sea horse

See also: seahorse

English

A sea horse (fish)

Alternative forms

seahorse, sea-horse

Etymology

From Middle English sehors (“walrus”), equivalent to sea +‎ horse. Probably a calque of obsolete French cheval de mer or directly of Late Latin caballus marinus.

Pronunciation

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Noun

sea horse (plural sea horses)

A 1913 £1 "Seahorse" stamp.

(obsolete) The walrus.
- 1789, Olaudah Equiano, The Interesting Narrative, vol. I, ch. 9:
  One morning we had vast quantities of sea-horses about the ship, which neighed exactly like any other horses.
Any of various small marine fish of the genus Hippocampus that have a horselike head and swim upright.
(philately) any of a series of British high value stamps issued during the reign of King George V featuring a depiction of Britannia on a chariot in choppy seas.

Translations

fish

Arabic: فَرَس بَحْر‎ m (faras baḥr)
Armenian: ծովաձի (hy) (covaji), ձիաձուկ (hy) (jiajuk)
Basque: itsas zaldia
Belarusian: марско́й канёк m (marskój kanjók)
Bulgarian: морско конче n (morsko konče)
Burmese: ရေမြင်း (my) (re-mrang:), ရေနဂါး (my) (rena.ga:)
Catalan: cavall marí (ca) m, hipocamp (ca) m
Cebuano: kulkog
Chinese:
Mandarin: 海馬／海马 (zh) (hǎimǎ)
Czech: mořský koník m
Danish: søhest c
Dutch: (Hippocampus) zeepaard (nl) n
Esperanto: hipokampo, marĉevaleto
Estonian: merihobuke
Finnish: merihevonen (fi)
French: hippocampe (fr) m
Galician: cabalo de mar (gl) m, cabaliño de mar m
Georgian: ზღვის ცხენი (zɣvis cxeni)
German: Seepferdchen (de) n
Greek: ιππόκαμπος (el) m (ippókampos)
Ancient: ἱππόκαμπος m (hippókampos)
Hungarian: csikóhal (hu)
Icelandic: sæhestur m
Ilocano: kurikor
Indonesian: kuda laut (id)
Irish: capall mara m
Italian: cavalluccio marino m, ippocampo (it) m
Japanese: 竜の落とし子 (タツノオトシゴ, tatsuno-otoshigo)
Kazakh: атбалық (atbalyq)
Korean: 해마(海馬) (ko) (haema)
Lao: ມ້ານ້ຳ (mā nam)
Latin: equus bipēs m
Latvian: jūras zirdziņš m
Luxembourgish: Séipäerdchen n
Lü: ᦙᦱᧉᦓᧄᧉ (maa²nam²)
Macedonian: морско коњче n (morsko konjče)
Malay: kuda laut
Maltese: żiemel tal-baħar m
Maori: kioretai, hinamoki
Navajo: táłtłʼááh łį́į́ʼ
Norman: ch'fa d'maïr m (Guernsey), j'va d'mé m (Jersey)
Northern Thai: ᨾ᩶ᩣᨶ᩶ᩣᩴ
Norwegian:
Bokmål: havhest (no) m, sjøhest m
Persian: اسب دریایی‎ (asb-e daryâyi)
Polish: konik morski (pl) m, pławikonik m
Portuguese: cavalo-marinho (pt) m
Romanian: căluț de mare m
Russian: морско́й конёк (ru) m (morskój konjók)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: морски коњић m, морски коњиц m
Roman: morski konjić, morski konjic m
Seri: heeesam
Slovak: morský koník m
Slovene: morski konjiček (sl) m
Spanish: hipocampo m, caballito de mar (es) m
Swahili: mbuzi-bahari
Swedish: sjöhäst (sv) c
Tagalog: kabayo-kabayohan, kaba-kabayuhan, kabayong-dagat
Thai: ม้าน้ำ (máa-náam)
Turkish: denizatı (tr)
Ukrainian: морськи́й ко́ник m (morsʹkýj kónyk)
Vietnamese: cá ngựa (vi) (𩵜馭), hải mã (海馬)
Volapük: hiokamp
Welsh: morfarch (cy) m
Wolof: fasu géej wi

walrus — see walrus

Anagrams

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