A sea horse (fish)
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Etymology
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From Middle English sehors ( “ walrus ” ) , equivalent to sea + horse . Probably a calque of obsolete French cheval de mer or directly of Late Latin caballus marinus .
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sea horse (plural sea horses )
A 1913 £1 "Seahorse" stamp.
( obsolete ) The walrus .
1789 , Olaudah Equiano , chapter 9, in The Interesting Narrative , volume I:One morning we had vast quantities of sea-horses about the ship, which neighed exactly like any other horses.
Any of various small marine fish of the genus Hippocampus that have a horselike head and swim upright.
( philately ) any of a series of British high value stamps issued during the reign of King George V featuring a depiction of Britannia on a chariot in choppy seas.
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fish
Arabic: فَرَس بَحْر m ( faras baḥr )
Armenian: ծովաձի (hy) ( covaji ) , ձիաձուկ (hy) ( jiajuk )
Basque: itsas zaldia
Belarusian: марско́й канёк m ( marskój kanjók )
Bulgarian: морско конче n ( morsko konče )
Burmese: ရေမြင်း (my) ( re-mrang: ) , ရေနဂါး (my) ( rena.ga: )
Catalan: cavall marí (ca) m , hipocamp (ca) m
Cebuano: kulkog
Chinese:
Mandarin: 海馬 / 海马 (zh) ( hǎimǎ )
Czech: mořský koník m
Danish: søhest c
Dutch: (Hippocampus) zeepaard (nl) n
Esperanto: hipokampo , marĉevaleto
Estonian: merihobuke
Finnish: merihevonen (fi)
French: hippocampe (fr) m
Galician: cabalo de mar (gl) m , cabaliño de mar m
Georgian: ზღვის ცხენი ( zɣvis cxeni )
German: Seepferdchen (de) n
Greek: ιππόκαμπος (el) m ( ippókampos )
Ancient: ἱππόκαμπος m ( hippókampos )
Hungarian: csikóhal (hu)
Icelandic: sæhestur m
Ilocano: kurikor
Indonesian: kuda laut (id)
Irish: capall mara m
Italian: cavalluccio marino m , ippocampo (it) m
Japanese: 竜の落とし子 (ja) ( タツノオトシゴ , tatsuno-otoshigo)
Kazakh: атбалық ( atbalyq )
Korean: 해마(海馬) (ko) ( haema )
Lao: ມ້ານ້ຳ ( mā nam )
Latin: equus bipēs m
Latvian: jūras zirdziņš m
Lü: ᦙᦱᧉᦓᧄᧉ ( maa²nam² )
Luxembourgish: Séipäerdchen n
Macedonian: морско коњче n ( morsko konjče )
Malay: kuda laut , unduk-unduk ( Peninsula East Coast )
Maltese: żiemel tal-baħar m
Maori: kioretai , hinamoki
Navajo: táłtłʼááh łį́į́ʼ
Norman: ch'fa d'maïr m ( Guernsey ) , j'va d'mé m ( Jersey )
Northern Thai: ᨾ᩶ᩣᨶ᩶ᩣᩴ
Norwegian:
Bokmål: havhest (no) m , sjøhest m
Persian: اسب دریایی ( asb-e daryâyi )
Polish: konik morski (pl) m , pławikonik m
Portuguese: cavalo-marinho (pt) m
Romanian: căluț de mare m , hipocamp (ro) m
Russian: морско́й конёк (ru) m ( morskój konjók )
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: морски коњић m , морски коњиц m
Roman: morski konjić , morski konjic m
Seri: heeesam
Slovak: morský koník m
Slovene: morski konjiček (sl) m
Spanish: hipocampo m , caballito de mar (es) m
Swahili: mbuzi-bahari
Swedish: sjöhäst (sv) c
Tagalog: kabayo-kabayohan , kaba-kabayuhan , kabayong-dagat
Thai: ม้าน้ำ ( máa-náam )
Turkish: denizatı (tr)
Ukrainian: морськи́й ко́ник m ( morsʹkýj kónyk )
Vietnamese: cá ngựa (vi) (𩵜馭 ), hải mã (vi) (海馬 )
Volapük: hiokamp
Welsh: morfarch (cy) m
Wolof: fasu géej wi
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