English
Etymology
A clipping of spermaceti whale.
Pronunciation
Noun
sperm whale (plural sperm whales)
- A whale (Physeter macrocephalus), the largest of the toothed whales.
- Any whale in the superfamily Physeteroidea, which also includes the small whales of genus Kogia.
Synonyms
Derived terms
Translations
Physeter macrocephalus
- 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 (ja) (まっこうくじら, makkōkujira), マッコウクジラ (ja) (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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