Octopus

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1 English 1.1 Noun 1.1.1 Related terms 1.1.2 Translations 1.2 See also 2 Dutch 2.1 Noun 3 Norwegian 3.1 Noun

English

Noun

octopus (plural octopuses or octopodes (octopi is incorrect); for discussion of the plural, see the Wikipedia article )

1. A marine mollusc/mollusk having no internal or external protective shell or bone (unlike the nautilus , squid or cuttlefish) and eight tentacles each covered with suckers.

Related terms

Translations

Albanian: tetëkëmbësh m, oktapod m Arabic: أخطبوط (akhtabūt) Basque: olagarro Bosnian: hobotnica f Bulgarian: октопод (oktopod) Catalan: pop m Cornish: kollell-lesa f Czech: chobotnice Dutch: octopus Esperanto: polpo Estonian: kaheksajalg Finnish: mustekala French: pieuvre f, poulpe m German: Tintenfisch , Krake Greek: οκταπους (oktapus), χταπόδι n(khtapodi) Hawaiian: he'e Hungarian: polip Indonesian: ikan gurita , ikan mangsi Interlingua: octopode Irish: ochtapas Italian: piovra f, polpo m Japanese: 蛸, 章魚 (たこ , tako) Korean: 낙지 Lithuanian: aštuonkojis

Malay: ikan kurita , doyak Malayalam: നീരാളി (?) Mandarin: 章鱼 / 章魚 (pinyin:zhāngyú) Manx: oghtapus m, hoght-choshagh m Maori: wheke Norwegian: octopus Polish: ośmiornica Portuguese: polvo m Punjabi: ਤੰਦੂਆ (tãdūā) Russian: осьминог Serbian: hobotnica Slovak: chobotnica , polyp Slovene: hobotnica f Spanish: pulpo m Swahili: pweza , pweza mkubwa Swedish: bläckfisk Tagalog: pugita , oktopus Tok Pisin: urita Turkish: ahtapot Volapük: loktop Welsh: octopws , cymdeithas , nieidiol , wythgoes Zulu: imbambela , ingwane

See also

• calimari
• Kraken
• nautilus
• Wikipedia article on the octopus
• squid

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Dutch

Noun

octopus

1. octopus

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Norwegian

Noun

octopus

1. octopus