hákarl

From Old Norse hákarl (“a shark”), há- (“marks fish of the shark kind”) +‎ karl (“a man”). Related to háfur (“a dogfish”) and hár (“dogfish”).[1] Confer the Faroese hákallur[1] and Russian аку́ла (akúla).

• (archaic) IPA^(key): /haːkar(t)l/
• (modern) IPA^(key): /hauː.kartl/

hákarl m (genitive singular hákarls, nominative plural hákarlar)

1. a Greenland shark, Somniosus microcephalus
2. any shark (scaleless cartilaginous fish)

• The dated term hákerling (“há- and old woman”) was once used to refer to sharks as well.

• háskerðingur

• hapanhai

See hákarl.

IPA^(key): /haː.karl/

hákarl m (genitive hákarls, plural hákarlar)

1. a shark

• Dutch: haai m
  • Afrikaans: haai
  • West Frisian: haai
  • English: haye
  • Plautdietsch: Heifesch
  • German: Hai m
  • Norn: hå
  • Norwegian:

    Bokmål: hai m

    Nynorsk: hai m

  • Swedish: haj c
    • → Estonian: hai
    • → Finnish: hai
  • Danish: haj c
  • Gutnish: haj
• Faroese: hákallur m (“basking shark”)
• Icelandic: hákarl m (“Greenland shark”)
• Norn: håkilling m (“large shark”)
• → Russian: аку́ла f (akúla)

  Bulgarian: аку́ла f (akúla)

  Serbo-Croatian: ȁjkula f, а̏јкула f

  Macedonian: ајкула f (ajkula)

  → Adyghe: акул (āk°l)

  → Kazakh: акула (akwla)

  → Kyrgyz: акула (akula)

  → Skolt Sami: akkli

  → Tatar: аку́ла (aqúla)

  → Turkmen: akula

  Uzbek: akula

• → Belarusian: аку́ла f (akúla)
• → Ukrainian: аку́ла f (akúla)