Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

nigorobuna

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: nig-orobuna
IPA

13

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

2

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A freshwater ray-finned fish (Carassius auratus grandoculis), a wild subspecies of goldfish endemic to Japan, its habitat limited to Lake Biwa and environs.

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese ニゴロブナ (nigorobuna) (also written 煮頃鮒, 似五郎鮒, にごろぶな).

Origin

Source language: Japanese

Word Breakdown

Root: ニゴロブナ

Questions

What does nigorobuna mean?: A freshwater ray-finned fish (Carassius auratus grandoculis), a wild subspecies of goldfish endemic to Japan, its habitat limited to Lake Biwa and environs.
Where does nigorobuna come from?: It is traced to Japanese.

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