catfish

Etymology 1
From. Likely so named for its prominent barbels like a cat's whiskers. Compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬. Compare also 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) Any fish of the order, mainly found in fresh water, lacking scales, and having barbels like whiskers around the mouth.
 * 2) The meat of such a fish, popular in the Southern U.S. and Central Europe.
 * 1) The meat of such a fish, popular in the Southern U.S. and Central Europe.
 * 1) The meat of such a fish, popular in the Southern U.S. and Central Europe.

Translations

 * Abkhaz: аԥа́шәԥсыӡ
 * Arabic: سَلُّور
 * Egyptian Arabic: قرموط
 * Gulf Arabic: كاتفش
 * Aramaic:
 * Syriac: ܣܱܠܽܘܪܴܐ
 * Armenian:
 * Asturian:
 * Azerbaijani: naqqa, naxa
 * Bashkir: йәйен
 * Basque:
 * Belarusian: сом
 * Bengali:
 * Bikol Central:
 * Bulgarian: сом
 * Burmese:
 * Catalan: silur
 * Chakma: 𑄟𑄉𑄪𑄢𑄴
 * Cherokee: ᏧᎵᏍᏓᎾᎵ
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 塘蝨
 * Hokkien:
 * Mandarin:, 鮎形目
 * Coptic: ϫⲉⲗϥⲁⲩ
 * Czech:
 * Danish: malle
 * Dutch:
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French: ,
 * Galician: siluro
 * Georgian: ლოქო
 * German:, Katzenwels
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: γλάνις, σίλουρος
 * Modern:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hungarian:
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian:
 * Irish:
 * Isthmus Zapotec: guluxu
 * Italian: pesce gatto
 * Japanese: ,
 * Karaim: yayın
 * Kazakh: жайын
 * Khmer: ត្រីឆ្លាំង
 * Korean:
 * Kyrgyz:
 * Lao: ປາໜັງ
 * Latin: silūrus
 * Latvian: sams
 * Lithuanian: šamas
 * Macedonian: сом
 * Malay: keli
 * Mingrelian: ლოქო, ღლამი
 * Navajo: dághaałóóʼ
 * Ngarrindjeri: pummerrie
 * Nogai: яйын
 * Northern Altai: чайы́н (rare)
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: malle
 * Nupe: ezhègi
 * Ossetian: локо
 * Pawnee: paksaku
 * Persian: سلور, گربه‌ماهی
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: peixe-gato,
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: со̏м
 * Roman:
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Sorbian:
 * Lower Sorbian: som
 * Southern Altai: јайын, сом
 * Spanish:, siluro, , pez gato
 * Svan: ლოქო
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: hito
 * Tatar:
 * Thai:
 * Tok Pisin: mausgras
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen: lakga
 * Ukrainian: сом
 * Vietnamese:
 * Welsh: cathbysgod
 * Yoruba: ẹja àrọ̀

Verb

 * 1)  To fish for catfish.

Etymology 2
From the 2010 documentary Catfish, supposedly inspired by the practice of fishermen keeping cod active by storing them with catfish (see sense 1) which nip at their tails.

Noun

 * 1)  Someone who creates a false profile on a social media platform in order to deceive people.
 * 2)  Such a false profile.
 * 1)  Such a false profile.

Translations

 * Dutch:
 * Swedish: catfish


 * Dutch: nepprofiel
 * Swedish: sockpuppet

Verb

 * 1)  To create and operate a fake online profile to deceive (someone).

Translations

 * Dutch: catfishen
 * Hungarian: másnak adja ki magát az interneten, online megtéveszt/félrevezet
 * Swedish: catfishing