porbeagle

English

Etymology

Unclear, but likely from Cornish porth (“harbor”) + bugel (“shepherd”), with the latter element either influenced by English beagle or in fact formed from it, with only the first element truly being from Cornish.

Noun

porbeagle (plural porbeagles)

A porbeagle.

1. A large pelagic predatory shark, Lamna nasus, of the Atlantic.
   • 1983, Richard Ellis, The Book of Sharks, Knopf, →ISBN, page 59:

     In English waters, the porbeagle is considered the premier shark to catch, but in other parts of the world it is considered a nuisance, or at best a poor substitute for its more glamorous relative, the mako.

Translations

a pelagic shark

• Asturian: marraxu (ast), marraxu buxu (ast)
• Catalan: marraix (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 鼠鯊 / 鼠鲨 (shǔ shā)

• Danish: sildehaj (da) c
• Dutch: haringhaai (nl) m
• Faroese: hemari m, hemar m, hábrandur m, hamari m
• Finnish: sillihai (fi)
• French: marraîche m, marraiche m, requin-taupe (fr) m, veau de mer (fr) m
• German: Herringshai m
• Greenlandic: eqalussuaq qaamasoq
• Icelandic: hámeri (is) f, hamar (is) m
• Irish: craosaire m
• Italian: smeriglio (it) m, vitello di mare m
• Japanese: ニシネズミザメ (nishi nezumi zame)
• Norman: rétchîn m (Jersey)
• Norwegian: håbrann (no) m

  Bokmål: håbrann (no) m

  Nynorsk: håbrann m

• Portuguese: tubarão-golfinho
• Russian: се́льдевая аку́ла (ru) f (sélʹdevaja akúla)
• Spanish: tiburón cailón m, cailón m
• Swedish: håbrand c, sillhaj c
• Welsh: morgi trwynog m, corgi môr m

Anagrams

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