How to Say Fish in Different Languages
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Please find below many ways to say fish in different languages. This page features translation of the word "fish" to over 100 other languages. We also invite you to listen to audio pronunciation in more than 40 languages, so you could learn how to pronounce fish and how to read it.
Saying Fish in European Languages
| Language | Ways to say fish | |
|---|---|---|
| Albanian | peshku | |
| Basque | arraina | |
| Belarusian | рыба [ryba] | |
| Bosnian | riba | |
| Bulgarian | риба [riba] | |
| Catalan | peixos | |
| Corsican | pisci | |
| Croatian | riba | |
| Czech | Ryba | |
| Danish | fisk | |
| Dutch | vis | |
| Estonian | kala | |
| Finnish | kalastaa | |
| French | poisson | |
| Frisian | fisk | |
| Galician | peixe | |
| German | Fisch | |
| Greek | ψάρι [psári] | |
| Hungarian | hal | |
| Icelandic | Fiskur | |
| Irish | iasc | |
| Italian | pescare | |
| Latvian | zivis | |
| Lithuanian | žuvis | |
| Luxembourgish | Fësch | |
| Macedonian | Риба [Riba] | |
| Maltese | ħut | |
| Norwegian | fisk | |
| Polish | ryba | |
| Portuguese | peixe | |
| Romanian | peşte | |
| Russian | рыба [ryba] | |
| Scots Gaelic | iasg | |
| Serbian | риба [riba] | |
| Slovak | ryby | |
| Slovenian | ribe | |
| Spanish | pez | |
| Swedish | fisk | |
| Tatar | балык | |
| Ukrainian | риба [ryba] | |
| Welsh | pysgodyn | |
| Yiddish | פיש [fish] | |
Saying Fish in Asian Languages
| Language | Ways to say fish | |
|---|---|---|
| Armenian | ձուկ [dzuk] | |
| Azerbaijani | balıq | |
| Bengali | মাছ [mācha] | |
| Chinese Simplified | 鱼 [yú] | |
| Chinese Traditional | 魚 [yú] | |
| Georgian | თევზი [tevzi] | |
| Gujarati | માછલી [māchalī] | |
| Hindi | मछली [machhalee] | |
| Hmong | ntses | |
| Japanese | 魚 | |
| Kannada | ಮೀನು [mīnu] | |
| Kazakh | балық [balıq] | |
| Khmer | ត្រី | |
| Korean | 물고기 [mulgogi] | |
| Kyrgyz | балык [balık] | |
| Lao | ປາ [pa] | |
| Malayalam | മത്സ്യം [malsyam] | |
| Marathi | मासे [māsē] | |
| Mongolian | загас [zagas] | |
| Myanmar (Burmese) | ငါး [ngarr] | |
| Nepali | माछा [māchā] | |
| Odia | ମାଛ | | |
| Pashto | کب | |
| Punjabi | ਮੱਛੀ [machī] | |
| Sindhi | مڇي | |
| Sinhala | මාළු [māḷu] | |
| Tajik | моҳӣ | |
| Tamil | மீன் [mīṉ] | |
| Telugu | చేప [chēpa] | |
| Thai | ปลา | |
| Turkish | balık | |
| Turkmen | balyk | |
| Urdu | مچھلی | |
| Uyghur | بېلىق | |
| Uzbek | baliq | |
| Vietnamese | Cá | |
Saying Fish in Middle-Eastern Languages
| Language | Ways to say fish | |
|---|---|---|
| Arabic | سمكة [samaka] | |
| Hebrew | דג | |
| Kurdish (Kurmanji) | masî | |
| Persian | ماهی | |
Saying Fish in African Languages
| Language | Ways to say fish | |
|---|---|---|
| Afrikaans | vis | |
| Amharic | አሳ [āsa] | |
| Chichewa | nsomba | |
| Hausa | kifi | |
| Igbo | azụ | |
| Kinyarwanda | amafi | |
| Sesotho | tlhapi | |
| Shona | hove | |
| Somali | kalluunka | |
| Swahili | samaki | |
| Xhosa | intlanzi | |
| Yoruba | ẹja | |
| Zulu | izinhlanzi | |
Cite this Entry
"Fish in Different Languages." In Different Languages, https://www.indifferentlanguages.com/words/fish. Accessed 22 Sep 2023.
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