English
A sunfish (Centrarchidae )
A sunfish (Molidae )
Etymology
From sun + fish , perhaps from the rounded body shape.
Pronunciation
Noun
sunfish (plural sunfish or sunfishes )
Any of various small freshwater fishes of the family Centrarchidae , often with iridescent colours and having a laterally compressed body.
Any of various large marine fishes of the family Molidae that have an oval compressed body.
Translations
fish of the family Centrarchidae
fish of the family Molidae
Catalan: bot (ca) , peix lluna (ca) , mola (ca)
Chinese: 翻車魚 / 翻车鱼 (zh) ( fānchēyú ) , 曼波魚 / 曼波鱼
Czech: měsíčník (cs) m
Danish: klumpfisk
Dutch: klompvis , maanvis (nl)
Estonian: kuukala
Finnish: möhkäkala
French: môle (fr) f , poisson-lune (fr) m , molidé
Galician: peixe lúa (gl) m
German: Mondfisch (de) m
Hebrew: דג השמש
Hungarian: holdhal
Icelandic: tunglfiskur
Italian: pesce luna m
Japanese: 翻車魚 , マンボウ (ja) ( manbō )
Korean: 개복치 (ko) ( gaebokchi )
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Latvian: mēnesszivs
Ligurian: mêua f
Lithuanian: paprastoji mėnulžuvė , mėnulžuvė
Maori: rātāhuihui
Norman: solé m ( Jersey )
Norwegian: månefisk , klumpfisk
Polish: samogłów (pl)
Portuguese: peixe-lua m
Russian: рыба-луна ( ryba-luna )
Serbo-Croatian:
Roman: veliki bucanj
Spanish: pez luna m
Swedish: klumpfisk (sv) , solfisk
Turkish: ay balığı (tr)
Ukrainian: риба-місяць ( ryba-misjacʹ )
Vietnamese: cá mặt trăng
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