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English
A walrus
Etymology
Probably borrowed from Dutch walrus , a compound of wal ( “ whale ” ) and ros ( “ horse ” ) . Displaced native Old English horshwæl ( literally “ horse-whale ” ) . Compare similar constructions in Danish hvalros , Old Norse hrosshvalr , and German Walross .
Pronunciation
Noun
walrus (plural walruses or walrus or walrusses or ( both nonstandard, proscribed, uncommon and often humorous ) walri or walrii )
A large Arctic marine mammal related to seals and having long tusks , tough, wrinkled skin, and four flippers , Odobenus rosmarus .
1887 , James W. Buel, Sea and Land , page 251 :Of all the Phocine family none present so terrible and grotesque an appearance as the gigantic Walrus , also known as the morse and sea-horse.
( informal , sometimes derogatory ) A man with a walrus moustache .
2008 , James E. Martin, The Chartreuse Mongoose , page 145 :You old walrus , don't you think it is time for you to lop your whiskers off?
2013 , Marione Ingram, The Hands of War :One, a rumpled, whiskered walrus of a man, held a lantern near Mother's face.
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→ Punjabi:
Gurmukhi script: ਵਾਲਰਸ ( vālras )
Shahmukhi script: والرس ( vālras )
→ Welsh: walrws
Translations
large Arctic marine mammal
Albanian: lopë deti , trikeku
Arabic: فَظّ m ( faẓẓ )
Armenian: ծովացուլ (hy) ( covacʻul ) , ծովափիղ (hy) ( covapʻiġ )
Asturian: morsa (ast) f
Azerbaijani: morj , su inəyi f , su öküzü m
Basque: mortsa
Belarusian: морж m ( morž )
Bengali: সিন্ধুঘোটক (bn) ( śindhughōṭok )
Breton: kole-mor m
Bulgarian: морж (bg) m ( morž )
Burmese: ဝါးလရပ်ဖျံ ( wa:la.raphpyam )
Catalan: morsa (ca) f
Cebuano: walrus
Cherokee: ᏓᏑᏫᏍᎩ ᎡᏆ ( dasuwisgi equa ) , ᏩᎸᏭᏍ ( walvwus )
Chinese:
Cantonese: 海象 ( hoi2 zoeng6 )
Eastern Min: 海馬 / 海马 ( hāi-mā )
Hokkien: 海象 ( hái-chhiūⁿ )
Mandarin: 海象 (zh) ( hǎixiàng )
Chukchi: рыркы ( ryrky ) , рыркат pl ( ryrkat )
Chuvash: морж ( morž )
Czech: mrož (cs) m
Danish: hvalros (da) c
Dutch: walrus (nl) m
Erzya: обран ( obran )
Esperanto: rosmaro
Estonian: morsk
Faroese: roysningur m
Finnish: mursu (fi)
French: morse (fr) m
Galician: morsa f
Georgian: ლომვეშაპი ( lomvešaṗi )
German: Walross (de) n
Greek: οδόβαινος f ( odóvainos ) , θαλάσσιος ίππος f ( thalássios íppos )
Greenlandic: aaveq (kl)
Hawaiian: waleluka
Hebrew: נִיבְתָן m ( nivtan ) , סוּס יַם m ( sus yám )
Hindi: वालरस ( vālras )
Hungarian: rozmár (hu)
Icelandic: rostungur (is) m
Ido: rosmaro (io)
Inuktitut: ᐁᕕᖃ ( efiqa )
Irish: rosualt m
Italian: tricheco (it) m
Japanese: セイウチ (ja) ( seiuchi ) , 海象 (ja) ( せいうち, seiuchi, かいぞう, kaizō )
Kazakh: морж ( morj )
Korean: 바다코끼리 (ko) ( badakokkiri ) , 해상(海象) (ko) ( haesang ) , 해마(海馬) (ko) ( haema )
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: mors (ku)
Lao: ຊ້າງທະເລ ( sāng tha lē )
Latvian: valzirgs m
Lingala: walelósi
Lithuanian: vėplys (lt) m
Luxembourgish: Walross
Macedonian: морж m ( morž )
Malay: walrus , gajah mina
Malayalam: വാൽറസ് ( vālṟasŭ )
Manx: coo ny marrey m
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: моорж ( moorž ) , далайн морь ( dalajn morʹ ) , далайн заан ( dalajn zaan ) ( China )
Mongolian: ᠳᠠᠯᠠᠢ ᠶᠢᠨ ᠮᠣᠷᠢ ( dalai-yin mori ) ᠳᠠᠯᠠᠢ ᠶᠢᠨ ᠵᠠᠭᠠᠨ ( dalai-yin ǰaɣan )
North Frisian: waalros
Northern Sami: morša
Norwegian:
Bokmål: hvalross m , kvalross m
Nynorsk: kvalross m
Occitan: mòrsa (oc) f
Old English: horshwæl m
Ossetian: морж ( morž )
