fishball

English

Alternative forms

fish ball, fish-ball

Etymology

fish +‎ ball

Noun

fishball (plural fishballs)

A food item made from pulverized fish shaped into a ball, popular in Chinese and Scandinavian cuisine.
- 2005, Jae W. Park, editor, Surimi and Surimi Seafood, second 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.

Translations

pulverized fish shaped into a ball

Chinese:
Cantonese: 魚蛋, 鱼蛋 (jyu⁴ daan^6-2), 魚丸, 鱼丸 (jyu⁴ jyun^4-2)

Hakka: 魚丸, 鱼丸 (ǹg-yèn)

Mandarin: 魚丸／鱼丸 (zh) (yúwán)

Min Nan: 魚丸 (zh-min-nan), 鱼丸 (hî-oân, hû-oân)
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
Thai: ลูกชิ้น (th) (lôok chín)
Turkish: balık köftesi
Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can

See also

fishcake

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