sperm whale

sperm whale

English

Mother and calf sperm whales.

Noun

sperm whale (plural sperm whales)

1. A whale (Physeter catodon, syn. Physeter macrocephalus), the largest of the toothed whales.
2. Any whale in the superfamily Physeteroidea, which also includes the small whales of genus Kogia.

Synonyms

• cachalot
• common cachalot

Derived terms

• dwarf sperm whale
• pygmy sperm whale
• sperm-whale porpoise

Translations

sperm whale

Albanian: kashalot (sq) m Arabic: حُوتُ الْعَنْبَر‎ m (ḥūtu l-ʿanbar) Armenian: կաշալոտ (hy) (kašalot) Assamese: কেছাল’ তিমি (kesaló timi), কেছাল’ (kesaló) Azerbaijani: kaşalot Belarusian: кашало́т m (kašalót) Bulgarian: кашало́т m (kašalót) Catalan: catxalot (ca) Cherokee: ᏓᏆ ᎤᏍᏆᎴᏂ (daqua usqualeni) Chinese: Mandarin: 抹香鯨 (zh), 抹香鲸 (zh) (mǒxiāngjīng) Czech: vorvaň (cs) m Danish: kaskelot c, kaskelothval (da) c Dutch: potvis (nl) m Estonian: kašelott Faroese: avgustur m, spermur m Finnish: kaskelotti (fi) French: cachalot (fr) m Galician: cachalote m Georgian: კაშალოტი (ḳašaloṭi) German: Pottwal (de) m Greenlandic: kigutilissuaq (kl) Hawaiian: palaoa Hindi: स्पर्म व्हेल (sparma vhel), शुक्राणु व्हेल (śukrāṇu vhel) Hungarian: nagy ámbráscet, óriás ámbráscet Icelandic: búrhvalur (is) m Ido: kashaloto (io) Irish: caisealóid f Italian: capodoglio (it) m Japanese: 抹香鯨 (まっこうくじら, makkōkujira), マッコウクジラ (makkōkujira) Kazakh: кашалот (kaşalot) Korean: 향고래 (hyanggorae)

Kyrgyz: кашалот (ky) (kaşalot) Latin: physeter m Latvian: kašalots m Lithuanian: kašalotas m Maori: parāoa Min Nan: boah-phang-keng Mongolian: кашалот (kašalot) Navajo: łóóʼtsoh bitsiiʼ dikʼání Nootka: maaʔak Norwegian: Bokmål: spermhval m, kaskelott m Nynorsk: spermkval m Persian: کاشالوت‎ (kâšâlot), نهنگ عنبر‎ (nahang-e-anbar) Polish: kaszalot (pl) m Portuguese: cachalote m Romanian: cașalot (ro) m Russian: кашало́т (ru) m (kašalót) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: уљешура f Roman: ulješura (sh) f Slovak: vorvaň m Slovene: kit glavač (sl) m Spanish: cachalote (es) m Swahili: nyangumi-shahawa Swedish: kaskelot (sv) c, pottval c, spermacetival c Tajik: кашалот (kašalot) Thai: วาฬสเปิร์ม Turkish: ispermeçet balinası (tr), kadırga balığı (tr), kaşalot (tr) Turkmen: kaşalot Ukrainian: кашало́т m (kašalót) Uzbek: kashalot (uz) Vietnamese: cá nhà táng Welsh: morfil gwyn m