English[edit]
A sea nettle, a type of jellyfish
Etymology[edit]
From jelly + fish.
Pronunciation[edit]
jellyfish (plural jellyfish or jellyfishes)
- (zoology) An almost transparent aquatic being; any one of the acalephs, especially one of the larger species, having a jellylike appearance.
- A cnidarian, a member of the phylum Cnidaria.
- A scyphozoan, a member of the class Scyphozoa (the true jellies).
- A ctenophore, a member of the phylum Ctenophora (the comb jellies).
Usage notes[edit]
Some writers prefer the term jelly, which does not imply that it is a type of fish.
Translations[edit]
aquatic being
- Arabic: قنديل البحر m (qindīl al-baḥr) (sea lamp)
- Armenian: մեդուզա (meduza)
- Asturian: marmoca f, aguamala f, veleru m
- Basque: marmoka
- Belarusian: медуза f (medúza)
- Bengali: জেলিফিশ (jeliphish)
- Bikol: pa-lit (small); tuog, lawayan, puro-pinggan (large); salabay (Portuguese man-of-war)
- Breton: morgaoulenn (br) f, blonegenn-vor (br) f
- Bulgarian: медуза f (medúza)
- Catalan: medusa f
- Cherokee: ᏩᏂᎨ ᎠᏣᏗ (wanige atsadi)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 水母 (zh) (shuǐmǔ), 海蜇 (zh) (hǎizhé) (sea mother)
- Min Dong: tá
- Comox: q̓ʊpɬanačaɬ
- Czech: medúza f
- Danish: gople c, vandmand c, brandmand c
- Dutch: kwal (nl) f
- Esperanto: meduzo
- Finnish: meduusa (fi)
- French: méduse (fr) f
- Georgian: მედუზა (meduza)
- German: Qualle (de) f
- Greek: τσούχτρα (el) f (tsoúchtra), μέδουσα (el) f (médousa)
- Hebrew: מדוזה (he) f (meduza)
- Hindi: जेलिफ़िश (jelifiś)
- Hungarian: medúza (hu)
- Icelandic: marglytta (is) f
- Ido: meduzo (io)
- Ilocano: karominas
- Indonesian: ubur-ubur, ampai-ampai
- Interlingua: medusa
- Irish: smugairle róin m
- Italian: medusa (it) f
- Japanese: 海月 (くらげ, kurage) (sea moon), 水母 (くらげ, kurage) (sea mother), クラゲ (kurage), すいぼ (suibo)
- Khmer: ខ្ញែសមុទ្រ (kɲae saʔmot), ជំពុលទឹក (kampuptik)
- Korean: 해파리 (ko) (haepari)
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- Kurdish:
- Kurmanji: pişemasî (ku), medûsa (ku)
- Latin: pulmo, halipleumon
- Latvian: medūza
- Lithuanian: medūzos
- Luxembourgish: Jelliskapp m
- Macedonian: медуза f (meduza)
- Malay: ampai-ampai
- Malayalam: കടല്ച്ചൊറി (kaṭalccoṟai)
- Maltese: brama f
- Maori: maremaretai, petipeti
- Navajo: jélii łóóʼ
- Norwegian: manet
- Old English: please add this translation if you can
- Persian: عروس دریایی (orus daryâyi) (sea bride), چتر دریایی (čatr daryâyi) (sea umbrella)
- Polish: meduza (pl) f
- Portuguese: medusa (pt) f, água-viva (pt) f
- Quechua: kachu k'arachiq
- Romanian: meduză (ro) f
- Russian: медуза (ru) f (medúza)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: медуза f
- Roman: meduza f
- Slovak: medúza f
- Slovene: meduza (sl) f
- Spanish: medusa (es) f, aguamala m (Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Ecuador, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Southern Spain, Venezuela), aguaviva m (Argentina, Southern Spain and Canary Islands, Uruguay), malagua f (Peru)
- Swedish: manet (sv) c
- Tagalog: dikya (tl)
- Tamil: இழுது (ta) (iẓutu), சொறிமுட்டை (çoṟimuṭṭai)
- Thai: แมงกะพรุน (maeng gà proon)
- Turkish: denizanası (tr)
- Ukrainian: медуза f (medúza)
- Urdu: جیلیفش (jelifiś)
- Vietnamese: sứa (vi), con sứa
- Welsh: sglefren fôr
- West Frisian: kwab c
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