pomfret

See also: Pomfret

English

Atlantic pomfret (Brama brama), family Bramidae

silver pomfret (Pampus argenteus)

Etymology

Perhaps derived from Portuguese pampano, a kind of fish.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɒm.fɹɪt/

Noun

pomfret (plural pomfret or pomfrets)

1. A fish of family Bramidae, consisting of eight genera and some twenty species.
2. Any of several species of butterfishes in the genus Pampus.
3. The golden pomfret, Trachinotus blochii.
4. The black pomfret, Parastromateus niger.

Derived terms

• silvery pomfret (Stromateoides argenteus)
• Atlantic pomfret (Brama brama)

Translations

fish of family Bramidae

• Arabic:

  Gulf Arabic: زبيدي m (zbēdi)

• Bengali: রূপচান্দা (rupcanda)
• Bulgarian: атлантическа платика f (atlantičeska platika)
• Burmese: ငါးမုတ် (my) (nga:mut)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 銀鯧／银鲳 (ngan⁴ coeng¹)

  Mandarin: 銀鯧／银鲳 (zh) (yínchāng)

• Finnish: pomfretti (fi)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Galician: castañeta (gl) f
• Gujarati: પાપલેટ માછલી (pāpleṭ māchlī)
• Hawaiian: mukau
• Hungarian: aranyosfejű hal
• Indonesian: bawal putih
• Kannada: ಮಾಂಜಿ ಮೀನು (māñji mīnu)
• Korean: 병어 (byeong'eo)
• Malay: bawal putih
• Malayalam: വെളുത്ത ആവോലി (veḷutta āvōli)
• Marathi: पापलेट (pāpleṭ)
• Persian: ماهی حلوا سفید
• Russian: морско́й лещ m (morskój lešč)
• Tamil: வெள்ளை வாவல் (veḷḷai vāval)
• Telugu: మేవ (mēva)
• Thai: ปลาจะละเม็ดขาว
• Vietnamese: cá chim trắng
• Waray-Waray: sandatan

See also

• sea bream
• Pomfret on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Stromateidae on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Bramidae on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Stromateidae on Wikispecies.Wikispecies