ablet

From French ablet, ablette, a diminutive from Late Latin abula, for albula, diminutive of albus (“white”). Compare abele.

Alburnus alburnus
Alburnus alburnus#Translingual

A small fresh-water fish (Alburnus alburnus); the bleak.


dare

The Dare is not unlike a Chub, but proportionably less; his Body is more white and flatter, and his Tail more forked.

1766, Richard Brookes, The art of angling, rock and sea-fishing:

w:Webster's Dictionary#Webster's New International Dictionary 1909


pink

Unknown. Some lexicographers suggest comparison to regional German Pinke (“minnow; small salmon”), but this is not widely accepted.

Phoxinus phoxinus
Phoxinus phoxinus#Translingual

(regional) The common minnow, Phoxinus phoxinus.


pink

Borrowed from Middle Dutch pincke. Compare French pinque.


roach

From Middle English roche, from Old French roche, from Middle Low German roche, ruche (“ray (fish)”), from Old Saxon *rūh, possibly from Proto-Germanic *rūhaz (“rough”).
Cognate with Old English ruhha ("a ray"; > Middle English rouhe, rohȝe), German Rochen (“ray (fish)”).

gloss

Certain members of the fish family Cyprinidae, including:

Any fish of species in the genus Rutilus, especially:

Rutilus rutilus
Rutilus rutilus#Translingual

A California roach, of the monotypic genus Hesperoleucus


dart

From Middle English dart, from Old French dart, dard (“dart”), from Medieval Latin dardus, from Frankish *darōþu (“dart, spear”), from Proto-Germanic *darōþuz (“dart, spear”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰerh₃- (“to leap, spring”).
Compare Old High German tart (“javelin, dart”), Old English daroþ, dearod (“javelin, spear, dart”), Swedish dart (“dart, dagger”), Icelandic darraður, darr, dör (“dart, spear”).

der

Leuciscus leuciscus
Leuciscus leuciscus#Translingual


azurine

en-adj

azurine (comparative more azurine, superlative most azurine)

more azurine (comparative)
most azurine (superlative)


dace

From late Middle English darse, dace, from Old French dars, nominative form of dart (“dace”). For a similar loss of r, compare bass, while for the pronunciation with /eɪ/, see scarce.

(US) Any of various related small fish of the family Cyprinidae that live in freshwater and are native to North America.


chub

From chub (“short, thick fish species used as bait"; used metaphorically since 1558 for "lazy person”), from Middle English chubbe (“chub (the river fish)”), recorded since c.1450, probably an assibilated form of cub (“a lump, heap, mass”) and cob, from Middle English *cubbe (found only in derivative cubbel (“a block to which an animal is tethered”)), from Old Norse kubbr, kumbr (“block, stump, log”) and/or Old Norse kumben (“stumpy”), see kobbi.
Cognate with Icelandic kubbur (“block, cube”), Norwegian kubb, kubbe (“block, stump, log”), Swedish kubb (“block, log”), and perhaps to Icelandic kubba (“to hew, chop, lop”) and Russian кубышка (kubyška). More at cob, kibble.

inh

(by extension) Any of various vaguely related marine or freshwater fishes.


jerker

A North American river chub, a hornyhead chub (Nocomis biguttatus).


bream

From Middle English breme, from Old French breme, bresme, braisme, brasme (whence French brème), from Frankish *brahsma, *brahsima (whence Dutch brasem), from Proto-West Germanic *brahsmō (whence Old High German brahsma, brahsmo, brahsina, brehsina (whence German Brasse, Brachse (“bream”))), from Proto-Germanic *brahsmô, *brahsinō, *brahsmaz (“bream”), perhaps from Proto-Germanic *brehwanaz (“shining, glittery, sparkly”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerek- (“to shine”) (see braid (verb)).

der

A European fresh-water cyprinoid fish of the genus Abramis, little valued as food. Several species are known.

Abramis brama
Abramis brama#Translingual

(British) A species in that genus, Abramis brama.

An American fresh-water fish, of various species of Lepomis and allied genera, which are also called sunfishes and pondfishes.

mudfish

American freshwater fish, of various species of Pomotis and allied genera

A marine sparoid fish of the genus Pagellus, and allied genera.


bleak

From Middle English bleke (“small river fish, bleak, blay”), perhaps an alteration (due to Old English blǣc (“bright”) or Old Norse bleikja) of Old English blǣġe (“bleak, blay, gudgeon”); or perhaps from a diminutive of Middle English *bleye (“blay”), equivalent to blay + -ock or blay + -kin. See blay.

inh

A small European river fish (Alburnus alburnus), of the family Cyprinidae.


ide

Borrowed from French ide, from Scientific Latin idus (species name), from Swedish id.

a pike says to the pike-folk / a whitefish asked an ide, a / salmon another salmon: / ‘Have they died, the famous men / have Kaleva's sons been lost […]?’

