walrus

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈwɔːl.ɹəs/
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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈwɒl.ɹəs/
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• Australian, British, New-Zealand, Southern, Standard: /ˈwoːl.ɹəs/
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• Australian, British, New-Zealand, Southern, Standard: /ˈwɔl.ɹəs/
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• US: /ˈwɑl.ɹəs/
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• US: /ˈwɔl.ɹəs/
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• Scotland: /ˈwɔl.ɾəs/
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• Wales: /ˈwɔːl.ɾəs/
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• Wales: /ˈwɒl.ɾəs/
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• CMU ARPABET: W AO1 L R AH0 S Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Probably borrowed from Dutch walrus, a compound of wal (“whale”) and ros (“horse”). Displaced native Old English horshwæl (literally “horse-whale”). Compare similar constructions in Danish hvalros, Old Norse hrosshvalr, and German Walross.

120 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Albanian: lopë deti — large Arctic marine mammal
• Albanian: trikeku — large Arctic marine mammal
• Arabic: فَظّ (faẓẓ) — large Arctic marine mammal
• Armenian: ծովացուլ (covacʻul) — large Arctic marine mammal
• Armenian: ծովափիղ (covapʻiġ) — large Arctic marine mammal
• Asturian: morsa — large Arctic marine mammal
• Azerbaijani: morj — large Arctic marine mammal
• Azerbaijani: su inəyi — large Arctic marine mammal
• Azerbaijani: su öküzü — large Arctic marine mammal
• Basque: mortsa — large Arctic marine mammal
• Belarusian: морж (morž) — large Arctic marine mammal
• Bengali: সিন্ধুঘোটক (śindhughōṭok) — large Arctic marine mammal
• Breton: kole-mor — large Arctic marine mammal
• Bulgarian: морж (morž) — large Arctic marine mammal
• Burmese: ဝါးလရပ်ဖျံ (wa:la.raphpyam) — large Arctic marine mammal
• Catalan: morsa — large Arctic marine mammal
• Cebuano: walrus — large Arctic marine mammal
• Cherokee: ᏓᏑᏫᏍᎩ ᎡᏆ (dasuwisgi equa) — large Arctic marine mammal
• Cherokee: ᏩᎸᏭᏍ (walvwus) — large Arctic marine mammal
• Chinese Cantonese: 海象 (hoi2 zoeng6) — large Arctic marine mammal
• Eastern Min Chinese: 海馬 /海马 (hāi-mā) — large Arctic marine mammal
• Chinese: 海象 (hái-chhiūn) — large Arctic marine mammal
• Chinese Mandarin: 海象 (hǎixiàng) — large Arctic marine mammal
• Chukchi: рыркы (ryrky) — large Arctic marine mammal
• Chukchi: рыркат (ryrkat) — large Arctic marine mammal
• Chuvash: морж (morž) — large Arctic marine mammal
• Czech: mrož — large Arctic marine mammal
• Danish: hvalros — large Arctic marine mammal
• Dutch: walrus — large Arctic marine mammal
• Erzya: обран (obran) — large Arctic marine mammal
• Esperanto: rosmaro — large Arctic marine mammal
• Estonian: morsk — large Arctic marine mammal
• Faroese: roysningur — large Arctic marine mammal
• Finnish: mursu — large Arctic marine mammal
• French: morse — large Arctic marine mammal
• North Frisian: waalros — large Arctic marine mammal
• Galician: morsa — large Arctic marine mammal
• Georgian: ლომვეშაპი (lomvešaṗi) — large Arctic marine mammal
• German: Walross — large Arctic marine mammal
• Greek: οδόβαινος (odóvainos) — large Arctic marine mammal
• Greek: θαλάσσιος ίππος (thalássios íppos) — large Arctic marine mammal
• Greenlandic: aaveq — large Arctic marine mammal
• Hawaiian: waleluka — large Arctic marine mammal
• Hebrew: נִיבְתָן (nivtan) — large Arctic marine mammal
• Hebrew: סוּס יַם (sus yám) — large Arctic marine mammal
• Hindi: वालरस (vālras) — large Arctic marine mammal
• Hungarian: rozmár — large Arctic marine mammal
• Icelandic: rostungur — large Arctic marine mammal
