sperm whale

English

Mother and calf sperm whales.

Etymology

A clipping of spermaceti whale.

Pronunciation

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Noun

sperm whale (plural sperm whales)

1. A whale (Physeter catodon, syn. Physeter macrocephalus), the largest of the toothed whales.
2. Any whale in the superfamily Physeteroidea, which also includes the small whales of genus Kogia.

Synonyms

• cachalot
• common cachalot

Derived terms

• dwarf sperm whale
• pygmy sperm whale
• sperm whale oil
• sperm-whale porpoise

Translations

Physeter catodon

• Albanian: kashalot (sq) m
• Arabic: حُوتُ الْعَنْبَر m (ḥūtu l-ʕanbar)
• Armenian: կաշալոտ (hy) (kašalot)
• Assamese: কেছাল’ তিমি (kesalö timi), কেছাল’ (kesalö)
• Asturian: cachalote (ast), romu (ast)
• Azerbaijani: kaşalot
• Belarusian: кашало́т m (kašalót)
• Bulgarian: кашало́т (bg) m (kašalót)
• Catalan: catxalot (ca)
• Cherokee: ᏓᏆ ᎤᏍᏆᎴᏂ (daqua usqualeni)
• Chinese:

  Hokkien: boah-phang-keng

  Mandarin: 抹香鯨 / 抹香鲸 (zh) (mǒxiāngjīng)

• Czech: vorvaň (cs) m
• Danish: kaskelot c, kaskelothval (da) c
• Dutch: potvis (nl) m
• Estonian: kašelott (et)
• Faroese: avgustur m, spermur m
• Finnish: kaskelotti (fi)
• French: cachalot (fr) m
• Galician: cachalote m
• Georgian: კაშალოტი (ḳašaloṭi)
• German: Pottwal (de) m
• Greek: φυσητήρας (el) m (fysitíras)
• Greenlandic: kigutilissuaq (kl)
• Hawaiian: palaoa
• Hindi: स्पर्म व्हेल (sparm vhel), शुक्राणु व्हेल (śukrāṇu vhel)
• Hungarian: nagy ámbráscet, óriás ámbráscet
• Icelandic: búrhvalur (is) m
• Ido: kashaloto (io)
• Irish: caisealóid f
• Italian: capodoglio (it) m
• Japanese: 抹香鯨 (ja) (まっこうくじら, makkōkujira), マッコウクジラ (ja) (makkōkujira)
• Kazakh: кашалот (kaşalot)
• Korean: 향고래 (hyanggorae)
• Kyrgyz: кашалот (ky) (kaşalot)
• Latin: physeter m
• Latvian: kašalots m
• Lithuanian: kašalotas m
• Macedonian: кашалот m (kašalot)
• Malay: paus sperma
• Maori: parāoa (mi)
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: кашалот (kašalot), заарт халим (zaart xalim) (China)

  Mongolian: ᠵᠢᠭᠠᠷᠲᠤ
  ᠬᠠᠯᠢᠮᠤ (ǰiɣartu qalimu)

• Nootka: maaʔak
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: spermhval m, kaskelott m

  Nynorsk: trollkval m, spermkval m, kaskelott m

• Ottoman Turkish: عنبر ('amber)
• Persian: کاشالوت (kâšâlot), نهنگ عنبر (nahang-e 'anbar)
• Polish: kaszalot (pl) m
• Portuguese: cachalote m
• Romanian: cașalot (ro) m
• Russian: кашало́т (ru) m (kašalót)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: уљешура f

  Roman: ulješura (sh) f

• Slovak: vorvaň m
• Slovene: kit glavač (sl) m
• Spanish: cachalote (es) m
• Swahili: nyangumi-shahawa
• Swedish: kaskelot (sv) c, pottval c, spermacetival c
• Tajik: кашалот (kašalot)
• Thai: วาฬสเปิร์ม
• Turkish: ispermeçet balinası (tr), kadırga balığı (tr), kaşalot (tr)
• Turkmen: kaşalot
• Ukrainian: кашало́т m (kašalót)
• Uzbek: kashalot (uz)
• Vietnamese: cá nhà táng
• Welsh: morfil gwyn m