Mackerel

//ˈmæk(ə)ɹəl//

Synonyms for "mackerel" (22 found)

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Closest matches (5)

Noun(2 words)

bludger bully

chameleon confetti fish

Strong matches (6)

harlequin iris jaguar leopard marble moire

Related words (11)

nacre ocelot peacock rainbow spectrum tortoise shell variegation wahoo

Noun(3 words)

pander pimp ruffian

Related word relations

OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.

6 relation types

More general

3 entries

saltwater fish scombroid scombroid fish

Related terms

3 entries

scombral scombroid tuna

derived

44 entries

Atka mackerel Atlantic mackerel Great Mackerel Beach Spanish mackerel butterfly mackerel cero mackerel chub mackerel cold as a mackerel common mackerel dead as a mackerel double-lined mackerel holy mackerel horse mackerel jack mackerel king mackerel mackerel bird

Showing 16 of 44 words.

is a

4 entries

edible fish fish saltwater fish scombroid

part of

1 entries

common mackerel

related to

8 entries

bawd edible fish pimp scombral scombridae speckled tuna

Translations

89 translations across 70 languages.

Abenaki

1 entries

makelo noun (edible fish)

Ainu

1 entries

サバ noun (edible fish)

Albanian

1 entries

skumbri noun (edible fish)

Ancient Greek

1 entries

σκόμβρος noun (edible fish)

Arabic

3 entries

إِسْقُمَرِيّ noun (edible fish)
كبايلا noun (edible fish)
مَاكْرِيل noun (edible fish)

Armenian

2 entries

թյունիկ noun (edible fish)
սկումբրիա noun (edible fish)

Asturian

1 entries

xarda noun (edible fish)

Basque

1 entries

berdel noun (edible fish)

Belarusian

1 entries

ску́мбрыя noun (edible fish)

Bulgarian

1 entries

скумри́я noun (edible fish)

Catalan

2 entries

cavalla noun (edible fish)
verat noun (edible fish)

Chinese Cantonese

1 entries

鯖魚 /鲭鱼 noun (edible fish)

Chinese Mandarin

1 entries

鯖魚 /鲭鱼 noun (edible fish)

Cornish

1 entries

briel noun (edible fish)

Czech

1 entries

makrela noun (edible fish)

Danish

1 entries

makrel noun (edible fish)

Dutch

1 entries

makreel noun (edible fish)

Esperanto

1 entries

skombro noun (edible fish)

Estonian

1 entries

makrell noun (edible fish)

Faroese

1 entries

makrelur noun (edible fish)

Finnish

1 entries

makrilli noun (edible fish)

French

1 entries

maquereau noun (edible fish)

Galician

2 entries

cabala noun (edible fish)
xarda noun (edible fish)

German

1 entries

Makrele noun (edible fish)

Greek

1 entries

σκουμπρί noun (edible fish)

Greenlandic

2 entries

avaleraasartooq noun (edible fish)
makreli noun (edible fish)

Hebrew

1 entries

מקרל noun (edible fish)

Hungarian

1 entries

makréla noun (edible fish)

Icelandic

1 entries

makríll noun (edible fish)

Ido

1 entries

makrelo noun (edible fish)

Indonesian

2 entries

kembung noun (edible fish)
tenggiri noun (edible fish)

Irish

3 entries

maicréal noun (edible fish)
murlas noun (edible fish)
ronnach noun (edible fish)

Italian

2 entries

sgombero noun (edible fish)
sgombro noun (edible fish)

Japanese

2 entries

サバ noun (edible fish)
鯖 noun (edible fish)

Kazakh

1 entries

скумбрия noun (edible fish)

Konkani

1 entries

बांगडो noun (edible fish)

Korean

1 entries

고등어 noun (edible fish)

Ladino

1 entries

kolyos noun (edible fish)

Latin

1 entries

scomber noun (edible fish)

Latvian

2 entries

makrele noun (edible fish)
skumbrija noun (edible fish)

Lithuanian

1 entries

skumbrė noun (edible fish)

Luxembourgish

1 entries

Makréil noun (edible fish)

Macedonian

1 entries

скуша noun (edible fish)

Malay

1 entries

tenggiri noun (edible fish)

Malayalam

1 entries

അയല noun (edible fish)

Manchu

1 entries

ᡶᡠᠰᡝᠯᡳ noun (edible fish)

Manx

1 entries

breck marrey noun (edible fish)

Mokilese

1 entries

poadihdi noun (edible fish)

Māori

2 entries

tawatawa noun (edible fish)
tewetewe noun (edible fish)

Norman

2 entries

maqu'sé noun (edible fish)
maqu'thé noun (edible fish)

Norwegian

1 entries

makrell noun (edible fish)

Occitan

1 entries

vairat noun (edible fish)

Pannonian Rusyn

1 entries

скуша noun (edible fish)

Persian

2 entries

اسقومری noun (edible fish)
خالمخالی noun (edible fish)

Polish

1 entries

makrela noun (edible fish)

Portuguese

1 entries

cavala noun (edible fish)

Romanian

1 entries

macrou noun (edible fish)

Russian

2 entries

макре́ль noun (edible fish)
ску́мбрия noun (edible fish)

Scottish Gaelic

1 entries

rionnach noun (edible fish)

Serbo-Croatian

2 entries

skȕša noun (edible fish)
ску̏ша noun (edible fish)

Sicilian

1 entries

stummu noun (edible fish)

Slovak

1 entries

makrela noun (edible fish)

Slovene

1 entries

skuša noun (edible fish)

Spanish

1 entries

caballa noun (edible fish)

Swedish

1 entries

makrill noun (edible fish)

Turkish

1 entries

uskumru noun (edible fish)

Ukrainian

2 entries

макре́ль noun (edible fish)
ску́мбрія noun (edible fish)

Vietnamese

1 entries

cá thu noun (edible fish)

Welsh

1 entries

macrell noun (edible fish)

Yoruba

2 entries

ẹja aláràn-án noun (edible fish)
ẹja mọ́ńkẹ̀rẹ̀ noun (edible fish)

Sample sentences

25 total sentences available.

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Today's breakfast was dried mackerel and miso soup.

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It's hot, so you'd better head back quickly. Mackerel goes off so fast that they coined 'fresh-looking rotten fish'.

Source: tatoeba (328898)

Mackerel tastes good whether you simmer it or grill it.

Source: tatoeba (2737404)

We two don't know what mackerel is in Tagalog.

Source: tatoeba (2820610)

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