1989, Elias Lönnrot, translated by Keith Bosley, The Kalevala, section XLVII:

Leuciscus idus
Leuciscus idus#Translingual

A freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae, found across northern Europe and Asia, especially Leuciscus idus.


shiner

From Middle English schyner, equivalent to shine + -er. Compare Old English sċīnere (“one who produces deceptive appearances, magician”).

cog

Any silvery fish, such as the horsefish, menhaden, or moonfish.

Fargo wasn't sure what difference it made if one gambler passed something to another, unless it was to be used in cheating, a shiner maybe. But nobody at that table would let a shiner pass.

2003, Jon Sharpe, Trailsman #258: Casino Carnage:

A small reflective surface used for cheating at card games.


minnow

The noun is derived from Late Middle English menew, menowe (“small fish; (specifically) common minnow (Phoxinus phoxinus); or stickleback (possibly the three-spined stickleback, Gasterosteus aculeatus)”), from Old English *mynwe, an oblique form of *mynu, a variant of myne (“minnow; small fish”), from Proto-West Germanic *muniwu (“minnow; small fish”), from Proto-Indo-European *men- (“small”). Possibly influenced by Anglo-Norman menu (“small”) and Old French menu (“small”), and English minim (“anything very minute; applied to animalcula and the like”).
The adjective and verb are derived from the noun.
cognates
* Middle Low German mone, möne (Dutch meun, West Frisian meun)
* Old High German muniwa, munuwa, munewa (modern German Münne (“minnow”))
* Latin mēna (“small sea-fish”)

cog

Most minnows are small fish with cycloid scales, soft rays supporting their fins, and toothless jaws. Some possess barbels on their upper jaw, and many species develop nuptial tubercles during the breeding season. […] Minnows are arguably the most difficult group of freshwater fishes to identify, in part because they are often small and thus the characters distinguishing them are correspondingly small.

2004, Robert G. Werner, “Carps and Minnows: Family Cyprinidae”, in Freshwater Fishes of the Northeastern United States: A Field Guide, Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, →ISBN, page 74:

The common minnow (Phoxinus phoxinus), a small freshwater fish of the carp family Cyprinidae which has a green back with black elongated blotches, commonly swimming in large shoals.

Chiefly with a qualifying word: any of a number of other (small) fish from the family Cyprinidae; also (chiefly US), other small (usually freshwater) fish from other families.

karppi

any of a number of other (small) fish from the family Cyprinidae; other small (usually freshwater) fish from other families

galaxiid

(Australia, New Zealand) Synonym of galaxiid (“any member of the family Galaxiidae of mostly small freshwater fish of the Southern Hemisphere”); specifically, the common galaxias, inanga, or jollytail (Galaxias maculatus).

In quiet, sheltered places, where the water is clear but does not run too swiftly, the ‘minnie,’ as the stickleback is locally called, makes its nest by the bank. […] On these fibres the ova are deposited, and they are then either purposely partly covered with sand by the minnie, or else the particles that are brought down by the current gather over the bundle of fibres and conceal it, excepting one small spot.

1879, R[ichard] J[efferies], chapter XIX, in Wild Life in a Southern County […], London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], →OCLC, page 356:

(British, regional) Synonym of stickleback (family Gasterosteidae).


asp

From Middle English aspe, from Old French aspe, from Latin aspis, aspidis (“asp, viper”), from Ancient Greek ἀσπίς (aspís, “shield; Egyptian cobra Naja haje”); compare Middle English aspide.

der

A venomous viper native to southwestern Europe (Vipera aspis).

A type of European fish (Aspius aspius).


asp

Sexual Offences (Scotland) Act 2009 (2009 asp 9)

Act of the Scottish Parliament
w:Act of the Scottish Parliament

(UK, law, in citation) Initialism of Act of the Scottish Parliament.


nase

[…] “With respect to fishes,” says Professor Rütimeyer, “many species were found which are now the most abundant in our lakes and rivers.” The following are mentioned:— The salmon (Salmo salar, Lin.), the pike (Esox lucius. Lin.), the perch (Perca fluviatilis, Lin.), the carp (Cyprinus carpio, Lin.), the dace (Cyprinus leuciscus, Lin.), the chub (Cyprinus dobula, Nilss.), the nase (Chondrostoma nasus, [Lin.] Agass.), the burbot (Lita vulgaris, Jen.), and the rud (Scardinius erythrophthalmus, [Lin.] Bon.).

