blowfish

See also: Blowfish

English

An inflated blowfish.

Etymology

blow +‎ fish.

Noun

blowfish (plural blowfish or blowfishes)

1. Any species of fish of the family Tetraodontidae that have the ability to inflate themselves to a globe several times their normal size by swallowing water or air when threatened.
2. A delicacy popular in Japan, consisting of the fish served raw as sushi or perhaps fried. It may, if improperly prepared, contain considerably deadly levels of neurotoxins.

Synonyms

• (fish): balloonfish, globefish, puffer, pufferfish, swellfish
• (food): fugu

Translations

any species of fish of the family Tetraodontidae that have the ability to inflate themselves to a globe

• Arabic: أَسْمَاك بَالُون m (ʔasmāk bālūn)
• Bulgarian: риба-таралеж f (riba-taralež)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 河豚 (zh) (hétún)

• Danish: kuglefisk
• Dhivehi: ކޮލި އާއިލާ (koli āilā)
• Dutch: kogelvis (nl) m
• Finnish: pallokala (fi), siilikala
• French: poisson ballon m, poisson globe m
• Georgian: ბურთით თევზი (burtit tevzi)
• German: Kugelfisch (de) m
• Hungarian: gömbhal (hu)
• Icelandic: ígulfiskur m
• Indonesian: buntal (id)
• Irish: iasc balún
• Italian: pesce palla m
• Japanese: フグ (ja) (fugu), 河豚 (ja) (ふぐ, fugu), 鰒 (ja) (ふぐ, fugu)
• Korean: 복어 (bogeo)
• Lü: ᦔᦱᦗᦸᧂᦟᦳᧄ (ṗaapoanglum)
• Malay: buntal (ms), ikan buntal
• Maori: kōpūtōtara
• Navajo: niicháadii
• Old Tupi: baîaku
• Palauan: telebudel
• Polish: ryba rozdymkowata f
• Portuguese: baiacu m, peixe-balão m, fugu m
• Russian: иглобрю́хая ры́ба f (iglobrjúxaja rýba), ры́ба-соба́ка (ru) f (rýba-sobáka)
• Spanish: pez globo m
• Swedish: blåsfisk (sv) c
• Tagalog: pumutok isda
• Thai: ปักเป้า (th) (bpàk-gà-bpâo)
• Turkish: balon balığı
• Vietnamese: cá bóng

a delicacy popular in Japan served raw as sushi that may, if improperly prepared, contain deadly levels of neurotoxins

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 河豚 (zh) (hétún)

• Finnish: fugu (fi), pallokala (fi), siilikala
• Japanese: フグ (ja) (fugu), 河豚 (ja) (ふぐ, fugu)
• Korean: 복어 (bogeo)
• Portuguese: fugu m
• Russian: фу́гу (ru) n (fúgu)

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Translations to be checked

• Spanish: ^{(please verify)} pez globo m

Anagrams

• fish bowl, fishbowl