sea horse

See also: seahorse

English

A sea horse (fish)

Alternative forms

• seahorse, sea-horse

Etymology

From Middle English sehors (“walrus”), equivalent to sea +‎ horse. Probably a calque of obsolete French cheval de mer or directly of Late Latin caballus marinus.

Pronunciation

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Noun

sea horse (plural sea horses)

A 1913 £1 "Seahorse" stamp.

1. (obsolete) The walrus.
   • 1789, Olaudah Equiano, chapter 9, in The Interesting Narrative, volume I:

     One morning we had vast quantities of sea-horses about the ship, which neighed exactly like any other horses.

2. Any of various small marine fish of the genus Hippocampus that have a horselike head and swim upright.
3. (philately) any of a series of British high value stamps issued during the reign of King George V featuring a depiction of Britannia on a chariot in choppy seas.

Derived terms

• Fisher's seahorse
• Hawaiian seahorse
• seahorse dad

 

Translations

fish

• Arabic: فَرَس بَحْر m (faras baḥr)
• Armenian: ծովաձի (hy) (covaji), ձիաձուկ (hy) (jiajuk)
• Basque: itsas zaldia
• Belarusian: марско́й канёк m (marskój kanjók)
• Bulgarian: морско конче n (morsko konče)
• Burmese: ရေမြင်း (my) (re-mrang:), ရေနဂါး (my) (rena.ga:)
• Catalan: cavall marí (ca) m, hipocamp (ca) m
• Cebuano: kulkog
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 海馬／海马 (zh) (hǎimǎ)

• Czech: mořský koník m
• Danish: søhest c
• Dutch: (Hippocampus) zeepaard (nl) n
• Esperanto: hipokampo, marĉevaleto
• Estonian: merihobuke
• Finnish: merihevonen (fi)
• French: hippocampe (fr) m
• Galician: cabalo de mar (gl) m, cabaliño de mar m
• Georgian: ზღვის ცხენი (zɣvis cxeni)
• German: Seepferdchen (de) n
• Greek: ιππόκαμπος (el) m (ippókampos)

  Ancient: ἱππόκαμπος m (hippókampos)

• Hungarian: csikóhal (hu)
• Icelandic: sæhestur m
• Ilocano: kurikor
• Indonesian: kuda laut (id)
• Irish: capall mara m
• Italian: cavalluccio marino m, ippocampo (it) m
• Japanese: 竜の落とし子 (ja) (タツノオトシゴ, tatsuno-otoshigo)
• Kazakh: атбалық (atbalyq)
• Korean: 해마(海馬) (ko) (haema)
• Lao: ມ້ານ້ຳ (mā nam)
• Latin: equus bipēs m
• Latvian: jūras zirdziņš m
• Lü: ᦙᦱᧉᦓᧄᧉ (maa²nam²)
• Luxembourgish: Séipäerdchen n
• Macedonian: морско коњче n (morsko konjče)
• Malay: kuda laut, unduk-unduk (Peninsula East Coast)
• Maltese: żiemel tal-baħar m
• Maori: kioretai, hinamoki
• Navajo: táłtłʼááh łį́į́ʼ
• Norman: ch'fa d'maïr m (Guernsey), j'va d'mé m (Jersey)
• Northern Thai: ᨾ᩶ᩣᨶ᩶ᩣᩴ
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: havhest (no) m, sjøhest m

• Persian: اسب دریایی (asb-e daryâyi)
• Polish: konik morski (pl) m, pławikonik m
• Portuguese: cavalo-marinho (pt) m
• Romanian: căluț de mare m, hipocamp (ro) m
• Russian: морско́й конёк (ru) m (morskój konjók)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: морски коњић m, морски коњиц m

  Roman: morski konjić, morski konjic m

• Seri: heeesam
• Slovak: morský koník m
• Slovene: morski konjiček (sl) m
• Spanish: hipocampo m, caballito de mar (es) m
• Swahili: mbuzi-bahari
• Swedish: sjöhäst (sv) c
• Tagalog: kabayo-kabayohan, kaba-kabayuhan, kabayong-dagat
• Thai: ม้าน้ำ (máa-náam)
• Turkish: denizatı (tr)
• Ukrainian: морськи́й ко́ник m (morsʹkýj kónyk)
• Vietnamese: cá ngựa (vi) (𩵜馭), hải mã (vi) (海馬)
• Volapük: hiokamp
• Welsh: morfarch (cy) m
• Wolof: fasu géej wi

walrus — see walrus

Further reading

• sea horse on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• seashore