A squid has ten arms.
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Squid
//skwɪd//
Synonyms for "squid" (26 found)
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2 entriesRelated terms
3 entriesat location
1 entriesdbpedia genre
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69 entriesShowing 16 of 69 words.
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3 entrieshas context
10 entriesis a
7 entriesreceives action
1 entriesrelated to
20 entriesShowing 16 of 20 words.
Translations
163 translations across 111 languages.
Afrikaans
1 entries- pylinkvis noun (sea animal)
Ainu
3 entries- エペッペッケ noun (sea animal)
- パㇱサンナ noun (sea animal)
- マシタンペ noun (sea animal)
Albanian
1 entries- kallamar noun (sea animal)
Ancient Greek
1 entries- τευθίς noun (sea animal)
Arabic
4 entries- توتيا noun (sea animal)
- حَبَّار noun (sea animal)
- حَبَّار noun (sea animal)
- سبيط noun (sea animal)
Armenian
1 entries- կաղամար noun (sea animal)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- kalmar noun (sea animal)
Basque
2 entries- txibia noun (sea animal)
- txipiroi noun (sea animal)
Bau Bidayuh
1 entries- sutung noun (sea animal)
Belarusian
1 entries- кальма́р noun (sea animal)
Bengali
1 entries- স্কুইড noun (sea animal)
Brunei Malay
1 entries- sutung noun (sea animal)
Bulgarian
1 entries- калма́р noun (sea animal)
Burmese
1 entries- ပြည်ကြီးငါး noun (sea animal)
Catalan
2 entries- calamar noun (sea animal)
- calamars noun (sea animal)
Cherokee
1 entries- ᏍᏈᏗ noun (sea animal)
Chinese
2 entries- 魷魚 /鱿鱼 noun (sea animal)
- 鰇魚 /𬶧鱼 noun (sea animal)
Chinese Cantonese
1 entries- 魷魚 /鱿鱼 noun (sea animal)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 烏賊 /乌贼 noun (sea animal)
- 魷魚 /鱿鱼 noun (sea animal)
Cornish
1 entries- stifek noun (sea animal)
Czech
1 entries- krakatice noun (sea animal)
Danish
1 entries- blæksprutte noun (sea animal)
Dutch
1 entries- inktvis noun (sea animal)
Esperanto
1 entries- kalmaro noun (sea animal)
Estonian
1 entries- kalmaar noun (sea animal)
Faroese
1 entries- høgguslokkur noun (sea animal)
Fijian
1 entries- sulua noun (sea animal)
Finnish
2 entries- kalmari noun (sea animal)
- mustekala noun (sea animal)
French
3 entries- calmar noun (sea animal)
- encornet noun (sea animal)
- seiche noun (sea animal)
Galician
1 entries- lura noun (sea animal)
Georgian
1 entries- მელანთევზი noun (sea animal)
German
2 entries- Kalmar noun (sea animal)
- Tintenfisch noun (sea animal)
Greek
1 entries- καλαμάρι noun (sea animal)
Greenlandic
1 entries- amikoq noun (sea animal)
Gujarati
1 entries- સ્ક્વિડ noun (sea animal)
Hawaiian
2 entries- heʻe noun (sea animal)
- mūheʻe noun (sea animal)
Hebrew
1 entries- דְּיוֹנוּן noun (sea animal)
Hindi
2 entries- विद्रूप noun (sea animal)
- स्क्विड noun (sea animal)
Hungarian
3 entries- kalmár noun (sea animal)
- szépia noun (sea animal)
- tintahal noun (sea animal)
Icelandic
2 entries- smokkfiskur noun (sea animal)
- smokkur noun (sea animal)
Ido
1 entries- kalmaro noun (sea animal)
Indonesian
3 entries- cumi-cumi noun (sea animal)
- ikan sotong noun (sea animal)
- nus noun (sea animal)
Interlingua
1 entries- calamar noun (sea animal)
Irish
2 entries- máthair shúigh noun (sea animal)
- scuid noun (sea animal)
Italian
1 entries- calamaro noun (sea animal)
Japanese
4 entries- イカ noun (sea animal)
- 柔魚 noun (sea animal)
- 烏賊 noun (sea animal)
- 鰞 noun (sea animal)
Javanese
1 entries- iwak nus noun (sea animal)
Kannada
1 entries- ಸ್ಕ್ವಿಡ್ noun (sea animal)
Kazakh
1 entries- кальмар noun (sea animal)
Khmer
3 entries- ត្រីមឹក noun (sea animal)
- មឹក noun (sea animal)
- យៀវហ៊ឺ noun (sea animal)
Korean
1 entries- 오징어 noun (sea animal)
Kyrgyz
1 entries- кальмар noun (sea animal)
Lao
2 entries- ປາອີ່ຮື noun (sea animal)
- ຫມຶກ noun (sea animal)
Latin
