English
The swordfish.
Etymology
From Middle English swerdfysche , equivalent to sword + fish .
Noun
swordfish (countable and uncountable , plural swordfish or swordfishes )
A large marine fish with a long, pointed bill, Xiphias gladius .
1913 , Joseph C. Lincoln , chapter 1, in Mr. Pratt's Patients :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.
Translations
Xiphias gladius
Afrikaans: swaardvis
Arabic: سَمَكَة سَيْف f ( samaka(t) sayf )
Asturian: pexe espada m
Azerbaijani: qılınc balığı
Bulgarian: ри́ба ме́ч f ( ríba méč )
Catalan: peix espasa (ca) m , emperador (ca) m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 劍魚 / 剑鱼 ( jiànyú ) , 剑鱼 ( jiànyú )
Czech: mečoun 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: peixe espada m
German: Schwertfisch (de) m
Greek: ξιφίας (el) m ( xifías )
Greenlandic: panaasalik (kl)
Hawaiian: aʻu kū
Hebrew: please add this translation if you can
Hindi: तेगा मछली f ( tegā machlī )
Hungarian: kardhal (hu)
Icelandic: sverðfiskur m
Ido: espadofisho (io)
Indonesian: todak (id)
Italian: pesce spada m
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Japanese: 目梶木 ( メカジキ , mekajiki)
Korean: 황새치 (ko) ( hwangsaechi )
Latin: xiphiās (la) m
Latvian: zobenzivs
Ligurian: péscio spâ m
Lithuanian: durklažuvė
Malay: todak
Maori: takeketonga , paea
Mongolian: сэлэм загас ( selem zagas )
Navajo: łóóʼ bíchį́į́h nineezí
Norwegian: sverdfisk
Persian: شمشیرماهی ( šamšir-mâhi )
Polish: miecznik (pl) m , włócznik (pl) , ryba miecz
Portuguese: espadarte 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 f
Swahili: mchumbururu
Swedish: svärdfisk (sv)
Tagalog: dugso (tl) , isdang-ispada
Turkish: kılıç balığı (tr)
Vietnamese: cá kiếm
Volapük: please add this translation if you can
Verb
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To fish for swordfish.