krill

See also: Krill and krrilë

English

An Antarctic krill, Euphausia superba.

Etymology

From Norwegian kril (“fry of fish”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɹɪl/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɪl

Noun

krill (plural krill or krills)

1. Any of several small marine crustacean species of plankton in the order Euphausiacea in the class Malacostraca.
   • 2023 September 9, Henry Belot, “Australian government backflips on cancellation of Antarctica penguin surveys”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     “This science relates to krill and krill ecosystems, whale acoustic monitoring and Southern Ocean ecosystems,” the spokesperson said.

2. (slang) Crack cocaine.
   • 2004, MF DOOM, “Vomitspit”, in MM..FOOD:

     Instead she wanna hear the beatbox / Take pills and make fake krills as sheetrock

Derived terms

• Antarctic krill
• northern krill

Translations

small marine crustacean

• Bulgarian: крил (bg) m (kril)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 磷蝦 / 磷虾 (línxiā)

• Danish: krill c
• Dutch: krill (nl)
• Finnish: krilli (fi)
• German: Krill (de) m
• Greek: κριλ n (kril)
• Greenlandic: illeraq
• Hungarian: krill (hu), világítórák (hu)
• Icelandic: ljósáta, kríli (is) n
• Indonesian: geragau (id), udang geragau (id)
• Irish: crill m
• Japanese: 沖醤蝦 (オキアミ, okiami), オキアミ (okiami)
• Māori: kōura rangi, kōurariki, uraura
• Navajo: táłtłʼááh chʼoshchilí
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: krill m

  Nynorsk: kril m

• Polish: kryl (pl) m
• Portuguese: krill (pt) m
• Russian: криль (ru) m (krilʹ)
• Slovene: kril m
• Spanish: kril m
• Swedish: lysräka (sv) c, lyskräfta c, krill (sv) c
• Thai: เคย (th) (kəəi)
• Welsh: cril m

References

• krill on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “krill n.”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Jonathon Green, 2016–present.
• https://web.archive.org/web/20021218082407/http://www.ecoscope.com/krill/

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kʁil/

• Audio (France (Lyon)):

  (file)

Noun

krill m (plural krills)

1. krill

Hungarian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈkrilː]
• Rhymes: -ilː

Noun

krill (plural krillek)

1. krill

Declension

Inflection (stem in -e-, front unrounded harmony)

	singular	plural
nominative	krill	krillek
accusative	krillt	krilleket
dative	krillnek	krilleknek
instrumental	krillel	krillekkel
causal-final	krillért	krillekért
translative	krillé	krillekké
terminative	krillig	krillekig
essive-formal	krillként	krillekként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	krillben	krillekben
superessive	krillen	krilleken
adessive	krillnél	krilleknél
illative	krillbe	krillekbe
sublative	krillre	krillekre
allative	krillhez	krillekhez
elative	krillből	krillekből
delative	krillről	krillekről
ablative	krilltől	krillektől
non-attributive possessive – singular	krillé	krilleké
non-attributive possessive – plural	krilléi	krillekéi

Possessive forms of krill

possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	krillem	krilljeim
2nd person sing.	krilled	krilljeid
3rd person sing.	krillje	krilljei
1st person plural	krillünk	krilljeink
2nd person plural	krilletek	krilljeitek
3rd person plural	krilljük	krilljeik

Synonyms

• világítórák

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• (non-standard since 2005) kril

Etymology

Uncertain, related to dialectal kril (krusning); compare with Icelandic kríli.

Noun

krill m (definite singular krillen, indefinite plural kriller, definite plural krillene)

1. krill, several species of crustacean plankton of the order Euphausiacea.
2. (dialectal) synonym of småsild (sprats)

See also

• kril (Nynorsk)

References

• “krill” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “krill_3” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Portuguese

Noun

krill m (plural krills or krill)

1. krill (small marine crustacean of the class Malacostraca)

Further reading

• “krill”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Swedish

Etymology

From Norwegian krill.

Noun

krill n

1. (usually collectively) krill

Declension

Declension of krill

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	krill	krills
	definite	krillen	krillens
plural	indefinite	—	—
	definite	—	—

References

• “krill”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
• “krill”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)