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cuttlefish

noun · 2 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

Sound

Pronunciation

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  • Received-Pronunciation: /ˈkʌtl̩fɪʃ/
  • Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • General-American: /ˈkʌt(ə)lfɪʃ/
  • General-American: /-təɹ-/ common but proscribed
  • General-American: [-ɾ(ə)l]
  • CMU ARPABET: K AH1 T AH0 L F IH2 SH Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

noun

Meaning 1

Any squid-like cephalopods (marine mollusks) of the order Sepiida that have eight arms, two retractable tentacles, and a calcareous internal shell, and can eject a dark ink when threatened.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: cuttle, inkfish, sepia

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: cephalopod, mollusc, animal, organism, creature

2

noun

Meaning 2

ten-armed oval-bodied cephalopod with narrow fins as long as the body and a large calcareous internal shell

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: cuttle

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: decapod

History

Etymology

From cuttle + fish.

Across languages

Translations

103 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Albanian: sepje — any of various squidlike mollusks
  • Albanian: cupije — any of various squidlike mollusks
  • Arabic: حَبَّار (ḥabbār) — any of various squidlike mollusks
  • Armenian: թանաքաձուկ (tʻanakʻajuk) — any of various squidlike mollusks
  • Asturian: xibia — any of various squidlike mollusks
  • Asturian: xisga — any of various squidlike mollusks
  • Azerbaijani: mürəkkəbböcəyi — any of various squidlike mollusks
  • Belarusian: карака́ціца (karakácica) — any of various squidlike mollusks
  • Bulgarian: се́пия (sépija) — any of various squidlike mollusks
  • Burmese: ကင်းမွန် (kang:mwan) — any of various squidlike mollusks
  • Catalan: sípia — any of various squidlike mollusks
  • Catalan: sépia — any of various squidlike mollusks
  • Catalan: sèpia — any of various squidlike mollusks
  • Chinese Mandarin: 烏賊 /乌贼 (wūzéi) — any of various squidlike mollusks
  • Czech: sépie — any of various squidlike mollusks
  • Dalmatian: agaun — any of various squidlike mollusks
  • Danish: blæksprutte — any of various squidlike mollusks
  • Dutch: zeekat — any of various squidlike mollusks
  • Esperanto: sepio — any of various squidlike mollusks
  • Estonian: seepia — any of various squidlike mollusks
  • Finnish: seepia — any of various squidlike mollusks
  • French: seiche — any of various squidlike mollusks
  • Galician: xiba — any of various squidlike mollusks
  • Galician: choco — any of various squidlike mollusks
  • Galician: chopo — any of various squidlike mollusks
  • Galician: sepia — any of various squidlike mollusks
  • Georgian: მელანთევზი (melantevzi) — any of various squidlike mollusks
  • Georgian: სეპია (seṗia) — any of various squidlike mollusks
  • German: Tintenfisch — any of various squidlike mollusks
  • German: Kuttelfisch — any of various squidlike mollusks
  • Greek: σουπιά (soupiá) — any of various squidlike mollusks
  • Ancient Greek: σηπία (sēpía) — any of various squidlike mollusks
  • Hebrew: דְּיוֹנוּן — any of various squidlike mollusks
  • Hindi: समुद्रफेनी (samudraphenī) — any of various squidlike mollusks
  • Hungarian: tintahal — any of various squidlike mollusks
  • Hungarian: szépia — any of various squidlike mollusks
  • Icelandic: blekfiskur — any of various squidlike mollusks
  • Ido: sepio — any of various squidlike mollusks
  • Indonesian: sotong — any of various squidlike mollusks
  • Irish: gunnadóir — any of various squidlike mollusks
  • Italian: seppia — any of various squidlike mollusks
  • Japanese: イカ (ika) — any of various squidlike mollusks
