burbot

burbot

English

Lota lota

Etymology

Borrowed from French barbote, from Latin barba (“a beard”). Displaced native eelpout.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɜ(ɹ).bət/

Noun

burbot (plural burbots)

1. A freshwater fish, taxonomic name Lota lota, which is similar to the ling and the cusk and spawns in the winter.

Synonyms

• eel-pout
• lawyer

Translations

a freshwater fish: Lota lota

Bulgarian: налим m (nalim), михалица f (mihalica) Czech: mník (cs) m Dutch: kwabaal (nl) Estonian: luts (et) Finnish: made (fi) French: lote (fr) f, lotte (fr) f (Canada) German: Quappe f Greek: λότα η ποταμία f (lóta i potamía) Hungarian: menyhal (hu) Inari Sami: njäähi Italian: bottatrice f

Kazakh: лақа (laqa) Luxembourgish: Laangfëschmudder f Northern Sami: njáhká Norwegian: lake (no) c Polish: miętus (pl) m Russian: нали́м (ru) m (nalím) Spanish: lota f Swedish: lake (sv) c Tundra Nenets: нёя Welsh: llofen f, llofenan f Yup'ik: manignaq