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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 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.
( figuratively , informal ) person with an unreliable memory .
Derived terms
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 ／ 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 (ms) , ikan mas
Malayalam: സ്വർണ്ണമത്സം ( svaṟṇṇamatsaṁ )
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
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