sperm whale

English

Mother and calf sperm whales.

Etymology

Clipping of spermaceti whale

Pronunciation

Audio (Southern England) (file)

Noun

sperm whale (plural sperm whales)

A whale (Physeter catodon, syn. Physeter macrocephalus), the largest of the toothed whales.
Any whale in the superfamily Physeteroidea, which also includes the small whales of genus Kogia.

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Translations

Physeter catodon

Albanian: kashalot (sq) m
Arabic: حُوتُ الْعَنْبَر m (ḥūtu l-ʕanbar)
Armenian: կաշալոտ (hy) (kašalot)
Assamese: কেছাল’ তিমি (kesalö timi), কেছাল’ (kesalö)
Asturian: cachalote (ast), romu (ast)
Azerbaijani: kaşalot
Belarusian: кашало́т m (kašalót)
Bulgarian: кашало́т (bg) m (kašalót)
Catalan: catxalot (ca)
Cherokee: ᏓᏆ ᎤᏍᏆᎴᏂ (daqua usqualeni)
Chinese:
Hokkien: boah-phang-keng

Mandarin: 抹香鯨／抹香鲸 (zh) (mǒxiāngjīng)
Czech: vorvaň (cs) m
Danish: kaskelot c, kaskelothval (da) c
Dutch: potvis (nl) m
Estonian: kašelott (et)
Faroese: avgustur m, spermur m
Finnish: kaskelotti (fi)
French: cachalot (fr) m
Galician: cachalote m
Georgian: კაშალოტი (ḳašaloṭi)
German: Pottwal (de) m
Greek: φυσητήρας (el) m (fysitíras)
Greenlandic: kigutilissuaq (kl)
Hawaiian: palaoa
Hindi: स्पर्म व्हेल (sparm vhel), शुक्राणु व्हेल (śukrāṇu vhel)
Hungarian: nagy ámbráscet, óriás ámbráscet
Icelandic: búrhvalur (is) m
Ido: kashaloto (io)
Irish: caisealóid f
Italian: capodoglio (it) m
Japanese: 抹香鯨 (まっこうくじら, makkōkujira), マッコウクジラ (makkōkujira)
Kazakh: кашалот (kaşalot)
Korean: 향고래 (hyanggorae)
Kyrgyz: кашалот (ky) (kaşalot)
Latin: physeter m
Latvian: kašalots m
Lithuanian: kašalotas m
Macedonian: кашалот m (kašalot)
Malay: paus sperma
Maori: parāoa (mi)
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: кашалот (kašalot), заарт халим (zaart xalim) (China)

Mongolian: ᠵᠢᠭᠠᠷᠲᠤ
ᠬᠠᠯᠢᠮᠤ (ǰiɣartu qalimu)
Nootka: maaʔak
Norwegian:
Bokmål: spermhval m, kaskelott m

Nynorsk: trollkval m, spermkval m, kaskelott m
Ottoman Turkish: عنبر ('amber)
Persian: کاشالوت (kâšâlot), نهنگ عنبر (nahang-e 'anbar)
Polish: kaszalot (pl) m
Portuguese: cachalote m
Romanian: cașalot (ro) m
Russian: кашало́т (ru) m (kašalót)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: уљешура f

Roman: ulješura (sh) f
Slovak: vorvaň m
Slovene: kit glavač (sl) m
Spanish: cachalote (es) m
Swahili: nyangumi-shahawa
Swedish: kaskelot (sv) c, pottval c, spermacetival c
Tajik: кашалот (kašalot)
Thai: วาฬสเปิร์ม
Turkish: ispermeçet balinası (tr), kadırga balığı (tr), kaşalot (tr)
Turkmen: kaşalot
Ukrainian: кашало́т m (kašalót)
Uzbek: kashalot (uz)
Vietnamese: cá nhà táng
Welsh: morfil gwyn m

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