goldfish

English

Some goldfish

A 19th-century watercolour of goldfish

Etymology

gold +‎ fish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡoʊldfɪʃ/ enPR: gōld'fĭsh

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -oʊldfɪʃ

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.

2. (figuratively) A person with an unreliable memory.

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
• Basque: urre-arrain
• Belarusian: залата́я ры́бка f (zalatája rýbka)
• Bulgarian: зла́тна ри́бка f (zlátna ríbka)
• Catalan: carpí (ca) m
• 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
• Estonian: kuldkala
• 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 (sunahrī 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)
• Latvian: Zelta zivtiņa
• Macedonian: златна рипка f (zlatna ripka)
• Malay: ikan emas, ikan mas
• Malayalam: സ്വര്‍ണ്ണമത്സം (svar‍ṇṇamatsaṃ)
• Manx: eeast airhey m

• Maori: morihana
• Mongolian: алтан загас (altan zagas)
• 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, caras-auriu m
• Russian: золота́я ры́бка f (zolotája rýbka)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: златна рибица f

  Roman: zlatna ribica f

• Skolt Sami: kåʹllkueʹll
• Slovak: zlatá rybka f, karas striebristý m, karas zlatý (sk) 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: золота́ ри́бка f (zolotá rýbka)
• Urdu: سنہری مچھلی‎ f (sunharī machlī)
• Uzbek: oltin baliq
• Vietnamese: cá vàng (vi), cá ba đuôi
• Volapük: ziporüt (vo), goldafit, golüdafit (original Volapük, Volapük rigik)
• Welsh: pysgod aur m pl, pysgodyn aur m sg (singulative)
• West Frisian: goudfisk c
• Yiddish: גאָלדפֿיש‎ m (goldfish)
• Zhuang: byagim

person with an unreliable memory

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Finnish: huonomuistinen (fi), kultakala (fi)
• French: please add this translation if you can

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 (sk)
• Thai: ^{(please verify)} ปลาทอง (bplaa-tɔɔng)