turtle

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈtɜːtl̩/
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• General-American: tûrʹtəl
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• General-American: /ˈtɝtl̩/
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• General-American: [ˈthɝɾɫ̩]
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• rhymes with -ɜː(ɹ)təl
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• CMU ARPABET: T ER1 T AH0 L Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Modification of Middle English tortou, tortu, from Old French tortüe (under the influence of Middle English turtel, turtur (“turtledove”), see Etymology 2 below), from Old Occitan tortuga (compare Spanish tortuga), the same source of tortoise (see there for more). Displaced native Old English byrdling (See birdling).

From Middle English turtle, tortle, turtel, turtul, from Old English turtle, turtla (“turtledove”), ultimately from Latin turtur (“turtledove”), of imitative origin.

329 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Abenaki: tolba — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Abkhaz: акәуа (akwʼwa) — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Afrikaans: skilpad — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Ahom: 𑜄𑜧 (taw) — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Akkadian: 𒁄𒄀 (/⁠raqqu⁠/) — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Akkadian: 𒃻𒅮𒈾 (/⁠šelappu⁠/) — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Albanian: breshkë — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Southern Altai: таш-бака (taš-baka) — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Alviri-Vidari: لوکپشت (lovek-pošt) — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Arabic: سُلَحْفَاة (sulaḥfāh) — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Arabic: غَيْلَم (ḡaylam) — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Arabic: سلحفة (sulḥefa) — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Arabic: حمسة (ḥmisa) — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Arabic: سلحفة (sulḥafa) — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Arabic: فكرون (fakrūn) — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Arabic: سلحفة (sulaḥfa) — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Arabic: زِلْحفِة (zílḥefi) — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Arabic: سلحفة (sulḥafá) — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Arabic: سلحفاة (sulaḥfá) — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Arabic: سلحفة (sulḥufá) — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Arabic: كركعة (kurkaʕa) — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Tunisian Arabic: فكرون (fakrūn) — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Aragonese: tartuga — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Aramaic: ܪܩܐ (raqqā, reqqā) — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Aramaic: ܣܠܘܦܝܬܐ (sallōp̄īṯā) — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Armenian: կրիա (kria) — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Aromanian: broascã tsãstoasã — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Assamese: কাছ (kaso) — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Asturian: tortuga — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Atayal: ksipa — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Avar: щурункъверкъ (ššurunqxwʼerqxʼ) — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Azerbaijani: tısbağa — land or marine reptile with a shell
• West Coast Bajau: akah — land or marine reptile with a shell
• West Coast Bajau: penu — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Baoule: abu — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Bashkir: ташбаҡа (taşbaqa) — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Bashkir: гөбөргәйел (göbörgəyel) — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Basque: dortoka — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Belarusian: чарапа́ха (čarapáxa) — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Bengali: কাছিম (kachim) — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Bengali: কাটুয়া (kaṭuẏa) — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Bau Bidayuh: ponyu — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Central Bikol: baho — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Blackfoot: spopii — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Breton: baot — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Bulgarian: костену́рка (kostenúrka) — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Bulgarian: же́лва (žélva) — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Burmese: လိပ် (lip) — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Catalan: tortuga — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Catawba: káia — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Cebuano: bao — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Chamicuro: majpolo — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Chechen: уьнтӏепхьид (üntʼepḥrid) — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Cheyenne: ma'ëno — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Chinese Cantonese: 龜 /龟 (gwai1) — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Chinese Cantonese: 烏龜 /乌龟 (wu1 gwai1) — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Chinese: бегэ (biəge) — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Chinese: бе (biə) — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Eastern Min Chinese: 烏龜 /乌龟 (ŭ-gŭi) — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Eastern Min Chinese: 龜 /龟 (gŭi) — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Chinese: 烏龜 /乌龟 (zh-min-nan) — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Chinese: 龜 /龟 (ku) — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Chinese Mandarin: 龜 /龟 (guī) — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Chinese Mandarin: 烏龜 /乌龟 (wūguī) — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Chinese Mandarin: 王八 (wángba) — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Chinese Mandarin: 鱉 /鳖 (biē) — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Wu Chinese: 烏龜 /乌龟 (1u-ciu) — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Choctaw: luksi — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Coptic: ⲕⲁⲑⲓⲣⲟⲥ (kathiros) — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Cornish: kronek ervys mor — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Cornish: morgroban — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Cree: ᒥᐢᑭᓈᕁ (miskinaahk) — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Northern East Cree: ᑖᐦᑖᐤ (taahtaaw) — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Crimean Tatar: qapulbaqa — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Crow: basáxa — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Czech: želva — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Dakota: keya — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Danish: skildpadde — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Darkinjung: kutumung — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Daur: xabil — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Drung: chvkop — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Dutch: schildpad — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Erzya: бака (baka) — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Esperanto: testudo — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Esperanto: kelonio — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Estonian: kilpkonn — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Faroese: skjaldbøka — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Fijian: vonu — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Finnish: kilpikonna — land or marine reptile with a shell
• French: tortue — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Old French: wecle — land or marine reptile with a shell
• West-Frisian: skyldpod — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Galician: tartaruga — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Galician: sapoconcho — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Georgian: ზღვის კუ (zɣvis ḳu) — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Georgian: კუ (ḳu) — land or marine reptile with a shell
• German: Schildkröte — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Gilbertese: tabwakea — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Greek: χελώνα (chelóna) — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Ancient Greek: χέλυς (khélus) — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Ancient Greek: χελώνη (khelṓnē) — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Greenlandic: saaniluk — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Gullah: cootuh — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Haitian Creole: tòti — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Hawaiian: honu — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Hebrew: צָב (tsav) — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Higaonon: bao-o — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Hindi: कछुआ (kachuā) — land or marine reptile with a shell
• White Hmong: vaub kib — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Hopi: yöngösona — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Hungarian: teknősbéka — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Hungarian: teknős — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Icelandic: skjaldbaka — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Ido: tortugo — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Indonesian: penyu — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Ingrian: cerepaha — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Irish: turtar — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Italian: tartaruga — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Italian: testuggine — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Iu Mien: doc — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Japanese: 亀 (kame) — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Japanese: カメ (kame) — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Javanese: bulus — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Jeju: 거북 (geobuk) — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Kamta: পানীমাছ (panimas) — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Kannada: ಆವೆ (āve) — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Kannada: ಆಮೆ (āme) — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Kapampangan: pau — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Kapampangan: pawu — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Karelian: suojusšlöpöi — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Kazakh: тасбақа (tasbaqa) — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Khmer: អណ្ដើក (ʼɑɑʼɑndaək) — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Kimaragang: borungai — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Klamath-Modoc: ngak — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Korean: 거북 (geobuk) — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Korean: 바다거북 (badageobuk) — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Northern Kurdish: req — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Northern Kurdish: kûsî — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Northern Kurdish: kîso — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Kyrgyz: ташбака (taşbaka) — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Lakota: khéya — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Lao: ເຕົ່າ (tao) — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Latgalian: brūnisrupucs — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Latin: testūdō — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Latvian: bruņurupucis — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Lingala: nkóbá — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Lithuanian: vėžlys — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Lü: