roe

See also: Roe, ROE, roé, róe, rœ, and rö

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: rō, IPA^(key): /ˈɹəʊ/
• 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”), (deprecated template usage) [etyl] 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 (countable and uncountable, plural roes)

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) (jknkitʻ)
• Azerbaijani: kürü (az)
• Belarusian: ікра́ f (ikrá)
• Bulgarian: хайвер (bg) m (hajver)
• Chinese:

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

• Czech: jikra (cs) f, jikry pl
• Danish: rogn (da) c
• Dutch: kuit (nl) m
• Esperanto: frajo (eo)
• Estonian: mari (et), kalamari
• Faroese: rogn n
• Finnish: mäti (fi)
• French: œufs de poisson pl, frai (fr) m
• Galician: míllaras f, bragales m, ovas f, coral m
• 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)
• Karakalpak: уўылдырық
• Kazakh: уылдырық (uyldyryq)
• 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)
• Latin: ova (la) f
• Latvian: ikri
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• Lithuanian: ikrai pl
• Macedonian: икра f (ikra)
• Maori: hua, koua, tōhua, pē, kouaha, pewa ika
• Mi'kmaq: nijinj anim
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: rogn (no) m or 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 or f

  Roman: ikra (sh) f, mrest (sh) m or f

• Shan: ၶႆႇပႃ (khài pǎa)
• 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)
• Tatar: уылдык (tt) (uwıldıq)
• Thai: ไข่ปลา (kài bplaa)
• Tibetan: ཉ་གོང (nya gong)
• Turkish: balık yumurtası (tr), oğulduruk (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 (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English ro, roa, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old English rā, rāha, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Germanic *raihą (compare Saterland Frisian Räi, Dutch ree, German Reh), from *róyko-, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] 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. Short for roe deer.
   • 1814, Walter Scott, chapter 12, in Waverley:

     "[...] and we may, God willing, meet with a roe. The roe, Captain Waverley, may be hunted at all times alike; for never being in what is called pride of grease, he is also never out of season, though it be a truth that his venison is not equal to that of either the red or fallow deer. But he will serve to show how my dogs run [...]"

2. A mottled appearance of light and shade in wood, especially in mahogany.

Derived terms

• roebuck

Translations

roe deer — see roe deer

Anagrams

• EOR, ORE, Ore, Ore., REO, o'er, ore, öre, øre

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Dutch

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ru/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: roe
• Rhymes: -u

Noun

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

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

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Estonian

Etymology

From . Cognate to Finnish ruoja and Votic rooja (“dirt, mud, dirtiness, dirty”).

Noun

roe (genitive rooja, partitive rooja)

1. faeces, excrement

Declension

Declension of roe (ÕS type 24e/tühi, length gradation)
		singular	plural
nominative		roerooja	roeroojaroojed
accusative	nom.
	gen.	roeroojarooje
genitive			roeroojaroojede
partitive		roeroojarooje	roeroojarooje roeroojaroojesid
illative		roeroojarooje roeroojaroojesse	roeroojaroojedesse roeroojaroojesse
inessive		roeroojaroojes	roeroojaroojedes roeroojaroojes
elative		roeroojaroojest	roeroojaroojedest roeroojaroojest
allative		roeroojaroojele	roeroojaroojedele roeroojaroojele
adessive		roeroojaroojel	roeroojaroojedel roeroojaroojel
ablative		roeroojaroojelt	roeroojaroojedelt roeroojaroojelt
translative		roeroojaroojeks	roeroojaroojedeks roeroojaroojeks
terminative		roeroojaroojeni	roeroojaroojedeni
essive		roeroojaroojena	roeroojaroojedena
abessive		roeroojaroojeta	roeroojaroojedeta
comitative		roeroojaroojega	roeroojaroojedega

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Middle French

Etymology

(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French roe < (deprecated template usage) [etyl] 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

Alternative forms

• roa

Etymology

From the noun ro

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

(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin rota.

Noun

roe oblique singular, 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.