flatfish

English

Etymology

From flat +‎ fish.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈflætfɪʃ/

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• Rhymes: -ætfɪʃ

Noun

flatfish (countable and uncountable, plural flatfish or flatfishes)

1. A fish of the order Pleuronectiformes, the adults of which have both eyes on one side and usually swim with the other side down, such as a flounder, a halibut, or a sole.

Synonyms

• pleuronectiform

Hyponyms

• See also Thesaurus:flatfish

Translations

fish of the order Pleuronectiformes

• Arabic: سمكَة مفلطحَة
• Basque: platuxa
• Belarusian: ка́мбала f (kámbala)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 比目魚 / 比目鱼 (zh) (bǐmùyú)

• Czech: platýs (cs) m, kambala f
• Danish: fladfisk (da) c
• Dutch: platvis (nl) m
• Estonian: lestaline (kala)
• Finnish: kampela (fi), kampelakala (fi)
• French: poisson plat (fr) m
• German: Plattfisch (de) m
• Greek: πλατύψαρο n (platýpsaro)

  Ancient: κίθαρος m (kítharos), ψῆττα f (psêtta)

• Hungarian: lepényhal (hu)
• Irish: leadhbóg f, leathóg f, iasc leathógach m, leith f
• Italian: rombo (it) m
• Japanese: 鰈 (ja) (karei), カレイ (ja) (karei)
• Kazakh: камбала (kambala)
• Korean: 가자미 (ko) (gajami)
• Latvian: plekste (lv) f
• Lithuanian: plekšnė (lt)
• Maori: pātiki
• Navajo: łóóʼtʼą́hí
• Nootka: p̕uuḥu
• Norwegian: flatfisk m, flyndrefisk m
• Polish: płastuga f
• Portuguese: linguado (pt) m, solha (pt) f
• Russian: пло́ская ры́ба f (plóskaja rýba)
• Scottish Gaelic: pacach-cearr m
• Serbo-Croatian: plosnatica f
• Spanish: pez plano m
• Swedish: plattfisk (sv)
• Tagalog: isdang-lapad, darapa
• Ukrainian: ка́мбала (uk) f (kámbala)
• Vietnamese: cá bơn, cá thờn bơn, cá lờn bơn, thờn bơn (vi), lờn bơn
• Welsh: lleden (cy) f