harpoon

English

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Etymology

From Old French harpon, from Latin harpaga, from Ancient Greek ἁρπάγη (harpagē, “hook”), from ἁρπάζω (harpazō, “to snatch away, to carry off, to seize, to captivate”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: härpo͞on, IPA: /hɑː(r)ˈpuːn/, X-SAMPA: /hA:(r)"pu:n/

Noun

harpoon (plural harpoons)

a whaling harpoon

1. A spearlike weapon with a barbed head used in hunting whales and large fish.
2. (slang) A harmonica.

Derived terms

• harpoon fork

Translations

spearlike weapon

• Belarusian: гарпун (be) (harpún) m
• Bulgarian: харпун (bg) (harpún) m
• Catalan: arpó (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 魚叉 (cmn), 鱼叉 (cmn) (yúchā)

• Czech: harpuna (cs) f
• Danish: harpun (da) c
• Dutch: harpoen (nl) f
• Esperanto: harpuno (eo)
• Faroese: skutil (fo) m
• Finnish: harppuuna (fi)
• French: harpon (fr) m
• German: Harpune (de) f
• Greek: καμάκι (el) (kamáki) n
• Hungarian: szigony (hu)

• Italian: arpione (it) m
• Japanese: 銛 (ja) (もり, mori), ハープーン (ja) (hāpūn)
• Korean: 작살 (ko) (jaksal)
• Macedonian: харпун (mk) (hárpun) m
• Portuguese: arpão (pt) m
• Russian: гарпун (ru) (garpún) m, острога (ru) (ostrogá) f
• Scottish Gaelic: morghath (gd) m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: харпун (sh) m

  Roman: harpun (sh) m

• Slovak: harpúna f
• Spanish: arpón (es) m
• Swedish: harpun (sv) c
• Turkish: zıpkın (tr)
• Ukrainian: гарпун (uk) (harpún) m

Verb

harpoon (third-person singular simple present harpoons, present participle harpooning, simple past and past participle harpooned)

1. (transitive) To hunt something with a harpoon.

Translations

to hunt with a harpoon

• Dutch: harpoeneren
• Faroese: skutla (fo)
• Finnish: harppunoida (fi)
• French: harponner (fr)

• Hungarian: szigonyoz (hu)
• Italian: arpionare (it)
• Swedish: harpunera (sv)

See also

• spear