1885, Charles Rau, Prehistoric Fishing in Europe and North America. Archæological Researches in Nicaragua (Smithsonian contributions to knowledge; XXV), City of Washington: Smithsonian Institution, pages 45–46:

Any of the genus Chondrostoma of freshwater potamodromous fishes.

скобар

any of the genus Chondrostoma of freshwater potamodromous fishes


zope

The absolute fecundity of zopes on first maturing (at the age of 5 years) was less than that of those spawning for the second time.[…]On comparison of the fecundity of zopes of the same size and different age the data obtained proved contradictory to some extent.

1969, Problems of Ichthyology, American Fisheries Society, pages 390–391:

Before catching, more than half zopes, sandres and perches feed actively.

1974, B.S. Kuzin, editor, Biological and Hydrological Factors of Local Movements of Fish in Reservoirs, New Delhi: Amerind Publishing Co., page 300:

A fish of species Ballerus ballerus (syn. Abramis ballerus) native to Eurasia.


white bream

en-noun

white bream (plural white breams or white bream)

white breams (plural)
white bream (plural)

A European species of fish in the Cyprinidae family (Blicca bjoerkna, syn. Abramis bjoerkna, Cyprinus bjoerkna).


birk

From Northern Middle English birk, birke, byrke (“birch”), (southern Middle English birche). More at birch.
(tree): Cognate with Scots birk.

Shadows of the silver birk / Sweep the green that folds thy grave.

1842, Alfred Tennyson, “A Dirge”, in Poems. […], volume I, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, stanza I, page 56:


ziege

From German Ziege, from Middle High German zige, from Old High German ziga, from Proto-West Germanic *tigā. Compare Old Armenian տիկ (tik, “wineskin”), Albanian dhi (“she-goat”), Ishkashimi dec (“goatskin bag”), and further German Zicke, which is cognate with English tick (“goat”).

An edible freshwater fish, Pelecus cultratus, of the order Cypriniformes, with an oblique mouth, a low wavy lateral line and a sharp-edged belly.


silver bream

Blicca bjoerkna (white bream), a freshwater species of cyprinids from Europe and Western Asia.


fathead

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California sheephead
California sheephead

A labroid food fish of California; the California sheephead. Semicossyphus pulcher.


common minnow

A species of minnow widespread in the fresh waters of northern Eurasia, Phoxinus phoxinus.


fathead minnow

Pimephales promelas
Pimephales promelas#Translingual

A small freshwater fish of the minnow family, Pimephales promelas, native to North America.


pollard

From poll (“head, scalp”) + -ard. The coin sense derives from the original penny's uncrowned obverse bust, as opposed to the laurel-wreathed form appearing on the rosary. The verb derives from the noun.

Squalius cephalus
Squalius cephalus#Translingual

Leuciscus cephalus
Leuciscus cephalus#Translingual

(obsolete, rare) A European chub (Squalius cephalus, syn. Leuciscus cephalus), a kind of fish.


rudd

Within minutes of starting I had my first fish a rudd about a pound, this was followed by a tench about five pounds.

2007, Martin James, “At the Waters Edge blog!”, in BBC - Lancashire - Sport, retrieved 2010-08-02:

Any species of the freshwater game fishes of genus Scardinius.

common rudd (Scardinius erythrophthalmus)


hardhead

Aythya australis
Aythya australis#Translingual

A brown diving duck, Aythya australis, native to Australia.

Nahatʼeʼiitsoh Bikéyahdę́ę́ʼ naalʼeełí binááʼ łigaaígíí


carp bream

A species of freshwater bream, Abramis brama.


kutum

A freshwater fish (Rutilus kutum) native to the Caspian Sea.


hornyhead chub

hornyhead chub (plural hornyhead chubs or hornyhead chub)

hornyhead chubs (plural)
hornyhead chub (plural)

Nocomis biguttatus, a small minnow of the northern central United States and Canada.


blay

From Middle English *blaye, *bleye, from Old English blǣġe (“blay, bleak, gudgeon”), from Proto-Germanic *blaigijǭ (“blay, bleak, gudgeon”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleyk- (“to shine”). Cognate with German Bleie, Bleihe (“blay”).


fallfish

en-noun

fallfish (plural fallfishes or fallfish)

A small silvery freshwater fish (Semotilus corporalis) found in North America.


squawfish

squawfish (plural squawfishes or squawfish)

A cyprinid fish of the genus Ptychocheilus, a voracious predator on small trout and salmon.


