whale

Etymology 1
From, from , from , from (compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬; compare also 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, from  (compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬).

Noun

 * 1) Any one of numerous large marine mammals comprising an informal group within infraorder Cetacea that usually excludes dolphins and porpoises.
 * 2)  Any species of Cetacea.
 * 3)  Something, or someone, that is very large.
 * 4) * 1920 September, “A Reformed Free Lance” (pseudonym), “Doctoring a Sick Encyclopedia”, in The Writer, Volume XXXII, Number 9, page 131:
 * It was a whale of a job. It took two months, and the fair blush of youth off my cheeks.
 * 1)  Something, or someone, that is excellent.
 * 2) * 2002, Kathleen Benson, Philip M. Kayal, Museum of the City of New York, A Community of Many Worlds: Arab Americans in New York City, Syracuse University Press ISBN 9780815607397, page 54
 * My own father only wrote one poem in his life as far as I know, but it was a whale of a lyric, the kind you would give your whole life to write, which he did, but that is another story.
 * 1)  In a casino, a person who routinely bets at the maximum limit allowable.
 * 2)  An investor who deals with very large amounts of money.
 * 3)  A person who spends large amounts of money on things that are marketed to them.
 * 4)  An overweight person (usually a woman)
 * My own father only wrote one poem in his life as far as I know, but it was a whale of a lyric, the kind you would give your whole life to write, which he did, but that is another story.
 * 1)  In a casino, a person who routinely bets at the maximum limit allowable.
 * 2)  An investor who deals with very large amounts of money.
 * 3)  A person who spends large amounts of money on things that are marketed to them.
 * 4)  An overweight person (usually a woman)
 * 1)  An investor who deals with very large amounts of money.
 * 2)  A person who spends large amounts of money on things that are marketed to them.
 * 3)  An overweight person (usually a woman)
 * 1)  A person who spends large amounts of money on things that are marketed to them.
 * 2)  An overweight person (usually a woman)
 * 1)  An overweight person (usually a woman)
 * 1)  An overweight person (usually a woman)
 * 1)  An overweight person (usually a woman)
 * 1)  An overweight person (usually a woman)

