shark

Etymology 1
From (used by  in 1442 to refer to a kind of fish), of  origin. Most likely from a semantic extension of the -derived, see below. The fish was originally called a or  in English and Middle English.

Some older dictionaries derived the word from 🇨🇬, (from 🇨🇬), but admit that "the requisite [Old French] forms intermediate between E. shark and L. carcharus are not found, and it is not certain that the name [shark] was orig. applied to the fish; it may have been first used of a greedy man".

Other older authorities speculated that the word might derive from, as John Hawkins brought a specimen from the area where Mayan was spoken to England in the 1560s. However, the 1442 use rules out a New World origin for the word.

Noun

 * 1)  A scaleless, predatory fish of the superorder, with a cartilaginous skeleton and 5 to 7 gill slits on each side of its head.
 * 2) * 1569, The true discripcion of this marueilous straunge Fishe, whiche was taken on Thursday was sennight, the xvi. day of June, this present month, in the yeare of our Lord God, M.D.lxix., a broadside printed in London, the second earliest known use of the term; reprinted in A Collection of Seventy-Nine Black-Letter Ballads and Broadsides: printed in the reigh of Queen Elizabeth, between the years 1559 and 1597 in 1867:
 * The straunge fishe is in length xvij. foote and iij. foote broad, and in compas about the bodie vj. foote; and is round snowted, short headdid, hauing iij. rankes of teeth on either iawe, [...]. Also it hath v. gills of eache side of the head, shoing white. Ther is no proper name for it that I know, but that sertayne men of Captayne Haukinses doth call it a sharke.
 * 1) The noctuid moth.
 * 2)  A university student who is not a fresher that has engaged in sexual activity with a fresher; usually habitually and with multiple people.
 * 1)  A university student who is not a fresher that has engaged in sexual activity with a fresher; usually habitually and with multiple people.

