halibut

English

halibut

From Middle English *halibutt, equivalent to holy +‎ but (“flatfish”), since the fish was often eaten on holy days. Compare Dutch heilbot, German Heiligbutt, Heilbutt, Heilbutte. Compare also Danish helleflynder, Swedish helgeflundra.

halibut (plural halibuts or halibut)

A large flatfish of the genus Hippoglossus, which sometimes leaves the ocean floor and swims vertically.
- 1960, P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter IV:
  [...] she frowned a displeased frown and told me for heaven's sake to stop goggling like a dead halibut.

fish of genus Hippoglossus

Belarusian: па́лтус m (páltus)
Bulgarian: камбала f (kambala)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 大比目魚 (zh), 大比目鱼 (zh) (dàbǐmùyú)
Czech: platýs m
Danish: helleflynder
Dutch: heilbot (nl) m
Faroese: kalvi (fo)
Finnish: ruijanpallas (fi)
French: flétan (fr) m, elbot (fr) m (Belgium)
Galician: fletán m
German: Heilbutt (de) m, Heiligbutt m, Heiligenbutt m, Pferdezunge, Riesenscholle
Icelandic: lúða (is) f, heilagfiski m, flyðra (is) f
Irish: haileabó m
Italian: ippoglosso m
Japanese: オヒョウ (ohyō), 大鮃 (おひょう, ohyō)

Malay: halibut
Nootka: p̕uuʔi
Northern Sami: bálddis
Norwegian:
Bokmål: kveite m or f, hellefisk m

Nynorsk: kveite f, hellefisk m
Polish: halibut (pl) m
Portuguese: hipoglosso m
Romanian: cambulă (ro) f, limbă-de-cal f, calcan-sfânt m
Russian: па́лтус (ru) m (páltus)
Scottish Gaelic: bradan-leathann m, pacach-cearr
Spanish: fletán (es) m, pez mantequilla m, hipogloso m, paltus m, halibut (es) m
Swedish: ^{(please verify)} hälleflundra (sv), ^{(please verify)} helgeflundra (sv)
Ukrainian: па́лтус m (páltus)
Volapük: holbut

halibut m anim

declension of halibut

halibut m (plural halibuts)

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