garfish

English

From Middle English garfysche (“garfish”, literally “spear-fish”), from gor (“spear”) + fisch (“fish”). Cognate with Scots gairfish (“garfish”).

garfish (plural garfishes or garfish)

(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
(especially US, Canada) Any North or Central American fish of the family Lepisosteidae.
Synonyms: gar, garpike

fish of family Belonidae

Abkhaz: please add this translation if you can
Assamese: কঁকিলা (kõkila), কঁকিলা মাছ (kõkila mas)
Asturian: chínfanu (ast), aguya (ast)
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)
Cornish: garek, garek m
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