cod liver oil

See also: cod-liver oil and codliver oil

English

Modern cod liver oil capsules

Alternative forms

• cod-liver oil, codliver oil

Noun

cod liver oil (usually uncountable, plural cod liver oils)

1. Oil derived from the liver of codfish, often used as a nutritional supplement due to its high levels of omega-3 fatty acids, EPA and DHA, and very high levels of vitamin A and vitamin D.

Translations

nutritional supplement

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Armenian: ձկան յուղ (jkan yuġ)
• Belarusian: ры́бін тлушч m (rýbin tlušč)
• Catalan: oli de fetge de bacallà m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 魚肝油／鱼肝油 (zh) (yúgānyóu), 肝油 (zh) (gānyóu)

• Dutch: levertraan (nl) f
• Esperanto: moruhepatoleo
• Estonian: kalamaksaõli
• Finnish: kalanmaksaöljy (fi)
• French: huile de foie de morue (fr) f
• Galician: aceite de fígado de bacallau (gl) m
• German: Lebertran (de) m, Dorschleberöl n, Dorschlebertran n
• Greek: μουρουνέλαιο (el) (mourounélaio)
• Hungarian: csukamájolaj (hu)
• Icelandic: þorskalýsi n
• Irish: ola ae troisc f
• Italian: olio di fegato di merluzzo m
• Japanese: 肝油 (ja) (かんゆ, kan'yu), 魚油 (ぎょゆ, gyoyu)
• Korean: 간유 (ganyu), 어간유 (eoganyu), 어유 (ko) (eoyu)
• Latvian: mencu aknu eļļa f
• Navajo: łóóʼ bikʼah
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: tran m or f

  Nynorsk: tran m or f

• Ojibwe: giigoonh-bimide
• Polish: tran (pl) m
• Portuguese: óleo de fígado de bacalhau m
• Russian: ры́бий жир (ru) m (rýbij žir)
• Spanish: aceite de hígado de bacalao (es) m, aceite de bacalao m
• Swedish: fiskleverolja (sv) c, torskleverolja c
• Turkish: balık yağı (tr)
• Ukrainian: риб'я́чий жир m (rybʺjáčyj žyr)
• Vietnamese: dầu gan cá
• Welsh: olew iau penfras m
• Yiddish: פֿישטראַן m (fishtran), פֿישטראָן m (fishtron)

See also

• fish oil