fish sauce

See also: fish-sauce and fishsauce

English

Fish sauce

Alternative forms

• fish-sauce (dated)
• fishsauce (rare)

Pronunciation

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Noun

fish sauce (countable and uncountable, plural fish sauces)

1. A condiment made from fermented fish.

   Hyponyms: garum, liquamen, nam pla, nuoc mam, patis, shottsuru

Translations

condiment composed of fermented fish

• Arabic: صلصة السمك f (ṣalṣa al-samak), صوص السمك m (ṣōṣ al-samak)
• Burmese: ငံပြာရည် (my) (ngamprarany)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 魚露 / 鱼露 (jyu⁴ lou⁶)

  Mandarin: 魚露 / 鱼露 (zh) (yúlù)

• Czech: rybí omáčka f
• Danish: fiskesovs c
• Dutch: vissaus (nl) m or f
• Finnish: kalakastike (fi)
• French: sauce de poisson f
• German: Fischsauce (de) f, Fischsoße (de) f
• Greek:

  Ancient Greek: γάρος m (gáros)

• Hindi: मीन सॉस ? (mīn sŏs)
• Hmong:

  White Hmong: nam pa

• Indonesian: kecap ikan
• Italian: salsa di pesce f
• Japanese: 魚醤 (ja) (ぎょしょう, gyoshō), 魚醤油 (うおしょうゆ, uo shōyu), (Thai) ナンプラー (ja) (nanpurā)
• Khmer: ទឹកត្រី (tɨk trəy)
• Korean: 어장(魚醤) (ko) (eojang)
• Lao: ນ້ຳປາ (lo) (nam pā)
• Latin: garum n, allēc n, liquāmen n
• Lü: ᦓᧄᧉᦔᦱ (nam²ṗaa)
• Malay: kicap ikan (ms), kicap sotong, petis
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: fiskesaus m

• Persian: سس ماهی (sos-e mâhi)
• Polish: sos rybny m
• Portuguese: molho de peixe m
• Romanian: sos de pește
• Russian: ры́бный со́ус m (rýbnyj sóus)
• Shan: ၼမ်ႉပႃ (nâ̰m pǎa)
• Spanish: salsa de pescado f
• Swedish: fisksås (sv) c
• Tagalog: patis
• Tamil: மீன் சுவைச்சாறு (mīṉ cuvaiccāṟu)
• Thai: น้ำปลา (th) (nám-bplaa)

  Northern Thai: ᨶ᩶ᩣᩴᨸᩖᩣ

• Ukrainian: ри́бний со́ус m (rýbnyj sóus)
• Vietnamese: nước mắm (vi), mắm (vi)

See also

• fish paste

References

• “fish sauce, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.