jellyfish

See also: jelly-fish and jelly fish

English

A sea nettle, a type of jellyfish

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *gel-

Latin gelū

Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂

Proto-Indo-European *-yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti

Proto-Italic *-āō

Latin -ō

Latin gelō

Proto-Italic *-ātos

Latin -ātus

Latin -āta

Early Medieval Latin gelātabor.

Old French geleebor.

Middle English gele

English jelly

English fish

English jellyfish

From jelly +‎ fish.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒɛliˌfɪʃ/

• Audio (US):

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Noun

jellyfish (countable and uncountable, plural jellyfish or jellyfishes)

1. An almost transparent aquatic animal; any one of the acalephs, especially one of the larger species, having a jellylike appearance.

   Synonym: jelly

   1. A cnidarian, a member of the phylum Cnidaria.
      1. A scyphozoan, a member of the class Scyphozoa (true jellies).
   2. A ctenophore, a member of the phylum Ctenophora (comb jellies).
2. A sudoku technique involving possible cell locations for a digit, or pair, or triple, in uniquely four rows and four columns only. This allows for the elimination of candidates around the grid.

Derived terms

• alarm jellyfish (Atolla wyvillei)
• Atolla jellyfish (Atolla wyvillei)
• barrel jellyfish (Rhizostoma pulmo)
• blubber jellyfish (Catostylus mosaicus)
• blue blubber jellyfish (Catostylus mosaicus)
• blue bottle jellyfish (Physalia physalis)
• box jellyfish (class Cubozoa)
• cabbagehead jellyfish (Stomolophus meleagris)
• cannonball jellyfish (Stomolophus meleagris)
• common jellyfish (Aurelia aurita)
• compass jellyfish
• compound jellyfish (order Siphonophora)
• crown jellyfish (order Coronatae)
• flame jellyfish (Rhopilema esculentum)
• fried-egg jellyfish (Cotylorhiza tuberculata, Phacellophora camtschatica)
• giant jellyfish (Cyanea spp.)
• helmet jellyfish (Periphylla periphylla)
• immortal jellyfish (Turritopsis dohrnii)
• Irukandji jellyfish (Carukia barnesi, Malo spp.)
• jellyfish itch (caused by Linuche unguiculata)
• jellyfish baby
• jellyfish galaxy
• jellyfish tree
• jellyfishy
• lion's mane jellyfish (Cyanea spp.)
• moon jellyfish (Aurelia aurita)
• mushroom jellyfish (Rhopilema verrilli)
• Nomura's jellyfish (Nemopilema nomurai)
• purple-striped jellyfish (Pelagia spp.)
• stalked jellyfish (class Staurozoa)
• thimble jellyfish (Linuche unguiculata)

Translations

aquatic animal

• Abkhaz: please add this translation if you can
• Adyghe: please add this translation if you can
• Afrikaans: jellievis
• Aghwan: please add this translation if you can
• Akan: please add this translation if you can
• Aklanon: please add this translation if you can
• Albanian: kandil deti (sq) m
• Arabic: قِنْدِيل الْبَحْر m (qindīl al-baḥr) (sea lamp), قِنْدِيل (ar) m (qindīl)

  Hijazi Arabic: قَنْديل m (gandīl)

• Armenian: մեդուզա (hy) (meduza)
• Assamese: সাগৰীয়া ছাতি (xagoria sati), জেলীমাছ (zelimas)
• Asturian: marmoca f, aguamala f, veleru m, celentereu m
• Azerbaijani: meduza (az), dəniz anası, dəniz göbələyi
• Basque: marmoka
• Belarusian: меду́за f (mjedúza)
• Bengali: জেলিফিশ (jeliphiś)
• Bikol Central: palit, salabay (bcl) (Portuguese man-of-war)
• Breton: morgaoulenn (br) f, blonegenn-vor (br) f
• Brunei Malay: ubur-ubur
• Bulgarian: меду́за (bg) f (medúza)
• Burmese: ငါးဖန်ခွက် (my) (nga:hpanhkwak)
• Catalan: medusa (ca) f, borm m
• Central Melanau: buboh
• Cherokee: ᏩᏂᎨ ᎠᏣᏗ (wanige atsadi)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 水母くらげ (seoi² mou⁵), 海うみ蜇 (hoi² zit³) (edible)

  Mandarin: 水母くらげ (zh) (shuǐmǔ), 海うみ蜇 (zh) (hǎizhé)

