stockfish

stockfish

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈstɒkfɪʃ/

Etymology 1

From Middle English stokfissh, stokfysch, from Middle Dutch stocvisch and/or Middle Low German stokvisch (“stick fish”), since the fish were dried in the wind on wooden frames, as still happens today in Lofoten, Norway. Equivalent to stock +‎ fish.

Noun

stockfish (countable and uncountable, plural stockfishes or stockfish)

1. A cod (or similar fish) having been cut open and cured in the open air without salt.
   • 1819, Walter Scott, Ivanhoe:

     So the Prior of Saint Botolph’s hobbled back again into the refectory, to preside over the stockfish and ale, which was just serving out for the friars’ breakfast.

   • 1856, Elisha Kent Kane, Arctic Explorations

     We saw the codfish here in all the stages of preparation for the table and the market; the stockfish, dried in the open air, without salt; crapefish, salted and pressed

Translations

cured fish

Armenian: չորացրած ձուկ (čʿoracʿrac juk) Bulgarian: чироз (čiroz) Catalan: peix assecat m, peixopalo (ca) m, estocafix (ca) m Chinese: Cantonese: 柴魚 (caai4 jyu4), 乾魚 (gon1 jyu4) Mandarin: (please verify) 鱈魚乾／鳕鱼干, (please verify) 鱈魚亁／鳕鱼亁, (please verify) 鳕鱼干 (xuěyú gān) Czech: sušená treska f, sušená ryba f Danish: tørfisk c Dutch: stokvis (nl) m Esperanto: sekigita fiŝo Finnish: kapakala (fi) French: stockfisch (fr) m, stockfish (fr) m, stokfiche (fr) m, stoquefiche (fr) m German: Stockfisch (de) m Hungarian: szárított tőkehal Icelandic: skreið (is), harðfiskur (is) m Ido: sika moruo (io) Indonesian: ikan kering (id) Inupiaq: pivsi Italian: stoccafisso (it) m Japanese: 干物 (ja) (ひもの, himono), 乾物 (ja) (ひもの, himono), 干し魚 (ほしざかな, hoshizakana; ほしうお, hoshiuo), 干魚 (ひうお, hiuo) Korean: 건어물(乾魚物) (geoneomul) Low German: Dutch Low Saxon: harde harde Luxembourgish: Stackfësch m Norwegian: Bokmål: tørrfisk (no) m Nynorsk: tørrfisk m Ottoman Turkish: اشك بالغی‎ (eşek balığı) Polish: sztokfisz m, stokfisz m Romanian: batog (ro) n, ștocfiș Russian: вя́леная ры́ба f (vjálenaja rýba), тара́нка (ru) f (taránka), тара́нька (ru) f (taránʹka) Sicilian: pisci stoccu m Spanish: pescado seco m Swedish: torrfisk c Tagalog: daing Vietnamese: khô cá West Frisian: stokfisk c

Further reading

• stockfish on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Etymology 2

From Afrikaans stokvis, from Dutch stokvis.

Noun

stockfish (plural stockfishes or stockfish)

1. (South Africa) The shallow-water Cape hake (Merluccius capensis)

Synonyms

• (Merluccius capensis): South African hake

Coordinate terms

• (Merluccius capensis): deep-water Cape hake (Merluccius paradoxus)

Further reading

• Merluccius on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Merluccius on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Merluccius on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons