English

Noun
wikipedia|Blue Whale

en-noun|sg=blue whale

1. A whale (Balaenoptera musculus), blue in colour/color and the largest known living animal.

#* 1851 But there are a rabble of uncertain, fugitive half-fabulous whales, which as an American whaleman, I know by reputation, but not personally....the Iceberg whale; the Quog Whale; the Blue Whale. But I omit them as altogether obsolete and can hardly help suspecting them for mere sounds full of leviathanism, but signifying nothing. Herman Melville: Moby Dick. This ed. 1961 Arnot publishers. p.131.

Synonyms
sulfur-bottom whale
sulphur bottom whale

Translations

Danish: blåhval c
Dutch: blauwe vinvis
Estonian: sinivaal
Finnish: sinivalas
French: baleine bleue f
German: Blauwal m
Icelandic: steypireyður f
Italian: balenottera azzurra f
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Japanese: ���鯨 (��������, shironagasu kujira)
Korean: ��고� (daewang gorae)
Maltese: balena kaħla, balena bluna
Polish: p�etwal b��kitny
Portuguese: baleia-azul f
Russian: бл�вал (bl'uvál) m, �иний ки� (sínij kit) m
Swedish: blåval c
Telugu: న�లి తిమి��ల� (neeli timiMgalaM)

Category:Mammals
Category:Whales

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