swordfish

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. 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.

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.

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 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 Mongolian: сэлэм загас (selem zagas) Navajo: łóóʼ bíchį́į́h nineezí Norwegian: sverdfisk Old English: *sweordfisċ m Oriya: ସ୍ୱୋର୍ଡ ମାଛ (sworḍô machô) 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

Verb

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

1. To fish for swordfish.