"goldfish" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈɡoʊldfɪʃ/ Audio: en-us-goldfish.ogg [US] Forms: goldfish [plural], goldfishes [plural]
enPR: gōld'fĭsh Rhymes: -oʊldfɪʃ Etymology: gold + fish Etymology templates: {{compound|en|gold|fish}} gold + fish Head templates: {{en-noun|goldfish|+}} goldfish (plural goldfish or goldfishes)
  1. A type of small fish, Carassius auratus, typically orange-colored. Categories (lifeform): Carps Translations (fish): goudvis (Afrikaans), peshk i kuq (Albanian), سَمَكَة زِينة (alt: samaka(t) zīna) [feminine] (Arabic), şələquyruq qızıl balığı (Azerbaijani), Yapon balığı (Azerbaijani), urre-arrain (Basque), залата́я ры́бка (zalatája rýbka) [feminine] (Belarusian), зла́тна ри́бка (zlátna ríbka) [feminine] (Bulgarian), carpí [masculine] (Catalan), 金魚 (Chinese Mandarin), 金鱼 (jīnyú) (Chinese Mandarin), owrbysk [masculine] (Cornish), owrbesk [Revived-Late-Cornish, masculine] (Cornish), zlatá rybka [feminine] (Czech), guldfisk [common-gender] (Danish), goudvis [masculine] (Dutch), orfiŝo (Esperanto), kuldkala (Estonian), kultakala (Finnish), poisson rouge [masculine] (French), carassin doré [masculine] (French), Goldfisch [masculine] (German), χρυσόψαρο (chrysópsaro) [neuter] (Greek), iʻa ʻulaʻula (Hawaiian), דַּג זָהָב (dag zaháv) [masculine] (Hebrew), सुनहरी मछली (sunahrī machlī) [feminine] (Hindi), aranyhal (Hungarian), gullfiskur [masculine] (Icelandic), pesce rosso [masculine] (Italian), 金魚 (kingyo) (alt: きんぎょ) (Japanese), 금붕어 (geumbung'eo) (Korean), Zelta zivtiņa (Latvian), златна рипка (zlatna ripka) [feminine] (Macedonian), ikan emas (Malay), ikan mas (Malay), സ്വർണ്ണമത്സം (svaṟṇṇamatsaṁ) (Malayalam), eeast airhey [masculine] (Manx), morihana (Maori), алтан загас (altan zagas) (Mongolian), gullfisk [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), gullfisk [masculine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), ماهی قرمز (mâhi-ye qermez) (Persian), złota rybka [feminine] (Polish), doirada [feminine] (Portuguese), peixinho dourado [masculine] (Portuguese), peștișor auriu (Romanian), caras-auriu [masculine] (Romanian), золота́я ры́бка (zolotája rýbka) [feminine] (Russian), златна рибица [Cyrillic, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), zlatna ribica [Roman, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), kåʹllkueʹll (Skolt Sami), zlatá rybka [feminine] (Slovak), karas striebristý [masculine] (Slovak), karas zlatý [masculine] (Slovak), zlata ribica [feminine] (Slovene), pez rojo [masculine] (Spanish), pez dorado [masculine] (Spanish), pez de oro [masculine] (Spanish), pez de colores [masculine] (Spanish), carpa dorada [Mexico, feminine] (Spanish), guldfisk [common-gender] (Swedish), lali (Tagalog), ปลาทอง (bplaa tong) (Thai), གསེར་ཉ (gser nya) (Tibetan), Japon balığı (Turkish), золота́ ри́бка (zolotá rýbka) [feminine] (Ukrainian), سنہری مچھلی (sunharī machlī) [feminine] (Urdu), oltin baliq (Uzbek), cá vàng (Vietnamese), cá ba đuôi (Vietnamese), ziporüt (Volapük), goldafit (Volapük), golüdafit (original Volapük, Volapük rigik) (Volapük), pysgod aur [masculine, plural] (Welsh), pysgodyn aur [masculine, singular, singulative] (Welsh), goudfisk [common-gender] (West Frisian), גאָלדפֿיש (goldfish) [masculine] (Yiddish), byagim (Zhuang)
    Sense id: en-goldfish-en-noun-mMZhUxt1 Disambiguation of Carps: 63 37 Disambiguation of 'fish': 100 0
  2. (figuratively, informal) A person with an unreliable memory. Tags: figuratively, informal Translations (person with an unreliable memory): huonomuistinen (Finnish), kultakala (Finnish)
    Sense id: en-goldfish-en-noun-5VosU0C3 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with language name categories using raw markup, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, Pages using discouraged character sequences Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 43 57 Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 33 67 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 32 68 Disambiguation of Pages using discouraged character sequences: 30 70 Disambiguation of 'person with an unreliable memory': 1 99
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: fantail goldfish, goldfish bowl, Goldfish Club, goldfish plant, memory of a goldfish

Inflected forms

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          "lang": "Afrikaans",
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          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "roman": "zlátna ríbka",
          "sense": "fish",
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            "feminine"
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          "word": "зла́тна ри́бка"
        },
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          "code": "ca",
          "lang": "Catalan",
          "sense": "fish",
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            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "carpí"
        },
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          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "sense": "fish",
          "word": "金魚"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "jīnyú",
          "sense": "fish",
          "word": "金鱼"
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          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "kw",
          "lang": "Cornish",
          "sense": "fish",
          "tags": [
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          "word": "owrbysk"
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          "sense": "fish",
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          "word": "owrbesk"
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          "code": "cs",
          "lang": "Czech",
          "sense": "fish",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "zlatá rybka"
        },
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          "code": "da",
          "lang": "Danish",
          "sense": "fish",
          "tags": [
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          "word": "guldfisk"
        },
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          "code": "nl",
          "lang": "Dutch",
          "sense": "fish",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "goudvis"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "eo",
          "lang": "Esperanto",
          "sense": "fish",
          "word": "orfiŝo"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "et",
          "lang": "Estonian",
          "sense": "fish",
          "word": "kuldkala"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "fish",
