Image:Humpback Whale fg1.jpg|thumb|right|A humpback whale.
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English

Etymology
From Middle English, from Old English hƿæl, hwæl.

Pronunciation
AHD|w�l, IPA|/weɪl/, SAMPA|/weIl/
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rhymes|eɪl

Homophones
wail (in accents with the wine-whine merger)

Noun
en-noun

1. Any of several species of large sea mammals

Related terms
top2
blue whale
humpback whale
narwhal
sperm whale
mid2
whale shark
whaler
whaling
have a whale of a time

Czech: velryba f
Danish: hval c
Dutch: walvis m
Estonian: vaal#Estonian|vaal
Esperanto: baleno
Faroese: hvalur m
Finnish: valas#Finnish|valas
French: baleine f
Georgian: ������ (vešapi)
German: Wal m
Greek: �άλαινα (falena) f
Hebrew: ���ת� m
trreq|Hindi
Hungarian: bálna, cet
Ido: baleno
Indonesian: ikan paus
Inuktitut: ���� (arvik)
Italian: balena f
Japanese: 鯨 (���, kujira)
trreq|Kannada
Korean: 고� (korae)
Kurdish: KUchar|�������گ
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Latin: balaena f
Latvian: valis m
Lingala: mond��l��
Lithuanian: banginis m
Macedonian: ки� m
Malay: ikan paus
Malayalam: തിമി��ല�
Maltese: balena f
Norwegian: hval m
Occitan: balena f
Old English: hwæl m
trreq|Oriya
Persian: fa-Arab|���گ
Polish: wieloryb m
Portuguese: baleia f
Romanian: balen� f
Russian: ки� (kit) m
Serbian:
:* Cyrillic: ки�, вел�иба f
:* Roman: kit, velriba f
Seri: ziix hapx coom, aasj (archaic)
Slovak: veľryba#Slovak|veľryba f
Slovene: kit m
Spanish: ballena f
Swedish: val c
Tamil: �ில����ணம� (cilkku�m), �ிலத�திற������ (ciltti�kṭuku)
Telugu: తిమి��ల� (timiMgalaM)
Thai: Thai|วาฬ (waan)
Turkish: balina
Ukrainian: ки� (kyt) m
trreq|Urdu
Uyghur: KUchar|��ت (kit)
trreq|Vietnamese
Welsh: morfil
Yiddish: ����-פ�ש (val-fish) m
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See also
baleen
cachalot
cete
orca
gam
pod
rorqual

Verb
en-verb|whales|whaling|whaled|whaled

1. intransitive To hunt for whales.
2. transitive To flog, to beat.

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Category:Mammals

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