Translations

 * Adyghe: джейхэр
 * Afrikaans:
 * Ainu: フンペ
 * Albanian:
 * Aleut: alax̂
 * Alutor: юӈюӈ, юӈый
 * Arabic:
 * Aragonese: ballena
 * Aramaic:
 * Classical Syriac: ܩܐܛܐ
 * Armenian:
 * Assamese: তিমি, তিমি মাছ
 * Asturian:
 * Avar: кит
 * Azerbaijani: balina, kit
 * Basque:
 * Bau Bidayuh: paos, kien paos
 * Belarusian:
 * Bengali:
 * Biatah Bidayuh: paus
 * Bislama: welfis
 * Breton:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Burmese: ,
 * Catalan:
 * Cebuano: balyena
 * Central Melanau: pauih
 * Chavacano: ballena
 * Chechen: докх
 * Cherokee: ᏓᏆ
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 鯨魚
 * Dungan: җинйү
 * Eastern Min: 鯨魚
 * Hakka: 鯨魚
 * Hokkien:, 鯨魚
 * Mandarin:
 * Wu: 鯨魚
 * Chukchi: ръэв, ръэвыт
 * Cornish: morvil
 * Corsican: balena
 * Crimean Tatar: kit
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Elfdalian: wal
 * Emilian: baläṅna
 * Erzya: кит
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian: vaal
 * Even: калим
 * Evenki: калим
 * Faroese:
 * Fijian: tavuto, tovuto
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Old French: balaine, baleine
 * Friulian: balene
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: ვეშაპი
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: φάλλαινα, κῆτος
 * Greenlandic:
 * Guinea-Bissau Creole: baleia
 * Gujarati: વ્હેલ માછલી, તિમિ
 * Haida: kun, kung̱aawagan
 * Haitian Creole: balèn
 * Halkomelem: qwél:es
 * Hawaiian: koholā
 * Hebrew: לווייתן
 * Hindi: व्हेल,, ,
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Iban: ikan bam
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido:
 * Ilocano: balyena
 * Indonesian:
 * Ingrian: kiitta
 * Inuktitut: ᐊᕐᕕᒃ
 * Inupiaq: agviq
 * Irish: míol mór
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:, , 勇魚
 * Javanese:
 * Kabardian:
 * Kalmyk: тул заһсн
 * Kannada:
 * Kapampangan: dambuala
 * Karipúna Creole French: balén
 * Karok: ishkêet, ípar
 * Kashaya: pu·šu
 * Kazakh: кит, науан
 * Khmer:
 * Klamath-Modoc: Ɂalhaq
 * Korean:
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish: نەھەنگ
 * Northern Kurdish:
 * Kwak'wala: g̱wa̱'ya̱m
 * Kyrgyz:
 * Ladino: balena
 * Lao: ວານ, ບາແລນ
 * Latin:
 * Latvian: valis
 * Ligurian: balénn-a
 * Lingala: mondɛ́lɛ́
 * Lithuanian:
 * Lombard: balèna
 * Low German: Waal
 * Luxembourgish:
 * Macedonian: кит
 * Malagasy:
 * Malay: ikan paus,, lodan, mina
 * Malayalam:
 * Maltese: balena, baliena
 * Manchu: ᠪᠣᠣ ᠨᡳᠮᠠᡥᠠ
 * Manx: meeyl mooar
 * Maori: ika moana
 * Marathi: देवमासा
 * Mele-Fila: tafurā
 * Middle Persian: 𐭪𐭥𐭩
 * Moksha: кит
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic:
 * Mongolian: ᠬᠠᠯᠢᠮᠤ
 * Nahuatl:
 * Nanai: калима
 * Navajo: łóóʼtsoh
 * Nepali: तिमि
 * Ngarrindjeri: kondoli
 * Nivkh: кеӈ
 * Nootka: ʔiiḥtuup
 * Northern Sami: fális
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: ,
 * Nynorsk: kval
 * Occitan:
 * Odia:
 * Okinawan: ぐじら
 * Old Church Slavonic:
 * Cyrillic: к҄итъ
 * Old East Slavic: китъ
 * Old English: hwæl
 * Old High German: wal
 * Old Tupi: pirapu'ã
 * Ottoman Turkish: آطه بالغی, بالنه
 * Palauan: medob
 * Pangasinan: lampasot
 * Pannonian Rusyn: кит
 * Pashto: نهنګ
 * Persian: ,
 * Piedmontese: balen-a
 * Plautdietsch: Waulfesch
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Rapa Nui: taʻoraha
 * Romagnol: baléna
 * Romani:
 * Vlax Romani:
 * Romanian:
 * Romansch: balena
 * Russian:
 * Saanich: ḰENES
 * Samoan: tafolā
 * Sanskrit:
 * Scots: whaul
 * Scottish Gaelic: muc-mhara
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: кит, велриба
 * Roman:, velriba
 * Seri: ziix hapx coom, aasj
 * Sicilian:
 * Sie: tovura
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Sorbian:
 * Lower Sorbian: wjelryba
 * Upper Sorbian: wjelryba
 * Sotho:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: ,
 * Tahitian: tohorā
 * Tajik:, кит
 * Tamil: ,
 * Tatar: кит
 * Telugu: తిమింగలం
 * Thai: ,
 * Tibetan: ཆུ་སྲིན
 * Tigrinya: ዓሳ ነባሪ
 * Tongan: tofuāʻa
 * Tswana: leruarua
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen:
 * Ukrainian:
 * Urdu: وہیل
 * Uyghur: كىت
 * Uzbek:
 * Venetian: bałéna
 * Vietnamese:, , cá ông voi,
 * Volapük:
 * Walloon: ballaînn
 * Welsh: ,
 * West Coast Bajau: paus
 * West Frisian: walfisk
 * Yámana: wápisa
 * Yiddish: וואַלפֿיש

Verb

 * 1)  To hunt for whales.

Translations

 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech: velrybařit
 * Finnish: pyytää valaita

Etymology 2
. Perhaps a variant of influenced by, , etc.

Verb

 * 1)  To thrash, to flog, to beat vigorously or soundly.
 * 2) * 1852, Thomas Chandler Haliburton, Why Mr Sellum disposed of the horse (chapter XIV in Works, volume 22):
 * Brought him back, put him in the stall—low stable—got out of his reach, and then begun to whale him. Then he kicked up agin;

Translations

 * Bulgarian: ,
 * German:

Etymology
Inherited from, from , from.

Noun

 * 1) A  or cetacean.
 * 2)  An oceanic monster.
 * 3)  The meat of the whale.