Definition of noun Wels

Definition of the noun Wels (catfish, sheatfish): Natur; Fisch; Waller; Weller; Schaden; Schaid; Schaiden with meanings, synonyms, grammar information, translations and Declination tables.

C2 · noun · masculine · regular · -s, -e
Wels, der

Welses · Welse

English catfish, sheatfish, wels

[Tiere] Fisch; Waller, Weller, Schaden, Schaid, Schaiden

» Welse haben die längsten Barteln. English Catfish have the longest barbels.

Meanings

a.[Tiere] Fisch, Waller, Weller, Schaden, Schaid, Schaiden
b.Fisch
z.No meaning defined yet.

Declension Meanings

Synonyms

a.≡ Schaden ≡ Schaid ≡ Schaiden ≡ Schaidfisch ≡ Scharn ≡ Waller ≡ Weller ≡ Wälinen

Synonyms

Example sentences

  • Welse haben die längsten Barteln. 
    English Catfish have the longest barbels.
  • Der Wels bewohnt bevorzugt große, warme Seen und tiefe, langsam fließende Flüsse. 
    English The catfish prefers to inhabit large, warm lakes and deep, slow-flowing rivers.
  • Welse reiben hingegen mit einem Stachel ihrer Brustflosse an ihrem Schultergelenk und produzieren so ganz andere, hochfrequente Laute. 
    English Catfish, on the other hand, rub a spine of their pectoral fin against their shoulder joint and thus produce completely different, high-frequency sounds.

Example sentences

Translations

English catfish, sheatfish, wels
Russian сом
Spanish siluro
French silure, poisson-chat
Turkish sazan, yayın balığı
Portuguese peixe-gato, siluro
Italian pesce, siluro, siluro di Europa
Romanian pește, somn
Hungarian harcsa
Polish sum
Greek ψάρι, γουλιανός, σίλουρος
Dutch meerval
Czech sumec
Swedish wels, mal
Danish wels, malle
Japanese ナマズ
Catalan peix, silur
Finnish silli, monni, säkiä
Norwegian wels
Basque arrain, arrain katu, siluru
Serbian som, сом
Macedonian риба, сом
Slovenian som
Slowakisch sumec, hrča obyčajná
Bosnian som, сом
Croatian som
Ukrainian сом
Bulgarian бяла риба, сом
Belorussian вугор, сом
Hebrewדג
Arabicسمكة
Persianماهی
Urduمچھلی

Translations

Declension

Welses · Welse

Declension
 

Comments



Log in

⁶ only in exalted use

* Definitions come partly from Wiktionary (de.wiktionary.org)> and may have been changed afterwards. They are freely available under the CC-BY-SA 3.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0) license: 33971, 33971