Home › Words › H › hilsahilsahilsa · noun — tenualosa ilisha, a fish in the herring family, and a popular food fish in South Asia.Definition from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).EtymologyBorrowed from Hindi हिल्सा (hilsā).nounTenualosa ilisha, a fish in the herring family, and a popular food fish in South Asia.Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.ilish 79% match — A fish, the hilsa. vs hilsa →halosaur 55% match — A fish of any of the species in the family Halosauridae, deep-sea eel-like fish. vs hilsa →tilefish 55% match — Any of the mostly small, perciform marine fish in the family Malacanthidae; an important food fish. vs hilsa →mahseer 54% match — An endangered large-scaled carp of the family Cyprinidae, found in rivers and lakes of India, Malaysia, and Southern Asia generally, valued as a game fish. vs hilsa →hairtail 54% match — Any of a number of species of marine fishes of the family Trichiuridae, long, band-like, with a slender, pointed tail. vs hilsa →beltfish 53% match — The largehead hairtail, Trichiurus lepturus. vs hilsa →halosaurid 52% match — Any fish in the family Halosauridae. vs hilsa →dorab 52% match — A dorab wolf-herring (Chirocentrus dorab). vs hilsa →