ᦎᧁᧈ (ṫaw1) — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Luba-Kasai: nkuvu — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Luba-Katanga: nkuvu — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Lutuv: mingcakuvnung — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Luxembourgish: Deckelsmouk — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Luxembourgish: Schildkröt — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Macedonian: же́лка (žélka) — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Makasae: fenu — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Malay: tuntung — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Malay: labi-labi — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Malay: penyu — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Malay: akah — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Malecite-Passamaquoddy: cihkonaqc — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Malecite-Passamaquoddy: mikcikc — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Maltese: fekruna — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Mam: petz — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Manchu: ᡝᡳᡥᡠᠮᡝ (eihume) — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Mansaka: bao — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Manx: shligganagh marrey — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Manx: turtyl — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Māori: honu — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Maranao: bao'o — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Marathi: कासव (kāsav) — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Mauritian Creole: torti — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Central Melanau: panyok — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Mi'kmaq: migjigj — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Mongolian: яст мэлхий (jast melxii) — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Nahuatl: ayotl — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Nanai: аян (ajan) — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Navajo: chʼééh digháhii — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Navajo: tsisteeł — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Nivkh: ая (aja) — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Norwegian Bokmål: skilpadde — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Norwegian Nynorsk: skjelpadde — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Nuosu: ꀌꀠꎭꉻ (uox ba sha ho) — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Nyunga: yarkan — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Occitan: tartuga — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Okinawan: 亀 (kāmī) — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Church Slavic: желꙑ (žely) — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Old East Slavic: желꙑ (žely) — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Old English: byrdling — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Oromo: qocaa — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Ossetian: уӕртджын хӕфс (wærtǵyn xæfs) — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Pali: kacchapa — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Pannonian Rusyn: коритнявка (koritnjavka) — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Papiamentu: turtuga — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Pashto: کيشپ (kišáp) — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Pashto: شمشتى (šamšatáy) — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Penobscot: dolba — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Iranian Persian: لاکپُشْت (lâk-pošt) — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Iranian Persian: کَشَف (kašaf) — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Iranian Persian: سَنْگپُشْت (sang-pošt) — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Iranian Persian: باخِه (bâxe) — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Plautdietsch: Schiltkjrät — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Polish: żółw — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Portuguese: tartaruga — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Quapaw: kke — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Quechua: charapa — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Rapa Nui: honu — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Romanian: broască țestoasă — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Russian: черепа́ха (čerepáxa) — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Russian: желвь (želvʹ) — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Northern Sami: galbarihcci — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Sanskrit: कच्छप (kacchapa) — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Scottish Gaelic: crùban-coille — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Scottish Gaelic: sligeanach — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Serbo-Croatian: ко̀рњача — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Serbo-Croatian: kòrnjača — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Seychellois Creole: torti — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Shan: တဝ်ႇ (tào) — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Sinhalese: කැස්බෑවා (kæsbǣwā) — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Slovak: korytnačka — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Slovene: želva — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Somali: qoolley — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Somali: qubo — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Lower Sorbian: nopawa — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Lower Sorbian: žołw — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Spanish: tortuga — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Spanish: quelonio — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Sranan Tongo: sekrepatu — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Sudovian: zelvīs — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Swahili: kobe class I/IX — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Swedish: sköldpadda — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Sylheti: ꠇꠣꠐ꠆ꠐꠥꠀ (xaṭṭua) — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Tagalog: pagong — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Tajik: сангпушт (sangpušt) — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Tajik: боха (boxa) — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Tajik: локпушт (lokpušt) — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Tamil: ஆமை (āmai) — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Tarifit: išfar — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Tarifit: tišfart — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Tatar: ташбака (taşbaqa) — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Telugu: తాబేలు (tābēlu) — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Ternate: ori — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Tewa: oekuu — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Thai: เต่า (dtào) — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Tibetan: རུས་སྦལ (rus sbal) — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Tocharian B: kaccāp — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Tsonga: gamba — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Tswana: khudu — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Turkish: kaplumbağa — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Turkish: tosbağa — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Ottoman Turkish: كشف (keşef) — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Ottoman Turkish: قاپلومبغه (ḳaplumbağa) — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Turkmen: pyşbaga — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Tuvan: языты-мелегей (yazıtı-melegey) — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Tuvan: мелегей (melegey) — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Ukrainian: черепа́ха (čerepáxa) — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Unami: tahkox — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Unami: tulpe — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Urdu: کَچُھوا (kachuā) — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Uyghur: تاشپاقا (tashpaqa) — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Uzbek: musicha — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Uzbek: toshbaqa — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Vietnamese: rùa — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Volapük: tortug — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Welsh: crwban — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Wolof: mbonnat mi — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Yámana: uštakáluš — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Yiddish: שילדקרעט (shildkret) — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Yiddish: טשערעפּאַכע (tsherepakhe) — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Yoruba: ìjàpá — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Yucatec Maya: aak — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Zazaki: kesa (diq) — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Zhuang: duzgvi — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Zhuang: gvi — land or marine reptile with a shell
• Arabic: ترسة (tersa) — sea turtle
• Bengali: কাটুয়া (kaṭuẏa) — sea turtle
• Breton: baot vor — sea turtle
• Bulgarian: морска костенурка (morska kostenurka) — sea turtle
• Cebuano: pawikan — sea turtle
• Darkinjung: kutumung — sea turtle
• Esperanto: martestudo — sea turtle
• Finnish: kilpikonna — sea turtle
• Finnish: merikilpikonna — sea turtle
• French: tortue de mer — sea turtle
• Greek: νεροχελώνα (nerochelóna) — sea turtle
• Ilocano: pawikan — sea turtle
• Irish: turtar mara — sea turtle
• Japanese: 海亀 (umigame) — sea turtle
• Kashmiri: کرٕٛم — sea turtle
• Macedonian: мо́рска же́лка (mórska žélka) — sea turtle
• Malay: penyu — sea turtle
• Navajo: táłtłʼááh chʼééh digháhii — sea turtle
• Norwegian Bokmål: skilpadde — sea turtle
• Norwegian Bokmål: havskilpadde — sea turtle
• Norwegian Nynorsk: skjelpadde — sea turtle
• Norwegian Nynorsk: havskjelpadde — sea turtle
• Pangasinan: pawikan — sea turtle
• Polish: żółw wodny — sea turtle
• Portuguese: tartaruga — sea turtle
• Portuguese: tartaruga marinha — sea turtle
• Russian: черепа́ха (čerepáxa) — sea turtle
• Russian: морска́я черепа́ха (morskája čerepáxa) — sea turtle
• Swahili: kasa — sea turtle
• Swedish: havssköldpadda — sea turtle
• Tagalog: pawikan — sea turtle
• Tatar: ташбака (taşbaqa) — sea turtle
• Ottoman Turkish: كشف (keşef) — sea turtle
• Volapük: melatortug — sea turtle
• Welsh: crwban y môr — sea turtle
• Welsh: môr-grwban — sea turtle
• Finnish: kilpikonnamuodostelma — Roman attack method
• French: tortue — Roman attack method
• Macedonian: же́лка (žélka) — Roman attack method
• Russian: черепа́ха (čerepáxa) — Roman attack method
• Finnish: piirustusrobotti — computing: type of robot
• Polish: żółw — computing: type of robot
• Finnish: kursori — computing: drawing cursor
• Polish: żółw — computing: drawing cursor
• Bulgarian: преобръщам се (preobrǎštam se) — flip over onto the back or top; to turn upside down
• Finnish: kääntyä ympäri — flip over onto the back or top; to turn upside down
• French: capoter — flip over onto the back or top; to turn upside down
• French: se renverser — flip over onto the back or top; to turn upside down
• French: faire un tonneau — flip over onto the back or top; to turn upside down
• Galician: envorcar — flip over onto the back or top; to turn upside down
• Italian: ribaltare — flip over onto the back or top; to turn upside down
• Spanish: volcar — flip over onto the back or top; to turn upside down
• Spanish: dar una vuelta de campana — flip over onto the back or top; to turn upside down
• Finnish: kääntää ympäri — turn and swim upside down
• Finnish: metsästää kilpikonnia — hunt turtles
• French: chasser — hunt turtles