noun
Meaning 1
A species of baleen whale (Megaptera novaeangliae).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: humpback
Antonyms: none provided
Phrase guide
humpback whale
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Sound
Pronunciation
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/ˈhʌmpbæk ˌweɪl/
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/ˈhʌmpbæk ˌʍeɪl/ without the wine–whine merger
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noun
Meaning 2
large whalebone whale with long flippers noted for arching or humping its back as it dives
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: humpback, Megaptera novaeangliae
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: baleen whale, whalebone whale
History
Etymology
No etymology was provided for this word.
Across languages
Translations
67 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Armenian: սապատավոր կետ (sapatavor ket) — Megaptera novaeangliae
- Assamese: কুঁজা তিমি (kũza timi) — Megaptera novaeangliae
- Asturian: xibarte — Megaptera novaeangliae
- Bulgarian: гърбат кит (gǎrbat kit) — Megaptera novaeangliae
- Catalan: balena amb gep — Megaptera novaeangliae
- Cherokee: ᎦᏐᏆᏘ ᏓᏆ (gasoquati daqua) — Megaptera novaeangliae
- Chinese: 大翅鯨 /大翅鲸 (toā-si̍t-keng) — Megaptera novaeangliae
- Chinese: 座頭鯨 /座头鲸 (chō-thâu-keng) — Megaptera novaeangliae
- Chinese Mandarin: 座頭鯨 /座头鲸 (zuòtóujīng) — Megaptera novaeangliae
- Chukchi: ӄипуӄ (qipuq) — Megaptera novaeangliae
- Czech: keporkak — Megaptera novaeangliae
- Danish: pukkelhval — Megaptera novaeangliae
- Dutch: bultrug — Megaptera novaeangliae
- Esperanto: ĝiba baleno — Megaptera novaeangliae
- Estonian: küürvaal — Megaptera novaeangliae
- Estonian: pikkloibvaal — Megaptera novaeangliae
- Faroese: kúlubøka — Megaptera novaeangliae
- Faroese: kúlubakur — Megaptera novaeangliae
- Finnish: ryhävalas — Megaptera novaeangliae
- French: baleine à bosse — Megaptera novaeangliae
- Galician: xibardo — Megaptera novaeangliae
- German: Buckelwal — Megaptera novaeangliae
- Greenlandic: qipoqqaq — Megaptera novaeangliae
- Hawaiian: koholā — Megaptera novaeangliae
- Hawaiian: koholā kuapiʻo — Megaptera novaeangliae
- Hungarian: hosszúszárnyú bálna — Megaptera novaeangliae
- Icelandic: hnúfubakur — Megaptera novaeangliae
- Inuktitut: ᐊᑉᕕᒃ (apfik) — Megaptera novaeangliae
- Italian: megattera — Megaptera novaeangliae
- Japanese: 座頭鯨 (zatōkujira) — Megaptera novaeangliae
- Kazakh: өркешті кит (örkeştı kit) — Megaptera novaeangliae
- Korean: 흑고래 (heukgorae) — Megaptera novaeangliae
- Macedonian: грбав кит (grbav kit) — Megaptera novaeangliae
- Malay: paus kelasa — Megaptera novaeangliae
- Malayalam: കൂനൻ തിമിംഗലം (kūnaṉ timiṅgalaṁ) — Megaptera novaeangliae
- Māori: paikea — Megaptera novaeangliae
- Mongolian: бөгтөр халим (bögtör xalim) — Megaptera novaeangliae
- Mongolian: урт сэлүүрт халим (urt selüürt xalim) — Megaptera novaeangliae
- Mongolian: ᠪᠥᢉᠲᠦᠷ ᠬᠠᠯᠢᠮᠤ — Megaptera novaeangliae
- Mongolian: ᠤᠷᠲᠤ ᠰᠡᠯᠢᠭᠦᠷᠲᠦ ᠬᠠᠯᠢᠮᠤ (urtu seligürtü qalimu) — Megaptera novaeangliae
- Norwegian Bokmål: knølhval — Megaptera novaeangliae
- Norwegian Bokmål: knølkval — Megaptera novaeangliae
- Norwegian Nynorsk: knølkval — Megaptera novaeangliae
- Polish: humbak — Megaptera novaeangliae
- Polish: długopłetwiec — Megaptera novaeangliae
- Polish: długopłetwiec oceaniczny — Megaptera novaeangliae
- Portuguese: baleia-corcunda — Megaptera novaeangliae
- Portuguese: baleia-jubarte — Megaptera novaeangliae
- Romanian: balenă cu cocoașă — Megaptera novaeangliae
- Romanian: jubartă — Megaptera novaeangliae
- Russian: длиннору́кий кит (dlinnorúkij kit) — Megaptera novaeangliae
- Russian: кит-горба́ч (kit-gorbáč) — Megaptera novaeangliae
- Russian: горба́тый кит (gorbátyj kit) — Megaptera novaeangliae
- Russian: горба́ч (gorbáč) — Megaptera novaeangliae
- Russian: длиннору́кий полоса́тик (dlinnorúkij polosátik) — Megaptera novaeangliae
- Spanish: yubarta — Megaptera novaeangliae
- Spanish: ballena jorobada — Megaptera novaeangliae
- Spanish: megáptera — Megaptera novaeangliae
- Spanish: gabarte — Megaptera novaeangliae
- Spanish: xibarte — Megaptera novaeangliae
- Swahili: nyangumi-kibyongo — Megaptera novaeangliae
- Swedish: knölval — Megaptera novaeangliae
- Turkish: kambur balina — Megaptera novaeangliae
- Ukrainian: горбатий кит (horbatyj kyt) — Megaptera novaeangliae
- Ukrainian: горбач (horbač) — Megaptera novaeangliae
- Veps: gurbakaz kit — Megaptera novaeangliae
- Vietnamese: cá voi lưng gù — Megaptera novaeangliae