cuttlefish

English

cuttlefish

Etymology

From cuttle +‎ fish.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkʌ.təl.fɪʃ/
• IPA^(key): /ˈkʌ.tɚ.fɪʃ/ (common but proscribed, corresponding to the misspelling pronunciation)

Noun

cuttlefish (countable and uncountable, plural cuttlefishes or cuttlefish)

1. any of various squid-like cephalopods (marine mollusks) of the order Sepiida that have eight arms, two retractable tentacles, and a calcareous internal shell, and can eject a dark ink when threatened

   Synonyms: cuttle, inkfish, sepia

Derived terms

• cuttlebone
• cuttlefish bone

 

Translations

any of various squidlike mollusks

• Albanian: sepje (sq) f, cupije f
• Arabic: حَبَّار (ar) m (ḥabbār)
• Armenian: թանաքաձուկ (hy) (tʻanakʻajuk)
• Asturian: xibia (ast) f
• Belarusian: карака́ціца f (karakácica)
• Brunei Malay: sutung
• Bulgarian: сепия f (sepija)
• Burmese: ကင်းမွန် (my) (kang:mwan)
• Catalan: sípia (ca) f, sépia (ca) f, sèpia (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 烏賊／乌贼 (zh) (wūzéi), 乌贼 (zh) (wūzéi)

• Czech: sépie (cs) f
• Dalmatian: agaun
• Danish: blæksprutte c
• Dutch: zeekat (nl) c
• Estonian: seepia
• Finnish: seepia (fi)
• French: seiche (fr) f
• Galician: xiba (gl) f, choco m, chopo (gl) m, sepia (gl) f
• Georgian: მელანთევზი (melantevzi), სეპია (seṗia)
• German: Kopffüßer (de) m, Tintenfisch (de) m, Kuttelfisch m (dated)
• Greek: σουπιά (el) f (soupiá)

  Ancient: σηπία f (sēpía)

• Hebrew: דְיוֹנוֹן (he)
• Hindi: समुद्रफेनी m (samudraphenī)
• Hungarian: tintahal (hu), szépia
• Icelandic: blekfiskur m
• Ido: sepio (io)
• Indonesian: sotong (id)
• Irish: gunnadóir m
• Italian: seppia (it) f
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• Japanese: イカ (ja) (ika), 烏賊 (ja) (いか, ika)
• Khmer: យៀវហ៊ឺ (yiev hɨɨ)
• Korean: 오징어 (ko) (ojing'eo)
• Lao: ປາມຶກ (pā mưk) (cuttlefish, squid, octopus)
• Latin: sepia f, saepia f
• Latvian: sēpija f
• Lithuanian: sepija f
• Macedonian: си́па f (sípa)
• Malay: sotong katak
• Navajo: łóóʼ bigaan neeznání bitsʼinígíí
• Norman: seiche f
• Norwegian: blekksprut
• Persian: سپیداج (sepidâj), ده‌پا (deh-pâ)
• Polish: mątwa (pl) f, sepia (pl) f
• Portuguese: choco (pt) m, siba (pt) f, sépia (pt) f
• Romanian: sepie (ro) f
• Russian: карака́тица (ru) f (karakática)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: си̏па f

  Roman: sȉpa (sh) f

• Sicilian: siccia (scn) f
• Slovak: sépia f
• Slovene: sipa (sl) f
• Spanish: jibia (es) f, sepia (es), choco (es) m
• Swedish: bläckfisk (sv) c
• Thai: หมึกกระดอง (mʉ̀k-grà-dɔɔng), ปลาหมึก (th) (bplaa-mʉ̀k)
• Turkish: mürekkep balığı (tr)
• Ukrainian: карака́тиця f (karakátycja)
• Vietnamese: cá mực, mực (vi)
• Welsh: ystifflog m, môr-gyllell f, twyllwr du m (North dialect), pibwr inc m

See also

• cephalopod
• octopus
• squid