harpoon

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• General-American: härpo͞onʹ
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• General-American: /hɑːɹˈpuːn/
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• Received-Pronunciation: härpo͞onʹ
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• Received-Pronunciation: /hɑːˈpuːn/
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• rhymes with -uːn
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• CMU ARPABET: HH AA0 R P UW1 N Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From Old French harpon, from Latin harpaga, a variant of Latin harpagō, from Ancient Greek ἁρπάγη (harpágē, “hook”), from ἁρπάζω (harpázō, “to snatch away, to carry off, to seize, to captivate”). Sense and spelling perhaps influenced by Dutch harpoen (“harpoon”). Doublet of harpagon.

86 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Albanian: fuzhnjë — spearlike weapon
• Arabic: حَرْبُون (ḥarbūn) — spearlike weapon
• Armenian: հարպուն (harpun) — spearlike weapon
• Azerbaijani: harpun — spearlike weapon
• Basque: arpoi — spearlike weapon
• Belarusian: гарпу́н (harpún) — spearlike weapon
• Belarusian: во́сці (vósci) — spearlike weapon
• Bengali: টেটা (ṭeṭa) — spearlike weapon
• Breton: bazh-krog — spearlike weapon
• Bulgarian: харпу́н (harpún) — spearlike weapon
• Catalan: arpó — spearlike weapon
• Chinese Mandarin: 漁叉 /渔叉 (yúchā) — spearlike weapon
• Czech: harpuna — spearlike weapon
• Danish: harpun — spearlike weapon
• Dutch: harpoen — spearlike weapon
• Esperanto: harpuno — spearlike weapon
• Estonian: harpuun — spearlike weapon
• Faroese: skutil — spearlike weapon
• Finnish: harppuuna — spearlike weapon
• French: harpon — spearlike weapon
• Galician: arpón — spearlike weapon
• Georgian: ბარჯი (barǯi) — spearlike weapon
• Georgian: ჰარპუნი (harṗuni) — spearlike weapon
• German: Harpune — spearlike weapon
• Greek: καμάκι (kamáki) — spearlike weapon
• Hindi: हापून (hāpūn) — spearlike weapon
• Hungarian: szigony — spearlike weapon
• Icelandic: skutull — spearlike weapon
• Ido: harpuno — spearlike weapon
• Italian: arpione — spearlike weapon
• Japanese: 銛 (mori) — spearlike weapon
• Japanese: ハープーン (hāpūn) — spearlike weapon
• Kazakh: гарпун (garpun) — spearlike weapon
• Kazakh: сүңгі (süñgı) — spearlike weapon
• Korean: 작살 (jaksal) — spearlike weapon
• Latvian: harpūna — spearlike weapon
• Lithuanian: harpūnas — spearlike weapon
• Macedonian: харпун (harpun) — spearlike weapon
• Māori: haeanarāti — spearlike weapon
• Māori: rāti — spearlike weapon
• Māori: haeana — spearlike weapon
• Norwegian Bokmål: harpun — spearlike weapon
• Norwegian Nynorsk: harpun — spearlike weapon
• Persian: شل (šel) — spearlike weapon
• Polish: harpun — spearlike weapon
• Portuguese: arpão — spearlike weapon
• Romanian: harpon — spearlike weapon
• Russian: гарпу́н (garpún) — spearlike weapon
• Russian: острога́ (ostrogá) — spearlike weapon
• Scottish Gaelic: morghath — spearlike weapon
• Serbo-Croatian: ха̀рпӯн — spearlike weapon
• Serbo-Croatian: hàrpūn — spearlike weapon
• Slovak: harpúna — spearlike weapon
• Slovene: harpuna — spearlike weapon
• Spanish: arpón — spearlike weapon
• Swedish: harpun — spearlike weapon
• Tagalog: salapang — spearlike weapon
• Tajik: соскан (soskan) — spearlike weapon
• Thai: ฉมวก (chà-mùuak) — spearlike weapon
• Turkish: zıpkın — spearlike weapon
• Ukrainian: гарпу́н (harpún) — spearlike weapon
• Ukrainian: о́стень (óstenʹ) — spearlike weapon
• Ukrainian: о́сті (ósti) — spearlike weapon
• Uzbek: garpun — spearlike weapon
• Uzbek: sanchqi — spearlike weapon
• Vietnamese: lao móc — spearlike weapon
• Welsh: tryfer — spearlike weapon
• Basque: arpoitu — to hunt with a harpoon
• Bulgarian: харпуни́рам (harpuníram) — to hunt with a harpoon
• Catalan: arponar — to hunt with a harpoon
• Dutch: harpoeneren — to hunt with a harpoon
• Faroese: skutla — to hunt with a harpoon
• Finnish: harppunoida — to hunt with a harpoon
• French: harponner — to hunt with a harpoon
• Galician: arpoar — to hunt with a harpoon
• Galician: fisgar — to hunt with a harpoon
• Hungarian: szigonyoz — to hunt with a harpoon
• Ido: harpunagar — to hunt with a harpoon
• Italian: arpionare — to hunt with a harpoon
• Italian: fiocinare — to hunt with a harpoon
• Māori: rāti — to hunt with a harpoon
• Portuguese: arpoar — to hunt with a harpoon
• Spanish: arponar — to hunt with a harpoon
• Swedish: harpunera — to hunt with a harpoon
• Turkish: zıpkınlamak — to hunt with a harpoon
• Welsh: tryferu — to hunt with a harpoon