wels catfish

English

Etymology

Partly from German, see wels.

Noun

wels catfish

1. A scaleless fresh-water catfish (Silurus glanis), of much of temperate western Eurasia, recognizable by its broad, flat head and wide mouth.

Synonyms

• sheatfish

Translations

Silurus glanis

• Armenian: լոքո (hy) (lokʻo)
• Azerbaijani: naqqa, naxa
• Basque: siluru, arrain katu
• Belarusian: сом (som)
• Bulgarian: сом m (som)
• Catalan: silur
• Czech: sumec (cs) m
• Danish: malle
• Dutch: meerval (nl)
• Esperanto: siluro
• Estonian: säga (et)
• Finnish: säkiä (fi), monni (fi)
• French: silure (fr) m, silure glane (fr) m
• Georgian: ლოქო (loko)
• German: Wels (de) m
• Greek: γουλιανός (el) m (goulianós)
• Hungarian: európai harcsa
• Italian: siluro (it) m
• Kyrgyz: жаян (ky) (jayan)
• Latvian: sams m
• Lithuanian: šamas
• Macedonian: сом (mk) (som)
• Norwegian:

  Nynorsk: malle

• Persian: سلور (selur)
• Polish: sum (pl) m
• Portuguese: bagre europeu m
• Romanian: somn (ro) m
• Russian: сом (ru) m (som)
• Serbo-Croatian: сом m, som (sh) m

  Cyrillic: сом m

  Roman: som (sh)

• Slovak: sumec (sk) m, hrča obyčajná f
• Slovene: som (sl) m
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: som

  Upper Sorbian: som

• Spanish: siluro m, bagre (es) m
• Swedish: mal (sv)
• Turkish: yayın balığı (tr)