balena

See also: balenă, baléna, and bałéna

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin bālaena, from Ancient Greek φάλαινα (phálaina).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central) [bəˈlɛ.nə]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [bəˈlə.nə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [baˈle.na]

• Audio:

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Noun

balena f (plural balenes)

1. whale

Derived terms

• balena amb bec de Cuvier
• balena amb gep
• balena blanca
• balena blava
• balena grisa
• balener

 

Further reading

• “balena” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “balena”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “balena” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “balena” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Corsican

Noun

balena f (plural balene)

1. whale

References

• “balena” in INFCOR: Banca di dati di a lingua corsa

Esperanto

Etymology

From baleno (“whale”) +‎ -a.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [baˈlena]
• Rhymes: -ena
• Hyphenation: ba‧le‧na

Adjective

balena (accusative singular balenan, plural balenaj, accusative plural balenajn)

1. cetacean, relating to whales

Italian

Etymology 1

From Late Latin ballēna, from Latin balaena.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /baˈle.na/
• Rhymes: -ena
• Hyphenation: ba‧lé‧na

Noun

balena f (plural balene)

1. whale

Descendants

• → Armenian: բաղենա (baġena)
• → Ottoman Turkish: بالنه (balena)
  • Turkish: balina
  • → Azerbaijani: balina
  • → Armenian: պալէնա (palēna)

Etymology 2

Verb

balena

1. inflection of balenare:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

• balena in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Anagrams

• banale

Occitan

Etymology

From Latin bālaena, from Ancient Greek φάλαινα (phálaina).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /baˈleno/

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

balena f (plural balenas)

1. whale

Pali

Alternative forms

Alternative scripts

• 𑀩𑀮𑁂𑀦 (Brahmi script)
• बलेन (Devanagari script)
• বলেন (Bengali script)
• බලෙන (Sinhalese script)
• ဗလေန or ၿလေၼ (Burmese script)
• พเลน or พะเลนะ (Thai script)
• ᨻᩃᩮᨶ (Tai Tham script)
• ພເລນ or ພະເລນະ (Lao script)
• ពលេន (Khmer script)
• 𑄝𑄣𑄬𑄚 (Chakma script)

Noun

balena

1. instrumental singular of bala (“strength”)

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [baˈlena]

Noun

balena f

1. definite nominative/accusative singular of balenă

Tagalog

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /baˈlenaʔ/ [bɐˈlɛː.n̪ɐʔ]
• Rhymes: -enaʔ
• Syllabification: ba‧le‧na

Noun

balenà (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜎᜒᜈ) (obsolete)

1. Alternative form of balina