mackerel

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Relative sizes of various tunas
related to mackerel.

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Etymology 1

From Old French maquerel, from a Germanic source.

Noun

mackerel (plural mackerel or mackerels)

1. An edible fish of the family Scombridae, often speckled.
   • 1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 8, 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

• Atlantic mackerel
• cero mackerel
• chub mackerel
• double-lined mackerel
• holy mackerel
• horse mackerel
• a sprat to catch a 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: скумбрыя f (skúmbryja)
• Bulgarian: скумрия (bg) f (skúmrija)
• Catalan: verat m, cavalla f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 鯖魚, 鲭鱼 (zh) (qīngyú)

• Czech: makrela (cs) f
• Danish: makrel (da)
• Dutch: makreel (nl) m
• Esperanto: skombro
• Estonian: makrell
• Finnish: makrilli (fi)
• French: maquereau (fr) 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
• Italian: sgombro (it) m
• Japanese: 鯖 (ja) (さば, saba), サバ (saba)

• Jèrriais: maqu'sé m, maqu'thé m
• Korean: 고등어 (ko) (godeungeo)
• Latin: scomber m
• Latvian: skumbrija, makrele
• Lithuanian: skumbrė
• Luxembourgish: Makréil f
• Norwegian: makrell
• Persian: please add this translation if you can
• Polish: makrela (pl) f
• Portuguese: cavala (pt) f
• Romanian: macrou (ro)
• Russian: скумбрия (ru) f (skúmbrija), макрель (ru) f (makrélʹ)
• Scottish Gaelic: rionnach
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: скуша f

  Roman: skuša f

• Slovak: makrela f
• Slovene: skuša (sl) f
• Spanish: caballa (es) f
• Swedish: makrill c
• Telugu: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: uskumru (tr)
• Ukrainian: скумбрія f (skúmbrija)
• Vietnamese: cá thu (vi)

See also

• tuna

Etymology 2

Old French maquerel, French maquereau, from Dutch makelaar (“mediator, agent”).

Noun

mackerel (plural mackerels)

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

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Halliwell to this entry?)