dolpin
Cebuano
noun
Definitions
- a dolphin; a carnivorous aquatic mammal inhabiting mostly in the shallower seas of the continental continental shelves, famed for its intelligence and occasional willingness to approach humans
Etymology
Borrowed from English dolphin derived from Middle English dolfin derived from Old French daulphin derived from Latin delphīnus (dolphin) derived from Ancient Greek δελφίς (dolphin).
Origin
Ancient Greek
δελφίς
Gloss
dolphin
Concept
Semantic Field
Animals
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Kanji
鯆
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- dolphin English
- dolphinarium English
- dolphinese English
- dolphinet English
- dolphinfish English
- dolphining English
- dolphinkind English
- dolphinlike English
- dolphinspeak English
- delphinus Latin
- delphīnus Latin
- дельфи́н Russian
- Delfín Spanish, Castilian
- δελφίν Ancient Greek
- δελφίς Ancient Greek
- *gʷelbʰ- Proto-Indo-European
- delfin Norwegian Bokmål
- delfin Norwegian Nynorsk
- dolfin Middle English
- delfin Danish
- دلفين Arabic
- daulphin Old French
- dofí Catalan, Valencian
- dolffin Welsh
- delfijn Middle Dutch
- delfīns Latvian
- dauphîn Norman
- golfinno Old Portuguese
- დელფინი Georgian
- dalfin Occitan
- denfil Maltese
- delfin Romansh
- llofín Asturian
- ডলফিন Bengali
- delfìn Ligurian
- drafìn Ligurian
- ܕܠܦܝܢܐ Classical Syriac
- dulfeîn Istriot
- адельфин Abkhazian