porpoise

Etymology
From, , borrowed from , , , , , , from , from +. Compare (in transposed order) obsolete 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬; also 🇨🇬, akin in formation to 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬. More at.

Noun

 * 1) A small cetacean of the family, related to dolphins and whales.
 * 2)  Any small dolphin.
 * 1)  Any small dolphin.
 * 1)  Any small dolphin.

Translations

 * Abkhaz:
 * Albanian: marsuinët
 * Arabic: خِنْزِير الْبَحْر
 * Armenian:
 * Asturian:, ,
 * Belarusian: марска́я свіння́
 * Breton: morhoc'h
 * Bulgarian: тъпонос делфин
 * Catalan:
 * Cherokee: ᏗᏁᏍᏆᏕᎩᏳᏍᏗ
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Cornish: morhogh
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: foceno
 * Faroese: nísa
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician: fouliña, touliña,, porco de mar
 * Georgian: დელფინი, ზღვის ღორი
 * German: Tümmler,
 * Greek: γουρουνόψαρο
 * Ancient: φώκαινα
 * Hindi: सूंस
 * Hungarian:,  barna delfin
 * Icelandic: ,
 * Irish: muc mhara
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Khmer: សមុទ្រសុករ
 * Klallam: k'ʷánət'
 * Korean: 쇠돌고래,
 * Lao: ເດິນຟິນໜູ
 * Laz:
 * Lithuanian: jūrų kiaulė
 * Low German:
 * German Low German: Trömmelswien, Dümmler
 * Macedonian: мо́рска сви́ња
 * Maori: tūpoupou
 * Mari:
 * Eastern Mari: вӱд сӧсна
 * Middle English: porpeys, mereswyn
 * Navajo: tééh hóyáanii
 * Nootka: hicwin
 * Norman: pourpais
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: nise
 * Nynorsk: nise
 * Old English: mereswīn
 * Old Norse: hnísa
 * Ottoman Turkish: طوڭوز بالغی, یونس بالغی
 * Persian: گرازماهی, خوک‌ماهی
 * Plautdietsch: Mäaschwien
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Romansch: balena-portg
 * Russian:
 * Scots: dunter
 * Scottish Gaelic: peileag, puthag,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: плискавица, морско прасе
 * Roman: ,
 * Slovak: sviňucha
 * Slovene: pliskavka
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili: poposi
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: marsopa
 * Telugu:
 * Thai: พอร์พอยส์
 * Turkish: musur
 * Ukrainian: морська́ свиня́
 * Vietnamese:
 * Welsh:, morhwch
 * Wolof: piipa


 * Finnish:
 * Swedish:

Verb

 * 1)  Said of an air-breathing aquatic animal such as a porpoise or penguin: To repeatedly jump out of the water to take a breath and dive back in a continuous motion.
 * 2)  Said of an aircraft: to make a series of plunges when taking off or landing; or of a watercraft: to successively plunge up and down in the water.
 * 1)  Said of an aircraft: to make a series of plunges when taking off or landing; or of a watercraft: to successively plunge up and down in the water.