vobla

English

Alternative forms

• wobla

dried vobla

Etymology

Loanword from Russian во́бла (vóbla)

Noun

vobla (plural voblas)

1. The Caspian roach (Rutilus caspicus), formerly considered a subspecies of the common roach.
   • 1900 September, Einar Lönnberg, “Short notes on Caspian fishes”, in Revue Internationale de Pêche et de Pisciculture, Volume II, Number 2, Russian Imperial Society of Fishculture and Fisheries, page 4:

     The „vobla“ (Leuciscus rutilus Lin.) is one of the most important food fishes of this region. […] This vobla is very fat and is more stoutly built, than the northern roach, but cannot otherwise be distinguished from the same.

   • 1918, I. Pelferoff, “Fisheries”, Chapter IX of Arthur Raffalovich (editor), Russia: Its Trade and Commerce,^[1] P. S. King & Son, page 221:

     In this connexion, the cost of “vobla,”¹ which to some extent replaces the herring, has soared upwards. […] Dried “vobla,” which is a popular article of food, and was formerly sold at one copeck per fish, now sells at from 5 to 10 copecks for the smaller fish, and 20 copecks for the larger. ¶ […] ¶ The only exceptions to the general rule are white sturgeon, salmon and to some extent “vobla.”

     ¹ An inferior species of herring.

   • 1989, Mary McAuley, “Bread without the Bourgeoisie”, in Diane Koenker et al., editors, Party, State, and Society in the Russian Civil War, Indiana University Press, →ISBN, page 167:

     For most it was bread and vobla, an awful salt-fish, nicknamed “Soviet ham,” whose bones would splinter and damage the intestines. […] But in the spring of 1921, […] the average employee was back to a half pound of bread, one pound of cereal, and two pounds of vobla.

Usage notes

• This word is frequently italicized or otherwise treated as foreign.

Synonyms

• Caspian roach
• wobla

Translations

Rutilus caspicus

• Belarusian: во́бла f (vóbla)
• Estonian: aserisärg, vobla
• German: Wobla f
• Nogai: шабак (şabak)
• Portuguese: vobla m
• Russian: во́бла (ru) f (vóbla)
• Udmurt: бекчечорыг (bekćećoryg)
• Ukrainian: во́бла f (vóbla)

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈvɔ.blɐ/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈvɔ.blɐ/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈvɔ.bla/

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈvɔ.blɐ/ [ˈvɔ.βlɐ]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈvɔ.blɐ/ [ˈvɔ.βlɐ]
  • (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈbɔ.blɐ/ [ˈbɔ.βlɐ]

Noun

vobla m (plural voblas)

1. (rare) vobla (Rutilus caspicus, a fish of the Caspian sea)