jellyfish

See also: jelly-fish and jelly fish

English

A sea nettle, a type of jellyfish

Etymology

From jelly +‎ fish.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdʒɛliˌfɪʃ/

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Noun

jellyfish ‎(countable and uncountable, plural jellyfish or jellyfishes)

1. An almost transparent aquatic animal; any one of the acalephs, especially one of the larger species, having a jellylike appearance.
   1. A cnidarian, a member of the phylum Cnidaria.
      1. A scyphozoan, a member of the class Scyphozoa (the true jellies).
   2. A ctenophore, a member of the phylum Ctenophora (the comb jellies).

Synonyms

• jelly

Translations

aquatic animal

• Afrikaans: jellievis
• Albanian: kandil deti (sq)
• Arabic: قِنْدِيل الْبَحْر m ‎(qindīl al-baḥr) (sea lamp)

  Hijazi Arabic: قَنْديل m ‎(gandīl)

• Armenian: մեդուզա (hy) ‎(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
• Central Melanau: buboh
• Cherokee: ᏩᏂᎨ ᎠᏣᏗ ‎(wanige atsadi)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 水母 ‎(seoi² mou⁵), 海蜇 ‎(hoi² zit³) (edible)

  Mandarin: 水母 (zh) ‎(shuǐmǔ), 海蜇 (zh) ‎(hǎizhé)

  Min Dong: tá

• Comox: q̓ʊpɬanačaɬ
• Cornish: morgowlesen f
• Czech: medúza f
• Danish: gople c, vandmand c, brandmand (da) 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 (ja) ‎(くらげ, kurage), 水母 (ja) ‎(くらげ, kurage), クラゲ ‎(kurage), すいぼ ‎(suibo)
• Kazakh: медуза ‎(medwza)
• Khmer: ខ្ញែសមុទ្រ ‎(khnhêsmŭtr), ជំពុលទឹក ‎(chumpŭltœ̆k)
• Kimaragang: bolung

• 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, ubur-ubur
• Malayalam: കടല്ച്ചൊറി ‎(kaṭalccoṟi)
• Maltese: brama f
• Maori: maremaretai, petipeti, kūreperepe-ā-tai, kūreperepe moana
• Mongolian: медуз (mn) ‎(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 (sh) f

• Slovak: medúza f
• Slovene: meduza (sl) f
• Spanish: medusa (es) f, aguamala (es) m (Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Ecuador, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Southern Spain, Venezuela), aguaviva (es) 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)
• Waray-Waray: bantol
• Welsh: sglefren fôr
• West Frisian: kwab c
• Yiddish: מעדוזע f ‎(meduze)

See also

• medusa

External links

• Jellyfish on Wikipedia.en.Wikipedia