shoal

Etymology 1
From, , from , perhaps from , past participle of , from , from. Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬. Compare.

Adjective

 * 1)  Shallow.

Noun

 * 1) A sandbank or sandbar creating a shallow.
 * 2) A shallow in a body of water.
 * 1) A shallow in a body of water.
 * 1) A shallow in a body of water.
 * 1) A shallow in a body of water.

Translations

 * Bulgarian:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: sablejo, sablobenko
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:, banco de area, , taro, sirte, brica
 * German:
 * Greek: ,
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Igbo: ubòm
 * Irish:, oitir
 * Italian:, banco di sabbia
 * Japanese:
 * Korean:, 모래톱
 * Macedonian: плитак
 * Maori: tāhuna, tārake, matatāhuna
 * Norwegian: sandbanke
 * Persian:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:, , ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: oitir
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: пличина
 * Roman:
 * Spanish:, , banco de arena
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: batuharang


 * Bulgarian:
 * Finnish:
 * German:
 * Alemannic German: Gelungg
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: τέναγος
 * Maori: pāti

Verb

 * 1) To arrive at a shallow (or less deep) area.
 * 2)  To cause a shallowing; to come to a more shallow part of.
 * 3) To become shallow.
 * 1) To become shallow.

Etymology 2
1570, presumably from 🇨🇬, from, , from , from , from.

Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬. Doublet of.

Noun

 * 1) Any large number of persons or things.
 * 2)  A large number of fish (or other sea creatures) of the same species swimming together.
 * 3) * c. 1661,, On St. James's Park
 * Beneath, a shoal of silver fishes glides.
 * Beneath, a shoal of silver fishes glides.

Verb

 * 1) To collect in a shoal; to throng.
 * The fish shoaled about the place.