Persian: گراز دریایی ( gorâz-e daryâyi )
Polish: mors (pl) m
Portuguese: morsa (pt) f
Punjabi: ਵਾਲਰਸ ( vālras )
Romanian: morsă (ro) f
Russian: морж (ru) m ( morž )
Scottish Gaelic: each-mara m
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: мо̏рж m
Roman: mȍrž (sh) m
Slovak: mrož m
Slovene: mrož (sl) m
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: morž m
Spanish: morsa (es) f
Swahili: walarasi
Swedish: valross (sv) c
Tagalog: morsa
Tajik: морж ( morž )
Tatar: морж ( morj )
Telugu: వాల్రస్ ( vālras )
Thai: วอลรัส ( wɔɔl-rás )
Tibetan: མཚོ་གླང ( mtsho glang )
Tsimshian: t'iibn
Turkish: mors (tr)
Udmurt: морж ( morž )
Ukrainian: морж m ( morž )
Urdu: والرس ( vālras )
Uzbek: morj (uz)
Vietnamese: moóc (vi) , voi biển , hải tượng
Volapük: ( ♂♀ ) valrod (vo)
Welsh: walrws m
Western Panjabi: والرس ( vālrs )
Yiddish: ים־פֿערד ( yam-ferd ) , מאָרזש ( morzh ) , ראָזמאַרין ( rozmarin )
Yup'ik: asveq
Zulu: iwalerosi
See also
Verb
walrus (third-person singular simple present walruses or walrusses , present participle walrusing or walrussing , simple past and past participle walrused or walrussed )
To hunt walruses
2016 , Andrey Kurkov, The President's Last Love , Kiev, 9 May 1985 :It's strange to see parties of merrymakers gather where I nearly drowned, and later walrused with David Isaakovich, Father Basil and the rest of them.
To be like a walrus
To move dragging one's belly along the floor
2020 , Will Ferguson, The Finder: A Novel :Gaddy walrused herself from the back seat
To hang like a walrus's moustache
2000 , Michael L. McCoy, The Hunter, the Hound and a Rogue :His untrimmed mustache walrused down and over his hidden mouth
To be prominent, like tusks
2011 , Robert Buettner, Overkill :Where a mammal had its canine teeth, great fangs walrused down from the grezzen's upper jaw, as long as scimitars and as thick as human thighs.
Afrikaans
Etymology
From Dutch walrus , probably from Danish hvalros or Swedish valross , from an inversion of Old Norse hrosshvalr ( “ horse-whale ” ) .
Noun
walrus (plural walrusse )
walrus (Odobenus rosmarus )
Cebuano
Etymology
From English walrus , from Danish hvalros , an inversion of Old Norse hrosshvalr ( literally “ horse-whale ” ) . The term may have entered English via Dutch walrus .
Pronunciation
Noun
walrus
a walrus (Odobenus rosmarus )
Dutch
Etymology
The origin of this word is not wholly certain, with several theories proposed. Probably borrowed from Danish hvalros or Swedish valross , from an inversion of Old Norse hrosshvalr ( “ horse-whale ” ) . Equivalent to wal ( “ whale; large sea-animal ” ) + ros ( “ horse ” ) . The Old Norse word may, however, been a folk-etymological modification of Old Norse rossmal , related to Proto-Germanic *rusta- , from the rust colour of the animal.[ 1] Preference for borrowing the inverted form could have been due to the influence of the already existing Dutch compound walvis ( “ whale ” , literally “ whale-fish ” ) .
Pronunciation
IPA (key ) : /ˈʋɑlrʏs/
Hyphenation: wal‧rus
Noun
walrus m (plural walrussen , diminutive walrusje n )
walrus , any member of the family Odobenidae of which Odobenus rosmarus is the sole extant member
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References
^ Philippa, Marlies, Debrabandere, Frans , Quak, Arend, Schoonheim, Tanneke, van der Sijs, Nicoline (2003–2009 ) Etymologisch woordenboek van het Nederlands (in Dutch), Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press