• Comox: q̓ʊpɬanačaɬ
• Cornish: morgowlesen f
• Czech: medúza (cs) f
• Danish: gople c, vandmand c, brandmand (da) c
• Dutch: kwal (nl) f
• Esperanto: meduzo
• Estonian: meduus, millimallikas
• Finnish: meduusa (fi)
• French: méduse (fr) f
• Galician: augamar (gl) f, medusa (gl) f
• Georgian: მედუზა (meduza)
• German: Qualle (de) f
• Greek: μέδουσα (el) f (médousa), τσούχτρα (el) f (tsoúchtra)

  Ancient: ἁλιπλεύμων m (halipleúmōn)

• Hawaiian: pololia
• Hebrew: מֶדוּזָה (he) f (meduzá)
• Hindi: जेलिफ़िश (jelifiś), गिजगिजिया (gijgijiyā)
• Hungarian: medúza (hu)
• Icelandic: marglytta (is) f
• Ido: meduzo (io)
• Ilocano: karominas
• Indonesian: ubur-ubur, ampai-ampai
• Ingrian: meduza
• Interlingua: medusa
• Irish: smugairle róin m
• Italian: medusa (it) f
• Japanese: 海月くらげ (ja) (くらげ, kurage), 水母くらげ (ja) (くらげ, kurage), クラゲ (ja) (kurage), すいぼ (suibo)
• Javanese: uwur-uwur (jv)
• Kazakh: медуза (meduza)
• Khmer: ខ្ញែរសមុទ្រ (khñae saʼmot), ជំពុលទឹក (cum pul tɨk)
• Kimaragang: bolung
• Korean: 해파리 (ko) (haepari)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: bûka deryayê f, pişemasî (ku), medûsa (ku)

• Kyrgyz: медуза (ky) (meduza)
• Lao: ແມງກະພົນ (mǣng ka phon), ກະພົນ (ka phon)
• Latin: pulmo, halipleumon
• Latvian: medūza f
• Lithuanian: medūza f
• Lutshootseed: kəlapχかいʷəlč
• Luxembourgish: Jelliskapp m
• Macedonian: медуза f (meduza)
• Malay: ampai-ampai (ms), ubur-ubur
• Malayalam: കടല്ച്ചൊറി (kaṭalccoṟi)
• Maltese: brama f
• Manx: skeeah ny muc varrey m, skeeah rauney m, slouree f, slumm m, smug rauney m
• Maori: maremaretai, tepetepe, petipeti, kūreperepe-ā-tai, kakaru moana, kūreperepe moana
• Mi'kmaq: sasap anim
• Mongolian: медуз (mn) (meduz)
• Navajo: jélii łóóʼ
• Norwegian: manet
• Old English: please add this translation if you can
• Pashto: مېډوسا f
• Persian: عروس دریایی ('orus daryâyi) (sea bride), چتر دریایی (čatr daryâyi) (sea umbrella)
• Polish: meduza (pl) f
• Portuguese: medusa (pt) f, água-viva (pt) f, alforreca (pt) f
• Quechua: kachu k'arachiq
• Romanian: meduză (ro) f
• Russian: меду́за (ru) f (medúza)
• Saanich: słχかいʷəm'əy'qsən
• Scottish Gaelic: sgeoldair m, sgoldrach m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: медуза f

  Roman: meduza (sh) f

• Sicilian: bromu (scn)
• Sinhalese: ලොඩි (loḍi), ජෙලිෆිෂ් (jelifiṣ)
• Slovak: medúza (sk) f
• Slovene: meduza (sl) f
• Spanish: medusa (es) f, aguamala (es) m (Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Ecuador, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Southern Spain, Venezuela), aguaviva (es) m (Argentina, Southern Spain and Canary Islands, Uruguay), malagua f (Peru)
• Swedish: manet (sv) c
• Tagalog: dikya (tl)
• Tahitian: paʻipaʻi
• Tajik: медуза (meduza)
• Tamil: இழுது (ta) (iḻutu), சொறிமுட்டை (coṟimuṭṭai)
• Thai: แมงกะพรุน (th) (mɛɛng-gà-prun), กะพรุน (th) (gà-prun)
• Tigrinya: ዓሳ ለግለግ (ʿasa lägläg)
• Turkish: denizanası (tr)
• Turkmen: meduza
• Ukrainian: меду́за f (medúza)
• Urdu: جیلیفش (jelifiś)
• Uyghur: مېدۇزا (mëduza)
• Uzbek: meduza (uz)
• Vietnamese: sứa (vi)
• Waray-Waray: bantol
• Welsh: slefren fôr (cy) f, cont fôr (cy) f, cont y môr f
• West Frisian: kwab c
• Yiddish: מעדוזע f (meduze)
• Yup'ik: egaarniq, itulek, masaaq, nuayaaq

See also

• medusa
• scyphistoma

Further reading

• jellyfish on Wikipedia.Wikipedia