gourami
/ɡuːˈrɑmiː/noun
gourami is a noun meaning “An edible freshwater fish of the family Osphronemidae” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled G-O-U-R-A-M-I, and it appears about once in every 25 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of gourami is gouramis or gouramies.
What does gourami mean?
noun
- 1
An edible freshwater fish of the family Osphronemidae.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce gourami?
- UK /ɡʊˈrɑːmi/
- US /ɡuːˈrɑmiː/
- /ɡəˈrɑmiː/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-gourami.oga, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of gourami
- gouramis plural
- gouramies plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is gourami?
Gourami appears about once in every 25 million words in written English, the 152,206th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Gourami in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense fish of the family Osphronemidae:
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does gourami come from?
From French gourami, from Malay gurami, from Javanese ꦒꦸꦫꦩꦶ (gurami).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).