  • Japanese: 烏賊 (ika) — any of various squidlike mollusks
  • Kazakh: тарбақ аяқ (tarbaq aäq) — any of various squidlike mollusks
  • Kazakh: каракатица (karakatisa) — any of various squidlike mollusks
  • Khmer: យៀវហ៊ឺ (yiəw hɨɨ) — any of various squidlike mollusks
  • Korean: 오징어 (ojing'eo) — any of various squidlike mollusks
  • Northern Kurdish: supya — any of various squidlike mollusks
  • Kyrgyz: каракатица (karakatitsa) — any of various squidlike mollusks
  • Lao: ປາມຶກ (pā mưk) — any of various squidlike mollusks
  • Lao: ປາຫມຶກ (pā mưk) — any of various squidlike mollusks
  • Latin: sepia — any of various squidlike mollusks
  • Latin: saepia — any of various squidlike mollusks
  • Latvian: sēpija — any of various squidlike mollusks
  • Lithuanian: sepija — any of various squidlike mollusks
  • Macedonian: си́па (sípa) — any of various squidlike mollusks
  • Macedonian: се́пија (sépija) — any of various squidlike mollusks
  • Malay: sotong katak — any of various squidlike mollusks
  • Brunei Malay: sutung — any of various squidlike mollusks
  • Malayalam: കണവ (kaṇava) — any of various squidlike mollusks
  • Navajo: łóóʼ bigaan neeznání bitsʼinígíí — any of various squidlike mollusks
  • Norman: seiche — any of various squidlike mollusks
  • Norwegian Bokmål: blekksprut — any of various squidlike mollusks
  • Persian: سپیداج (sepidâj) — any of various squidlike mollusks
  • Persian: دهپا (deh-pâ) — any of various squidlike mollusks
  • Polish: mątwa — any of various squidlike mollusks
  • Polish: sepia — any of various squidlike mollusks
  • Portuguese: choco — any of various squidlike mollusks
  • Portuguese: siba — any of various squidlike mollusks
  • Portuguese: sépia — any of various squidlike mollusks
  • Romanian: sepie — any of various squidlike mollusks
  • Russian: карака́тица (karakática) — any of various squidlike mollusks
  • Scottish Gaelic: faobhag — any of various squidlike mollusks
  • Scottish Gaelic: sùil-thòine — any of various squidlike mollusks
  • Scottish Gaelic: eò — any of various squidlike mollusks
  • Scottish Gaelic: giobarnach — any of various squidlike mollusks
  • Scottish Gaelic: giobanach — any of various squidlike mollusks
  • Scottish Gaelic: gibneach — any of various squidlike mollusks
  • Serbo-Croatian: си̏па — any of various squidlike mollusks
  • Serbo-Croatian: sȉpa — any of various squidlike mollusks
  • Sicilian: siccia — any of various squidlike mollusks
  • Slovak: sépia — any of various squidlike mollusks
  • Slovene: sipa — any of various squidlike mollusks
  • Spanish: jibia — any of various squidlike mollusks
  • Spanish: sepia — any of various squidlike mollusks
  • Spanish: choco — any of various squidlike mollusks
  • Swedish: bläckfisk — any of various squidlike mollusks
  • Tajik: каракатитса (karakatitsa) — any of various squidlike mollusks
  • Tajik: каракатиса (karakatisa) — any of various squidlike mollusks
  • Tajik: рӯдапо (rüdapo) — any of various squidlike mollusks
  • Tamil: கணவாய் (kaṇavāy) — any of various squidlike mollusks
  • Thai: หมึกกระดอง (mʉ̀k-grà-dɔɔng) — any of various squidlike mollusks
  • Thai: ปลาหมึก (bplaa-mʉ̀k) — any of various squidlike mollusks
  • Turkish: mürekkep balığı — any of various squidlike mollusks
  • Ottoman Turkish: مركب بالغی (mürekkeb balığı) — any of various squidlike mollusks
  • Ukrainian: карака́тиця (karakátycja) — any of various squidlike mollusks
  • Uyghur: سىياھبېلىق (siyahbëliq) — any of various squidlike mollusks
  • Uzbek: karakatitsa — any of various squidlike mollusks
  • Vietnamese: mực nang — any of various squidlike mollusks
  • Welsh: ystifflog — any of various squidlike mollusks
  • Welsh: môr-gyllell — any of various squidlike mollusks
  • Welsh: twyllwr du — any of various squidlike mollusks
  • Welsh: pibwr inc — any of various squidlike mollusks