sheatfish

English

Silurus glanis, a sheatfish

Alternative forms

• sheat-fish

Etymology

Alteration of obsolete sheathfish.

Noun

sheatfish (plural sheatfishes or sheatfish)

1. A wels catfish (Silurus glanis), the largest freshwater fish in Europe.
2. Any catfish of genus Silurus.
3. Any of the species in family Siluridae, including:
   1. Wallago species, found in the Danube and other Eastern European rivers
   2. Micronema species
   3. Phalacronotus species

Synonyms

• sheat

Translations

fish of the genus Silurus

• Armenian: լոքո (hy) (lokʻo)
• Azerbaijani: naqqa, naxa
• Bashkir: йәйен (yəyen)
• Bengali: মাগুর (bn) (magur)
• Bulgarian: сом m (som)
• Cherokee: ᏧᎵᏍᏓᎾᎵ (tsulisdanali)
• Finnish: monni (fi)
• Georgian: ლოქო (loko)
• Greek:

  Ancient Greek: γλάνις m (glánis)

• Hungarian: harcsa (hu)
• Indonesian: lele (id), patin (id)
• Italian: siluro (it) m
• Latin: silūrus m
• Malay: ikan keli
• Malayalam: മുഷി (ml) (muṣi), മുഴു മത്സ്യം (muḻu matsyaṁ)
• Marathi: शिंगळा (śiṅgḷā)
• Persian: سلور (selur), اسبله‌ماهی (esbale-mâhi), سالور (sâlur)
• Polish: sum (pl) m
• Russian: сом (ru) m (som)
• Tamil: கெளிறு (ta) (keḷiṟu), கெளுத்தி (ta) (keḷutti)
• Turkish: yayın (tr)

  Ottoman Turkish: یاین (yayın)

• Ukrainian: сом m (som)

References

• sheatfish on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Silurus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• “sheatfish”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Anagrams

• hatfishes