goldfish

English

Some goldfish

A 19th-century watercolour of goldfish

Etymology

gold +‎ fish

Pronunciation

enPR: gōld'fĭsh, IPA^(key): /ˈɡoʊldfɪʃ/
Audio (US) (file)
Hyphenation: gold‧fish
Rhymes: -oʊldfɪʃ

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.
(figuratively, informal) A 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, 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

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

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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)

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