Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
Any of various small, herring-like, marine fish in the genus Sprattus, in the family Clupeidae.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Any of various similar fish of other genera.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Anything petty or insignificant.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: broadly
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
A sixpence.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, obsolete, slang
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
To manure (land) with sprats (the fish).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: historical, transitive
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
small herring processed like a sardine
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: brisling, Clupea sprattus
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: sardine
small fatty European fish; usually smoked or canned like sardines
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: brisling
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: herring
From Middle English sprotte, from Old English sprot. Older source is unknown. Cognate with German Sprotte, Dutch sprot. Compare sprout.
Across languages
Translations
53 source translations are retained for this English entry.
-
Albanian:
papalinë
— any of various small marine fish in the genus Sprattus
-
Asturian:
chapla
— any of various small marine fish in the genus Sprattus
-
Asturian:
llacha
— any of various small marine fish in the genus Sprattus
-
Asturian:
trancha
— any of various small marine fish in the genus Sprattus
-
Bulgarian:
ца́ца
(cáca)
— any of various small marine fish in the genus Sprattus
-
Bulgarian:
трицо́на
(tricóna)
— any of various small marine fish in the genus Sprattus
-
Bulgarian:
ко́пърка
(kópǎrka)
— any of various small marine fish in the genus Sprattus
-
Bulgarian:
шпрот
(šprot)
— any of various small marine fish in the genus Sprattus
-
Czech:
šprot
— any of various small marine fish in the genus Sprattus
-
Dutch:
sprot
— any of various small marine fish in the genus Sprattus
-
Esperanto:
sproto
— any of various small marine fish in the genus Sprattus
-
Estonian:
kilu
— any of various small marine fish in the genus Sprattus
-
Estonian:
sprott
— any of various small marine fish in the genus Sprattus
-
Faroese:
brislingur
— any of various small marine fish in the genus Sprattus
-
Finnish:
kilohaili
— any of various small marine fish in the genus Sprattus
-
Finnish:
anjovis
— any of various small marine fish in the genus Sprattus
-
Finnish:
sardelli
— any of various small marine fish in the genus Sprattus
-
French:
sprat
— any of various small marine fish in the genus Sprattus
-
Galician:
trancho
— any of various small marine fish in the genus Sprattus
-
German:
Sprotte
— any of various small marine fish in the genus Sprattus
-
Greek:
παπαλίνα
(papalína)
— any of various small marine fish in the genus Sprattus
-
Ancient Greek:
μαίνη
(maínē)
— any of various small marine fish in the genus Sprattus
-
Hungarian:
sprotni
— any of various small marine fish in the genus Sprattus
-
Indonesian:
japuh
— any of various small marine fish in the genus Sprattus
-
Irish:
bioránach
— any of various small marine fish in the genus Sprattus
-
Irish:
maghar
— any of various small marine fish in the genus Sprattus
-
Irish:
salán
— any of various small marine fish in the genus Sprattus
-
Irish:
sprot
— any of various small marine fish in the genus Sprattus
-
Irish:
stuifín
— any of various small marine fish in the genus Sprattus
-
Italian:
spratto
— any of various small marine fish in the genus Sprattus
-
Italian:
papalina
— any of various small marine fish in the genus Sprattus
-
Latin:
maena
— any of various small marine fish in the genus Sprattus
-
Māori:
kupae
— any of various small marine fish in the genus Sprattus
-
Norwegian Bokmål:
brisling
— any of various small marine fish in the genus Sprattus
-
Norwegian Nynorsk:
brisling
— any of various small marine fish in the genus Sprattus
-
Old English:
sprott
— any of various small marine fish in the genus Sprattus
-
Persian:
کیلکا
(kilkâ)
— any of various small marine fish in the genus Sprattus
-
Polish:
szprot
— any of various small marine fish in the genus Sprattus
-
Polish:
szprotka
— any of various small marine fish in the genus Sprattus
-
Portuguese:
espadilha
— any of various small marine fish in the genus Sprattus
-
Romanian:
sprot
— any of various small marine fish in the genus Sprattus
-
Russian:
ки́лька
(kílʹka)
— any of various small marine fish in the genus Sprattus
-
Russian:
шпрот
(šprot)
— any of various small marine fish in the genus Sprattus
-
Scots:
garvie
— any of various small marine fish in the genus Sprattus
-
Scottish Gaelic:
garbhag
— any of various small marine fish in the genus Sprattus
-
Serbo-Croatian:
слеђица
— any of various small marine fish in the genus Sprattus
-
Serbo-Croatian:
sleđica
— any of various small marine fish in the genus Sprattus
-
Spanish:
espadín
— any of various small marine fish in the genus Sprattus
-
Swedish:
skarpsill
— any of various small marine fish in the genus Sprattus
-
Turkish:
çaça
— any of various small marine fish in the genus Sprattus
-
Welsh:
corbennog
— any of various small marine fish in the genus Sprattus
-
Woiwurrung:
dalibali
— any of various small marine fish in the genus Sprattus
-
Yiddish:
שפּראָט
(shprot)
— any of various small marine fish in the genus Sprattus