1839, John Hookham Frere (translator), The Birds, lines 76–77, in Acharnians and two other plays He longs occasionally for human diet, His old Athenian fare: pilchards, for instance.
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Pilchard
//ˈpɪl.t͡ʃɚd//
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16 translations across 13 languages.
Ancient Greek
1 entries- σαρδίνη noun (a cigar-shaped fish with a short dorsal fin and forked tail)
Asturian
1 entries- sardina noun (a cigar-shaped fish with a short dorsal fin and forked tail)
Bulgarian
1 entries- сардела noun (a cigar-shaped fish with a short dorsal fin and forked tail)
Cornish
1 entries- hernen noun (a cigar-shaped fish with a short dorsal fin and forked tail)
Finnish
1 entries- sardiini noun (a cigar-shaped fish with a short dorsal fin and forked tail)
French
1 entries- pilchard noun (a cigar-shaped fish with a short dorsal fin and forked tail)
German
1 entries- Sardine noun (a cigar-shaped fish with a short dorsal fin and forked tail)
Hungarian
1 entries- szardínia noun (a cigar-shaped fish with a short dorsal fin and forked tail)
Irish
1 entries- pilséar noun (a cigar-shaped fish with a short dorsal fin and forked tail)
Māori
2 entries- mohi noun (a cigar-shaped fish with a short dorsal fin and forked tail)
- mohimohi noun (a cigar-shaped fish with a short dorsal fin and forked tail)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- sàrdela noun (a cigar-shaped fish with a short dorsal fin and forked tail)
- са̀рдела noun (a cigar-shaped fish with a short dorsal fin and forked tail)
Turkish
2 entries- sardalya noun (a cigar-shaped fish with a short dorsal fin and forked tail)
- sardina noun (a cigar-shaped fish with a short dorsal fin and forked tail)
Welsh
1 entries- pennog Mair noun (a cigar-shaped fish with a short dorsal fin and forked tail)
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