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sperm_whale

sperm whale

English

Mother and calf sperm whales.

Noun

sperm whale ‎(plural sperm whales)

A whale (Physeter macrocephalus), the largest of the toothed whales.

Synonyms

cachalot
common cachalot

Derived terms

pygmy sperm whale
sperm-whale porpoise

Translations

sperm whale

Armenian: կաշալոտ (hy) ‎(kašalot)
Catalan: catxalot
Cherokee: ᏓᏆ ᎤᏍᏆᎴᏂ ‎(daqua usqualeni)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 抹香鯨 (zh), 抹香鲸 (zh) ‎(mǒxiāngjīng)
Czech: vorvaň (cs) m
Danish: kaskelot c, kaskelothval (da) c
Dutch: potvis (nl) m
Faroese: avgustur m
Finnish: kaskelotti (fi)
French: cachalot (fr) m
Galician: cachalote m
German: Pottwal (de) m
Greenlandic: kigutilissuaq (kl)
Hawaiian: palaoa
Icelandic: búrhvalur (is) m
Ido: kashaloto (io)
Italian: capodoglio (it) m
Japanese: 抹香鯨 ‎(マッコウクジラ, makkō-kujira)

Korean: 향고래 ‎(hyanggorae)
Latin: physeter m
Maori: parāoa
Min Nan: boah-phang-keng
Navajo: łóóʼtsoh bitsiiʼ dikʼání
Nootka: maaʔak
Norwegian:

Bokmål: spermhval m, kaskelott m

Nynorsk: spermkval m
Persian: کاشالوت ‎(kâšâlot)
Polish: kaszalot (pl) m
Portuguese: cachalote m
Romanian: cașalot (ro) m
Russian: кашало́т (ru) m ‎(kašalót)
Spanish: cachalote (es) m
Swahili: nyangumi-shahawa
Swedish: kaskelot (sv) c, pottval c, spermacetival c
Turkish: ispermeçet balinası (tr), kadırga balığı (tr), kaşalot (tr)