eel

Etymology
From, from , from , from , which is of unknown origin.

Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬,, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) Any freshwater fish of the order Anguilliformes, which are elongated and resemble snakes.
 * 2) A European eel.
 * 3) Someone or something that is sneaky and/or hard to catch.

Translations

 * Abenaki: nahômo
 * Afrikaans: ,
 * Aklanon: igat
 * Albanian:
 * Algonquin: mihtúckquashep
 * Arabic: أَنْقَلِيس, أَنْكَلِيس
 * Egyptian Arabic: حَنَشْ
 * Hijazi Arabic: أَنْقَليس, أَنْكَليس
 * Levantine, North: أَنْكَلِيس
 * Levantine, South: حَنْكَلِيس
 * Moroccan Arabic: نُونَة
 * Armenian:
 * Asturian: anguila
 * Azerbaijani: ilan balığı
 * Basque: aingira
 * Bau Bidayuh: bodung
 * Belarusian: ву́гар, вуго́р
 * Bengali: বানমাছ
 * Bislama: namarae
 * Breton:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Burmese:
 * Catalan:
 * Cayuga: gǫ́ːdeh
 * Cebuano: kasili
 * Central Melanau: beduong
 * Ch'orti': utuʼ čay
 * Cherokee: ᏢᏕᎦ
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 鰻魚
 * Hokkien: 鰻,, ,
 * Mandarin:, , ,
 * Cornish: sylli
 * Corsican: anguilla
 * Creek: acv´ppv
 * Czech:
 * Dalmatian: anǧola
 * Danish:, ålefisk
 * Daur: kotmaal
 * Dhivehi: ވެނ
 * Dutch:, ,
 * Elfdalian: ål
 * Esperanto: angilo
 * Estonian:, angerjalised
 * Faroese: állur, álur
 * Finnish:, ankeriaskala
 * French:
 * Friulian: bisat
 * Galician: ,
 * Georgian:, გველთევზასნაირნი
 * German:, Aalartige
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: ἔγχελυς
 * Greenlandic: nimeriaq
 * Gujarati: બામ માછલી
 * Haitian Creole: zangi
 * Hawaiian: puhi
 * Hebrew:
 * Higaonon: kasili
 * Hindi:, , सर्पमीन
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian:
 * Ingrian: ankerias
 * Irish: eascann
 * Isnag: ixat
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: ,
 * Javanese:
 * Kannada: ನೀರಹಾವು
 * Kapampangan: igat, palus
 * Kashubian: wãgòrz
 * Kazakh: жыланбалық
 * Khmer:
 * Klamath-Modoc: ġawi
 * Korean:
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish:
 * Lao: ຕົວອ່ຽນ
 * Latin: anguilla
 * Latvian:
 * Limburgish:
 * Lithuanian: ungurys, unguriažuvės
 * Luxembourgish:, Laangfësch
 * Macedonian: јагула
 * Malay:, ikan mua
 * Malayalam:, മനഞ്ഞില്മത്സ്യം, വഴുതിമാറുന്നവന്, വിലാഞ്ഞില്
 * Maltese: sallur
 * Manx: astan
 * Maori: tuna
 * Marathi: बाम माछली
 * Mi'kmaq: ga't
 * Middle English: el
 * Mongolian:
 * Nahuatl: cōāmichin
 * Navajo: naʼashǫ́ʼii łóóʼ
 * Neapolitan: capitone
 * Ngazidja Comorian: mhunga
 * Norn: ål
 * Northern Sami: ággaras
 * Norwegian:
 * O'odham: wamad watopi
 * Occitan:
 * Old English: ǣl
 * Old Norse: áll
 * Ottoman Turkish: ییلان بالغی
 * Persian:
 * Polabian: voďör
 * Polish:, węgorzokształtne
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: ,
 * Romansch: anguilla
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: јегуља, угор
 * Roman: ,
 * Sicilian:, , ,
 * Slovak: úhor
 * Slovene:, ogór
 * Sorbian:
 * Lower Sorbian: wugoŕ
 * Upper Sorbian: wuhor
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: igat
 * Tajik:
 * Tamil:
 * Telugu: మలుగు చేప
 * Tetum: tuna
 * Thai:
 * Tibetan: སྦྲུལ་ཉ
 * Tok Pisin: mario
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: вуго́р
 * Uyghur: تاسما
 * Venetian:, bixat, bixata, bisato
 * Vietnamese: cá chình
 * Volapük:,  hipil,  ,  snekafit
 * Walloon:
 * Waray-Waray: indong
 * Welsh:
 * West Coast Bajau: badung
 * West Frisian: iel
 * White Hmong: ntses nab
 * Wiradjuri: galindulin
 * Yiddish: ווענגער

Verb

 * 1) To fish for eels.
 * 2) To move with a sinuous motion like that of an eel.

Postposition

 * 1) before, in front of

Verb

 * 1) to know, to have knowledge of