Caspian roach

Rutilus caspicus
Rutilus caspicus#Translingual

a fish found in brackish coastal waters of the northern and northwestern Caspian Sea (Rutilus caspicus, formerly recognized as subspecies of the common roach)


Danube bleak

Chalcalburnus chalcoides
Chalcalburnus chalcoides#Translingual

Alburnus chalcoides
Alburnus chalcoides#Translingual

A species of ray-finned fish in the Cyprinidae family (Chalcalburnus chalcoides, Alburnus chalcoides)


vobla

The „vobla“ (Leuciscus rutilus Lin.) is one of the most important food fishes of this region. […] This vobla is very fat and is more stoutly built, than the northern roach, but cannot otherwise be distinguished from the same.

1900 September, Einar Lönnberg, “Short notes on Caspian fishes”, in Revue Internationale de Pêche et de Pisciculture, Volume II, Number 2, Russian Imperial Society of Fishculture and Fisheries, page 4

In this connexion, the cost of “vobla,”¹ which to some extent replaces the herring, has soared upwards. […] Dried “vobla,” which is a popular article of food, and was formerly sold at one copeck per fish, now sells at from 5 to 10 copecks for the smaller fish, and 20 copecks for the larger. ¶ […] ¶ The only exceptions to the general rule are white sturgeon, salmon and to some extent “vobla.”
¹ An inferior species of herring.

1918, I. Pelferoff, “Fisheries”, Chapter IX of Arthur Raffalovich (editor), Russia: Its Trade and Commerce, P. S. King & Son, page 221

For most it was bread and vobla, an awful salt-fish, nicknamed “Soviet ham,” whose bones would splinter and damage the intestines. […] But in the spring of 1921, […] the average employee was back to a half pound of bread, one pound of cereal, and two pounds of vobla.

1989, Mary McAuley, “Bread without the Bourgeoisie”, in Diane Koenker et al., editors, Party, State, and Society in the Russian Civil War, Indiana University Press, →ISBN, page 167:

The Caspian roach (Rutilus caspicus), formerly considered a subspecies of the common roach.


orfe

19th century. Borrowed from German orfe, orf, possibly from French orphe or Old High German orvo, from Latin orphus (“gilt-head bream”), from Ancient Greek ὀρφώς (orphṓs, “sea perch”).
May be related to Old English eorp, earp (“dark, dusky”), Old High German erpf (“brown”), Old Norse jarpr (“brown”), and Ancient Greek ὀρφνός (orphnós, “dark”).


dobule

(archaic) A common dace (Leuciscus leuciscus)


redfin

From red + fin. In the breeding season, the male has bright red fins.

The common shiner, a small North American dace, Luxilus cornutus.


minow

he gets him into swifter and swifter streams, and there lies at the watch for any flie or Minow that comes neer

1653, Iz[aak] Wa[lton], The Compleat Angler or The Contemplative Man’s Recreation. Being a Discourse of Fish and Fishing, […], London: […] T. Maxey for Rich[ard] Marriot, […], →OCLC; reprinted as The Compleat Angler (Homo Ludens; 6), Nieuwkoop, South Holland, Netherlands: Miland Publishers, 1969, →ISBN:


jentling

A chub (Squalius cephalus, syn. Leuciscus cephalus) found in the Danube.


hornyhead

Any North American chubs of the genus Nocomis, especially Nocomis biguttatus.


cheven

(archaic, dialectal) A river fish, the chub.


roughhead

A fish, the common shiner, Luxilus cornutus.


nerfling

(dated) A small freshwater cyprinoid fish (Leuciscus idus, syn. Idus idus).


silverfin

(zoology) A small North American freshwater cyprinoid fish (Notropis whipplei, now Cyprinella whipplei).


alburn

Borrowed from Late Latin alburnus. Cognate with alburnum and auburn.

In the total yield of cyprinids, the dominating fish is alburn, […] a small delicate fish which in dense shoals inhabits the pelagial waters of the lake.

1960, Monographiae biologicae: Volume 9:

It took patience to catch alburns, those hand-sized fish in the Stolpe.

1998, George Grosz, George Grosz: An Autobiography, page 7:

The bleak, a small European fish with silvery scales.


chevin

From Old French chevesne (“chub”), perhaps from chef (“head”). Compare chavender.


penk

Now for the Minnow, or Penk: he is not easily found and caught till March, or in April, for then he appears first in the river,[…].

