian: skumbrija, makrele
• Lithuanian: skumbrė
• Luxembourgish: Makréil f
• Maori: tawatawa, tewetewe
• Norman: maqu'sé m (Jersey), maqu'thé m (Jersey)
• Norwegian: makrell
• Persian: اسقومری‏‎ (fa) (esqumri), خالمخالی‏‎ (xālmaxāli)
• Polish: makrela (pl) f
• Portuguese: cavala (pt) f
• Romanian: macrou (ro) n
• Russian: ску́мбрия (ru) f (skúmbrija), макре́ль (ru) f (makrélʹ)
• Scottish Gaelic: rionnach
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ску̏ша f

  Roman: skȕša (sh) f

• Slovak: makrela f
• Slovene: skuša (sl) f
• Spanish: caballa (es) f
• Swedish: makrill (sv) c
• Tagalog: alumahan (tl)
• Telugu: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: uskumru (tr)
• Ukrainian: ску́мбрія f (skúmbrija)
• Vietnamese: cá thu (vi)
• Welsh: macrell (cy) m

See also

• tuna

Etymology 2

From Middle English, from Old French maquerel, from Middle Dutch makelare, makelaer (“broker”) (> makelaar (“broker, peddler”)). See also French maquereau.

Noun

mackerel (plural mackerels)

1. (obsolete) A pimp; also, a bawd.

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