"saury" meaning in English

See saury in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /ˈsɔː.ɹi/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-saury.wav [Southern-England] Forms: sauries [plural], saury [plural]
Etymology: Eggcorn of Japanese 佐伊羅 (saira). By surface analysis, -saur (“dinosaur or other extinct reptile”) + -y (diminutive suffix). Etymology templates: {{der|en|ja|佐伊羅|tr=saira}} Japanese 佐伊羅 (saira), {{surface analysis|en|-saur|-y|pos2=diminutive suffix|t1=dinosaur or other extinct reptile}} By surface analysis, -saur (“dinosaur or other extinct reptile”) + -y (diminutive suffix) Head templates: {{en-noun|ies|*}} saury (plural sauries or saury)
  1. A marine epipelagic fish of the family Scomberesocidae, with beaklike jaws and a row of small finlets behind the dorsal and anal fins. Translations (fish of the family Scomberesocidae): сайра (sajra) [feminine] (Bulgarian), saira (english: Pacific saury) (Finnish), makrillihauki (english: Atlantic saury) (Finnish), alpabarda [feminine] (Galician), chandarme [masculine] (Galician), rato [masculine] (Galician), alcrique [masculine] (Galician), Makrelenhecht [masculine] (German), 秋刀魚 (sanma) (alt: さんま) (Japanese), sajra [feminine] (Polish), сайра (sajra) (Russian)
    Sense id: en-saury-en-noun-6Sls12-i Categories (other): English eggcorns, English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -saur, English terms suffixed with -y, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Bulgarian translations, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with Galician translations, Terms with German translations, Terms with Japanese translations, Terms with Polish translations, Terms with Russian translations, Beloniform fish Derived forms: Atlantic saury (taxonomic: Scomberesox simulans), blotched saury (taxonomic: Saurida nebulosa) [Australia], clouded saury (taxonomic: Saurida nebulosa) [Australia], common saury (taxonomic: Saurida tumbil) [Australia], dwarf saury (taxonomic: Scomberesox simulans) [Africa, UK], filamentous saury (taxonomic: Saurida filamentosa) [Australia], gracile saury (taxonomic: Saurida gracilis) [Australia], grey saury (taxonomic: Saurida undosquamis) [Australia], large-scaled saury (taxonomic: Saurida undosquamis) [Australia], longfin saury (taxonomic: Saurida longimanus) [Australia], orangemouth saury (taxonomic: Saurida flamma), Pacific saury (alt: Cololabis saira. Scomberesox scombroides), painted saury (taxonomic: Synodus myops) [Australia], shortfin saury (taxonomic: Saurida micropectoralis) [Australia], shortjaw saury (taxonomic: Saurida isarankurai), silver saury (taxonomic: Saurida tumbil) [Australia], slender saury (taxonomic: Saurida elongata) [Australia], South Pacific saury (taxonomic: Scomberesox scombroides), threadfin saury (alt: Suarida filamentosa) [Australia], Wanieso saury (taxonomic: Saurida wanieso) [Australia]

Inflected forms

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Download raw JSONL data for saury meaning in English (5.7kB)

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  "title": "saury",
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  "msg": "form='saury' has many different link candidates `['saury', 'w:saury']`, which can't be disambiguated.",
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  "msg": "form='saury' has many different link candidates `['saury', 'w:saury']`, which can't be disambiguated.",
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}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2026-09-09 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2026-09-02 using wiktextract (ccec6f1 and 4deed51). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.