English[edit]
A sea nettle, a type of jellyfish
Etymology[edit]
From jelly + fish.
Pronunciation[edit]
jellyfish (countable and uncountable, 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
- Afrikaans: jellievis
- Albanian: kandil deti (sq)
- Arabic: قِنْدِيل الْبَحْر m (qindīl al-baḥr) (sea lamp)
- Armenian: մեդուզա (meduza)
- Asturian: marmoca f, aguamala f, veleru m
- Azeri: meduza (az)
- Basque: marmoka
- Belarusian: меду́за f (mjedúza)
- 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: меду́за f (medúza)
- Burmese: ငါးဖန်ခွက် (my) (nga:hpanhkwak)
- 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
- Cornish: morgowlesen f
- Czech: medúza f
- Danish: gople c, vandmand c, brandmand c
- Dutch: kwal (nl) f
- Esperanto: meduzo
- Estonian: meduus
- Finnish: meduusa (fi)
- French: méduse (fr) f
- Georgian: მედუზა (meduza)
- German: Qualle (de) f
- Greek: μέδουσα (el) f (médousa), τσούχτρα (el) f (tsoúchtra)
- Hawaiian: pololia
- Hebrew: מֶדוּזָה (he) f (meduza)
- Hindi: जेलिफ़िश (jelifiś), गिजगिजिया (gijgijiyā)
- 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)
- Kazakh: медуза (medwza)
- Khmer: ខ្ញែសមុទ្រ (kɲae saʔmot), ជំពុលទឹក (kampuptik)
- Korean: 해파리 (ko) (haepari)
|
|
- Kurdish:
- Kurmanji: pişemasî (ku), medûsa (ku)
- Kyrgyz: медуза (ky) (meduza)
- Lao: ແມງກະພົນ (mǣng ka phon)
- Latin: pulmo, halipleumon
- Latvian: medūza f
- Lithuanian: medūza f
- Luxembourgish: Jelliskapp m
- Macedonian: медуза f (meduza)
- Malay: ampai-ampai
- Malayalam: കടല്ച്ചൊറി (kaṭalccoṟi)
- Maltese: brama f
- Maori: maremaretai, petipeti
- Mongolian: медуз (meduz)
- 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: меду́за (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)
- Tajik: медуза (meduza)
- Tamil: இழுது (ta) (iḻutu), சொறிமுட்டை (coṟimuṭṭai)
- Thai: แมงกะพรุน (maeng gà proon)
- Turkish: denizanası (tr)
- Turkmen: meduza
- Ukrainian: меду́за f (medúza)
- Urdu: جیلیفش (jelifiś)
- Uzbek: meduza (uz)
- Vietnamese: sứa (vi)
- Welsh: sglefren fôr
- West Frisian: kwab c
- Yiddish: מעדוזע f (meduze)
|
See also[edit]
External links[edit]
Jellyfish on Wikipedia.en.Wikipedia
