English Explanatory Dictionary

herring

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A type of small, oily fish of the genus Clupea, often used as food.
  2. Fish in the family Clupeidae.
  3. Those fish and any other fish similar to those in genus Clupea, many of those in the order Clupeiformes.
name
  1. A surname.
  2. A ghost town in Sac County, Iowa, United States.
  3. An unincorporated community in Preston County, West Virginia, United States.

Pronunciation

/ˈhɛɹɪŋ/ en-us-herring.ogg

Word forms

herring herrings

Etymology

From Middle English hering, from Old English hǣring, from Proto-West Germanic *hāring (“herring”), further etymology unknown. Possibly derived from Proto-Germanic *hērą (“hair”) + -ing, due to the similarity of their fine bones to hair. Cognate with Scots hering, haring (“herring”), Saterland Frisian Hiering, Häiring (“herring”), West Frisian hjerring (“herring”), Dutch haring (“herring”), German Low German Hereng, Hering (“herring”), German Hering (“herring”), Bavarian Haring (“herring”). Late Latin haringus (whence French hareng, etc.) is borrowed from Germanic.

Related words

buckling kipper stockfish

Derived words

Atlantic herring Baltic herring Bismarck herring cucumber herring dead as a herring denticle herring English herring European herring gull herring-bone herringbone herring cale herringer herring gull herring-gutted herringlike herring pond herring worm lake herring longfin herring matjes herring oxeye herring Pacific herring pickle-herring Picton herring red herring red herring prospectus rock herring round herring thread herring white herring wolf herring Herring body

Translations

Albanian: harengë Arabic: رنكة Arabic: رنجة Tunisian Arabic: رنڨة Armenian: ծովատառեխ Azerbaijani: siyənək Belarusian: селядзе́ц Bulgarian: хе́ринга Catalan: areng Chinese Cantonese: 希靈魚 /希灵鱼 Chinese Mandarin: 鯡魚 /鲱鱼 Chukchi: нучунуч Chukchi: нучут Cornish: hernen wynn Czech: sleď Danish: sild Dutch: haring Esperanto: haringo Estonian: heeringas Faroese: sild Finnish: silli Finnish: silakka Finnish: haili French: hareng Saterland Frisian: Hiering West-Frisian: hjerring Galician: arengue Galician: arenga German: Hering Greek: ρέγγα Greek: ρέγκα Greenlandic: ammassassuaq Hebrew: מָלִיחַ Hebrew: דג מלוח Hungarian: hering Icelandic: síld Ido: haringo Ingrian: haili Irish: scadán Italian: aringa Japanese: ニシン Japanese: 鰊 Kazakh: майшабақ Korean: 청어 Latin: chalcis Latin: merlucius Latin: haringus Latin: allec Latvian: strimala Latvian: reņģe Latvian: siļķe Lithuanian: silkė Luxembourgish: Hierk
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