          "word": "kultakala"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "fish",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "poisson rouge"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "fish",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "carassin doré"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "fish",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "Goldfisch"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "el",
          "lang": "Greek",
          "roman": "chrysópsaro",
          "sense": "fish",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "χρυσόψαρο"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "haw",
          "lang": "Hawaiian",
          "sense": "fish",
          "word": "iʻa ʻulaʻula"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "he",
          "lang": "Hebrew",
          "roman": "dag zaháv",
          "sense": "fish",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "דַּג זָהָב"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "hi",
          "lang": "Hindi",
          "roman": "sunahrī machlī",
          "sense": "fish",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "सुनहरी मछली"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "fish",
          "word": "aranyhal"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "is",
          "lang": "Icelandic",
          "sense": "fish",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "gullfiskur"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "fish",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "pesce rosso"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "alt": "きんぎょ",
          "code": "ja",
          "lang": "Japanese",
          "roman": "kingyo",
          "sense": "fish",
          "word": "金魚"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "ko",
          "lang": "Korean",
          "roman": "geumbung'eo",
          "sense": "fish",
          "word": "금붕어"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "lv",
          "lang": "Latvian",
          "sense": "fish",
          "word": "Zelta zivtiņa"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "mk",
          "lang": "Macedonian",
          "roman": "zlatna ripka",
          "sense": "fish",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "златна рипка"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "ms",
          "lang": "Malay",
          "sense": "fish",
          "word": "ikan emas"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "ms",
          "lang": "Malay",
          "sense": "fish",
          "word": "ikan mas"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "ml",
          "lang": "Malayalam",
          "roman": "svaṟṇṇamatsaṁ",
          "sense": "fish",
          "word": "സ്വർണ്ണമത്സം"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "gv",
          "lang": "Manx",
          "sense": "fish",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "eeast airhey"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "mi",
          "lang": "Maori",
          "sense": "fish",
          "word": "morihana"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "mn",
          "lang": "Mongolian",
          "roman": "altan zagas",
          "sense": "fish",
          "word": "алтан загас"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "nb",
          "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
          "sense": "fish",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "gullfisk"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "nn",
          "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
          "sense": "fish",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "gullfisk"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "fa",
          "lang": "Persian",
          "roman": "mâhi-ye qermez",
          "sense": "fish",
          "word": "ماهی قرمز"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "fish",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "złota rybka"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "fish",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "doirada"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "fish",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "peixinho dourado"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "ro",
          "lang": "Romanian",
          "sense": "fish",
          "word": "peștișor auriu"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "ro",
          "lang": "Romanian",
          "sense": "fish",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "caras-auriu"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "zolotája rýbka",
          "sense": "fish",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "золота́я ры́бка"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "sh",
          "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
          "sense": "fish",
          "tags": [
            "Cyrillic",
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "златна рибица"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "sh",
          "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
          "sense": "fish",
          "tags": [
            "Roman",
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "zlatna ribica"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "sms",
          "lang": "Skolt Sami",
          "sense": "fish",
          "word": "kåʹllkueʹll"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "sk",
          "lang": "Slovak",
          "sense": "fish",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "zlatá rybka"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "sk",
          "lang": "Slovak",
          "sense": "fish",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "karas striebristý"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "sk",
          "lang": "Slovak",
          "sense": "fish",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "karas zlatý"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "sl",
          "lang": "Slovene",
          "sense": "fish",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "zlata ribica"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "fish",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "pez rojo"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "fish",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "pez dorado"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "fish",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "pez de oro"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "fish",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "pez de colores"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "fish",
