sunfish

English

A sunfish (Centrarchidae)

A sunfish (Molidae)

Etymology

• From sun +‎ fish.
• (type of fish): Perhaps from the rounded body shape.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsʌnˌfɪʃ/

Noun

sunfish (plural sunfish or sunfishes)

1. Any of various small freshwater fishes of the family Centrarchidae, often with iridescent colours and having a laterally compressed body.
2. Any of various large marine fishes of the family Molidae that have an oval compressed body.

Derived terms

• longear sunfish
• mud sunfish
• ocean sunfish

 

Translations

fish of the family Centrarchidae

• Catalan: centràrquid m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Czech: okounek m
• Finnish: aurinkoahven
• French: please add this translation if you can
• German: Sonnenbarsch m
• Polish: bassek (pl) m, okończyk m
• Portuguese: please add this translation if you can
• Russian: со́лнечный о́кунь m (sólnečnyj ókunʹ), со́лнечная ры́ба f (sólnečnaja rýba)
• Spanish: centrárquido m

fish of the family Molidae

• Asturian: rueda (ast)
• Basque: atalo
• Bulgarian: риба луна f (riba luna)
• 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 (et)
• 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 (hu)
• Icelandic: tunglfiskur
• Italian: pesce luna m, ortagorisco (it)
• Japanese: 翻車魚 (ja), マンボウ (ja) (manbō)
• Korean: 개복치 (ko) (gaebokchi)
• 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: bucanj (sh)

• 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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Translations to be checked

• Chinese: ^{(please verify)} 翻車魚 / 翻车鱼 (zh) (fānchēyú)
• Maori: ^{(please verify)} rātāhuihui

Verb

sunfish (third-person singular simple present sunfishes, present participle sunfishing, simple past and past participle sunfished)

1. (intransitive) Of an animal such as a bull or a horse: to twist the body into a crescent shape and roll back and forth.