swordfish

English

The swordfish.

Etymology

From Middle English swerdfysche, from Old English *sweordfisċ. Equivalent to sword +‎ fish.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɔː(ɹ)dfɪʃ/

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Noun

swordfish (countable and uncountable, plural swordfish or swordfishes)

1. A large marine fish with a long, pointed bill, Xiphias gladius.
   • 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter I, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y., London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:

     Then there came a reg'lar terror of a sou'wester same as you don't get one summer in a thousand, and blowed the shanty flat and ripped about half of the weir poles out of the sand. We spent consider'ble money getting 'em reset, and then a swordfish got into the pound and tore the nets all to slathers, right in the middle of the squiteague season.

2. A sudoku technique involving possible cell locations for a digit, or pair, or triple, in uniquely three rows and three columns only. This allows for the elimination of candidates around the grid.

Derived terms

• swordfish sucker

 

Translations

Xiphias gladius

• Afrikaans: swaardvis
• Arabic: سَمَكَة سَيْف f (samaka(t) sayf)
• Asturian: pexe espada m
• Azerbaijani: qılınc balığı
• Basque: ezpata-arrain
• Bulgarian: ри́ба ме́ч f (ríba méč)
• Catalan: peix espasa (ca) m, emperador (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 劍魚／剑鱼 (zh) (jiànyú)

• Czech: mečoun (cs) m
• Danish: sværdfisk (da) c
• Dhivehi: ތުންގަނޑު ހިބަރު (tun̊gaⁿḍu hibaru)
• Dutch: zwaardvis (nl) m
• Esperanto: spadofiŝo
• Estonian: mõõkkala
• Faroese: svørðfiskur m
• Finnish: miekkakala (fi)
• French: espadon (fr) m
• Galician: espadarte m, peixe espada (gl) m
• Georgian: შიმშერი (šimšeri)
• German: Schwertfisch (de) m
• Greek: ξιφίας (el) m (xifías)

  Ancient: ξιφίας m (xiphías), θρανίας m (thranías)

• Greenlandic: panaasalik (kl)
• Hawaiian: aʻu kū
• Hebrew: חִלְפִּית f (ḥalipit)
• Hindi: तेगा मछली f (tegā machlī)
• Hungarian: kardhal (hu)
• Icelandic: sverðfiskur (is) m
• Ido: espadofisho (io)
• Indonesian: todak (id)
• Irish: colgán m
• Italian: pesce spada m
• Japanese: 目梶木 (メカジキ, mekajiki)
• Kannada: ಕತ್ತಿ ಮೀನು (katti mīnu)
• Kazakh: семсер балық (semser balyq)
• Korean: 황새치 (ko) (hwangsaechi)
• Kyrgyz: селебебалык (selebebalık)
• Latin: xiphiās (la) m
• Latvian: zobenzivs
• Ligurian: péscio spâ m
• Lithuanian: durklažuvė, kardžuvė f
• Malay: todak
• Maori: takeketonga, paea
• Mokilese: daklar
• Mongolian: сэлэм загас (selem zagas)
• Navajo: łóóʼ bíchį́į́h nineezí
• Norwegian: sverdfisk
• Odia: ସ୍ୱୋର୍ଡ ମାଛ (sworḍô machô)
• Old English: *sweordfisċ m
• Ottoman Turkish: قلج بالغی (kılıc balığı)
• Persian: شمشیرماهی (šamšir-mâhi)
• Polish: miecznik (pl) m, włócznik (pl), ryba miecz
• Portuguese: espadarte (pt) m, peixe espada
• Romanian: pește spadă f
• Russian: ры́ба-ме́ч f (rýba-méč), мечено́с m (mečenós)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: сабљарка f, иглун f

  Roman: sabljarka (sh) f, iglun (sh) f

• Sicilian: pisci spata (scn), spatu m
• Slovak: mečúň m
• Slovene: sabljarka f
• Spanish: pez espada m, albacora (es) f
• Swahili: mchumbururu
• Swedish: svärdfisk (sv)
• Tagalog: dugso (tl), isdang-ispada
• Tamil: வாள் மீன் (vāḷ mīṉ)
• Thai: ปลากระโทงดาบ
• Turkish: kılıç balığı (tr)
• Ukrainian: риба-меч f (ryba-meč)
• Vietnamese: cá kiếm
• Volapük: please add this translation if you can
• Welsh: cleddbysgodyn m, pysgod cleddyf m pl

Verb

swordfish (third-person singular simple present swordfishes, present participle swordfishing, simple past and past participle swordfished)

1. To fish for swordfish.