          "tags": [
            "Mexico",
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "carpa dorada"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "fish",
          "tags": [
            "common-gender"
          ],
          "word": "guldfisk"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "tl",
          "lang": "Tagalog",
          "sense": "fish",
          "word": "lali"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "th",
          "lang": "Thai",
          "roman": "bplaa tong",
          "sense": "fish",
          "word": "ปลาทอง"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "bo",
          "lang": "Tibetan",
          "roman": "gser nya",
          "sense": "fish",
          "word": "གསེར་ཉ"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "tr",
          "lang": "Turkish",
          "sense": "fish",
          "word": "Japon balığı"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "uk",
          "lang": "Ukrainian",
          "roman": "zolotá rýbka",
          "sense": "fish",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "золота́ ри́бка"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "ur",
          "lang": "Urdu",
          "roman": "sunharī machlī",
          "sense": "fish",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "سنہری مچھلی"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "uz",
          "lang": "Uzbek",
          "sense": "fish",
          "word": "oltin baliq"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "vi",
          "lang": "Vietnamese",
          "sense": "fish",
          "word": "cá vàng"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "vi",
          "lang": "Vietnamese",
          "sense": "fish",
          "word": "cá ba đuôi"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "vo",
          "lang": "Volapük",
          "sense": "fish",
          "word": "ziporüt"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "vo",
          "lang": "Volapük",
          "sense": "fish",
          "word": "goldafit"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "vo",
          "lang": "Volapük",
          "sense": "fish",
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          "_dis1": "100 0",
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          "sense": "fish",
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      "code": "af",
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      "sense": "fish",
      "word": "goudvis"
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      "code": "sq",
      "lang": "Albanian",
      "sense": "fish",
      "word": "peshk i kuq"
    },
    {
      "alt": "samaka(t) zīna",
      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "sense": "fish",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "سَمَكَة زِينة"
    },
    {
      "code": "az",
      "lang": "Azerbaijani",
      "sense": "fish",
      "word": "şələquyruq qızıl balığı"
    },
    {
      "code": "az",
      "lang": "Azerbaijani",
      "sense": "fish",
      "word": "Yapon balığı"
    },
    {
      "code": "eu",
      "lang": "Basque",
      "sense": "fish",
      "word": "urre-arrain"
    },
    {
      "code": "be",
      "lang": "Belarusian",
      "roman": "zalatája rýbka",
      "sense": "fish",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "залата́я ры́бка"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "zlátna ríbka",
      "sense": "fish",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "зла́тна ри́бка"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "fish",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "carpí"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "fish",
      "word": "金魚"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "jīnyú",
      "sense": "fish",
      "word": "金鱼"
    },
    {
      "code": "kw",
      "lang": "Cornish",
      "sense": "fish",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "owrbysk"
    },
    {
      "code": "kw",
      "lang": "Cornish",
      "sense": "fish",
      "tags": [
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        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "owrbesk"
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      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "fish",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "zlatá rybka"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "fish",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "guldfisk"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "fish",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "goudvis"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "fish",
      "word": "orfiŝo"
    },
    {
      "code": "et",
      "lang": "Estonian",
      "sense": "fish",
      "word": "kuldkala"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "fish",
      "word": "kultakala"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "fish",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "poisson rouge"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "fish",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "carassin doré"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "fish",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Goldfisch"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "chrysópsaro",
      "sense": "fish",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "χρυσόψαρο"
    },
    {
      "code": "haw",
      "lang": "Hawaiian",
      "sense": "fish",
      "word": "iʻa ʻulaʻula"
    },
    {
      "code": "he",
      "lang": "Hebrew",
      "roman": "dag zaháv",
      "sense": "fish",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "דַּג זָהָב"
    },
    {
      "code": "hi",
      "lang": "Hindi",
      "roman": "sunahrī machlī",
      "sense": "fish",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "सुनहरी मछली"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "fish",
      "word": "aranyhal"
    },
    {
      "code": "is",
      "lang": "Icelandic",
      "sense": "fish",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "gullfiskur"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "fish",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "pesce rosso"
    },
    {
      "alt": "きんぎょ",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "kingyo",
      "sense": "fish",
      "word": "金魚"
    },
    {
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "geumbung'eo",
      "sense": "fish",
      "word": "금붕어"
    },
    {
      "code": "lv",
      "lang": "Latvian",
