goldfish

English

Some goldfish

A 19th-century watercolour of goldfish

Etymology

gold +‎ fish

Pronunciation

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Noun

goldfish (plural goldfish or goldfishes)

1. A type of small fish, Carassius auratus, typically orange-colored.

   For the children's fair we'll have a few games they can play, so that each child "wins" a goldfish as a prize.

Derived terms

• fantail goldfish
• goldfish bowl

Translations

fish

• Afrikaans: goudvis (af)
• Albanian: peshk i kuq
• Arabic: سَمَكَة زِينة‎‎ f (samaka(t) zīna)
• Azerbaijani: şələquyruq qızıl balığı, Yapon balığı
• Belarusian: залатая рыбка f (zalatája rýbka)
• Bulgarian: златна рибка f (zlátna ríbka)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 金魚 (zh), 金鱼 (zh) (jīnyú)

• Cornish: owrbysk m, (Revived Late Cornish) owrbesk m
• Czech: zlatá rybka f
• Danish: guldfisk c
• Dutch: goudvis (nl) m
• Esperanto: orfiŝo
• Finnish: kultakala (fi)
• French: poisson rouge (fr) m, carassin doré (fr) m
• German: Goldfisch (de) m
• Greek: χρυσόψαρο (el) n (chrysópsaro)
• Hawaiian: iʻa ʻulaʻula
• Hebrew: דַּג זָהָב‎‎ m (dag zaháv)
• Hindi: सुनहरी मछली f (sunharī machlī)
• Hungarian: aranyhal (hu)
• Icelandic: gullfiskur (is) m
• Italian: pesce rosso m
• Japanese: 金魚 (ja) (きんぎょ, kingyo)
• Korean: 금붕어 (ko) (geumbung-eo)
• Macedonian: златна рипка f (zlátna rípka)
• Malay: ikan emas, ikan mas
• Manx: eeast airhey m

• Maori: morihana
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: gullfisk m

  Nynorsk: gullfisk m

• Persian: ماهی قرمز‎‎ (mâhi-ye qermez)
• Polish: złota rybka (pl) f
• Portuguese: doirada f, peixinho dourado m
• Romanian: peștișor auriu
• Russian: золота́я ры́бка f (zolotája rýbka)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: златна рибица f

  Roman: zlatna ribica f

• Skolt Sami: kåˊllkueˊll
• Slovak: zlatá rybka f, karas striebristý m, karas zlatý m
• Slovene: zlata ribica f
• Spanish: pez rojo m, pez dorado (es) m, pez de oro m, pez de colores m, carpa dorada f (Mexico)
• Swedish: guldfisk (sv) c
• Tagalog: lali
• Thai: ปลาทอง (bplaa tong)
• Tibetan: གསེར་ཉ (gser nya)
• Turkish: Japon balığı
• Ukrainian: золота рибка f (zolotá rýbka)
• Urdu: سنہری مچھلی‎‎ f (sunharī machlī)
• Vietnamese: cá vàng
• Volapük: ziporüt (vo), goldafit, golüdafit (original Volapük, Volapük rigik)
• Welsh: pysgod aur pl, pysgodyn aur m (singulative)
• West Frisian: goudfisk c

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout#Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Persian: ^{(please verify)} ماهی قرمز‎‎, ^{(please verify)} ماهی طلائی‎‎
• Romanian: ^{(please verify)} caras rosu, ^{(please verify)} caras-auriu

• Slovak: ^{(please verify)} karas zlatý
• Thai: ^{(please verify)} ปลาทอง (bplaa-tɔɔng)