sprat

English

a European sprat, Sprattus sprattus

Etymology

From Middle English sprotte, from Old English sprot. Older source is unknown. Cognate with German Sprotte, Dutch sprot. Compare sprout.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /spɹæt/
• Rhymes: -æt

Noun

sprat (plural sprat or sprats)

1. Any of various small, herring-like, marine fish in the genus , in the family Clupeidae.

Derived terms

• a sprat to catch a mackerel
• spratlike

Translations

any of various small marine fish in the genus Sprattus

• Czech: šprot m
• Albanian: papalinë f
• Dutch: sprot (nl) m
• Esperanto: sproto
• Estonian: kilu (et), sprott (when oiled)
• Faroese: brislingur m
• Finnish: anjovis (fi), kilohaili (fi), sardelli (fi) (no unifying term)
• French: sprat (fr) m
• German: Sprotte (de) f
• Greek: παπαλίνα f (papalína)
• Ancient Greek: μαίνη f (maínē)
• Hungarian: sprotni
• Irish: bioránach m, maghar m, salán m, sprot m, stuifín m
• Italian: spratto (it) m, papalina (it) f
• Latin: maena f
• Maori: kupae
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• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: brisling m

  Nynorsk: brisling m

• Persian: کیلکا (fa) (kilkâ)
• Polish: szprot (pl) m
• Portuguese: espadilha (pt) f
• Romanian: sprot
• Russian: ки́лька (ru) f (kílʹka), шпрот (ru) m (šprot)
• Scots: garvie
• Scottish Gaelic: garbhag f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: слеђица f

  Roman: sleđica f

• Spanish: espadín (es) m
• Swedish: skarpsill (sv) c
• Yiddish: שפּראָט m (shprot)

See also

• pilchard
• sardine

Anagrams

• S trap, TRAPS, parts, prats, rapts, strap, tarps, traps

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Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sprât/

Noun

sprȁt m (Cyrillic spelling спра̏т)

1. floor, story/storey (level)

Declension

Declension of sprat

	singular	plural
nominative	sprat	spratovi
genitive	sprata	spratova
dative	spratu	spratovima
accusative	sprat	spratove
vocative	sprate	spratovi
locative	spratu	spratovima
instrumental	spratom	spratovima

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:спрат.