Beluga

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• Received-Pronunciation: /bəˈluːɡə/
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• General-American: /bəˈluɡə/
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• rhymes with -uːɡə
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• CMU ARPABET: B IH0 L UW1 G AH0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Borrowed from Russian белу́га (belúga), from бе́лый (bélyj, “white”). In modern standard Russian, белу́га (belúga) denotes the fish Huso huso only, while белу́ха (belúxa) denotes the cetacean.

104 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Ahtna: kayaasi — Delphinapterus leucas
• Alutor: риририр (riririr) — Delphinapterus leucas
• Assamese: বগা তিমি (boga timi) — Delphinapterus leucas
• Azerbaijani: bölgə — Delphinapterus leucas
• Basque: beluga — Delphinapterus leucas
• Basque: balea zuri — Delphinapterus leucas
• Belarusian: бялуха (bjaluxa) — Delphinapterus leucas
• Bulgarian: белу́га (belúga) — Delphinapterus leucas
• Catalan: beluga — Delphinapterus leucas
• Catalan: balena blanca — Delphinapterus leucas
• Catalan: marsuí — Delphinapterus leucas
• Chinese Mandarin: 白鯨 /白鲸 (báijīng) — Delphinapterus leucas
• Chinese Mandarin: 貝魯卡鯨 /贝鲁卡鲸 (bèilǔkǎ jīng) — Delphinapterus leucas
• Chukchi: пурэӄ (purėq) — Delphinapterus leucas
• Chukchi: пурэӄыт (purėqyt) — Delphinapterus leucas
• Chukchi: пуурэӄ (puurėq) — Delphinapterus leucas
• Chukchi: пуурэӄыт (puurėqyt) — Delphinapterus leucas
• Czech: běluha — Delphinapterus leucas
• Danish: hvidhval — Delphinapterus leucas
• Dutch: beloega — Delphinapterus leucas
• Esperanto: belugo — Delphinapterus leucas
• Estonian: valgevaal — Delphinapterus leucas
• Faroese: hvítfiskur — Delphinapterus leucas
• Finnish: beluga — Delphinapterus leucas
• French: bélouga — Delphinapterus leucas
• French: béluga — Delphinapterus leucas
• Georgian: თეთრი ვეშაპი (tetri vešaṗi) — Delphinapterus leucas
• German: Beluga — Delphinapterus leucas
• German: Weißwal — Delphinapterus leucas
• Greek: μπελούγκα (beloúgka) — Delphinapterus leucas
• Greenlandic: qilalugaq qaqortaq — Delphinapterus leucas
• Hungarian: beluga — Delphinapterus leucas
• Hungarian: fehér delfin — Delphinapterus leucas
• Hungarian: fehér bálna — Delphinapterus leucas
• Indonesian: paus putih — Delphinapterus leucas
• Indonesian: kenari laut — Delphinapterus leucas
• Italian: beluga — Delphinapterus leucas
• Italian: balena beluga — Delphinapterus leucas
• Italian: balena bianca — Delphinapterus leucas
• Japanese: 白海豚 (shiroiruka) — Delphinapterus leucas
• Mongolian: белуга халим (beluga xalim) — Delphinapterus leucas
• Mongolian: цагаан халим (cagaan xalim) — Delphinapterus leucas
• Mongolian: ᠴᠠᠭᠠᠨ ᠬᠠᠯᠢᠮᠤ (čaɣan qalimu) — Delphinapterus leucas
• Norwegian Bokmål: hvithval — Delphinapterus leucas
• Norwegian Bokmål: kvitkval — Delphinapterus leucas
• Norwegian Nynorsk: kvitkval — Delphinapterus leucas
• Persian: نهنگ سفید (nahang-e sefid) — Delphinapterus leucas
• Polish: białucha — Delphinapterus leucas
• Portuguese: beluga — Delphinapterus leucas
• Romanian: beluga — Delphinapterus leucas
• Russian: белу́ха (belúxa) — Delphinapterus leucas
• Russian: белу́га (belúga) — Delphinapterus leucas
• Northern Sami: buovjja — Delphinapterus leucas
• Serbo-Croatian: белуга — Delphinapterus leucas
• Serbo-Croatian: beluga — Delphinapterus leucas
• Slovak: bieluha — Delphinapterus leucas
• Slovene: belúga — Delphinapterus leucas
• Spanish: beluga — Delphinapterus leucas
• Swedish: vitval — Delphinapterus leucas
• Lower Tanana: taɬiboya — Delphinapterus leucas
• Turkish: beluga balinası — Delphinapterus leucas
• Turkish: ak balina — Delphinapterus leucas
• Turkish: beyaz balina — Delphinapterus leucas
• Azerbaijani: ağbalıq — Huso huso
• Bashkir: ҡырпа (qırpa) — Huso huso
• Bulgarian: белу́га (belúga) — Huso huso
• Catalan: esturió beluga — Huso huso
• Chinese Mandarin: 大鰉魚 /大鳇鱼 (dàhuángyú) — Huso huso
• Chinese Mandarin: 鱘魚 /鲟鱼 (xúnyú) — Huso huso
• Czech: vyza — Huso huso
• Estonian: beluuga — Huso huso
• Finnish: kitasampi — Huso huso
• Georgian: სვია (svia) — Huso huso
• German: Belugastör — Huso huso
• German: Europäischer Hausen — Huso huso
• Hungarian: viza — Huso huso
• Icelandic: hússtyrja — Huso huso
• Icelandic: kavíarstyrja — Huso huso
• Indonesian: setur besar — Huso huso
• Indonesian: ikan beluga — Huso huso
• Ingrian: beluga — Huso huso
• Italian: storione beluga — Huso huso
• Italian: storione ladano — Huso huso
• Japanese: オオチョウザメ (ōchōzame) — Huso huso
• Kalmyk: хорв (xorv) — Huso huso
• Macedonian: моруна (moruna) — Huso huso
• Mingrelian: სვია (svia) — Huso huso
• Nogai: кортпа (kortpa) — Huso huso
• Polish: bieługa — Huso huso
• Romanian: beluga — Huso huso
• Romanian: morun — Huso huso
• Russian: белу́га (belúga) — Huso huso
• Serbo-Croatian: мо̀руна — Huso huso
• Serbo-Croatian: mòruna — Huso huso
• Old Slovak: vyza — Huso huso
• Swedish: hus — Huso huso
• Tatar: кырпы (qırpı) — Huso huso
• Turkish: beluga — Huso huso
• Turkish: büyük mersin — Huso huso
• Turkish: mersin morinası — Huso huso
• Turkish: morina — Huso huso
• Turkmen: akbalyk — Huso huso
• Turkmen: doky — Huso huso
• Ukrainian: білу́га (bilúha) — Huso huso