whaling

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• /ˈweɪlɪŋ/
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• homophone: wailing
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• homophone: waling
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• rhymes with -eɪlɪŋ
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• CMU ARPABET: W EY1 L IH0 NG Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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• CMU ARPABET 2: HH W EY1 L IH0 NG Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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No etymology was provided for this word.

37 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: صَيْد اَلْحِيتَان (ṣayd al-ḥītān) — practice of hunting whales
• Bulgarian: лов на китове (lov na kitove) — practice of hunting whales
• Chinese Mandarin: 捕鯨 /捕鲸 (bǔjīng) — practice of hunting whales
• Czech: lov velryb — practice of hunting whales
• Danish: hvalfangst — practice of hunting whales
• Dutch: walvisvaart — practice of hunting whales
• Dutch: walvisjacht — practice of hunting whales
• Esperanto: balenĉasado — practice of hunting whales
• Esperanto: balenkaptado — practice of hunting whales
• Estonian: vaalapüük — practice of hunting whales
• Finnish: valaanpyynti — practice of hunting whales
• French: chasse à la baleine — practice of hunting whales
• German: Walfang — practice of hunting whales
• Hebrew: צֵיד לִוְיְתָנִים (tseyd livyetanim) — practice of hunting whales
• Hungarian: bálnavadászat — practice of hunting whales
• Icelandic: hvalveiðar — practice of hunting whales
• Italian: caccia alla balena — practice of hunting whales
• Japanese: 捕鯨 (hogei) — practice of hunting whales
• Korean: 고래잡이 (goraejabi) — practice of hunting whales
• Macedonian: китолов (kitolov) — practice of hunting whales
• Norwegian Bokmål: hvalfangst — practice of hunting whales
• Norwegian Nynorsk: kvalfangst — practice of hunting whales
• Old English: hwælhuntoþ — practice of hunting whales
• Polish: wielorybnictwo — practice of hunting whales
• Portuguese: baleação — practice of hunting whales
• Russian: охо́та на кито́в (oxóta na kitóv) — practice of hunting whales
• Russian: китобо́йный про́мысел (kitobójnyj prómysel) — practice of hunting whales
• Serbo-Croatian: китолов — practice of hunting whales
• Serbo-Croatian: kitolov — practice of hunting whales
• Serbo-Croatian: лов на китове — practice of hunting whales
• Serbo-Croatian: lov na kitove — practice of hunting whales
• Spanish: caza de ballenas — practice of hunting whales
• Swedish: valfångst — practice of hunting whales
• Vietnamese: săn bắt cá voi — practice of hunting whales
• Vietnamese: sự đánh cá voi — practice of hunting whales
• Vietnamese: nghề đánh cá voi — practice of hunting whales
• Volapük: valütifan — practice of hunting whales