jellyfish

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• /ˈd͡ʒɛliˌfɪʃ/
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Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *gel- Latin gelū Proto-Indo-European *-h2 Proto-Indo-European *-éh2 Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh2yéti Proto-Indo-European *-h2tiinflu. Proto-Italic *-ājō Proto-Italic *-āō Latin -ō Latin gelō ▲ Proto-Indo-European *-éh2 Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Indo-European *-eh2tos Proto-Italic *-ātos Latin -ātus Latin -āta Early Medieval Latin gelāta Old French geleebor. Middle English gele English jelly Proto-Indo-European *péysks Proto-Germanic *fiskaz Proto-West Germanic *fisk Old English fisċ Middle English fisch English fish English jellyfish From jelly + fish. From being an aquatic creature (i.e. fish) that is gelatinous (“jelly”). Despite the name, jellyfish are not biologically classified as fish. The term appeared in the mid-19th century and displaced various older terms such as sea jelly (now much less common), blubber/sea blubber, nettle/sea nettle (both now referring to specific jellyfish species), and, in scientific literature, medusa.

166 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Abkhaz: медуза (meduza) — aquatic animal
• Afrikaans: jellievis — aquatic animal
• Albanian: kandil deti — aquatic animal
• Arabic: قِنْدِيل الْبَحْر (qindīl al-baḥr) — aquatic animal
• Arabic: قِنْدِيل (qindīl) — aquatic animal
• Arabic: قَنْديل (gandīl) — aquatic animal
• Armenian: մեդուզա (meduza) — aquatic animal
• Assamese: সাগৰীয়া ছাতি (xagoria sati) — aquatic animal
• Assamese: জেলীমাছ (zelimas) — aquatic animal
• Asturian: marmoca — aquatic animal
• Asturian: aguamala — aquatic animal
• Asturian: veleru — aquatic animal
• Asturian: celentereu — aquatic animal
• Azerbaijani: meduza — aquatic animal
• Azerbaijani: dəniz anası — aquatic animal
• Azerbaijani: dəniz göbələyi — aquatic animal
• Basque: marmoka — aquatic animal
• Belarusian: меду́за (mjedúza) — aquatic animal
• Bengali: জেলিফিশ (jeliphiś) — aquatic animal
• Central Bikol: palit — aquatic animal
• Central Bikol: salabay — aquatic animal
• Breton: morgaoulenn — aquatic animal
• Breton: blonegenn-vor — aquatic animal
• Bulgarian: меду́за (medúza) — aquatic animal
• Burmese: ငါးဖန်ခွက် (nga:hpanhkwak) — aquatic animal
• Catalan: medusa — aquatic animal
• Catalan: borm — aquatic animal
• Cherokee: ᏩᏂᎨ ᎠᏣᏗ (wanige atsadi) — aquatic animal
• Chinese Cantonese: 水母 (seoi2 mou5) — aquatic animal
• Chinese Cantonese: 海蜇 (hoi2 zit3) — aquatic animal
• Chinese Mandarin: 水母 (shuǐmǔ) — aquatic animal
• Chinese Mandarin: 海蜇 (hǎizhé) — aquatic animal
• Comox: q̓ʊpɬanačaɬ — aquatic animal
• Cornish: morgowlesen — aquatic animal
• Czech: medúza — aquatic animal
• Danish: gople — aquatic animal
• Danish: vandmand — aquatic animal
• Danish: brandmand — aquatic animal
• Dutch: kwal — aquatic animal
• Esperanto: meduzo — aquatic animal
• Estonian: meduus — aquatic animal
• Estonian: millimallikas — aquatic animal
• Finnish: meduusa — aquatic animal
• French: méduse — aquatic animal
• West-Frisian: kwab — aquatic animal
• Galician: augamar — aquatic animal
• Galician: medusa — aquatic animal
• Georgian: მედუზა (meduza) — aquatic animal
• German: Qualle — aquatic animal
• German: Meduse — aquatic animal
• Greek: μέδουσα (médousa) — aquatic animal
• Greek: τσούχτρα (tsoúchtra) — aquatic animal
• Ancient Greek: ἁλιπλεύμων (halipleúmōn) — aquatic animal
• Hawaiian: pololia — aquatic animal
• Hebrew: מֶדוּזָה (meduzá) — aquatic animal
• Hindi: जेलिफ़िश (jelifiś) — aquatic animal
• Hindi: गिजगिजिया (gijgijiyā) — aquatic animal
• Hungarian: medúza — aquatic animal
• Icelandic: marglytta — aquatic animal
• Ido: meduzo — aquatic animal
• Ilocano: karominas — aquatic animal
• Indonesian: ubur-ubur — aquatic animal
• Indonesian: ampai-ampai — aquatic animal
• Ingrian: meduza — aquatic animal
• Interlingua: medusa — aquatic animal
• Irish: smugairle róin — aquatic animal
• Italian: medusa — aquatic animal
