tench

See also: Tench

English

A tench (Tinca tinca)

Etymology

From Middle English tenche, from Old French tenche, from Late Latin tinca.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɛnt͡ʃ/
• Rhymes: -ɛntʃ

Noun

tench (plural tench or tenches)

1. A species of freshwater game fish, Tinca tinca.

Translations

species of freshwater game fish

• Basque: tenka
• Catalan: tenca (ca) f
• Czech: lín (cs) m
• Danish: suder (da) c
• Dutch: zeelt (nl) f or m, louw f or m
• Esperanto: tinko
• Estonian: linask
• Finnish: suutari (fi)
• French: tanche (fr)
• Galician: tenca m
• German: Schleie f
• Hungarian: compó (hu)
• Ido: tencho (io)
• Interlingue:
• Irish: cúramán m
• Italian: tinca (it)
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• Latgalian: leins
• Latvian: līnis
• Luxembourgish: Schlei f
• Middle English: tenche
• Mongolian: үхэрдэй (üxerdej)
• Norman: tanche f
• Polish: lin (pl) m
• Portuguese: tenca (pt)
• Russian: линь (ru) m (linʹ)
• Spanish: tenca (es) f
• Sudovian: līnis m
• Swedish: sutare (sv) c
• Ukrainian: лин (uk) (lyn)
• Welsh: ysgreten f
• West Frisian: mûdhûn

Further reading

• “tench”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.