stockfish

English

Alternative forms

• stockphyshe (obsolete)

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 (čʻoracʻrac juk)
• Bulgarian: чироз (čiroz)
• Catalan: peix assecat m, peixopalo (ca) m, estocafix (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 柴魚／柴鱼 (caai⁴ jyu⁴), 乾魚／干鱼 (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, 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