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“WALRUS” IN 23 LANGUAGES

Memorize them all. This is very practical knowledge:

Malay: anjing laut

Vietnamese: con hải ma

Danish: hvalros

Norwegian: hvalross

Lithuanian: jūrų vėplys

Albanian: lopë deti

Estonian: merihobu

Bulgarian: морж

Azerbaijani: morj

Polish: mors

Portugese: morsa

French: morse

Croatian: morž

Czech: mrož

Finnish: mursu

Maltese: odobenu

Icelandic: rostunga

Hungarian: rozmár

Italian: tricheco

Swedish: valross

Latvian: valzirgs

German: walross

Chinese: 海象

4 Responses

  1. Esther Brown

    Volapük: valrod; Esperanto & Ido: rosmaro; Thai: วอลรัส (IPA: /wɔːn.rɑd/); Korean: 바다코끼리 (revised romanization: bada-kokkiri), 해상 (rv: haesang, Hanja: 海象), or 해마 (rv: haema, Hanja: 海馬); Lojban: odbenu

    August 11, 2012 at 6:18 pm

  2. Many thanks!

    August 11, 2012 at 6:35 pm

  3. Esther Brown

    I got them from the English version of Wiktionary.

    August 13, 2012 at 11:56 am

  4. All that matters is that you got them!

    August 14, 2012 at 1:20 pm

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