whale shark

English

The large creature in this picture is the whale shark

Noun

whale shark (plural whale sharks)

1. A very large spotted shark, Rhincodon typus, of warm marine waters, similar to a whale, that feeds by filtering plankton from the water.
   • 1983, Richard Ellis, The Book of Sharks, Knopf, →ISBN, page 42:

     The largest fish in the world is a shark. It is a harmless plankton eater, and its name, whale shark has been confusing people for years.

Translations

Rhincodon typus

• Bikol Central: butanding (bcl)
• Bulgarian: к акула f (k akula)
• Catalan: tauró balena m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 鯨鯊／鲸鲨 (zh) (jīngshā)

• Danish: hvalhaj c
• Dhivehi: ފެހުރިހި (fehurihi)
• Dutch: walvishaai (nl)
• Finnish: valashai
• French: requin-baleine (fr) m
• Galician: tiburón balea (gl) m
• German: Walhai (de) m
• Greek: φαλαινοκαρχαρίας (el) m (falainokarcharías)
• Hungarian: cetcápa (hu) sg
• Irish: míolsiorc m
• Italian: squalo balena m
• Japanese: ジンベエザメ (jinbēzame)
• Korean: 고래상어 (goraesang'eo)
• Malagasy: marokintana
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: халиман аварга загас (xaliman avarga zagas), халиман дулан (xaliman dulan) (China)

  Mongolian: ᠬᠠᠯᠢᠮᠤᠨ
  ᠠᠪᠤᠷᠭᠤ
  ᠵᠢᠭᠠᠰᠤ (qalimun aburɣu ǰiɣasu), ᠬᠠᠯᠢᠮᠤᠨ
  ᠳᠤᠯᠠᠨ (qalimun dulan)

• Navajo: łóóʼntsxaaí łikizhígíí
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: hvalhai m, kvalhai m

  Nynorsk: kvalhai m

• Polish: rekin wielorybi m
• Portuguese: tubarão-baleia m
• Russian: кито́вая аку́ла f (kitóvaja akúla)
• Spanish: tiburón ballena m
• Swedish: valhaj (sv) c
• Tagalog: butanding, isdangtuko
• Thai: ฉลามวาฬ (chà-lǎam-waan)
• Turkish: balina köpek balığı
• Welsh: morgi morfilaidd m