sea cucumber

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From sea + cucumber, named in reference to its appearance. The term first appeared in common use in the 19th century, and is a calque of French concombre de mer according to the Oxford English Dictionary.

72 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Afrikaans: seekomkommer — sea cucumber
• Arabic: خيار البحر — sea cucumber
• Australian Kriol: derribang — sea cucumber
• Azerbaijani: dəniz xiyarı — sea cucumber
• Bislama: bislama — sea cucumber
• Bulgarian: морска краставица (morska krastavica) — sea cucumber
• Catalan: cogombre de mar — sea cucumber
• Cebuano: balat — sea cucumber
• Chinese Mandarin: 海參 /海参 (hǎishēn) — sea cucumber
• Cornish: kukomber mor — sea cucumber
• Dutch: zeekomkommer — sea cucumber
• Esperanto: markukumo — sea cucumber
• Finnish: merimakkara — sea cucumber
• French: bêche-de-mer — sea cucumber
• French: holothurie — sea cucumber
• French: concombre de mer — sea cucumber
• Galician: mexacán — sea cucumber
• Galician: carallote — sea cucumber
• German: Seegurke — sea cucumber
• Greek: ολοθούριο (olothoúrio) — sea cucumber
• Greek: αγγούρι της θάλασσας (angoúri tis thálassas) — sea cucumber
• Ancient Greek: ὁλοθούριον (holothoúrion) — sea cucumber
• Greenlandic: inalugalik — sea cucumber
• Hebrew: מְלָפְפוֹן יָם (m'laf'fon yam) — sea cucumber
• Hungarian: tengeriuborka — sea cucumber
• Icelandic: sæbjúga — sea cucumber
• Indonesian: teripang — sea cucumber
• Irish: súmaire cladaigh — sea cucumber
• Italian: cetriolo di mare — sea cucumber
• Italian: oloturia — sea cucumber
• Japanese: 海鼠 (namako) — sea cucumber
• Japanese: ナマコ (namako) — sea cucumber
• Khmer: ឈ្លើងសមុទ្រ (chləəng saʼmot) — sea cucumber
• Korean: 해삼 (haesam) — sea cucumber
• Malay: teripang — sea cucumber
• Malay: timun laut — sea cucumber
• Malay: gamat — sea cucumber
• Mokilese: jipenpen — sea cucumber
• Navajo: táłtłʼááh chʼoshtsoh chʼééh digháhii — sea cucumber
• Nootka: taaʔinwa — sea cucumber
• Nootka: teeʔinwa — sea cucumber
• Norwegian Bokmål: sjøpølse — sea cucumber
• Norwegian Nynorsk: sjøpølse — sea cucumber
• Polish: strzykwa — sea cucumber
• Portuguese: holotúria — sea cucumber
• Portuguese: pepino-do-mar — sea cucumber
• Romanian: castravete de mare — sea cucumber
• Russian: голоту́рия (golotúrija) — sea cucumber
• Russian: морско́й огуре́ц (morskój oguréc) — sea cucumber
• Russian: трепа́нг (trepáng) — sea cucumber
• Saanich: ŦIȻT — sea cucumber
• Northern Sami: bodneluomi — sea cucumber
• Serbo-Croatian: трп — sea cucumber
• Serbo-Croatian: trp — sea cucumber
• Spanish: holoturoideo — sea cucumber
• Spanish: pepino de mar — sea cucumber
• Spanish: cohombro — sea cucumber
• Spanish: carajo de mar — sea cucumber
• Swedish: sjögurka — sea cucumber
• Tagalog: balatan — sea cucumber
• Tausug: bāt — sea cucumber
• Tausug: talipang — sea cucumber
• Thai: ปลิงทะเล (bpling-tá-lee) — sea cucumber
• Tibetan: མཚོ་གནས་ཁི་ར (mtsho gnas khi ra) — sea cucumber
• Turkish: deniz hıyarı — sea cucumber
• Vietnamese: hải sâm — sea cucumber
• Vietnamese: đồn đột — sea cucumber
• Vietnamese: rum — sea cucumber
• Vietnamese: dưa chuột biển — sea cucumber
• Vietnamese: đỉa biển — sea cucumber
• Vietnamese: đỉa bể — sea cucumber
• Welsh: chwerwddwr y môr — sea cucumber