roe

See also: Roe, ROE, roé, róe, and rö

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: rō, IPA^(key): /rəʊ/
• (US) enPR: rō, IPA^(key): /roʊ/

• 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)

Wikipedia

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)

• 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 ‎(goni), 어란 (ko) ‎(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)

Wikipedia

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

• o'er, ore, Ore., öre, øre

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Dutch

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -u

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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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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.