• Japanese: 海月 (kurage) — aquatic animal
• Japanese: 水母 (kurage) — aquatic animal
• Japanese: クラゲ (kurage) — aquatic animal
• Japanese: すいぼ (suibo) — aquatic animal
• Javanese: uwur-uwur — aquatic animal
• Kazakh: медуза (meduza) — aquatic animal
• Khmer: ខ្ញែរសមុទ្រ (khñae saʼmot) — aquatic animal
• Khmer: ជំពុលទឹក (cum pul tɨk) — aquatic animal
• Kimaragang: bolung — aquatic animal
• Korean: 해파리 (haepari) — aquatic animal
• Northern Kurdish: bûka deryayê — aquatic animal
• Northern Kurdish: pişemasî — aquatic animal
• Northern Kurdish: medûsa — aquatic animal
• Kyrgyz: медуза (meduza) — aquatic animal
• Lao: ແມງກະພົນ (mǣng ka phon) — aquatic animal
• Lao: ກະພົນ (ka phon) — aquatic animal
• Latin: pulmo — aquatic animal
• Latin: halipleumon — aquatic animal
• Latvian: medūza — aquatic animal
• Lithuanian: medūza — aquatic animal
• Lushootseed: kəlapχwəlč — aquatic animal
• Luxembourgish: Jelliskapp — aquatic animal
• Macedonian: медуза (meduza) — aquatic animal
• Malay: ampai-ampai — aquatic animal
• Malay: ubur-ubur — aquatic animal
• Malay: obor-obor — aquatic animal
• Brunei Malay: ubur-ubur — aquatic animal
• Malayalam: കടല്ച്ചൊറി (kaṭalccoṟi) — aquatic animal
• Maltese: brama — aquatic animal
• Manx: skeeah ny muc varrey — aquatic animal
• Manx: skeeah rauney — aquatic animal
• Manx: slouree — aquatic animal
• Manx: slumm — aquatic animal
• Manx: smug rauney — aquatic animal
• Māori: maremaretai — aquatic animal
• Māori: tepetepe — aquatic animal
• Māori: petipeti — aquatic animal
• Māori: kūreperepe-ā-tai — aquatic animal
• Māori: kakaru moana — aquatic animal
• Māori: kūreperepe moana — aquatic animal
• Central Melanau: buboh — aquatic animal
• Mi'kmaq: sasap — aquatic animal
• Mongolian: медуз (meduz) — aquatic animal
• Navajo: jélii łóóʼ — aquatic animal
• Norwegian Bokmål: manet — aquatic animal
• Pannonian Rusyn: медуза (meduza) — aquatic animal
• Pashto: مېډوسا — aquatic animal
• Pohnpeian: liht — aquatic animal
• Polish: meduza — aquatic animal
• Portuguese: medusa — aquatic animal
• Portuguese: água-viva — aquatic animal
• Portuguese: alforreca — aquatic animal
• Quechua: kachu k'arachiq — aquatic animal
• Romanian: meduză — aquatic animal
• Russian: меду́за (medúza) — aquatic animal
• Saanich: SȽW̱EM ̧Í ̧ḴSEN — aquatic animal
• Scottish Gaelic: sgeoldair — aquatic animal
• Scottish Gaelic: sgoldrach — aquatic animal
• Serbo-Croatian: медуза — aquatic animal
• Serbo-Croatian: meduza — aquatic animal
• Sicilian: bromu — aquatic animal
• Sinhalese: ලොඩි (loḍi) — aquatic animal
• Sinhalese: ජෙලිෆිෂ් (jelifiṣ) — aquatic animal
• Slovak: medúza — aquatic animal
• Slovene: meduza — aquatic animal
• Spanish: aguamala — aquatic animal
• Spanish: aguaviva — aquatic animal
• Spanish: malagua — aquatic animal
• Spanish: ortiga de mar — aquatic animal
• Spanish: acafelo — aquatic animal
• Spanish: ortiga marina — aquatic animal
• Spanish: aguamar — aquatic animal
• Swedish: manet — aquatic animal
• Tagalog: dikya — aquatic animal
• Tahitian: paʻipaʻi — aquatic animal
• Tajik: медуза (meduza) — aquatic animal
• Tamil: இழுது (iḻutu) — aquatic animal
• Tamil: சொறிமுட்டை (coṟimuṭṭai) — aquatic animal
• Thai: แมงกะพรุน (mɛɛng-gà-prun) — aquatic animal
• Thai: กะพรุน (gà-prun) — aquatic animal
• Tigrinya: ዓሳ ለግለግ (ʿasa lägläg) — aquatic animal
• Turkish: denizanası — aquatic animal
• Turkmen: meduza — aquatic animal
• Ukrainian: меду́за (medúza) — aquatic animal
• Urdu: جیلِیفِش (jelīfiś) — aquatic animal
• Uyghur: مېدۇزا (mëduza) — aquatic animal
• Uzbek: meduza — aquatic animal
• Vietnamese: sứa — aquatic animal
• Waray-Waray: bantol — aquatic animal
• Welsh: slefren fôr — aquatic animal
• Welsh: cont fôr — aquatic animal
• Welsh: cont y môr — aquatic animal
• Yiddish: מעדוזע (meduze) — aquatic animal
• Yup'ik: egaarniq — aquatic animal
• Yup'ik: itulek — aquatic animal
• Yup'ik: masaaq — aquatic animal
• Yup'ik: nuayaaq — aquatic animal
• Bulgarian: медуза (meduza) — life stage of a cnidarian
• Bulgarian: медуза (meduza) — sudoku technique