      "sense": "fish",
      "word": "Zelta zivtiņa"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "zlatna ripka",
      "sense": "fish",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "златна рипка"
    },
    {
      "code": "ms",
      "lang": "Malay",
      "sense": "fish",
      "word": "ikan emas"
    },
    {
      "code": "ms",
      "lang": "Malay",
      "sense": "fish",
      "word": "ikan mas"
    },
    {
      "code": "ml",
      "lang": "Malayalam",
      "roman": "svaṟṇṇamatsaṁ",
      "sense": "fish",
      "word": "സ്വർണ്ണമത്സം"
    },
    {
      "code": "gv",
      "lang": "Manx",
      "sense": "fish",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "eeast airhey"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "fish",
      "word": "morihana"
    },
    {
      "code": "mn",
      "lang": "Mongolian",
      "roman": "altan zagas",
      "sense": "fish",
      "word": "алтан загас"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "fish",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "gullfisk"
    },
    {
      "code": "nn",
      "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
      "sense": "fish",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "gullfisk"
    },
    {
      "code": "fa",
      "lang": "Persian",
      "roman": "mâhi-ye qermez",
      "sense": "fish",
      "word": "ماهی قرمز"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "fish",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "złota rybka"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "fish",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "doirada"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "fish",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "peixinho dourado"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "fish",
      "word": "peștișor auriu"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "fish",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "caras-auriu"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "zolotája rýbka",
      "sense": "fish",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "золота́я ры́бка"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "fish",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic",
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "златна рибица"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "fish",
      "tags": [
        "Roman",
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "zlatna ribica"
    },
    {
      "code": "sms",
      "lang": "Skolt Sami",
      "sense": "fish",
      "word": "kåʹllkueʹll"
    },
    {
      "code": "sk",
      "lang": "Slovak",
      "sense": "fish",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "zlatá rybka"
    },
    {
      "code": "sk",
      "lang": "Slovak",
      "sense": "fish",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "karas striebristý"
    },
    {
      "code": "sk",
      "lang": "Slovak",
      "sense": "fish",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "karas zlatý"
    },
    {
      "code": "sl",
      "lang": "Slovene",
      "sense": "fish",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "zlata ribica"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "fish",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "pez rojo"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "fish",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "pez dorado"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "fish",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "pez de oro"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "fish",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "pez de colores"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "fish",
      "tags": [
        "Mexico",
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "carpa dorada"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "fish",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "guldfisk"
    },
    {
      "code": "tl",
      "lang": "Tagalog",
      "sense": "fish",
      "word": "lali"
    },
    {
      "code": "th",
      "lang": "Thai",
      "roman": "bplaa tong",
      "sense": "fish",
      "word": "ปลาทอง"
    },
    {
      "code": "bo",
      "lang": "Tibetan",
      "roman": "gser nya",
      "sense": "fish",
      "word": "གསེར་ཉ"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "fish",
      "word": "Japon balığı"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "zolotá rýbka",
      "sense": "fish",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "золота́ ри́бка"
    },
    {
      "code": "ur",
      "lang": "Urdu",
      "roman": "sunharī machlī",
      "sense": "fish",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "سنہری مچھلی"
    },
    {
      "code": "uz",
      "lang": "Uzbek",
      "sense": "fish",
      "word": "oltin baliq"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "fish",
      "word": "cá vàng"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "fish",
      "word": "cá ba đuôi"
    },
    {
      "code": "vo",
      "lang": "Volapük",
      "sense": "fish",
      "word": "ziporüt"
    },
    {
      "code": "vo",
      "lang": "Volapük",
      "sense": "fish",
      "word": "goldafit"
    },
    {
      "code": "vo",
      "lang": "Volapük",
      "sense": "fish",
      "word": "golüdafit (original Volapük, Volapük rigik)"
    },
    {
      "code": "cy",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "sense": "fish",
      "tags": [
        "masculine",
        "plural"
      ],
      "word": "pysgod aur"
    },
    {
      "code": "cy",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "sense": "fish",
      "tags": [
        "masculine",
        "singular",
        "singulative"
      ],
      "word": "pysgodyn aur"
    },
    {
      "code": "fy",
      "lang": "West Frisian",
      "sense": "fish",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "goudfisk"
    },
    {
      "code": "yi",
      "lang": "Yiddish",
      "roman": "goldfish",
      "sense": "fish",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "גאָלדפֿיש"
    },
    {
      "code": "za",
      "lang": "Zhuang",
      "sense": "fish",
      "word": "byagim"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "person with an unreliable memory",
      "word": "huonomuistinen"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "person with an unreliable memory",
      "word": "kultakala"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "goldfish"
  ],
  "word": "goldfish"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-01 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.