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English
Noun
sea monster (plural sea monsters)
- (mythology) A large and aggressive creature living in or under the sea that attacks ships.
- Any huge marine animal.
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Translations
large, aggressive creature in the sea
- Afrikaans: seemonster
- Aramaic:
- Classical Syriac: ܩܐܛܐ m (qēʾṭāʾ)
- Armenian:
- Old Armenian: ընգղայ (əngłay)
- Bengali: কল্পিত জলচর জীব (kolpito jolocor jib)
- Catalan: monstre marí m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 鯤 / 鲲 (zh) (kūn), 海怪 (zh) (hǎi guài), 水鬼 (zh) (shuǐguǐ)
- Dutch: zeemonster (nl) n, zeegedrocht n, kraak (nl) m
- Esperanto: mara monstro, marmonstro
- Estonian: merekoletis
- Finnish: merihirviö (fi), turso
- French: monstre marin (fr) m
- German: Seeungeheuer (de) n, Meerungeheuer n
- Greek: κήτος (el) n (kítos)
- Ancient: κῆτος n (kêtos)
- Icelandic: sæskrímsli n
- Ido: monstro marala
- Indonesian: monster laut
- Irish: ollphéist mhara f
- Old Irish: bled m
- Italian: mostro marino m
- Japanese: 海の怪物 (うみのかいぶつ, umi no kaibutsu), 海坊主 (うみぼうず, umibōzu)
- Korean: please add this translation if you can
- Latin: cētus m, cētos n, pistris f, mōnstrum marīnum n
- Maori: marakihau, rātāmoko, parata
- Marathi: समुद्री राक्षस (samudrī rākṣas)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: sjøuhyre n, havmonster n
- Nynorsk: sjøuhyre n
- Portuguese: monstro marinho m
- Russian: морско́е чудо́вище n (morskóje čudóvišče), (Slavic mythology) чу́до-ю́до (ru) n (čúdo-júdo)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: морско чу̏довӣште n
- Roman: morsko čȕdovīšte n
- Spanish: monstruo marino m
- Swedish: sjöodjur (sv), havsmonster n, havsvidunder (sv) n
- Tagalog: halimaw ng dagat
- Vietnamese: quái vật biển
- Welsh: morfil (cy) m
- Yiddish: ים־מאָנסטער m (yam-monster)
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Further reading
sea monster on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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