sea horse

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From Middle English sehors (“walrus”), equivalent to sea + horse. Probably a calque of obsolete French cheval de mer or directly of Late Latin caballus marinus. Named so after the shape of its head being similar to horse's head.

92 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: فَرَس بَحْر (faras baḥr) — fish
• Armenian: ծովաձի (covaji) — fish
• Armenian: ձիաձուկ (jiajuk) — fish
• Asturian: caballu de mar — fish
• Azerbaijani: dənizatı — fish
• Azerbaijani: dənizayğırı — fish
• Basque: itsas zaldia — fish
• Belarusian: марско́й канёк (marskój kanjók) — fish
• Bulgarian: морско конче (morsko konče) — fish
• Burmese: ရေမြင်း (re-mrang:) — fish
• Burmese: ရေနဂါး (rena.ga:) — fish
• Catalan: cavall marí — fish
• Catalan: hipocamp — fish
• Cebuano: kulkog — fish
• Chinese Mandarin: 海馬 /海马 (hǎimǎ) — fish
• Cornish: morvargh — fish
• Czech: mořský koník — fish
• Danish: søhest — fish
• Dutch: zeepaard — fish
• Esperanto: hipokampo — fish
• Esperanto: marĉevalo — fish
• Esperanto: marĉevaleto — fish
• Estonian: merihobuke — fish
• Finnish: merihevonen — fish
• French: hippocampe — fish
• Galician: cabalo de mar — fish
• Galician: cabaliño de mar — fish
• Georgian: ზღვის ცხენი (zɣvis cxeni) — fish
• German: Seepferdchen — fish
• Greek: ιππόκαμπος (ippókampos) — fish
• Ancient Greek: ἱππόκαμπος (hippókampos) — fish
• Hindi: अश्वमीन (aśvamīn) — fish
• Hungarian: csikóhal — fish
• Icelandic: sæhestur — fish
• Ilocano: kurikor — fish
• Indonesian: kuda laut — fish
• Irish: capall mara — fish
• Italian: cavalluccio marino — fish
• Italian: ippocampo — fish
• Japanese: 竜の落とし子 (tatsuno-otoshigo) — fish
• Kazakh: атбалық (atbalyq) — fish
• Korean: 해마 (haema) — fish
• Lao: ມ້ານ້ໍາ (mā nam) — fish
• Latin: equus bipēs — fish
• Latvian: jūras zirdziņš — fish
• Lü: ᦙᦱᧉᦓᧄᧉ (maa2nam2) — fish
• Luxembourgish: Séipäerdchen — fish
• Macedonian: морско коњче (morsko konjče) — fish
• Malay: kuda laut — fish
• Malay: unduk-unduk — fish
• Maltese: żiemel tal-baħar — fish
• Māori: kioretai — fish
• Māori: hinamoki — fish
• Navajo: táłtłʼááh łį́į́ʼ — fish
• Norman: ch'fa d'maïr — fish
• Norman: j'va d'mé — fish
• Norwegian Bokmål: havhest — fish
• Norwegian Bokmål: sjøhest — fish
• Old Tupi: îakarepetymbûaba — fish
• Persian: اسب دریایی (asb-e daryâyi) — fish
• Polish: konik morski — fish
• Polish: pławikonik — fish
• Portuguese: cavalo-marinho — fish
• Romanian: căluț de mare — fish
• Romanian: hipocamp — fish
• Russian: морско́й конёк (morskój konjók) — fish
• Scottish Gaelic: capall-mara — fish
• Serbo-Croatian: морски коњић — fish
• Serbo-Croatian: морски коњиц — fish
• Serbo-Croatian: morski konjić — fish
• Serbo-Croatian: morski konjic — fish
• Seri: heeesam — fish
• Slovak: morský koník — fish
• Slovene: morski konjiček — fish
• Spanish: hipocampo — fish
• Spanish: caballito de mar — fish
• Spanish: caballito marino — fish
• Swahili: mbuzi-bahari — fish
• Swedish: sjöhäst — fish
• Tagalog: kabayo-kabayohan — fish
• Tagalog: kaba-kabayuhan — fish
• Tagalog: kabayong-dagat — fish
• Tamil: கடற்குதிரை (kaṭaṟkutirai) — fish
• Thai: ม้าน้ํา (máa-náam) — fish
• Northern Thai: ᨾ᩶ᩣᨶ᩶ᩣᩴ — fish
• Turkish: denizatı — fish
• Ukrainian: морськи́й ко́ник (morsʹkýj kónyk) — fish
• Vietnamese: cá ngựa — fish
• Vietnamese: hải mã — fish
• Volapük: hiokamp — fish
• Welsh: morfarch — fish
• Wolof: fasu géej wi — fish