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English cuttlefish
Etymology From cuttle fish
Pronunciation
Noun cuttlefish (countable and uncountable plural cuttlefishes or cuttlefish
any of various squid -like cephalopods (marine mollusks ) of the order Sepiida arms , two retractable tentacles , and a calcareous internal shell , and can eject a dark ink when threatened
Synonyms: cuttle inkfish sepia
Derived terms
Translations any of various squidlike mollusks
Albanian: sepje (sq) f cupije f
Arabic: حَبَّار (ar) m ( ḥabbār )
Armenian: թանաքաձուկ (hy) ( tʻanakʻajuk )
Asturian: xibia (ast) f
Azerbaijani: mürəkkəbböcəyi
Belarusian: карака́ціца f ( karakácica )
Brunei Malay: sutung
Bulgarian: се́пия f ( sépija )
Burmese: ကင်းမွန် (my) ( kang:mwan )
Catalan: sípia (ca) f sépia (ca) f sèpia (ca) f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 烏賊 / 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: Tintenfisch (de) m Kuttelfisch m ( dated )
Greek: σουπιά (el) f ( soupiá )
Ancient: σηπία f ( sēpía )
Hebrew: דְּיוֹנוּן
Hindi: समुद्रफेनी m ( samudraphenī )
Hungarian: tintahal (hu) , szépia (hu)
Icelandic: blekfiskur m
Ido: sepio (io)
Indonesian: sotong (id)
Irish: gunnadóir m
Italian: seppia (it) f
Japanese: イカ (ja) ( ika ) , 烏賊 (ja) ( いか, ika )
Kazakh: тарбақ аяқ ( tarbaq aäq ) , каракатица ( karakatisa )
Khmer: យៀវហ៊ឺ ( yiəw hɨɨ )
Korean: 오징어 (ko) ( ojing'eo )
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: supya
Kyrgyz: каракатица ( karakatitsa )
Lao: ປາມຶກ ( pā mưk ) ( cuttlefish, squid, octopus ) , ປາໝຶກ ( pā mưk )
Latin: sepia f saepia f
Latvian: sēpija f
Lithuanian: sepija f
Macedonian: си́па f ( sípa ) , се́пија f ( sépija )
Malay: sotong katak
Malayalam: കണവ ( kaṇava )
Navajo: łóóʼ bigaan neeznání bitsʼinígíí
Norman: seiche f
Norwegian:
Bokmål: blekksprut m
Ottoman Turkish: مركب بالغی ( mürekkeb balığı )
Persian: سپیداج ( sepidâj ) , دهپا ( deh-pâ )
Polish: mątwa (pl) f sepia (pl) f
Portuguese: choco (pt) m siba (pt) f sépia (pt) f
Romanian: sepie (ro) f
Russian: карака́тица (ru) f ( karakática )
Scottish Gaelic: faobhag f sùil-thòine f eò m giobarnach m giobanach m gibneach m
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: си̏па f
Roman: sȉpa (sh) f
Sicilian: siccia (scn) f
Slovak: sépia f
Slovene: sipa (sl) f
Spanish: jibia (es) f sepia (es) f choco (es) m
Swedish: bläckfisk (sv) c
Tajik: каракатитса ( karakatitsa ) , каракатиса ( karakatisa ) , рӯдапо ( rüdapo )
Tamil: கணவாய் (ta) ( kaṇavāy )
Thai: หมึกกระดอง ( mʉ̀k-grà-dɔɔng ) , ปลาหมึก (th) ( bplaa-mʉ̀k )
Turkish: mürekkep balığı (tr)
Ukrainian: карака́тиця f ( karakátycja )
Uyghur: سىياھبېلىق ( siyahbëliq )
Uzbek: karakatitsa
Vietnamese: cá mực mực (vi)
Welsh: ystifflog m môr-gyllell f twyllwr du m ( North dialect ) , pibwr inc m
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