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fishball

noun · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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noun

Meaning 1

A food item made from pulverized fish shaped into a ball, popular in Chinese and Scandinavian cuisine and elsewhere around the world.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

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History

Etymology

From fish + ball.

Across languages

Translations

18 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Chinese Cantonese: 魚蛋 /鱼蛋 — pulverized fish shaped into a ball
  • Chinese Cantonese: 魚丸 /鱼丸 — pulverized fish shaped into a ball
  • Hakka Chinese: 魚丸 /鱼丸 (ǹg-yèn) — pulverized fish shaped into a ball
  • Chinese: 魚丸 /鱼丸 (zh-min-nan) — pulverized fish shaped into a ball
  • Chinese Mandarin: 魚丸 /鱼丸 (yúwán) — pulverized fish shaped into a ball
  • Danish: fiskebolle — pulverized fish shaped into a ball
  • Finnish: kalapulla — pulverized fish shaped into a ball
  • Indonesian: bakso ikan — pulverized fish shaped into a ball
  • Malay: bola ikan — pulverized fish shaped into a ball
  • Norwegian Bokmål: fiskeboll — pulverized fish shaped into a ball
  • Polish: kulka rybna — pulverized fish shaped into a ball
  • Russian: ры́бный ша́рик (rýbnyj šárik) — pulverized fish shaped into a ball
  • Spanish: bola de pescado — pulverized fish shaped into a ball
  • Swedish: fiskbulle — pulverized fish shaped into a ball
  • Tagalog: pisbol — pulverized fish shaped into a ball
  • Thai: ลูกชิ้น (lôok chín) — pulverized fish shaped into a ball
  • Turkish: balık köftesi — pulverized fish shaped into a ball
  • Vietnamese: cá viên — pulverized fish shaped into a ball