Translations

 * Abkhaz: аӷлам
 * Adyghe: хытыгъужъ, акул, хыхьэ
 * Afrikaans: haai
 * Albanian:
 * Amharic: ሻርክ
 * Arabic:, سَمَكَةُ الْقِرْش
 * Egyptian Arabic: سمكة القرش
 * Gulf Arabic: يريور
 * Hijazi Arabic: قرش
 * Iraqi Arabic: كوسج
 * Lebanese Arabic: كلب البحر
 * Moroccan Arabic: قرش, مراخو
 * Tunisian: ركان
 * Aragonese: tiburón
 * Armenian:
 * Assamese: হাঙৰ, হাংগৰ
 * Asturian: tiburón, selacimorfo
 * Azerbaijani: köpək balığı,
 * Bashkir: акула
 * Basque:
 * Belarusian: аку́ла
 * Bengali: ,
 * Breton: ,
 * Bulgarian:
 * Burmese:
 * Catalan:, esqual
 * Cebuano: iho
 * Chechen: гӏоркхма
 * Cherokee: ᏗᎧᏳᎦ
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 鯊魚
 * Eastern Min: 鯊魚
 * Hakka: 鯊魚
 * Hokkien: 鯊魚
 * Mandarin:
 * Wu: 鯊魚
 * Chuvash: акула
 * Coptic:
 * Bohairic: ⲫⲱϧⲓ
 * Sahidic: ϣⲉⲛⲏⲧ
 * Cornish: morvleydh
 * Crimean Tatar: akula, köpek balığı
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dhivehi: މިޔަރު
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:
 * Faroese: hávur
 * Fiji Hindi: nangio
 * Fijian: qio
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * Galician:, cailón, , marrago, , tabeirón
 * Georgian:
 * German: ,
 * Alemannic German: Hai
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: σέλαχος
 * Greenlandic:
 * Guaraní: piraroto
 * Gujarati: શાર્ક
 * Haitian Creole: reken
 * Hawaiian: manō
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: ,
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian:
 * Iranun:
 * Irish: siorc
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese: ,
 * Javanese: ꦲꦶꦪꦸ
 * Jingpho: ngăman
 * Kabuverdianu: tubaron, tibaron
 * Kalmyk: аврһ заһсн
 * Kannada:
 * Kapampangan: pating, limpasut
 * Kazakh: акула
 * Khmer:, ត្រីឆ្លាម
 * Kongo: dukudaka
 * Korean:
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish: کۆسە
 * Kyrgyz:
 * Lao:, ສະຫຼາມ
 * Latin: squalus
 * Latvian:, haizivis
 * Laz:
 * Ligurian: squæo
 * Limburgish:
 * Lithuanian:
 * Low German:
 * German Low German: hai
 * Luxembourgish: ,
 * Macedonian: ајкула
 * Maguindanao: bagisan
 * Malagasy:
 * Malay: ikan yu, ,
 * Malayalam:
 * Maltese: kelb il-baħar, xark
 * Manx: sharkagh
 * Maori: mangō
 * Maranao: begisan
 * Marathi: शार्क
 * Mi'kmaq: siglati
 * Middle Korean: 두루치
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic: аварга загас, дулан загас
 * Mongolian: ᠠᠪᠤᠷᠭᠤ ᠵᠢᠭᠠᠰᠤ, ᠳᠤᠯᠠᠨ ᠵᠢᠭᠠᠰᠤ
 * Murik (New Guinea): kaŋgoŋasen
 * Nauruan: ebawo
 * Navajo: łóóʼ hashkéhé
 * Ngazidja Comorian: panganyile, mbamba
 * Niuean: magō
 * Nivkh: ваӻс
 * Norman: cheurque,  hau,  chörk
 * North Frisian:
 * Föhr-Amrum: heifask
 * Northern Sami: háia
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: hai
 * Occitan:
 * Old Tupi: yperu
 * Pashto: منو
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:, , ,
 * Quechua: tiwrun
 * Rohingya:
 * Romanian:
 * Romansch: squagl
 * Russian:
 * Samoan: malie, magō
 * Samogitian: rīklīs
 * Scottish Gaelic: siorc, cearban
 * Serbo-Croatian: morski pas
 * Cyrillic: ајкула, мо̀рскӣ па̏с
 * Roman:, mòrskī pȁs
 * Shan: ပႃငမၢၼ်း
 * Sinhalese: මෝරා
 * Skolt Sami: akkli
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish: ,
 * Sundanese:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: pating
 * Tajik:, кӯсамоҳӣ
 * Tamil:
 * Tatar:
 * Tausug: kaytan
 * Telugu: సొర చేప
 * Tetum: uu
 * Thai: ,
 * Tibetan: གཏུམ་ཉ
 * Tlingit: chich.uwaa
 * Tok Pisin: sak
 * Tongan: ʻanga
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen:
 * Ukrainian:
 * Urdu: شارک مچھلی, شارک
 * Uyghur: ئاكۇلا, لەھەڭ
 * Uzbek:
 * Veps: akul
 * Vietnamese:, cá nhám
 * Volapük:
 * Waray-Waray: pating
 * Welsh: morgi, siarc
 * Woleaian: pagow
 * Yakan:
 * Yiddish: הײַפֿיש, שאַרק
 * Yucatec Maya: xoc
 * Zulu:

Verb

 * 1)  To fish for sharks.
 * 2)  Of a university student who is not a fresher, to engage in sexual activity with a fresher, or to be at a bar or club with the general intention of engaging in such activity.

Etymology 2
From ; compare 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) Someone who exploits others, for example by trickery, lies, usury, extortion.
 * 2)  A sleazy and amoral lawyer.
 * 3)  An ambulance chaser.
 * 4)  A relentless and resolute person or group, especially in business.
 * 5)  A very good poker or pool player. Compare fish (a bad poker player).
 * 6)  A person who feigns ineptitude to win money from others.
 * 1)  A very good poker or pool player. Compare fish (a bad poker player).
 * 2)  A person who feigns ineptitude to win money from others.

Usage notes

 * The use of the term by people unfamiliar with pool is rarely well perceived by experienced players.

Translations

 * Czech:
 * Finnish:
 * Hungarian:, ,
 * Welsh: rheibiwr, twyllwr


 * Finnish:
 * Polish:


 * Finnish: ; ;


 * French:

Verb

 * 1)  To steal or obtain through fraud.
 * 2)  To play the petty thief; to practice fraud or trickery; to swindle.
 * 3)  To live by shifts and stratagems.
 * 1)  To live by shifts and stratagems.

Etymology 3
Probably from the "steal" senses above, but perhaps related to. Compare.

Verb

 * 1)  To pick or gather indiscriminately or covertly.

Etymology 1
From.

Noun

 * 1) shepherd's vest

Etymology 2
From.

Noun

 * 1) shell (of certain fruits like nuts, hazel, chestnut etc)
 * 2) skin (that covers the seed of certain fruits like peach, grape, prunes etc)
 * 3) snake skin

Etymology
Of uncertain origin; see English.

Noun

 * 1)  shark