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English
Seashells from Indian Ocean (1)
Etymology
From sea + shell .
Noun
seashell (plural seashells )
The empty shell of a marine mollusk .
The animal living inside a seashell.
The seashells on the beach are toxic and best avoided.
A very light pink colour, like that of some seashells.
seashell:
Translations
shell
Afrikaans: skulp (af)
Albanian: guaskë (sq) f
Arabic: صَدَفَة (ar) f ( ṣadafa ) , صَدَفَة بَحْرِيَّة f ( ṣadafa baḥriyya ) , مَحَارَة f ( maḥāra )
Armenian: խեցի (hy) ( xecʻi ) , ծովախեցի (hy) ( covaxecʻi )
Assamese: please add this translation if you can
Azerbaijani: qabıq (az) , dəniz qabığı
Bashkir: ҡабырсаҡ ( qabırsaq )
Belarusian: ра́кавіна f ( rákavina ) , раку́шка f ( rakúška ) , чарапа́х m ( čarapáx )
Bengali: please add this translation if you can
Bulgarian: ра́ковина (bg) f ( rákovina )
Catalan: conquilla (ca) f
Chakma: please add this translation if you can
Chamicuro: c̈hota
Chamorro: please add this translation if you can
Cherokee: ᎤᏯᏍᎦ ( uyasga )
Chinese:
Mandarin: 貝殼 / 贝壳 (zh) ( bèiké ) , 海貝 / 海贝 ( hǎibèi )
Corsican: cunchiglia f
Czech: schránka (cs) f , mušle (cs) f
Danish: konkylie
Dhivehi: please add this translation if you can
Dutch: schelp (nl)
Esperanto: konko
Estonian: merikarp
Faroese: gágga f
Finnish: kotilo (fi) , simpukankuori , näkinkenkä (fi)
French: coquille (fr) f
Galician: please add this translation if you can
Georgian: ნიჟარა ( nižara )
German: Muschelschale (de) f , Muschel (de) f
Greek: όστρακο (el) n ( óstrako )
Gujarati: please add this translation if you can
Hawaiian: pūpū
Hebrew: צֶדֶף (he) m ( tzédef )
Hindi: कौड़ी f ( kauṛī )
Hungarian: kagyló (hu) , kagylóhéj (hu)
Ido: konko (io)
Indonesian: kerang laut , lokan (id)
Irish: sliogán (ga) m , sliogán trá m
Italian: conchiglia (it) f
Japanese: 貝殻 (ja) ( かいがら, kaigara )
Kannada: please add this translation if you can
Kazakh: айғұлақ ( aiğūlaq ) , бақалшық ( baqalşyq ) , қабыршақ ( qabyrşaq )
Khmer: ខ្យង (km) ( khyɑɑng )
Korean: 조개 (ko) ( jogae )
Kyrgyz: please add this translation if you can
Lao: ກາບຫອຍທະເລ , ເປືອກ ( pư̄ak )
Latvian: gliemežnīca f
Lithuanian: kriauklė
Luxembourgish: Muschel (lb) f
Malayalam: please add this translation if you can
Maltese: please add this translation if you can
Manx: shlig varrey f
Maori: kotakota , angaanga
Mirandese: concha f
Norwegian:
Bokmål: skjell
Occitan: cauquilha (oc) f
Persian: صدف (fa) ( sadaf )
Polish: muszla (pl) f , muszelka (pl) f
Portuguese: concha (pt) f
Rohingya: horí
Romagnol: please add this translation if you can
Romanian: scoică (ro) f
Russian: ра́ковина (ru) f ( rákovina ) , раку́шка (ru) f ( rakúška ) , ра́кушка (ru) f ( rákuška )
Slovak: lastúra f
Slovene: please add this translation if you can
Spanish: concha (es) f
Swedish: snäcka (sv) c , musselskal n
Tajik: садаф ( sadaf )
Tamil: please add this translation if you can
Tarifit: ajɣur m
Telugu: చిప్ప (te) ( cippa )
Thai: เปลือกหอย ( bplʉ̀ʉak-hɔ̌i )
Turkish: deniz kabuğu , kabuk (tr) , balık kulağı
Turkmen: gabyk
Ukrainian: му́шля f ( múšlja ) , ра́ковина f ( rákovyna ) , черепа́шка f ( čerepáška )
Urdu: please add this translation if you can
Uzbek: dengiz qobigʻi , qobik
Venetan: capa
Vietnamese: vỏ sò
Welsh: cragen (cy) f , cragen fôr (cy) f
Yiddish: מושל m ( mushl )
Adjective
seashell
Of a very light pink colour, like that of some seashells.
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