sterlet

See also: Sterlet

English

a sterlet (Acipenser ruthenus)

Etymology

From Russian сте́рлядь (stérljadʹ).

Noun

sterlet (plural sterlets)

1. A smaller, common Eurasian sturgeon, of the species Acipenser ruthenus.
   • 1904 [1878], chapter 9, in Leo Wiener, transl., Anna Karénin, Boston: D. Estes & Company, translation of Анна Каренина (Anna Karenina) by Leo Tolstoy, part 4:

     The old prince sat in silence, looking with his glistening little eyes sidewise at Karénin, and Stepán Arkádevich understood that he had concocted some witticism to hurl at the statesman, to whom they were invited as to a sterlet.

Translations

species of sturgeon

• Armenian: ստերլետ (sterlet), չուքա (hy) (čʻukʻa)
• Azerbaijani: çökə, çökəbalığı
• Bulgarian: чига (bg) f (čiga)
• Chuvash: ҫӗкӗ (śĕk̬ĕ), ҫтерлӗк (śterlĕk)
• Esperanto: sterledo
• Finnish: sterletti (fi)
• Georgian: ცქვრინი (ckvrini)
• German: Stör (de) m, Sterlet (de) m
• Hungarian: kecsege (hu)
• Japanese: コチョウザメ (kochouzame)
• Kalmyk: шигрлү (şigrlü)
• Kazakh: сүйрiк (süirik)
• Latin: helops m
• Mari:

  Eastern Mari: нуран (nuran), сӱгӧ (sügö), сӱгыгол (sügygol)

  Western Mari: стерляк (sterĺak)

• Romanian: cegă (ro) f
• Russian: сте́рлядь (ru) (stérljadʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian: kèčiga / кѐчига
• Spanish: esturión esterlete m
• Swedish: sterlett (sv) c
• Tatar: чөгә (tt) (çögä)
• Turkish: çuka balığı

  Ottoman Turkish: چوقه بالغی (çoka balığı, çuka balığı)

• Udmurt: чуке (ćuke)

Anagrams

• Stelter, Stetler, letters, lettres, settler, tetrels, trestle

French

Pronunciation

• Audio (France (Vosges)):

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Noun

sterlet m (plural sterlets)

1. sterlet

Further reading

• “sterlet”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

Polish

sterlet

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈstɛr.lɛt/
• Rhymes: -ɛrlɛt
• Syllabification: ster‧let

Noun

sterlet m animal

1. sterlet (Acipenser ruthenus)

   Synonym: czeczuga

Declension

Declension of sterlet

	singular	plural
nominative	sterlet	sterlety
genitive	sterleta	sterletów
dative	sterletowi	sterletom
accusative	sterleta	sterlety
instrumental	sterletem	sterletami
locative	sterlecie	sterletach
vocative	sterlecie	sterlety

Further reading

• “sterlet”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[1] (in Polish)
• sterlet in PWN's encyclopedia