hákarl

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From Icelandic hákarl (“shark”).

hákarl (uncountable)

1. An Icelandic food, cured fermented shark with a strong ammonia smell.

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From Old Norse hákarl (“a shark”), hár (“shark/dogfish”) +‎ karl (“a man”). Related to háfur (“a dogfish”) and hár (“dogfish”).^[1] Compare 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 (see kerling (“woman”)) was once used to refer to sharks as well.

• háskerðingur

• hapanhai

From hár (“shark”) +‎ karl (“a man”).

• (12th Century Icelandic) IPA^(key): /hɑ̃ːˌkarl/

hákarl m (genitive hákarls, plural hákarlar)

1. a shark

• Icelandic: hákarl m (“Greenland shark”)
• Faroese: hákallur m (“basking shark”)
• Norn: håkilling m (“large shark”)
• Norwegian Nynorsk: håkall m (“Greenland shark”), ⇒ håkjerring (< hákerling)
• → Northern Sami: áhkạlakkis
• → Kildin Sami: а̄һклэӈӈк (āhkleŋŋk), а̄һклиӈӈк (āhkliŋŋk)
• → Skolt Sami: akkli
• → Middle Russian:
  • Russian: аку́ла f (akúla)
    • → Adyghe: акул (akʷul)
    • → Azerbaijani: akula
    • → Bashkir: акула (akula)
    • → Belarusian: аку́ла f (akúla)
    • → Bulgarian: аку́ла f (akúla)
    • → Bezhta: акула (akula)
    • → Kazakh: акула (akula)
    • → Kyrgyz: акула (akula)
    • → Macedonian: ајкула f (ajkula)
      • Serbo-Croatian:

        → Cyrillic script: а̏јкула f, а̏јкула f

        → Latin script: ȁjkula f

    • → Tatar: акула (aqula)
    • → Turkmen: akula
    • → Ukrainian: аку́ла f (akúla)
    • → Uyghur: ئاكۇلا (akula)
    • → Uzbek: akula