English[edit]
cuttlefish
Etymology[edit]
From cuttle + fish.
Pronunciation[edit]
cuttlefish (countable and uncountable, plural cuttlefishes or cuttlefish)
- 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[edit]
Translations[edit]
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)
- Brunei Malay: sutung
- 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
- 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: σηπία f (sēpía)
- Hebrew: דיונונאים
- 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
- Malayalam: കണവ (kaṇava)
- Navajo: łóóʼ bigaan neeznání bitsʼinígíí
- Norman: seiche f
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: blekksprut m
- Ottoman Turkish: مركب بالغی (mürekkeb balığı)
- 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
- 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
- Tajik: каракатитса (karakatitsa), каракатиса (karakatisa), рӯдапо (rüdapo)
- Tamil: கணவாய் (ta) (kaṇavāy)
- Thai: หมึกกระดอง (mʉ̀k-grà-dɔɔng), ปลาหมึก (th) (bplaa-mʉ̀k)
- Turkish: mürekkep balığı (tr)
- Ukrainian: карака́тиця f (karakátycja)
- Uyghur: سىياھبېلىق (siyahbëliq)
- Uzbek: karakatitsa
- Vietnamese: cá mực, mực (vi)
- Welsh: ystifflog m, môr-gyllell f, twyllwr du m (North dialect), pibwr inc m
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