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Illustration of an adult blue whale alongside a human for size reference.
blue whale (plural blue whales )
A whale (Balaenoptera musculus ), blue in color and the largest known living animal .
1851 , Herman Melville, Moby Dick , page 131 :But there are a rabble of uncertain, fugitive half-fabulous whales, which as an American whaleman, I know by reputation, but not personally....the Iceberg whale; the Quog Whale; the Blue Whale . But I omit them as altogether obsolete and can hardly help suspecting them for mere sounds full of leviathanism, but signifying nothing.
a whale, Balaenoptera musculus
Afrikaans: blouwalvis
Arabic:
Cypriot Arabic: latn
Assamese: নীলা তিমি ( nila timi )
Azerbaijani: göy balina
Belarusian: блакітны кіт m ( blakitny kit )
Catalan: rorqual blau (ca) m , balena blava (ca) f
Cherokee: ᎠᏌᎪᏂᎨ ᏓᏆ ( asagonige daqua )
Chinese:
Mandarin: 藍鯨 / 蓝鲸 (zh) ( lánjīng )
Czech: plejtvák obrovský (cs) m
Danish: blåhval (da) c
Dutch: blauwe vinvis (nl)
Esperanto: blua baleno
Estonian: sinivaal
Faroese: royður f
Finnish: sinivalas (fi)
French: baleine bleue (fr) f , rorqual bleu (fr) , rorqual de Sibbald
German: Blauwal (de) m
Greenlandic: tunnulik
Hungarian: kék bálna (hu) , óriás bálna (hu)
Icelandic: steypireyður (is) f
Italian: balenottera azzurra f
Japanese: 白長須鯨 (ja) ( しろながすくじら, shironagasu kujira )
Korean: 대왕고래 ( daewanggorae )
Kyrgyz: көк кит (ky) ( kök kit )
Malay: paus biru
Malayalam: നീലത്തിമിംഗിലം ( nīlattimiṅgilaṁ )
Maltese: balena kaħla , balena bluna
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: хөх судалт халим ( xöx sudalt xalim ) , цэнхэр халим ( cenxer xalim )
Mongolian: ᠬᠥᠬᠡ ᠰᠤᠳᠠᠯᠲᠤ ᠬᠠᠯᠢᠮᠤ ( köke sudaltu qalimu ) , ᠴᠡᠩᠬᠡᠷ ᠬᠠᠯᠢᠮᠤ ( čengker qalimu )
Norwegian:
Bokmål: blåhval m , blåkval m
Nynorsk: blåkval m
Polish: płetwal błękitny (pl) m
Portuguese: baleia-azul (pt) f
Romanian: balenă albastră f , balenă uriașă f
Russian: блюва́л (ru) m ( bljuvál ) , си́ний кит (ru) m ( sínij kit )
Slovak: vráskavec obrovský m
Slovene: sinji kit (sl) m
Spanish: rorcual azul m , ballena azul f
Swahili: nyangumi buluu
Swedish: blåval (sv) c
Telugu: నీలి తిమింగలం ( nīli timiṅgalaṁ )
Thai: วาฬสีน้ำเงิน ( waan-sǐi-nám-ngən )
Turkish: gök balina
Ukrainian: синій кит m ( synij kyt )
Vietnamese: cá voi xanh