roe

See also: Roe, ROE, roé, róe, and rö

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: rō, IPA^(key): /ˈɹəʊ/
• (US) enPR: rō, IPA^(key): /ˈɹoʊ/

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -əʊ
• Homophone: row (in some senses only)

Etymology 1

From Middle English rowe, rowne, roun, rawne, from Old English *hrogn (“spawn, fish eggs, roe”), from Proto-Germanic *hrugnaz, *hrugną (“spawn, roe”), from Proto-Indo-European *krek- (“(frog) spawn”). Cognate with Dutch roge (“roe”), German Low German Rögen (“roe”), German Rogen (“roe”), Danish rogn, ravn (“roe”), Swedish rom (“roe”), Icelandic hrogn (“roe”), Lithuanian kurkulaĩ (“frog spawn”), Russian кряк (krjak, “frog spawn”).

Alternative forms

• roan, rone, roun, rown, rawn, round (dialectal)
• roughne, roughnes (obsolete)

Noun

roe (uncountable)

1. The eggs of fish.
2. The sperm of certain fish.
3. The ovaries of certain crustaceans.

Quotations

• 1988 : It was quite flavourless, except that, where its innards had been imperfectly removed, silver traces of roe gave it an unpleasant bitterness. - Alan Hollinghurst, The Swimming Pool Library, (Penguin Books, paperback edition, 40)

Synonyms

• (sperm): milt

Derived terms

• hard roe
• soft roe
• white roe

Translations

eggs of fish

• Arabic: يَحْمُور‏‎ m (yaḥmūr)
• Armenian: ձկնկիթ (hy) (jknkitʿ)
• Azeri: kürü (az)
• Belarusian: ікра́ f (ikrá)
• Bulgarian: хайвер (bg) m (hajver)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 魚子 (zh), 鱼子 (zh) (yúzǐ), 魚卵 (zh), 鱼卵 (zh) (yúluǎn), 鮞 (zh), 鲕 (zh) (ér)

• Czech: jikra (cs) f, jikry pl
• Danish: rogn (da) c
• Dutch: kuit (nl) m
• Estonian: mari (et), kalamari
• Faroese: rogn n
• Finnish: mäti (fi)
• French: œufs de poisson pl, frai (fr) m
• Galician: míllaras f, ovas f
• Georgian: ხიზილალა (xizilala)
• German: Rogen (de) m
• Greek: αυγοτάραχα (avgotáracha)
• Hungarian: ikra (hu)
• Icelandic: hrogn n
• Italian: uova (it)
• Japanese: 卵 (ja) (たまご, tamago), 魚卵 (ぎょらん, gyoran)
• Kazakh: уылдырық (wıldırıq)
• Korean: 알 (ko) (al), 물고기알 (mulgogial), 곤이 (鯤鮞, koni), 어란 (ko) (魚卵, eoran)
• Kyrgyz: икра (ikra), урук (ky) (uruk)
• Lao: ໄຂ່ປາ (khai pā)
• Latvian: ikri

• Lithuanian: ikrai pl
• Macedonian: икра f (ikra)
• Maori: hua, koua, tōhua, pē, kouaha, pewa ika
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: rogn (no) m, f

  Nynorsk: rogn f

• Old Prussian: please add this translation if you can
• Persian: اشپل‏‎ (fa) (ešpel)
• Polish: ikra (pl) f
• Portuguese: ovas f pl
• Romanian: icre f pl
• Russian: икра́ (ru) f (ikrá)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: икра f, мрест m, f

  Roman: ikra (sh) f, mrest (sh) m, f

• Slovak: ikra (sk) f
• Slovene: ikra f
• Spanish: huevas (es) f pl
• Swedish: rom (sv)
• Tagalog: bihud
• Tajik: тухм (tg) (tuxm), тухми моҳӣ (tuxmi mohī)
• Thai: ไข่ปลา (kài bplaa)
• Turkish: balık yumurtası (tr)
• Ukrainian: ікра́ f (ikrá)
• Uzbek: ikra (uz), uvuldiriq (uz)
• Vietnamese: trứng cá (vi)
• Volapük: fitanögem, (sperm) fitaspärmat

See also

• caviar
• egg

Etymology 2

From Middle English ro, roa, from Old English rā, rāha, from Proto-Germanic *raihą (compare Saterland Frisian Räi, Dutch ree, German Reh), from *róyko-, from Proto-Indo-European *rey- (“spotted, streaked”) (compare Irish riabh ‘stripe, streak’, Latvian ràibs ‘spotted’, Russian рябо́й (rjabój, “mottled fur”).

Noun

roe (plural roe or roes)

1. A small, nimble Eurasian deer, Capreolus capreolus, with no visible tail, a white rump patch, and a reddish summer coat that turns grey in winter, the male having short three-pointed antlers.
2. A mottled appearance of light and shade in wood, especially in mahogany.

Synonyms

• roe deer, chevreuil

Derived terms

• roebuck

Translations

roe deer — see roe deer

Anagrams

• EOR, ORE, Ore., o'er, ore

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Dutch

Etymology

Shortened form of roede, with regular loss of -de. From Proto-Germanic *rōdō.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -u

• Audio

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Noun

roe f, m (plural roes, diminutive roetje n)

1. Alternative form of roede
2. bundle of twigs, especially in Sinterklaas folklore

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Middle French

Etymology

Old French roe < Latin rota.

Noun

roe f (plural roes)

1. wheel (cylindrical device)

Descendants

• French: roue

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Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From the noun ro

Verb

roe (imperative ro, present tense roer, passive roes, simple past and past participle roa or roet, present participle roende)

1. (often reflexive, with seg) to calm (ned / down), to soothe

References

• “roe” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From the noun ro

Alternative forms

• roa

Verb

roe (present tense roar, past tense roa, past participle roa, passive infinitive roast, present participle roande, imperative roe/ro)

1. (often reflexive, with seg) to calm (ned / down), to soothe

References

• “roe” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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Old French

Etymology

Latin rota.

Noun

roe f (oblique plural roes, nominative singular roe, nominative plural roes)

1. wheel (cylindrical device)

Descendants

• French: roue

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Spanish

Verb

roe

1. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of roer.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of roer.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present indicative form of roer.