1 entries- lōlīgō noun (sea animal)
Latvian
1 entries- kalmārs noun (sea animal)
Lithuanian
1 entries- kalmaras noun (sea animal)
Macedonian
1 entries- ли́гна noun (sea animal)
Malay
1 entries- sotong noun (sea animal)
Malayalam
1 entries- കൂന്തൾ noun (sea animal)
Maltese
1 entries- klamar noun (sea animal)
Manx
3 entries- dyachlym noun (sea animal)
- peie vreinn noun (sea animal)
- squid noun (sea animal)
Marathi
1 entries- स्क्विड noun (sea animal)
Mi'kmaq
1 entries- seta'su noun (sea animal)
Māori
2 entries- ngū noun (sea animal)
- wheke noun (sea animal)
Navajo
2 entries- łóóʼ bigaan neeznání noun (sea animal)
- łóóʼ bigaan neeznání íiyisígíí noun (sea animal)
Nepali
1 entries- स्क्विड noun (sea animal)
Norman
1 entries- cônet noun (sea animal)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- akkar noun (sea animal)
Old English
1 entries- cudele noun (sea animal)
Orok
1 entries- askuttu noun (sea animal)
Persian
2 entries- انکاس noun (sea animal)
- ماهی مرکب noun (sea animal)
Polish
2 entries- kalmar noun (sea animal)
- kałamarnica noun (sea animal)
Portuguese
1 entries- lula noun (sea animal)
Quechua
1 entries- samanna noun (sea animal)
Romanian
2 entries- calamar noun (sea animal)
- calmar noun (sea animal)
Russian
1 entries- кальма́р noun (sea animal)
Sambali
1 entries- posit noun (sea animal)
Samoan
2 entries- fe'e noun (sea animal)
- gūfe'e noun (sea animal)
Sassarese
1 entries- tòtanu noun (sea animal)
Scottish Gaelic
4 entries- gibeanach noun (sea animal)
- gibearnach noun (sea animal)
- gubarnach noun (sea animal)
- iasg-cutail noun (sea animal)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- lȉgnja noun (sea animal)
- ли̏гња noun (sea animal)
Sinhalese
1 entries- දැල්ලා noun (sea animal)
Slovak
1 entries- kalmar noun (sea animal)
Slovene
1 entries- lígenj noun (sea animal)
Spanish
3 entries- calamar noun (sea animal)
- chipirón noun (sea animal)
- jibión noun (sea animal)
Sundanese
1 entries- cumi-cumi noun (sea animal)
Swahili
1 entries- pweza noun (sea animal)
Swedish
1 entries- bläckfisk noun (sea animal)
Tagalog
1 entries- pusit noun (sea animal)
Tahitian
1 entries- fee noun (sea animal)
Tajik
1 entries- калмар noun (sea animal)
Tamil
1 entries- கணவாய் noun (sea animal)
Telugu
1 entries- స్క్విడ్ noun (sea animal)
Thai
2 entries- ปลาหมึก noun (sea animal)
- หมึก noun (sea animal)
Tigrinya
1 entries- ኣቡ ቐለም noun (sea animal)
Tok Pisin
1 entries- urita noun (sea animal)
Tongan
1 entries- 'atalava noun (sea animal)
Tunisian Arabic
4 entries- سوبيا noun (sea animal)
- سوبية noun (sea animal)
- سيبيا noun (sea animal)
- شوابي noun (sea animal)
Turkish
2 entries- kalamar noun (sea animal)
- mürekkep balığı noun (sea animal)
Turkmen
1 entries- kalmar noun (sea animal)
Ukrainian
1 entries- кальма́р noun (sea animal)
Urdu
2 entries- سکویڈ noun (sea animal)
- قیر ماہی noun (sea animal)
Uyghur
1 entries- كالمار noun (sea animal)
Uzbek
1 entries- kalmar noun (sea animal)
Vietnamese
1 entries- mực ống noun (sea animal)
Waray-Waray
1 entries- nuos noun (sea animal)
Welsh
4 entries- môr-lawes noun (sea animal)
- pibwr inc noun (sea animal)
- twyllwr du noun (sea animal)
- ystifflog noun (sea animal)
Wu Chinese
1 entries- 魷魚 /鱿鱼 noun (sea animal)
Yiddish
1 entries- טינטפֿיש noun (sea animal)
Zazaki
1 entries- kalamar noun (sea animal)
Zhuang
1 entries- byayouzyiz noun (sea animal)
Sample sentences
14 total sentences available.
Christopher Columbus's "The Idiot's Guide to Killing a Shark Barehanded" and "The Twenty Ways to Strangle a Giant Squid" both went on to become bestsellers.
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A squid has ten legs.
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Arroz negro tastes inky because it's made with squid ink.
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