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- Russian · calque ofбе́лый аму́р
- English todaywhite amur
Partial calque of Russian бе́лый аму́р (bélyj amúr) for the same fish, as also sometimes black amur has been used for чёрный аму́р (čórnyj amúr, “Mylopharyngodon piceus”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.