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

Albanian: kashalot m
Arabic: حُوتُ الْعَنْبَر‎‎ m (ḥūtu l-ʿanbar)
Armenian: կաշալոտ (hy) (kašalot)
Assamese: কেছাল’ তিমি (kesaló timi)
Azerbaijani: kaşalot
Belarusian: кашало́т m (kašalót)
Bulgarian: кашало́т m (kašalót)
Catalan: catxalot (ca)
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
Estonian: kašelott
Faroese: avgustur m
Finnish: kaskelotti (fi)
French: cachalot (fr) m
Galician: cachalote m
Georgian: კაშალოტი (ḳašaloṭi)
German: Pottwal (de) m
Greenlandic: kigutilissuaq (kl)
Hawaiian: palaoa
Hindi: स्पर्म व्हेल (sparma vhel), शुक्राणु व्हेल (śukrāṇu vhel)
Hungarian: nagy ámbráscet, óriás ámbráscet
Icelandic: búrhvalur (is) m
Ido: kashaloto (io)
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
Maori: parāoa
Min Nan: boah-phang-keng
Mongolian: кашалот (kašalot)
Navajo: łóóʼtsoh bitsiiʼ dikʼání
Nootka: maaʔak
Norwegian:
Bokmål: spermhval m, kaskelott m

Nynorsk: spermkval m
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)

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