Noun
fishbone (plural fishbones)
- A bone from a fish.
He choked on a fishbone.
- (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
Translations
bone of a fish
- Albanian: halë (sq) f
- Arabic:
- Egyptian Arabic: سفة f (safa)
- Armenian: փուշ (hy) (pʻuš)
- 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: пулă шăмми (pulă šămmi)
- 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: ψαροκόκκαλο (el) n (psarokókkalo)
- 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
- Ottoman Turkish: قیلچق (qılçık)
- 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
- Telugu: చేప ముల్లు (te) (cēpa mullu)
- Thai: ก้าง (th) (gâang)
- Turkish: kılçık (tr)
- Tày: cảng
- Ukrainian: риб'яча кістка (rybʺjača kistka)
- Vietnamese: xương cá
- Volapük: fitabom (vo), (diminutive) fitabomil (vo)
- Welsh: asgwrn pysgod m
- Yiddish: ביינדל (beyndl), פֿישביינדל (fishbeyndl)
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