During the evening I've been sad as I've eaten anchovy. In the morning the doctor cheered me up; why did I have to be sad? After all, it was I who ate the anchovy, and not the anchovy that ate me.
Source: tatoeba (1337829)
Anchovy
//ˈænt͡ʃoʊ.vi//
Synonyms for "anchovy" (1 found)
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111 translations across 71 languages.
Abkhaz
1 entries- ақамашьи́а noun (small saltwater fish)
Afrikaans
1 entries- ansjovis noun (small saltwater fish)
Arabic
3 entries- أَنْشُوفة noun (small saltwater fish)
- أَنْشُوقَة noun (small saltwater fish)
- بَلَم noun (small saltwater fish)
Armenian
2 entries- անձրուկ noun (small saltwater fish)
- անչոուս noun (small saltwater fish)
Asturian
4 entries- anchoa noun (small saltwater fish)
- bocarte noun (small saltwater fish)
- hombrín noun (small saltwater fish)
- llanzón noun (small saltwater fish)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- ançous noun (small saltwater fish)
Basque
2 entries- antxoa noun (small saltwater fish)
- bokarta noun (small saltwater fish)
Bikol Central
1 entries- bulinaw noun (small saltwater fish)
Breton
1 entries- genougamm noun (small saltwater fish)
Bulgarian
2 entries- аншоа́ noun (small saltwater fish)
- ха́мсия noun (small saltwater fish)
Catalan
2 entries- anxova noun (small saltwater fish)
- seitó noun (small saltwater fish)
Chinese Cantonese
1 entries- 江魚仔 /江鱼仔 noun (small saltwater fish)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 鯷 /鳀 noun (small saltwater fish)
- 鳳尾魚 /凤尾鱼 noun (small saltwater fish)
Cornish
1 entries- ganowek noun (small saltwater fish)
Corsican
2 entries- anchjuva noun (small saltwater fish)
- anciua noun (small saltwater fish)
Czech
2 entries- ančovička noun (small saltwater fish)
- sardel noun (small saltwater fish)
Danish
1 entries- ansjos noun (small saltwater fish)
Dutch
1 entries- ansjovis noun (small saltwater fish)
Esperanto
2 entries- anĉovo noun (small saltwater fish)
- sardelo noun (small saltwater fish)
Estonian
1 entries- anšoovis noun (small saltwater fish)
Faroese
1 entries- ansjós noun (small saltwater fish)
Finnish
2 entries- anjovis noun (small saltwater fish)
- sardelli noun (small saltwater fish)
French
1 entries- anchois noun (small saltwater fish)
Galician
3 entries- anchoa noun (small saltwater fish)
- bocareu noun (small saltwater fish)
- bocarte noun (small saltwater fish)
Georgian
1 entries- ქაფშია noun (small saltwater fish)
German
1 entries- Sardelle noun (small saltwater fish)
Greek
1 entries- γαύρος noun (small saltwater fish)
Hebrew
2 entries- אַנְשׁוֹבִי noun (small saltwater fish)
- עַפְיָן noun (small saltwater fish)
Hungarian
2 entries- ajóka noun (small saltwater fish)
- szardella noun (small saltwater fish)
Icelandic
1 entries- ansjósa noun (small saltwater fish)
Indonesian
1 entries- bilis noun (small saltwater fish)
Interlingua
1 entries- anchoa noun (small saltwater fish)
Irish
1 entries- ainseabhaí noun (small saltwater fish)
Italian
2 entries- acciuga noun (small saltwater fish)
- alice noun (small saltwater fish)
Japanese
4 entries- アンチョビ noun (small saltwater fish)
- アンチョビー noun (small saltwater fish)
- カタクチイワシ noun (small saltwater fish)
- 片口鰯 noun (small saltwater fish)
Kazakh
1 entries- қамса noun (small saltwater fish)
Korean
1 entries- 멸치 noun (small saltwater fish)
Latvian
1 entries- anšovs noun (small saltwater fish)
Ligurian
1 entries- anciôa noun (small saltwater fish)
Lithuanian
1 entries- ančiuvis noun (small saltwater fish)
Lombard
3 entries- anciùa noun (small saltwater fish)
- incioda noun (small saltwater fish)
- inciòda noun (small saltwater fish)
Luxembourgish
1 entries- Anchois noun (small saltwater fish)
Macedonian
1 entries- инчун noun (small saltwater fish)
Malay
1 entries- bilis noun (small saltwater fish)
Manx
1 entries- ançhovee noun (small saltwater fish)
Marathi
1 entries- मांदेली noun (small saltwater fish)
Middle Armenian
1 entries- խամսի noun (small saltwater fish)
Māori
2 entries- kokowhāwhā noun (small saltwater fish)
- korowhāwhā noun (small saltwater fish)
Norwegian
1 entries- ansjos noun (small saltwater fish)
Occitan
1 entries- anchòia noun (small saltwater fish)
Old Occitan
1 entries- anchoia noun (small saltwater fish)
Persian
1 entries- آنچوی noun (small saltwater fish)
Piedmontese
1 entries- anciova noun (small saltwater fish)
Polish
2 entries- anchois noun (small saltwater fish)
- sardela noun (small saltwater fish)
Portuguese
2 entries- anchova noun (small saltwater fish)
- enchova noun (small saltwater fish)
Romanian
3 entries- anșoa noun (small saltwater fish)
- hamsie noun (small saltwater fish)
- sardele noun (small saltwater fish)
Russian
2 entries- анчо́ус noun (small saltwater fish)
- хамса́ noun (small saltwater fish)
Saanich
1 entries- ȽOL¸ES noun (small saltwater fish)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- ìnćūn noun (small saltwater fish)
- ѝнћӯн noun (small saltwater fish)
Sicilian
1 entries- anciova noun (small saltwater fish)
Slovene
1 entries- inčȗn noun (small saltwater fish)
Spanish
4 entries- aladroque noun (small saltwater fish)
- anchoa noun (small saltwater fish)
- bocarte noun (small saltwater fish)
- boquerón noun (small saltwater fish)
Swedish
1 entries- sardell noun (small saltwater fish)
Tagalog
3 entries- balawbalaw noun (small saltwater fish)
- dilis noun (small saltwater fish)
- dulis noun (small saltwater fish)
Tamil
3 entries- கொடுந்தலைப்பொருவா noun (small saltwater fish)
- நெத்திலி noun (small saltwater fish)
- நெய்த்தோலி noun (small saltwater fish)
Turkish
1 entries- hamsi noun (small saltwater fish)
Venetan
2 entries- anciò noun (small saltwater fish)
- inciò noun (small saltwater fish)
Vietnamese
2 entries- cá cơm noun (small saltwater fish)
- cá trổng noun (small saltwater fish)
Volapük
1 entries- najov noun (small saltwater fish)
Welsh
1 entries- brwyniad noun (small saltwater fish)
West-Frisian
1 entries- ansjofisk noun (small saltwater fish)
Sample sentences
3 total sentences available.
Fish such as sardines and anchovy can get poisoned when they eat plankton that have eaten the algae.
Source: tatoeba (11852583)
[T]he cooks were laying a refection before him of sack and anchovies and garlic sausage and gammons of bacon and - this was the important item - a great pudding dish out of which rose the noble dome of a crisp brown pie-crust.
Source: wiktionary
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