1676, Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton, “The Compleat Angler”, in James Rennie, editor, The Complete Angler; Or, Contemplative Man's Recreation, published 1833, page 98:


split-tail

A California fish (Pogonichthys macrolepidotus) of the carp family.


pinkeen

From pink (“minnow”) + -een (“diminutive”).

(Ireland) A little fish; especially the minnow, Phoxinus phoxinus.


taran

A species of roach (Rutilus heckelii), a fish in the Cyprinidae family. It is native to the Black Sea basin: rivers Don, Kuban, Dnieper, Dniester, rarely Danube.


spawn eater

A small American cyprinoid fish (Notropis hudsonius) allied to the dace.


scarlet shiner

A fish of species Lythrurus fasciolaris, a native of fresh waters of the eastern United States.


silver chub

Macrhybopsis storeriana, a cyprinid fish of North America.


vimba

Any member of the genus Vimba of cyprinid fish.


rosy-red minnow

en-noun

rosy-red minnow (plural rosy-red minnows)

A strain of the fathead minnow (Pimephales promelas).


vairone

Any of several fish of the genus Telestes native to Europe.


woundfin

Probably wound + fin, because of a sharp point on its dorsal fin.

Plagopterus argentissimus, a slender, silvery minnow endemic to the Virgin River of the southwestern United States.


Japanese dace

Tribolodon hakonensis
Tribolodon hakonensis#Translingual

Any fish of species Tribolodon hakonensis.


clinostome

Any cyprinid fish (dace) of the genus Clinostomus


choke-children

From choke + children. The fish is noted for its boniness, which could prove a choking-hazard to children. May be related to folklore surrounding the Cornish saint St. Leven.

(obsolete) A fish, the allis shad (Alosa alosa) or rock herring.


sabrefish

sabrefish (plural sabrefishes or sabrefish)


river chub

Nocomis micropogon, a cyprinid minnow common in North American streams.


sunbleak

Synonym of moderlieschen, Leucaspius delineatus.


moderlieschen

From German Moderlieschen, from or corresponding to Mutterlöschen, Mutterloseken, literally "motherless one(s)", because the eggs can withstand long exposure to air, stick to ducks and other birds, and be carried to ephemeral ponds, where they may hatch without adults present, leading to folk beliefs that the fish were motherless.

Leucaspius delineatus (Heckel) The common moderlieschen is a small fish of no economic importance, living in the basins of many Ukrainian rivers. Body length: up to 7-8cm (usually less).

1963, Aleksandr Prokofʹevich Markevich, Parasitic Fauna of Freshwater Fish of the Ukrainian S.S.R.: (Parazitofauna Presnovodnykh Ryb USSR):

[…] numbers of eggs in ribbons (perch) or strings (the moderlieschen Leucaspius delineatus) which are entwined amongst submerged vegetation.

1975, B. A. Whitton, River Ecology, Univ of California Press, →ISBN, page 226:

To avoid lipoid degeneration in the trout liver young fish which contain less fat should be used. Fresh-water trash fish (bleak, ruff, gudgeon, loach, verkhovka or moderlieschen, minnow, etc.) are considered a better natural food, […]

1983, F. Martyshev, Pond Fisheries, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 366:

The European moderlieschen, Leucaspius delineatus, which lays eggs in spirals or rings on plant stems, is aided by enlarged genital papillae.

2012, Ian J. Winfield, Joe S. Nelson, Cyprinid Fishes: Systematics, biology and exploitation, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 144:

Leucaspius delineatus, a species of freshwater fish found throughout temperate continental Europe.


chiselmouth

A North American fish (Acrocheilus alutaceus)


leuciscine

(ichthyology) Any fish in the cyprinid subfamily Leuciscinae


phantom shiner

A fish of species Notropis orca, previously endemic to Texas and Mexico, presumed extinct as of 1996.


Manyas shemaya

Alburnus carinatus, a species of cyprinid fish.


Antalya minnow

Pseudophoxinus antalyae, a species of minnow.


bigmouth shiner

bigmouth shiner (plural bigmouth shiners)

A minnow of species Notropis dorsalis; an eastern shiner.


spottail shiner

spottail shiner (plural spottail shiners)


spottail minnow

spottail minnow (plural spottail minnows)


Caspian shemaya

Caspian shemaya (plural Caspian shemayas)


shemaya

compound

شاه (šâh) + ماهی (mâhi)

Any of certain fishes in the genus Alburnus.