anchoa
Spanish edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Ligurian anciôa, from Vulgar Latin *apiuva, from Latin aphyē (“small fry”), from Ancient Greek ἀφύη (aphúē). Doublet of anjova.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
anchoa f (plural anchoas)
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
- → Asturian: anchoa
- → Basque: antxoa
- → Catalan: anxova
- → Spanish: anjova
- → Galician: anchoa
- → Dutch: ansjovis
- Afrikaans: ansjovis
- → Danish: ansjos
- → Estonian: anšoovis
- → Faroese: ansjós
- → German: Anchovis, Anschovis
- → Hebrew: אַנְשׁוֹבִי (anshóvi)
- → Icelandic: ansjósa
- → Latvian: anšovs
- → Lithuanian: ančiuvis
- → Norwegian: ansjos
- → Papiamentu: anchóvis, ansjovis
- → Russian: анчо́ус (ančóus)
- → Swedish: ansjovis
- → West Frisian: ansjofisk
- → English: anchovy
- → Portuguese: anchova, enchova
- → Sicilian: anciova, ancioa
- → Arabic: أَنْشُوفة (ʔanšūfa)
Further reading edit
- “anchoa”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014