Definition
A South African fish (also called a bluebottle or bluehead wrasse) prized as food.
Etymology
From Afrikaans/Dutch: blou (blue) plus biskop (bishop), literally 'blue bishop,' referring to the fish's coloring and distinctive head shape.
Kelly Says
Bloubiskop shows how English borrows names from other languages for local creatures—the Dutch settlers in South Africa named this fish, and English adopted their word because they had no common English name for a regional fish.
Translations
AMአማርኛ
bloubiskop
bloo-bi-sko-p
ARالعربية
bloubiskop
bloo-bi-sko-p
BNবাংলা
bloubiskop
bloo-bi-sko-p
CACatalà
bloubiskop
bloo-bi-sko-p
CSČeština
bloubiskop
bloo-bi-sko-p
DADansk
bloubiskop
bloo-bi-sko-p
DEDeutsch
bloubiskop
bloo-bi-sko-p
ELΕλληνικά
bloubiskop
bloo-bi-sko-p
ESEspañol
bloubiskop
bloo-bi-sko-p
FAفارسی
bloubiskop
bloo-bi-sko-p
FISuomi
bloubiskop
bloo-bi-sko-p
FRFrançais
bloubiskop
bloo-bi-sko-p
GUGU
bloubiskop
bloo-bi-sko-p
HAHA
bloubiskop
bloo-bi-sko-p
HEעברית
bloubiskop
bloo-bi-sko-p
HIहिन्दी
bloubiskop
bloo-bi-sko-p
HUMagyar
bloubiskop
bloo-bi-sko-p
IDBahasa Indonesia
bloubiskop
bloo-bi-sko-p
IGIG
bloubiskop
bloo-bi-sko-p
ITItaliano
bloubiskop
bloo-bi-sko-p
JA日本語
bloubiskop
bloo-bi-sko-p
KKKK
bloubiskop
bloo-bi-sko-p
KMKM
bloubiskop
bloo-bi-sko-p
KO한국어
bloubiskop
bloo-bi-sko-p
MRMR
bloubiskop
bloo-bi-sko-p
MSBahasa Melayu
bloubiskop
bloo-bi-sko-p
MYမြန်မာ
bloubiskop
bloo-bi-sko-p
NLNederlands
bloubiskop
bloo-bi-sko-p
NONorsk
bloubiskop
bloo-bi-sko-p
PAPA
bloubiskop
bloo-bi-sko-p
PLPolski
bloubiskop
bloo-bi-sko-p
PTPortuguês
bloubiskop
bloo-bi-sko-p
RORomână
bloubiskop
bloo-bi-sko-p
RUРусский
bloubiskop
bloo-bi-sko-p
SVSvenska
bloubiskop
bloo-bi-sko-p
SWKiswahili
bloubiskop
bloo-bi-sko-p
TAதமிழ்
bloubiskop
bloo-bi-sko-p
TEతెలుగు
bloubiskop
bloo-bi-sko-p
THไทย
bloubiskop
bloo-bi-sko-p
TLTL
bloubiskop
bloo-bi-sko-p
TRTürkçe
bloubiskop
bloo-bi-sko-p
UKУкраїнська
bloubiskop
bloo-bi-sko-p
URاردو
bloubiskop
bloo-bi-sko-p
VITiếng Việt
bloubiskop
bloo-bi-sko-p
YOYO
bloubiskop
bloo-bi-sko-p
ZH中文
bloubiskop
bloo-bi-sko-p
ZUZU
bloubiskop
bloo-bi-sko-p