#small fish
- Bleak fish — A popular or diminutive name given to the small freshwater fish known as the bleak or minnow, characterized by shiny silvery scales and a small size; a small wooden vessel resembling a tiny trough used in households.
- Linens — A collective name for white bed or body linens (underwear); a popular name given to small freshwater fish with silvery scales (bleaks, gudgeons); white root vegetables (parsley, parsnip, celery) used as basic ingredients in cooking for soups and broths.
- Ruffe — A popular or regional name given to several species of small freshwater fish, especially the ruffe, the European bullhead, or small dace, structurally characterized by an elongated and sharp body; by extension, the term is used collectively to denote tiny fish or low-quality pond fry.
- Tiny fish — A diminutive form of baboi; an extremely small freshwater fish or newly hatched fish fry that swims in schools along the muddy banks of rivers and lakes.
- The small fish — A local or archaic articulated form of the noun 'baboi'; it designates a specific specimen of small freshwater fish (ruffe or bullhead) or, collectively, the pond fry identified within a specific fishing context.