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Etymology [edit]
From Danish hvalros, inversion of Old Norse hrosshvalr (“horse-whale”). Compare Dutch walrus, Icelandic hross (“a horse”) and hvalur (“a whale”) and German Walross.
Pronunciation [edit]
- (UK) IPA: /ˈwɔːl.ɹəs/, /ˈwɒl.ɹəs/
- (US) IPA: /ˈwɑl.ɹəs/, /ˈwɔl.ɹəs/
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walrus (plural walruses or walrus or (rare) walrusser)
- (countable) A large Arctic marine mammal related to seals and having long tusks, tough, wrinkled skin, and four flippers, Odobenus rosmarus.
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Translations [edit]
large Arctic marine mammal
- Albanian: lopë deti (sq)
- Arabic: فظ (ar) (faZZ) m
- Armenian: ծովացուլ (hy) (çovac’ul) , ծովափիղ (hy) (çovap’iġ)
- Azeri: morj (az)
- Basque: mortsa (eu)
- Belarusian: морж (be) (morž) m
- Bengali: সিন্ধুঘোটক (bn) (shindhughoţôk)
- Bulgarian: морж (bg) (morž) m
- Catalan: morsa (ca) f
- Cherokee: ᏓᏑᏫᏍᎩ ᎡᏆ (chr) (dasuwisgi equa)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 海象 (cmn) (hǎixiàng)
- Chuvash: морж (morž)
- Czech: mrož (cs) m
- Danish: hvalros (da) c
- Dutch: walrus (nl) m
- Esperanto: rosmaro (eo)
- Estonian: morsk
- Faroese: roysningur (fo) m
- Finnish: mursu (fi)
- French: morse (fr) m
- Georgian: ლომვეშაპი (ka) (lomvešapi)
- German: Walross (de) n
- Greek: οδόβαινος (el) (odóvenos) f , θαλάσσιος ίππος (el) (thalássios íppos) f
- Greenlandic: aaveq (kl), aaffaffak (kl)
- Hebrew: ניבת (he) (nivtan) m, סוס ים (he) (sus yam) m
- Hindi: वालरस (hi) (vālras)
- Hungarian: rozmár (hu)
- Ido: rosmaro (io)
- Inuktitut: ᐁᕕᖃ
- Irish: rosualt (ga) 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)
- Korean: 바다코끼리 (ko) (bada-kokkiri), 해상 (ko) (haesang) (海象 (ko)), 해마 (ko) (haema) (海馬 (ko))
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Pronunciation [edit]
walrus m (plural walrussen, ??? please provide the diminutive!)
- walrus
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