English
Noun
fin whale (plural fin whales)
- A whale of the rorqual family (Balaenoptera physalus).
2019, James Proctor, Faroe Islands, 5th edition, Bradt Travel Guides, page 7:The fin whale is a fast swimmer (around 30km/h) and generally lives in small groups numbering around five.
Synonyms
Translations
Balaenoptera physalus
- Belarusian: фінва́л m (finvál)
- Catalan: rorqual comú (ca) m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 長鬚鯨 / 长须鲸 (zh) (chángxūjīng)
- Danish: rørhval c, finhval (da) c
- Dutch: vinvis (nl)
- Faroese: nebbafiskur m
- Finnish: sillivalas (fi)
- French: rorqual commun (fr) m
- German: Finnwal (de) m
- Greek: πτεροφάλαινα f (pterofálaina)
- Greenlandic: tikaagulliusaaq
- Icelandic: langreyður (is) f
- Norwegian: finnhval m
- Polish: płetwal zwyczajny m, finwal (pl) m
- Portuguese: baleia-fin f, baleia-comum (pt) f
- Russian: финва́л (ru) m (finvál), сельдяно́й кит m (selʹdjanój kit), обыкнове́нный полоса́тик m (obyknovénnyj polosátik), сельдяно́й полоса́тик m (selʹdjanój polosátik), настоя́щий полоса́тик m (nastojáščij polosátik)
- Spanish: ballena de aleta f
- Swedish: sillval (sv) c
- Ukrainian: фінва́л m (finvál)
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