English
Etymology
From bow + head.
Pronunciation
Noun
bowhead (plural bowheads)
- A large baleen whale, of species Balaena mysticetus, having a large, rounded head, that inhabits Arctic waters.
Synonyms
Translations
Balaena mysticetus
- Azerbaijani: qrenlandiya balinası
- Basque: groenlandiar balea
- Belarusian: грэнландскі кіт (hrenlandski kit)
- Bulgarian: гренландски кит (grenlandski kit)
- Catalan: balena de Groenlàndia (ca) f, balena franca àrtica (ca) f
- Chukchi: йитив (jitiv)
- Czech: velryba grónská
- Danish: grønlandshval c
- Dutch: Groenlandse walvis (nl) m
- Esperanto: gronlanda baleno
- Estonian: grööni vaal
- Faroese: grønlandsslættibøka f
- Finnish: grönlanninvalas (fi)
- French: baleine boréale (fr) f
- Georgian: გრენლანდიური ვეშაპი (grenlandiuri vešaṗi)
- German: Grönlandwal (de)
- Greenlandic: arfivik (kl)
- Hebrew: בלנה גרינלנדית
- Hungarian: grönlandi bálna
- Icelandic: norðhvalur (is) m
- Inuktitut: ᐊᕐᕕᒃ (arfik)
- Irish: míol mór ceann bogha
- Italian: balena della Groenlandia f
- Japanese: ホッキョククジラ (ja) (hokkyokukujira)
- Kazakh: поляр киті (polär kitı)
- Korean: 북극고래 (bukgeukgorae)
- Latin: Balaena mysticetus
- Latvian: polārais valis, grenlandes valis
- Macedonian: гренландски кит (grenlandski kit)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: grønlandshval m
- Nynorsk: grønlandskval m
- Polish: wal grenlandzki (pl) m, wieloryb grenlandzki (pl) m
- Portuguese: baleia-da-groenlândia (pt) f
- Russian: гренла́ндский кит (ru) m (grenlándskij kit), поля́рный кит (ru) m (poljárnyj kit)
- Slovak: veľryba grónska f
- Spanish: ballena boreal f
- Swedish: grönlandsval (sv) c
- Thai: วาฬหัวคันศร (waan-hǔua-kan-sɔ̌ɔn)
- Turkish: grönland balinası
- Ukrainian: ґренландський кит m (grenlandsʹkyj kyt), полярний кит m (poljarnyj kyt)
- Uzbek: grenlandiya kiti
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