"φάλαινα" meaning in Greek

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Noun

Etymology: From Ancient Greek φάλλαινα (phállaina), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₃- (“to inflate, blow, swell”), from *bʰel- (“to bloom”). Cognates include Ancient Greek φύλλον (phúllon), Gothic 𐌱𐌻𐍉𐌼𐌰 (blōma), Old English blōstm, blæd (“leaf”) (English blossom, blade) and Sanskrit फुलम् (phulam). Etymology templates: {{inh|el|grc|φάλλαινα}} Ancient Greek φάλλαινα (phállaina), {{der|el|ine-pro|*bʰleh₃-||to inflate, blow, swell}} Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₃- (“to inflate, blow, swell”), {{cog|grc|φύλλον}} Ancient Greek φύλλον (phúllon), {{cog|got|𐌱𐌻𐍉𐌼𐌰}} Gothic 𐌱𐌻𐍉𐌼𐌰 (blōma), {{cog|ang|blōstm}} Old English blōstm, {{cog|en|blossom}} English blossom, {{cog|sa|फुलम्}} Sanskrit फुलम् (phulam) Head templates: {{head|el|nouns|||plural|φάλαινες|||||||||||||||||||||||cat2=|cat3=|cat4=|g=f|g2=|g3=|head=|sort=|tr2=|ts=}} φάλαινα • (fálaina) f (plural φάλαινες), {{el-noun|f|φάλαινες}} φάλαινα • (fálaina) f (plural φάλαινες) