great white shark

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Noun

great white shark (plural great white sharks)

1. A large shark, Carcharodon carcharias, of coastal surface waters in all major oceans that feeds on fish and marine mammals.

   Synonyms: great white, white pointer, white shark

Translations

Carcharodon carcharias

• Afrikaans: witdoodshai
• Arabic: قِرْش أَبْيَض عَظِيم m (qirš ʔabyaḍ ʕaẓīm)
• Armenian: սպիտակ շնաձուկ (spitak šnajuk)
• Catalan: tauró blanc (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 大白鯊 / 大白鲨 (daai⁶ baak⁶ saa¹)

  Hokkien: 大白鯊 / 大白鲨 (zh-min-nan) (tōa-pe̍h-soa)

  Mandarin: 大白鯊 / 大白鲨 (zh) (dàbáishā)

• Dutch: grote witte haai, mensenhaai (nl)
• Esperanto: granda blanka ŝarko
• Finnish: valkohai (fi)
• French: grand requin blanc (fr) m
• Galician: tiburón branco (gl) m
• German: Weißer Hai (de) m, Menschenhai m
• Greek: λευκός καρχαρίας m (lefkós karcharías)
• Hungarian: fehér cápa
• Icelandic: hvítháfur m
• Irish: siorc bán mór m
• Italian: grande squalo bianco m
• Japanese: 頬白鮫 (ja) (ホオジロザメ, hōjiro zame, ホホジロザメ, hohojiro zame)
• Korean: 백상아리 (baeksang'ari)
• Latin: Carcharodon carcharias
• Māori: mangō-taniwha, mangō-tuatini, mangō-ururoa
• Navajo: łóóʼ hashkéhétsoh
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: hvithai m

  Nynorsk: kvithai m

• Persian: کوسه بزرگ سفید
• Polish: żarłacz biały m
• Portuguese: grande-tubarão-branco m, tubarão-branco m
• Russian: больша́я бе́лая аку́ла f (bolʹšája bélaja akúla), бе́лая аку́ла f (bélaja akúla), аку́ла-людое́д (ru) f (akúla-ljudojéd)
• Seri: hacat cooxp
• Spanish: gran tiburón blanco m
• Swedish: vithaj (sv) c
• Tagalog: butanding
• Turkish: büyük beyaz köpekbalığı
• Welsh: morgi mawr gwyn m