garfish

English

Garfish (Belone belone)

Etymology

From Middle English garfysche, equivalent to gar (“spear”) +‎ fish.

Noun

garfish (plural garfishes or garfish)

1. (especially UK, Ireland) Any fish of the needlefish family Belonidae, with a long narrow body and needle-shaped jaws, especially the European species Belone belone.

   Synonyms: needlefish, long-nose, sea needle

2. (especially US, Canada) Any North or Central American fish of the family Lepisosteidae.

   Synonyms: gar, garpike

Usage notes

• See usage notes at gar.

Alternative forms

• gar-fish

Translations

fish of family Belonidae

• Abkhaz: please add this translation if you can
• Assamese: কঁকিলা (kõkila), কঁকিলা মাছ (kõkila mas)
• Basque: akula
• Bulgarian: зарган (bg) m (zargan)
• Catalan: agulla (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 長嘴硬鱗魚／长嘴硬鳞鱼 (cháng zuǐyìng línyú)

• Finnish: nokkakala (fi)
• French: orphie (fr) f
• Galician: agulla (gl) f, chandarme (gl) m
• Georgian: ზღვისქარიყლაპიასებრნი (zɣviskariq̇laṗiasebrni)
• German: Hornhecht f
• Greek: ζαργάνα (el) f (zargána)
• Irish: corr uaine f, ronnach Spáinneach m, spéirlint fharraige f, spéirlint mhara f
• Japanese: ガーフィッシュ (ja) (gāfisshu)
• Maori: hangenge, takeke
• Norman: orfi m (Guernsey, Jersey)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: horngjel m

• Old English: hornfisċ m
• Polish: belona (pl) f
• Portuguese: peixe-agulha (pt) m
• Romanian: zărgan (ro) m, țipar-de-mare m, știucă-de-mare (ro) f
• Russian: сарга́н (ru) m (sargán)
• Spanish: aguja (es) f
• Tagalog: haba (tl), isang-haba
• Turkish: zargana (tr)
• Ukrainian: сарга́н f (sarhán)

fish of family Lepisosteidae

• Finnish: luuhauki (fi)
• German: Knochenhecht m
• Russian: па́нцирник (ru) m (páncirnik), па́нцирная щу́ка f (páncirnaja ščúka)

Further reading

• garfish on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Belonidae on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Lepisosteidae on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

Anagrams

• ghafirs, ragfish