English
Some goldfish
A 19th-century watercolour of goldfish
Etymology
gold + fish
Pronunciation
Noun
goldfish (plural goldfish or goldfishes )
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
Translations
fish
Afrikaans: goudvis (af)
Albanian: peshk i kuq
Arabic: سَمَكَة زِينة f ( samaka(t) zīna )
Azerbaijani: şələquyruq qızıl balığı , Yapon balığı
Belarusian: залата́я ры́бка f ( zalatája rýbka )
Bulgarian: зла́тна ри́бка f ( zlátna ríbka )
Catalan: carpí (ca) m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 金魚 / 金鱼 (zh) ( jīnyú ) , 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 ( 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 )
Macedonian: златна рипка f ( zlatna ripka )
Malay: ikan emas , ikan mas
Manx: eeast airhey m
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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: золота́ ри́бка 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
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