ballena
Meaning
- (feminine) whale
- (feminine) baleen, whalebone
Concepts
whale
whalebone
whales
baleen
rorqual
bone
Frequency
Hyphenated as
ba‧lle‧na
Gender
♀️ Feminine
Pronounced as (IPA)
/baˈʝena/
Etymology
Inherited from Old Spanish ballena, from Latin ballaena, variant of bālaena (compare Catalan balena, French baleine, Galician balea, Italian balena, Portuguese baleia, Romanian balenă), from Ancient Greek φάλλαινα (phállaina).
Cognate with Catalan
balena
Cognate with French
baleine
Cognate with Galician
balea
Cognate with Portuguese
baleia
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