fishbone - Wiktionary, the free dictionary (original) (raw)

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From fish +‎ bone.

fishbone (plural fishbones)

1. A bone from a fish.
   He choked on a fishbone.
2. (figurative, attributive) Something with an appearance or structure suggestive of a fish's skeleton.
   Coordinate terms: dogbone, wishbone
   a faint fishbone pattern etched across the glass

• fishbone diagram

• fishboning

• bonefish

• bony fish

• herringbone

bone of a fish

• Albanian: halë (sq) f

• Arabic:
  Egyptian Arabic: سفة f (safa)

• Armenian: փուշ (hy) (pʻuš)

• Azerbaijani: qılçıq

• Bulgarian: рибна кост f (ribna kost)

• Catalan: espina (ca) f, espina de peix f

• Chinese:
  Cantonese: 魚骨 / 鱼骨 (jyu4 gwat1)
  Mandarin: 魚骨 / 鱼骨 (zh) (yúgǔ), 魚刺 / 鱼刺 (zh) (yúcì)

• Chuvash: пулӑ шӑмми (pulă š̬ămmi)

• Czech: rybí kost f

• Danish: fiskeben n

• Dutch: graat (nl) m

• Esperanto: fiŝosto

• Estonian: luu (et)

• Finnish: kalanruoto (fi), ruodot (fi) pl

• French: arête (fr) f, arête de poisson f

• Galician: espiña (gl) f, argana (gl) f, escana f, morghana f, xalra f, aresta (gl) f

• German: Gräte (de) f, Fischgräte (de) f

• Greek: ψαροκόκαλο (el) n (psarokókalo)

• Hebrew: אִדְרָה (he) f (idrá)

• Hungarian: szálka (hu)

• Italian: lisca (it) f, lisca di pesce f, spina (it) f, spina di pesce f

• Latvian: asaka

• Norman: héthèque f

• Norwegian: fiskebein n

• Polish: ość (pl) f

• Portuguese: espinha (pt) f, espinha de peixe f

• Punjabi: ਮੱਛੀਕੰਡਾ m (macchīkaṇḍā)

• Romanian: os de pește n

• Russian: ры́бья кость f (rýbʹja kostʹ), косточка (ru) (kostočka)

• Sicilian: resca f

• Sorbian:
  Lower Sorbian: rybjeca wósć f

• Spanish: espina (es) f, espina del pescado f

• Swedish: fiskben (sv) n

• Tày: cảng

• Telugu: చేప ముల్లు (te) (cēpa mullu)

• Thai: ก้าง (th) (gâang)

• Turkish: kılçık (tr)
  Ottoman Turkish: قیلچق (qılçık)

• Ukrainian: риб'яча кістка (rybʺjača kistka)

• Vietnamese: xương cá

• Volapük: fitabom (vo), (diminutive) fitabomil (vo)

• Welsh: asgwrn pysgod m

• Yiddish: ביינדל (beyndl), פֿישביינדל (fishbeyndl)

• bonefish