krill

See also: Krill

English

An Antarctic krill, Euphausia superba.

Etymology

From Dutch kriel (“puny/tiny”), applied to fish fry (in the sense of hatchlings); sometimes interpreted as "whale food".

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɹɪl/
• 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.

Derived terms

• Antarctic krill
• northern krill

Translations

small marine crustacean

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

  Mandarin: 磷蝦／磷虾 (línxiā), 磷虾 (línxiā)

• Danish: krill c
• Dutch: krill (nl)
• Finnish: krilli (fi)
• German: Krill m
• Hungarian: krill, világítórák
• Icelandic: ljósáta
• Irish: crill m
• Japanese: 沖醤蝦 (オキアミ, okiami), オキアミ (okiami)
• Maori: kōura rangi, kōurariki, uraura
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• Navajo: táłtłʼááh chʼoshchilí
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: krill m

  Nynorsk: kril m

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

References

• Wikipedia article on krill
• http://www.ecoscope.com/krill

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Hungarian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈkrilː]

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

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Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

Of uncertain origin, 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).

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Portuguese

Noun

krill m (plural s or krill)

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

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Swedish

Etymology

From Norwegian krill.

Noun

krill n

1. krill

Declension

Declension of krill
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	krill	krilln	krill	krillna
Genitive	krills	krillns	krills	krillnas