English
Etymology
From fish + ball.
Noun
fishball (plural fishballs)
- A food item made from pulverized fish shaped into a ball, popular in Chinese and Scandinavian cuisine and elsewhere around the world.
2005, Jae W. Park, editor, Surimi and Surimi Seafood, 2nd edition, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 388:In Singapore, the most popular surimi-based product is the fish ball, which is used in a local application, Yong Tau Foo.
Descendants
Translations
pulverized fish shaped into a ball
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 魚蛋 / 鱼蛋 (jyu4 daan6-2), 魚丸 / 鱼丸 (jyu4 jyun4-2)
- Hakka: 魚丸 / 鱼丸 (ǹg-yèn)
- Hokkien: 魚丸 / 鱼丸 (zh-min-nan) (hî-oân, hû-oân)
- Mandarin: 魚丸 / 鱼丸 (zh) (yúwán)
- Danish: fiskebolle c
- Finnish: kalapulla (fi)
- Indonesian: bakso ikan
- Lao: please add this translation if you can
- Malay: bola ikan
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: fiskeboll
- Russian: ры́бный ша́рик m (rýbnyj šárik)
- Spanish: bola de pescado f
- Swedish: fiskbulle (sv) c
- Tagalog: pisbol
- Thai: ลูกชิ้น (th) (lôok chín)
- Turkish: balık köftesi
- Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can
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