cuttlefish

English

cuttlefish

Etymology

From cuttle +‎ fish.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈkʌtl̩fɪʃ/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈkʌt(ə)lfɪʃ/, (common but proscribed) /-təɹ-/, [-ɾ(ə)l]
• Hyphenation: cut‧tle‧fish

Noun

cuttlefish (countable and uncountable, plural cuttlefishes or cuttlefish)

1. Any 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

   Hypernyms: cephalopod < mollusc < animal < organism < creature

   Hyponym: flamboyant cuttlefish

   Coordinate terms: octopus, squid, nautilus

   • 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 72:

     Cuttle-fish, spiced oysters, sea hedge-hogs, and lobsters were among the ingredients of love-potions that reputed thaumaturgist Apuleius [...] was accused of have prepared in order to win the love of a widow.

   • 2017 August 9, Mark Carnall, “Why do cephalopods produce ink? And what's ink made of, anyway?”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     Fossilised ink sacs are more conclusively known from the extinct “soft-bodied” Coleoidea cephalopods in groups Belemitida (including belemnites with bullet-like internal skeletons commonly found as fossils) and Phragmoteuthida as well as from squid, octopus and cuttlefish fossils.

Derived terms

• common cuttlefish
• 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
• Azerbaijani: mürəkkəbböcəyi
• Belarusian: карака́ціца f (karakácica)
• Bulgarian: се́пия f (sépija)
• Burmese: ကင်းမွန် (my) (kang:mwan)
• Catalan: sípia (ca) f, sépia (ca) f, sèpia (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 烏賊 / 乌贼 (zh) (wūzéi)

• Czech: sépie (cs) f
• Dalmatian: agaun
• Danish: blæksprutte c
• Dutch: zeekat (nl) c
• Esperanto: sepio
• 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: Tintenfisch (de) m, Kuttelfisch m (dated)
• Greek: σουπιά (el) f (soupiá)

  Ancient Greek: σηπία f (sēpía)

• Hebrew: דְּיוֹנוּן (he)
• Hindi: समुद्रफेनी m (samudraphenī)
• Hungarian: tintahal (hu), szépia (hu)
• Icelandic: blekfiskur m
• Ido: sepio (io)
• Indonesian: sotong (id)
• Irish: gunnadóir m
• Italian: seppia (it) f
• Japanese: イカ (ja) (ika), 烏賊 (ja) (いか, ika)
• Kazakh: тарбақ аяқ (tarbaq aäq), каракатица (karakatisa)
• Khmer: យៀវហ៊ឺ (yiəw hɨɨ)
• Korean: 오징어 (ko) (ojing'eo)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: supya

• Kyrgyz: каракатица (karakatitsa)
• Lao: ປາມຶກ (pā mưk) (cuttlefish, squid, octopus), ປາໝຶກ (pā mưk)
• Latin: sepia f, saepia f
• Latvian: sēpija f
• Lithuanian: sepija f
• Macedonian: си́па f (sípa), се́пија f (sépija)
• Malay: sotong katak

  Brunei Malay: sutung

• Malayalam: കണവ (kaṇava)
• Navajo: łóóʼ bigaan neeznání bitsʼinígíí
• Norman: seiche f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: blekksprut m

• 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)
• Scottish Gaelic: faobhag f, sùil-thòine f, eò m, giobarnach m, giobanach m, gibneach m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: си̏па f

  Latin: sȉpa (sh) f

• Sicilian: siccia (scn) f
• Slovak: sépia f
• Slovene: sipa (sl) f
• Spanish: jibia (es) f, sepia (es) f, choco (es) m
• Swedish: bläckfisk (sv) c
• Tajik: каракатитса (karakatitsa), каракатиса (karakatisa), рӯдапо (rüdapo)
• Tamil: கணவாய் (ta) (kaṇavāy)
• Thai: หมึกกระดอง (mʉ̀k-grà-dɔɔng), ปลาหมึก (th) (bplaa-mʉ̀k)
• Turkish: mürekkep balığı (tr)

  Ottoman Turkish: مركب بالغی (mürekkeb balığı)

• Ukrainian: карака́тиця f (karakátycja)
• Uyghur: سىياھبېلىق (siyahbëliq)
• Uzbek: karakatitsa
• Vietnamese: mực nang
• Welsh: ystifflog m, môr-gyllell f, twyllwr du m (North dialect), pibwr inc m