Wikispecies
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈnɑːʍəl/, /ˈnɑːwəl/, /ˈnɑːˌʍeɪl/, /ˈnɑːˌweɪl/
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈnɑɹʍəl/, /ˈnɑɹwəl/, /ˈnɑɹˌʍeɪl/, /ˈnɑɹˌweɪl/, /ˈnɑɹʍɔl/, /ˈnɑɹwɔl/, /ˈnɑɹʍɑl/, /ˈnɑɹwɑl/
Noun
narwhal (plural narwhals or narwhal)
- Monodon monoceros, an Arctic cetacean that grows to about 20 feet (6 meters) long, the male having a single horn-like tusk, a twisted, pointed canine tooth that projects forward.
- Synonym: sea unicorn
1986, D. E. Sergeant, “Chapter 16: Sea Mammals”, in I. P. Martini, editor, Canadian Inland Seas, page 337:Moreover, both narwhals and bowheads can occur in late summer in southern Prince Regent Inlet (coming from Lancaster Sound) and may reach Fury and Hecla Strait and northern Foxe Basin.
1988, Tristan Jones, Somewheres East of Suez:Often, in the morning, narwhals played around the boat and reminded me of the dolphins, so far away in the North Atlantic. But these narwhals were not like the Atlantic sea-dogs; they had little of their flashing vibrancy; these Turkish narwhals were much more relaxed, and rolled over lazily, with a sigh, as if they were going to retire to a sofa and smoke a hookah.
2000, Richard C. Connor, Andrew J. Read, Richard Wrangham, edited by Janet Mann, Cetacean Societies: Field Studies of Dolphins and Whales, 10: Male Reproductive Strategies and Social Bonds, page 247:At over 2.5 m in length, the tusk of the male narwhal (Monodon monoceros) is one the most impressive instruments of male-male competition among mammals.
Translations
Arctic cetacean
- Afrikaans: narwal
- Albanian: narvali m
- Arabic: حريش البحر m (ḥarīš abaḥr)
- Armenian: միաժանի (miažani)
- Azerbaijani: narval
- Basque: narbal
- Belarusian: нарвал m (narval), аднарог m (adnaróh)
- Breton: narwal m
- Bulgarian: нарвал (bg) m (narval)
- Catalan: narval (ca) m
- Cherokee: ᎤᏲᎾ ᏓᏆ (uyona daqua)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 獨角鯨 / 独角鲸 (zh) (dújiǎojīng), 一角鯨 / 一角鲸 (yījiǎojīng), 角鯨 / 角鲸 (jiǎojīng), 長槍鯨 / 长枪鲸 (chángqiāngjīng)
- Czech: narval (cs) m
- Danish: narhval (da) c
- Dutch: narwal (nl) m
- Esperanto: narvalo
- Estonian: narval (et)
- Faroese: náhvalur m
- Finnish: sarvivalas (fi)
- French: narval (fr) m, licorne de mer (fr) f
- Georgian: მარტოკბილა (marṭoḳbila)
- German: Narwal (de) m
- Greek: φάλαινα νάρβαλ f (fálaina nárval)
- Greenlandic: qilalugaq qernertaq
- Hebrew: חַדְשֵׁן m (khadshén, literally “one-tooth”)
- Hungarian: narvál (hu)
- Icelandic: náhvalur (is) m
- Ido: narvalo (io)
- Inuktitut: ᑑᒑᓕᒃ (toocaalik)
- Irish: narbhal m
- Italian: narvalo (it) m
- Japanese: 一角 (ja) (イッカク, ikkaku), イッカク (ja) (ikkaku)
- Kazakh: сытқы (sytqy)
- Korean: 일각고래 (ko) (ilgakgorae)
- Latvian: narvalis m
- Lithuanian: narvalas m
- Lombard: narval m
- Macedonian: нарвал m (narval)
- Manx: whale feeacklagh m, narwhal m
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: narhval (no) m
- Nynorsk: narkval m
- Occitan: narval m
- Old English: nēohwæl m
- Persian: ناروال (nârvâl), ختو (xotu)
- Polish: narwal (pl) m, jednorożec (pl) m
- Portuguese: narval (pt) m
- Romanian: narval (ro) m
- Russian: нарва́л (ru) m (narvál), единоро́г (ru) m (jedinoróg)
- Scottish Gaelic: muc-mhara adharcach f
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: на̀рвал m, је̏днорог m
- Roman: nàrval (sh) m, jȅdnorog (sh) m
- Slovak: narval m
- Slovene: narval m, enorog m, samorog (sl) m
- Sorbian:
- Lower Sorbian: narwal m
- Upper Sorbian: narwal m
- Spanish: narval (es) m
- Swedish: narval (sv) c
- Thai: นาร์วาล (naa-waan)
- Turkish: narval (tr), deniz gergedanı
- Ukrainian: нарва́л m (narvál)
- Uzbek:
- Cyrillic: нарвал (uz) (narval)
- Roman: narval
- Vietnamese: kì lân biển (麒麟𣷭)
- Welsh: môr-ungorn m, morfil ungorn m
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