Noun
swordfish (countable and uncountable, plural swordfish or swordfishes)
- A large marine fish with a long, pointed bill, Xiphias gladius.
1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter I, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:Then there came a reg'lar terror of a sou'wester same as you don't get one summer in a thousand, and blowed the shanty flat and ripped about half of the weir poles out of the sand. We spent consider'ble money getting 'em reset, and then a swordfish got into the pound and tore the nets all to slathers, right in the middle of the squiteague season.
- A sudoku technique involving possible cell locations for a digit, or pair, or triple, in uniquely three rows and three columns only. This allows for the elimination of candidates around the grid.
Translations
Xiphias gladius
- Afrikaans: swaardvis
- Arabic: سَمَكَة سَيْف f (samaka(t) sayf)
- Asturian: pexe espada (ast) m, aguya del paladar (ast)
- Azerbaijani: qılınc balığı
- Basque: ezpata-arrain
- Bulgarian: ри́ба ме́ч f (ríba méč)
- Catalan: peix espasa (ca) m, emperador (ca) m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 劍魚 / 剑鱼 (zh) (jiànyú)
- Czech: mečoun (cs) m
- Danish: sværdfisk (da) c
- Dhivehi: ތުންގަނޑު ހިބަރު (tun̊gaⁿḍu hibaru)
- Dutch: zwaardvis (nl) m
- Esperanto: spadofiŝo
- Estonian: mõõkkala
- Faroese: svørðfiskur m
- Finnish: miekkakala (fi)
- French: espadon (fr) m
- Galician: espadarte m, peixe espada (gl) m
- Georgian: შიმშერი (šimšeri)
- German: Schwertfisch (de) m
- Greek: ξιφίας (el) m (xifías)
- Ancient: ξιφίας m (xiphías), θρανίας m (thranías)
- Greenlandic: panaasalik (kl)
- Hawaiian: aʻu kū
- Hebrew: חִלְפִּית f (ḥalipit)
- Hindi: तेगा मछली f (tegā machlī)
- Hungarian: kardhal (hu)
- Icelandic: sverðfiskur (is) m
- Ido: espadofisho (io)
- Indonesian: todak (id)
- Irish: colgán m
- Italian: pesce spada m
- Japanese: 目梶木 (ja) (メカジキ, mekajiki)
- Kannada: ಕತ್ತಿ ಮೀನು (katti mīnu)
- Kazakh: семсер балық (semser balyq)
- Korean: 황새치 (ko) (hwangsaechi)
- Kyrgyz: селебебалык (selebebalık)
- Latin: xiphiās (la) m
- Latvian: zobenzivs
- Ligurian: péscio spâ m
- Lithuanian: durklažuvė, kardžuvė f
- Malay: todak (ms)
- Maori: takeketonga, paea
- Mokilese: daklar
- Mongolian: сэлэм загас (selem zagas)
- Navajo: łóóʼ bíchį́į́h nineezí
- Norwegian: sverdfisk
- Odia: ସ୍ୱୋର୍ଡ ମାଛ (sworḍa mācha)
- Old English: *sweordfisċ m
- Ottoman Turkish: قلج بالغی (kılıc balığı)
- Persian: شمشیرماهی (šamšir-mâhi)
- Pohnpeian: dekilahr
- Polish: miecznik (pl) m, włócznik (pl), ryba miecz
- Portuguese: espadarte (pt) m, peixe espada
- Romanian: pește spadă f
- Russian: ры́ба-ме́ч f (rýba-méč), мечено́с m (mečenós)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: сабљарка f, иглун f
- Roman: sabljarka (sh) f, iglun (sh) f
- Sicilian: pisci spata (scn), spatu m
- Slovak: mečúň m
- Slovene: sabljarka f
- Spanish: pez espada m, albacora (es) f, pez emperador m, alfanje (es) m, espadarte m, jifia f
- Swahili: mchumbururu
- Swedish: svärdfisk (sv)
- Tagalog: dugso (tl), isdang-ispada
- Tamil: வாள் மீன் (vāḷ mīṉ)
- Thai: ปลากระโทงดาบ
- Turkish: kılıç balığı (tr)
- Ukrainian: риба-меч f (ryba-meč)
- Vietnamese: cá kiếm
- Volapük: please add this translation if you can
- Welsh: cleddbysgodyn m, pysgod cleddyf m pl
- Yapese: thoglaar
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