cuttlefish

English

cuttlefish

Etymology

From cuttle +‎ fish.

Pronunciation

(UK, US) IPA^(key): /ˈkʌ.təl.fɪʃ/

Noun

cuttlefish (countable and uncountable, plural cuttlefishes or cuttlefish)

Any of various squid-like cephalopods (marine mollusks) of the order Sepiida that have eight arms, two retractable tentacles, and a calcareous internal shell, and can eject a dark ink when threatened.

Synonyms

inkfish, sepia

Derived terms

Translations

any of various squidlike mollusks

Albanian: sepje (sq) f
Arabic: حَبَّار‎ (ar) m (ḥabbār)
Armenian: թանաքաձուկ (hy) (tʿanakʿajuk)
Asturian: xibia f
Belarusian: карака́ціца f (karakácica)
Bulgarian: сепия f (sepija)
Burmese: ကင်းမွန် (my) (kang:mwan)
Catalan: sípia (ca) f, sépia (ca) f, sèpia (ca) f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 烏賊 (zh), 乌贼 (zh) (wūzéi)
Czech: sépie (cs) f
Dalmatian: agaun
Danish: blæksprutte c
Dutch: zeekat (nl) c
Estonian: seepia
Finnish: seepia (fi)
French: seiche (fr) f
Galician: xiba (gl) f, choco m, chopo (gl) m, sepia (gl) f
Georgian: მელანთევზი (melantevzi), სეპია (seṗia)
German: Kopffüßer (de) m, Tintenfisch (de) m, Kuttelfisch m (dated)
Greek: σουπιά (el) f (soupiá)
Ancient: σηπία f (sēpía)
Hebrew: דְיוֹנוֹן‎ (he)
Hindi: समुद्रफेनी m (samudraphenī)
Hungarian: tintahal (hu)
Icelandic: blekfiskur m
Ido: sepio (io)
Indonesian: sotong (id)
Italian: seppia (it) f
Japanese: イカ (ika), 烏賊 (ja) (いか, ika)

Khmer: យៀវហ៊ឺ (yiev hɨɨ)
Korean: 오징어 (ko) (ojing-eo), 오적어 (ojeogeo)
Lao: ປາມຶກ (pā mưk) (cuttlefish, squid, octopus)
Latin: sepia f
Latvian: sēpija f
Lithuanian: sepija f
Macedonian: си́па f (sípa)
Malay: sotong katak
Navajo: łóóʼ bigaan neeznání bitsʼinígíí
Norman: seiche f
Norwegian: blekksprut
Persian: سپیداج‎ (sepidâj), ده‌پا‎ (deh-pâ)
Polish: mątwa (pl) f
Portuguese: choco (pt) m, siba (pt) f, sépia (pt) f
Romanian: sepie (ro) f
Russian: карака́тица (ru) f (karakática)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: сипа f

Roman: sipa (sh) f
Sicilian: siccia (scn) f
Slovak: sépia f
Slovene: sipa (sl) f
Spanish: jibia (es) f, sepia (es), choco (es) m
Swedish: bläckfisk (sv) c
Thai: หมึกกระดอง (mʉ̀k-grà-dɔɔng), ปลาหมึก (th) (bplaa-mʉ̀k)
Turkish: mürekkep balığı (tr)
Ukrainian: карака́тиця f (karakátycja)
Vietnamese: cá mực, mực (vi)
Welsh: ystifflog m, môr-gyllell f, twyllwr du m (North dialect), pibwr inc m

See also

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