whaling

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈweɪlɪŋ/

• Audio (Southern England)

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• Homophone: wailing
• Rhymes: -eɪlɪŋ

Noun

whaling (countable and uncountable, plural whalings)

1. The practice of hunting whales.
2. The practice of spotting whales.
3. (informal) A beating.
4. (computing) A form of highly personalized cyberattack that targets a senior business executive.
   • 2017, Prithviraj Gohel, Cyber Attacks: are we really secure?:

     Whaling attacks typically take specific responsibilities of these executive roles into consideration, using focused messaging to trick the victim.

Synonyms

• (spotting of whales): whale watching

Derived terms

• whaling station

 

Translations

practice of hunting whales

• Arabic: صَيْد اَلْحِيتَان m (ṣayd al-ḥītān)
• Bulgarian: лов на китове m (lov na kitove)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 捕鯨／捕鲸 (zh) (bǔjīng)

• Czech: lov velryb m
• Danish: hvalfangst (da) c
• Dutch: walvisvaart (nl), walvisjacht (nl) f or m
• Esperanto: balenĉasado, balenkaptado
• Estonian: vaalapüük
• Finnish: valaanpyynti (fi)
• French: chasse à la baleine (fr) f
• German: Walfang (de) m
• Hebrew: צֵיד לִוְיְתָנִים (he) m (tseyd livyetanim)
• Hungarian: bálnavadászat (hu)
• Icelandic: hvalveiðar
• Italian: caccia alla balena f
• Japanese: 捕鯨 (ja) (ほげい, hogei)
• Korean: 고래잡이 (goraejabi)
• Macedonian: китолов m (kitolov)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: hvalfangst m

  Nynorsk: kvalfangst m

• Old English: hwælhuntoþ m
• Polish: wielorybnictwo (pl) n
• Portuguese: baleação f
• Russian: охо́та на кито́в f (oxóta na kitóv), китобо́йный про́мысел m (kitobójnyj prómysel)
• Serbo-Croatian: китолов m, kitolov (sh) m, лов на китове m, lov na kitove m
• Spanish: caza de ballenas f
• Swedish: valfångst c
• Vietnamese: săn bắt cá voi, sự đánh cá voi, nghề đánh cá voi
• Volapük: valütifan (vo)

whale watching — see whale watching

See also

• mallemaroking

Verb

whaling

1. present participle and gerund of whale