anchovy

English

line drawing of a common European anchovy

Wikispecies

Etymology

From Spanish anchoa, from Genoese Ligurian anciôa or related Corsican anchjuva, anciua. The term's ultimate origin is unclear; some suggest it may have derived from an unattested Vulgar Latin term *apiuva, from Latin aphyē, apua, from Ancient Greek ἀφύη (aphúē) (which may be formed like Sanskrit अभ्व (ábhva-, “monster”)); others suggest it comes from Basque antxu, anchu (“dried fish”), from anchuva (“dry”), if that Basque term is not itself derived from Latin via some intermediary.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈæn.t͡ʃə.vi/, /ˈæn.t͡ʃəʊ.vi/, /ænˈt͡ʃəʊ.vi/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈænt͡ʃoʊ.vi/

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• Rhymes: -əʊvi

Noun

anchovy (plural anchovies)

2. Any small saltwater fish of the Engraulidae family, consisting of 160 species in 16 genera, of which the genus Engraulis is widely sold as food.

   Hypernym: fish

   Coordinate term: sardine

   • 1936, Norman Lindsay, The Flyaway Highway, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 40:

     [T]he cooks were laying a refection before him of sack and anchovies and garlic sausage and gammons of bacon and - this was the important item - a great pudding dish out of which rose the noble dome of a crisp brown pie-crust.

Derived terms

• anchovette
• anchovied
• anchovylike
• anchovy pear
• anchovy salad
• anchovy toast
• Californian anchovy
• European anchovy
• northern anchovy

 

Translations

small saltwater fish

• Abkhaz: ақамашьи́а (akamašía)
• Arabic: أَنْشُوفة f (ʔanšūfa), بَلَم m (balam), أَنْشُوقَة f (ʔanšūqa)
• Armenian: անչոուս (ančʻous), անձրուկ (hy) (anjruk)

  Middle Armenian: խամսի (xamsi)

• Asturian: bocarte (ast) m, anchoa (ast) f, hombrín (ast) m, llanzón (ast) m
• Azerbaijani: ançous
• Basque: antxoa, bokarta
• Bikol Central: bulinaw
• Breton: genougamm m
• Bulgarian: аншоа́ (bg) f (anšoá), ха́мсия f (hámsija)
• Catalan: seitó (ca) m, anxova (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 鳳尾魚／凤尾鱼 (zh) (fèngwěiyú), 鯷／鳀 (zh) (tí)

• Cornish: ganowek m
• Corsican: anchjuva f, anciua f
• Czech: ančovička (cs) f, sardel (cs) f
• Danish: ansjos (da) c
• Dutch: ansjovis (nl) m
• Esperanto: sardelo, anĉovo
• Estonian: anšoovis (et)
• Faroese: ansjós f
• Finnish: (fish) sardelli (fi), (as food) anjovis (fi)
• French: anchois (fr) m
• Galician: bocareu (gl) m, bocarte (gl) m, (as food) anchoa (gl) f
• Georgian: ქაფშია (kapšia)
• German: Sardelle (de) f
• Greek: γαύρος (el) m (gávros)
• Hebrew: אַנְשׁוֹבִי m (anshóvi), עַפְיָן (he) m ('afyán)
• Hungarian: szardella (hu), ajóka (hu)
• Icelandic: ansjósa (is) f
• Indonesian: bilis (id)
• Interlingua: anchoa
• Irish: ainseabhaí m
• Italian: alice (it) f, acciuga (it) f
• Japanese: 片口鰯 (ja), カタクチイワシ (ja) (katakuchi-iwashi), アンチョビ (ja) (anchobi), アンチョビー (ja) (anchobī)
• Karelian: ančoussu
• Kazakh: қамса (qamsa)
• Korean: 멸치 (ko) (myeolchi)
• Latvian: anšovs m
• Ligurian: anciôa f
• Lithuanian: ančiuvis m
• Lombard:

  Eastern: anciùa f

  Western: inciòda f, incioda (lmo) f

• Luxembourgish: Anchois (lb) f
• Macedonian: инчун m (inčun)
• Malay: bilis
• Manx: ançhovee m
• Maori: kokowhāwhā, korowhāwhā
• Norwegian: ansjos m
• Occitan: anchòia (oc) f
• Old Occitan: anchoia f
• Persian: آنچوی (ânčovi)
• Piedmontese: anciova f
• Polish: sardela (pl) f, anchois (pl) n
• Portuguese: anchova (pt) f, enchova (pt) f
• Romanian: sardele f, hamsie (ro) f, anșoa (ro) f
• Russian: анчо́ус (ru) m (ančóus), хамса́ (ru) f (xamsá)
• Saanich: łáʔləs
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ѝнћӯн m

  Roman: ìnćūn m

• Sicilian: anciova (scn) f
• Spanish: anchoa (es) f (when cured in brine), boquerón (es) m, bocarte m, aladroque (es) m
• Swedish: sardell (sv) c
• Tagalog: dilis (tl), dulis, balawbalaw
• Turkish: hamsi (tr)
• Venetan: inciò (vec) m, anciò m
• Vietnamese: cá cơm (vi), cá trổng
• Volapük: najov
• Welsh: brwyniad m
• West Frisian: ansjofisk c