John Dory

English

A John Dory (Zeus faber)

Etymology

Unknown, many theories exist. See the Wikipedia article on John Dory for more.

Noun

John Dory (plural John Dories)

An edible marine fish (Zeus faber or Zeus ocellata), having long dorsal spines.

Synonyms

St Pierre
Peter's fish

Translations

edible marine fish

Afrikaans: jandorie
Arabic: ضوري مذهب‎
Basque: muxumartin
Breton: yar-vor
Catalan: gall (ca) m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 日本的鯛
Corsican: San Petru
Dutch: zonnevis m
Esperanto: zeŭso
Finnish: pietarinkala (fi)
French: saint-pierre (fr) m, dorée (fr) f, zée (fr) m
Galician: sanmartiño
German: Petersfisch m
Greek: χριστόψαρο (el) n (christópsaro)
Hebrew: מוריגן הכתם‎
Hungarian: kakashal
Icelandic: pétursfiskur
Italian: sampietro m

Japanese: マトウダイ
Kazakh: cолнечник (colneçnïk)
Korean: 달고기 (dalgogi)
Maori: kuparu
Norman: Jean-doré m
Norwegian:
Nynorsk: sanktpetersfisk
Polish: piotrosz m, paszczak m
Portuguese: peixe-galo (pt) m, peixe-de-são-pedro m
Romanian: dulgher mare m
Russian: со́лнечник (ru) m (sólnečnik)
Serbo-Croatian: kovač (sh) m, ко̀ва̄ч
Slovene: kovač (sl) m
Spanish: pez de San Pedro f
Swedish: sanktpersfisk c, Sankt Pers fisk c
Turkish: dülger balığı (tr)
Ukrainian: сонцевик (soncevyk)
Vietnamese: cá dây nhật bản
Welsh: pysgodyn darn arian m

Further reading

John Dory on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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