Illustration: At a neighborhood fish shop, a fishmonger holds a whole fresh mackerel horizontally above a shallow tray of crushed ice. Its streamlined body, sharply forked tail, silvery belly, and dark irregular wavy markings across the upper back are fully visible. Several matching fish lie neatly below.

サバ

saba

mackerel

Example sentences

鯖さばは煮にても焼やいても美味おいしい。
Mackerel tastes good whether you simmer it or grill it.
Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source
現在げんざいの日本にっぽんは、多おおくのサバをノルウェーから輸入ゆにゅうしている。
Japan now imports large amounts of mackerel from Norway.
KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source
原料げんりょうとして、カツオ以外いがいにマグロ、サバを使つかうこともある。
Other than bonito, tuna and mackerel may be used.
KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

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