baccalà

Mane (Îngilîzî)

1. (invariable, masculine) salt cod, stockfish
2. (figuratively, invariable, masculine) a foolish person

Hevwate

merluzzo

muto

🔇

salame

sciocco

sempliciotto

babbeo

citrullo

fregnone

sprovveduto

stoccafisso

gocciolone

baccelletto

baluba

tontolone

Werger

bacalao

bacallà

bacalhau

morue

kabeljauw

stockfish

Kabeljau

Stockfisch

Dorsch

cod

morina

cabillaud

merluça

βακαλάος

Bi hîfenê ve hatîye girêdan wek

bac‧ca‧là

Wekî (IPA) tê bilêvkirin

/bak.kaˈla/

Etîmolojî (Îngilîzî)

From Dutch bakkeljauw, of uncertain origin. Possibly from Latin baculum (“stick, staff”), referring to the way cod were split and dried on wooden sticks.
If the element *bak- is a metathesis of *kab- (compare French cabillaud and German Kabeljau from Dutch kabeljauw), then the original form of the word could have been *cabalao, maybe meaning "large-headed fish" (cf. Ibero-Romance words, such as Spanish cabo, cabal, from Latin caput (“head”)).
Cognate with Sicilian baccalaru, Catalan bacallà, Portuguese bacalhau, Spanish bacalao.