milkfish

English

Milkfish

Wikispecies

Etymology

milk +‎ fish

Noun

milkfish (countable and uncountable, plural milkfishes or milkfish)

1. Chanos chanos, an important food fish in southeast Asia.
   • 2009 February 15, Mark Foggin, “Fast Food for the Filipino Soul”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     Its fare is a mix of fast-food staples like burgers and Chickenjoy, along with more regional dishes like smoked bangus, or milkfish — a national symbol of the Philippines — served with vinegar and pepper.

   • 2016, Scott L. Kastner, Margaret M. Pearson, “Winning Hearts and Minds? On the Sources and Efficacy of Economic Engagement Policies in US-China and China-Taiwan Relations”, in Steven E. Lobell, Norrin M Ripsman, editors, The Political Economy of Regional Peacemaking‎^[2], Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 159–160:

     The Taiwanese milkfish industry has faced troubles in recent years, and in 2011 a state-owned PRC firm placed an order for the fish from the town of Syuejia (Xuejia) in Tainan County.

Translations

Chanos chanos

• Bikol Central: bangus
• Bulgarian: млечна риба f (mlečna riba)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 虱目魚 (sat¹ muk⁶ jyu^4-2)

  Hokkien: 虱目魚 (zh-min-nan) (sat-ba̍k-hî/sat-ba̍k-hû)

  Mandarin: 虱目魚 (zh) (shīmùyú)

• Dutch: bandeng (nl) m
• Finnish: maitokala
• French: poisson-lait (fr) m
• German: Milchfisch (de) m
• Hawaiian: awa
• Hungarian: indiai hering, tejhal
• Indonesian: bandeng (id)
• Japanese: 虱目魚 (さばひい, sabahī)
• Javanese: ꦧꦤ꧀ꦢꦼꦁ (bandeng)
• Russian: ха́нос m (xános)
• Spanish: sabalote m, pez de leche m
• Tagalog: bangus
• Turkish: süt balığı