herring

See also: Herring

English

A school of herring.

Wikispecies

Etymology

From Middle English hering, from Old English hǣring, from Proto-West Germanic *hāring (“herring”), further etymology unknown. Possibly derived from Proto-Germanic *hērą (“hair”) +‎ -ing, due to the similarity of their fine bones to hair. Cognate with Scots hering, haring (“herring”), Saterland Frisian Hiering, Häiring (“herring”), West Frisian hjerring (“herring”), Dutch haring (“herring”), German Low German Hereng, Hering (“herring”), German Hering (“herring”). French hareng, Norman ĥéren, Latin haringus, etc. are borrowings from Germanic.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈhɛɹɪŋ/
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Rhymes: -ɛɹɪŋ

Noun

herring (plural herrings or herring)

A type of small, oily fish of the genus Clupea, often used as food.
- 1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 4, in Mr. Pratt's Patients:
  Then he commenced to talk, really talk. and inside of two flaps of a herring's fin he had me mesmerized, like Eben Holt's boy at the town hall show. He talked about the ills of humanity, and the glories of health and Nature and service and land knows what all.
Fish in the family Clupeidae.
Fish similar to those in genus Clupea, many of those in the order Clupeiformes.

Derived terms

Atlantic herring (Clupea harengus)
Baltic herring (Clupea harengus membras)
English herring (Clupea harengus)
herringbone
longfin herring (Pristigasteridae)
matjes herring
Pacific herring (Clupea pallasii)
red herring
round herring (Dussumieriidae)
thread herring (Opisthonema)
wolf herring (Chirocentridae)

Translations

fish in Clupea

Arabic:
Egyptian Arabic: رنجة‎ f (ringa)
Tunisian Arabic: رنڨة‎ f (rənga)
Armenian: ծովատառեխ (hy) (covataṙex)
Azerbaijani: siyənək
Belarusian: селядзе́ц m (sjeljadzjéc)
Bulgarian: хе́ринга f (héringa)
Catalan: areng (ca) m
Chinese:
Cantonese: 希靈魚, 希灵鱼 (hei¹ ling¹ jyu⁴*²)
Mandarin: 鯡魚／鲱鱼 (zh) (fēiyú)
Chukchi: нучунуч, нучут pl
Cornish: hernen wynn f
Czech: sleď (cs) m
Danish: sild (da) c
Dutch: haring (nl) m
Esperanto: haringo
Estonian: heeringas
Faroese: sild f
Finnish: silli (fi), silakka (fi), haili (fi)
French: hareng (fr) m
Galician: arengue m, arenga (gl) f
German: Hering (de) m
Greek: ρέγγα (el) f (rénga), ρέγκα (el) f (régka)
Greenlandic: ammassassuaq (kl)
Hebrew: מָלִיחַ‎ (he) (malíaẖ), דג מלוח‎ (he) m (dag malúaẖ)
Hungarian: hering (hu)
Icelandic: síld (is) f
Ido: haringo (io)
Irish: scadán m
Italian: aringa (it) f
Japanese: ニシン (ja) (nishin), 鰊 (ja) (にしん, nishin)
Kazakh: майшабақ (maişabaq)
Korean: 청어 (ko) (cheong'eo)
Latin: chalcis f, merlucius m, aringus m, allec n
Latvian: strimala (lv) f, reņģe f, siļķe (lv) f
Lithuanian: silkė f
Luxembourgish: Hierk (lb) m
Manx: skeddan m, ree ny marrey m
Maori: aua
Nootka: ƛusmit
Norman: héthan m (Jersey), herreng m (Guernsey), ĥéren m (France)
Northern Sami: sildi
Norwegian:
Bokmål: sild (no) m or f
Nynorsk: sild f
Old Norse: síld f, síl n
Polish: śledź (pl) m
Portuguese: arenque (pt) m
Romanian: hering (ro) m
Russian: сельдь (ru) f (selʹdʹ), (colloquial) селёдка (ru) f (seljódka)
Saterland Frisian: Hiering
Scottish Gaelic: sgadan m
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: слеђ m, харинга f
Roman: sleđ (sh) m, haringa (sh) f
Slovak: sleď m
Slovene: sled (sl) m
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: jerjeg m, jerježk m
Upper Sorbian: jerij m, harjenk m
Spanish: arenque (es) m
Sudovian: sīlecke
Swedish: sill (sv) c, strömming (sv) c
Turkish: ringa (tr)
Turkmen: takgaz
Ukrainian: оселе́дець m (oselédecʹ)
Venetian: renga f
Vietnamese: cá trích
Volapük: rün (vo), (Clupea harengus) hareng
Walloon: herin (wa) m, soret (wa) m, inglitin m
Welsh: pennog (cy) m (North), ysgadan pl (South)
West Frisian: hjerring
Yiddish: הערינג‎ m (hering)

fish in Clupeidae

fish resembling Clupea in Clupeiformes