vobla

Etymology
Loanword from

Noun

 * 1) The Caspian roach, formerly considered a subspecies of the.
 * 2) * 1900 September, Einar Lönnberg, “Short notes on Caspian fishes”, in Revue Internationale de Pêche et de Pisciculture, Volume II, Number 2, Russian Imperial Society of Fishculture and Fisheries, page 4:
 * The „vobla“ (Leuciscus rutilus Lin.) is one of the most important food fishes of this region. This vobla is very fat and is more stoutly built, than the northern roach, but cannot otherwise be distinguished from the same.
 * 1) * 1918, I. Pelferoff, “Fisheries”, Chapter IX of Arthur Raffalovich (editor), Russia: Its Trade and Commerce, P. S. King & Son, page 221:
 * In this connexion, the cost of “vobla,”1 which to some extent replaces the herring, has soared upwards. Dried “vobla,” which is a popular article of food, and was formerly sold at one copeck per fish, now sells at from 5 to 10 copecks for the smaller fish, and 20 copecks for the larger. ¶  ¶ The only exceptions to the general rule are white sturgeon, salmon and to some extent “vobla.”
 * 1 An inferior species of herring.

Usage notes

 * This word is frequently italicized or otherwise treated as foreign.

Translations

 * Belarusian: во́бла
 * Estonian: aserisärg, vobla
 * German: Wobla
 * Nogai: шабак
 * Portuguese: vobla
 * Russian:
 * Udmurt: бекчечорыг
 * Ukrainian: во́бла

Noun

 * , a fish of the Caspian sea