• Ido: rosmaro — large Arctic marine mammal
• Inuktitut: ᐁᕕᖃ (efiqa) — large Arctic marine mammal
• Irish: rosualt — large Arctic marine mammal
• Italian: tricheco — large Arctic marine mammal
• Japanese: セイウチ (seiuchi) — large Arctic marine mammal
• Japanese: 海象 — large Arctic marine mammal
• Kazakh: морж (morj) — large Arctic marine mammal
• Korean: 바다코끼리 (badakokkiri) — large Arctic marine mammal
• Korean: 해상 (haesang) — large Arctic marine mammal
• Korean: 해마 (haema) — large Arctic marine mammal
• Koryak: йыйка (yəyka) — large Arctic marine mammal
• Northern Kurdish: mors — large Arctic marine mammal
• Lao: ຊ້າງທະເລ (sāng tha lē) — large Arctic marine mammal
• Latvian: valzirgs — large Arctic marine mammal
• Lingala: walelósi — large Arctic marine mammal
• Lithuanian: vėplys — large Arctic marine mammal
• Luxembourgish: Walross — large Arctic marine mammal
• Macedonian: морж (morž) — large Arctic marine mammal
• Malay: walrus — large Arctic marine mammal
• Malay: gajah mina — large Arctic marine mammal
• Malayalam: വാൽറസ് (vālṟasŭ) — large Arctic marine mammal
• Manx: coo ny marrey — large Arctic marine mammal
• Mongolian: моорж (moorž) — large Arctic marine mammal
• Mongolian: далайн морь (dalajn morʹ) — large Arctic marine mammal
• Mongolian: далайн заан (dalajn zaan) — large Arctic marine mammal
• Mongolian: ᠳᠠᠯᠠᠢ ᠶᠢᠨ ᠮᠣᠷᠢ ᠳᠠᠯᠠᠢ ᠶᠢᠨ ᠵᠠᠭᠠᠨ (dalai-yin mori) — large Arctic marine mammal
• Norwegian Bokmål: hvalross — large Arctic marine mammal
• Norwegian Bokmål: kvalross — large Arctic marine mammal
• Norwegian Nynorsk: kvalross — large Arctic marine mammal
• Occitan: mòrsa — large Arctic marine mammal
• Old English: horshwæl — large Arctic marine mammal
• Ossetian: морж (morž) — large Arctic marine mammal
• Persian: گراز دریایی (gorâz-e daryâyi) — large Arctic marine mammal
• Polish: mors — large Arctic marine mammal
• Portuguese: morsa — large Arctic marine mammal
• Punjabi: ਵਾਲਰਸ (vālras) — large Arctic marine mammal
• Punjabi: والرس (vālrs) — large Arctic marine mammal
• Romanian: morsă — large Arctic marine mammal
• Russian: морж (morž) — large Arctic marine mammal
• Northern Sami: morša — large Arctic marine mammal
• Scottish Gaelic: each-mara — large Arctic marine mammal
• Serbo-Croatian: мо̏рж — large Arctic marine mammal
• Serbo-Croatian: mȍrž — large Arctic marine mammal
• Slovak: mrož — large Arctic marine mammal
• Slovene: mrož — large Arctic marine mammal
• Lower Sorbian: morž — large Arctic marine mammal
• Spanish: morsa — large Arctic marine mammal
• Spanish: rosmaro — large Arctic marine mammal
• Swahili: walarasi — large Arctic marine mammal
• Swedish: valross — large Arctic marine mammal
• Tagalog: morsa — large Arctic marine mammal
• Tajik: морж (morž) — large Arctic marine mammal
• Tatar: морж (morj) — large Arctic marine mammal
• Telugu: వాల్రస్ (vālras) — large Arctic marine mammal
• Thai: วอลรัส (wɔɔl-rás) — large Arctic marine mammal
• Tibetan: མཚོ་གླང (mtsho glang) — large Arctic marine mammal
• Tsimshian: t'iibn — large Arctic marine mammal
• Turkish: mors — large Arctic marine mammal
• Udmurt: морж (morž) — large Arctic marine mammal
• Ukrainian: морж (morž) — large Arctic marine mammal
• Urdu: والرس (vālras) — large Arctic marine mammal
• Uzbek: morj — large Arctic marine mammal
• Vietnamese: moóc — large Arctic marine mammal
• Vietnamese: voi biển — large Arctic marine mammal
• Vietnamese: hải tượng — large Arctic marine mammal
• Volapük: valrod — large Arctic marine mammal
• Welsh: walrws — large Arctic marine mammal
• Yiddish: ים־⁠פֿערד (yam-ferd) — large Arctic marine mammal
• Yiddish: מאָרזש (morzh) — large Arctic marine mammal
• Yiddish: ראָזמאַרין (rozmarin) — large Arctic marine mammal
• Yup'ik: asveq — large Arctic marine mammal
• Zulu: iwalerosi — large Arctic marine mammal