sunfish

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Etymology

From sun +‎ fish.
(type of fish): Perhaps from the rounded body shape.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈsʌnˌfɪʃ/

Noun

sunfish (plural sunfish or sunfishes)

Any of various small freshwater fishes of the family Centrarchidae, often with iridescent colours and having a laterally compressed body.
Any of various large marine fishes of the family Molidae that have an oval compressed body.

Derived terms

Translations

fish of the family Centrarchidae

Catalan: centràrquid m
Chinese:
Mandarin: please add this translation if you can
Czech: okounek m
Finnish: aurinkoahven
French: please add this translation if you can
German: Sonnenbarsch m
Polish: bassek (pl) m, okończyk m
Portuguese: please add this translation if you can
Russian: со́лнечный о́кунь m (sólnečnyj ókunʹ), со́лнечная ры́ба f (sólnečnaja rýba)
Spanish: centrárquido m

fish of the family Molidae

Asturian: rueda (ast)
Basque: atalo
Bulgarian: риба луна f (riba luna)
Catalan: bot (ca), peix lluna (ca), mola (ca)
Chinese: 翻車魚／翻车鱼 (zh) (fānchēyú), 曼波魚／曼波鱼
Czech: měsíčník (cs) m
Danish: klumpfisk
Dutch: klompvis, maanvis (nl)
Estonian: kuukala (et)
Finnish: möhkäkala
French: môle (fr) f, poisson-lune (fr) m, molidé
Galician: peixe lúa (gl) m
German: Mondfisch (de) m
Hebrew: דג השמש
Hungarian: holdhal (hu)
Icelandic: tunglfiskur
Italian: pesce luna m, ortagorisco (it)
Japanese: 翻車魚, マンボウ (ja) (manbō)
Korean: 개복치 (ko) (gaebokchi)
Latvian: mēnesszivs
Ligurian: mêua f
Lithuanian: paprastoji mėnulžuvė, mėnulžuvė
Maori: rātāhuihui
Norman: solé m (Jersey)
Norwegian: månefisk, klumpfisk
Polish: samogłów (pl)
Portuguese: peixe-lua m
Russian: рыба-луна (ryba-luna)
Serbo-Croatian:
Roman: bucanj (sh)
Spanish: pez luna m
Swedish: klumpfisk (sv), solfisk
Turkish: ay balığı (tr)
Ukrainian: риба-місяць (ryba-misjacʹ)
Vietnamese: cá mặt trăng

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Translations to be checked

Chinese: ^{(please verify)} 翻車魚／翻车鱼 (zh) (fānchēyú)
Maori: ^{(please verify)} rātāhuihui

Verb

sunfish (third-person singular simple present sunfishes, present participle sunfishing, simple past and past participle sunfished)

(intransitive) Of an animal such as a bull or a horse: to twist the body into a crescent shape and roll back and forth.