porpoise

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• US: /ˈpɔːɹpəs/
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From Middle English porpeys, purpeys, borrowed from Anglo-Norman porpeis, purpeis, Old French pourpois, porpois, pourpais, porpeis (“porpoise”), from Vulgar Latin *porcopiscis (“porpoise”, literally “hog-fish”), taken from Latin porcus (“hog, pig”) + piscis (“fish”). Compare (in transposed order) obsolete Italian pesce porco and Portuguese peixe porco; also Latin porcus marīnus (“sea hog”); akin in formation to Frankish *mariswīn (“porpoise, dolphin”) (whence German Meerschwein, English mereswine). Displaced native Middle English brunswyn. More at mereswine.

101 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Albanian: marsuinët — cetacean
• Arabic: خِنْزِير الْبَحْر (ḵinzīr al-baḥr) — cetacean
• Armenian: ծովախոզ (covaxoz) — cetacean
• Asturian: botu — cetacean
• Asturian: boticu — cetacean
• Asturian: moscote — cetacean
• Belarusian: марска́я свіння́ (marskája svinnjá) — cetacean
• Breton: morhoc'h — cetacean
• Bulgarian: тъпонос делфин (tǎponos delfin) — cetacean
• Catalan: marsopa — cetacean
• Cherokee: ᏗᏁᏍᏆᏕᎩᏳᏍᏗ (dinesquadegiyusdi) — cetacean
• Chinese Mandarin: 鼠海豚 (shǔhǎitún) — cetacean
• Cornish: morhogh — cetacean
• Czech: sviňucha — cetacean
• Dutch: bruinvis — cetacean
• Esperanto: foceno — cetacean
• Faroese: nísa — cetacean
• Finnish: pyöriäinen — cetacean
• French: marsouin — cetacean
• Galician: fouliña — cetacean
• Galician: touliña — cetacean
• Galician: toniña — cetacean
• Galician: porco de mar — cetacean
• Georgian: დელფინი (delpini) — cetacean
• Georgian: ზღვის ღორი (zɣvis ɣori) — cetacean
• German: Tümmler — cetacean
• German: Schweinswal — cetacean
• Greek: γουρουνόψαρο (gourounópsaro) — cetacean
• Ancient Greek: φώκαινα (phṓkaina) — cetacean
• Greenlandic: niisa — cetacean
• Hindi: सूंस (sūns) — cetacean
• Hungarian: disznódelfin — cetacean
• Hungarian: barna delfin — cetacean
• Hungarian: tengeridisznó — cetacean
• Icelandic: hnísa — cetacean
• Icelandic: marsvín — cetacean
• Irish: muc mhara — cetacean
• Italian: focena — cetacean
• Japanese: ネズミイルカ (nezumiiruka) — cetacean
• Khmer: សមុទ្រសុករ (sak mut su kak rak) — cetacean
• Klallam: k'wánət' — cetacean
• Korean: 쇠돌고래 (soedolgorae) — cetacean
• Korean: 돌고래 (dolgorae) — cetacean
• Lao: ເດິນຟິນຫນູ (dœn fin nū) — cetacean
• Lithuanian: jūrų kiaulė — cetacean
• Low German: Trömmelswien — cetacean
• Low German: Dümmler — cetacean
• Macedonian: мо́рска сви́ња (mórska svínja) — cetacean
• Māori: tūpoupou — cetacean
• Eastern Mari: вӱд сӧсна (vüd sösna) — cetacean
• Middle English: porpeys — cetacean
• Middle English: mereswyn — cetacean
• Navajo: tééh hóyáanii — cetacean
• Nootka: hicwin — cetacean
• Norman: pourpais — cetacean
• Norwegian Bokmål: nise — cetacean
• Norwegian Nynorsk: nise — cetacean
• Old English: mereswīn — cetacean
• Old Norse: hnísa — cetacean
• Persian: گرازماهی (gorâzmâhi) — cetacean
• Persian: خوکماهی (xuk-mâhi) — cetacean
• Plautdietsch: Mäaschwien — cetacean
• Polish: morświn — cetacean
• Portuguese: marsuíno — cetacean
• Romanian: marsuin — cetacean
• Romansh: balena-portg — cetacean
• Russian: морска́я свинья́ (morskája svinʹjá) — cetacean
• Kildin-Sami: нышшь (nyšš’) — cetacean
• Scots: dunter — cetacean
• Scottish Gaelic: peileag — cetacean
• Scottish Gaelic: puthag — cetacean
• Scottish Gaelic: cana — cetacean
• Serbo-Croatian: плискавица — cetacean
• Serbo-Croatian: морско прасе — cetacean
• Serbo-Croatian: pliskavica — cetacean
• Serbo-Croatian: morsko prase — cetacean
• Slovak: sviňucha — cetacean
• Slovene: pliskavka — cetacean
• Spanish: marsopa — cetacean
• Squamish: kwʼúnutʼ — cetacean
• Swahili: poposi — cetacean
• Swedish: tumlare — cetacean
• Tagalog: marsopa — cetacean
• Telugu: నీరుపంది (nīrupandi) — cetacean
• Thai: พอร์พอยส์ (pɔɔ-pɔ́is) — cetacean
• Turkish: musur — cetacean
• Turkish: mutur — cetacean
• Ottoman Turkish: طوڭوز بالغی (doñuz balığı) — cetacean
• Ottoman Turkish: یونس بالغی (yunus balığı) — cetacean
• Ukrainian: морська́ свиня́ (morsʹká svynjá) — cetacean
• Vietnamese: cá heo — cetacean
• Welsh: llamhidydd — cetacean
• Welsh: morhwch — cetacean
• Woiwurrung: tingin — cetacean
• Woiwurrung: bar-bar-ka — cetacean
• Woiwurrung: tole.ler.bope — cetacean
• Wolof: piipa bi — cetacean
• Finnish: delfiini — imprecisely, any small dolphin
• Polish: delfin — imprecisely, any small dolphin
• Portuguese: boto — imprecisely, any small dolphin
• Swedish: tumlare — imprecisely, any small dolphin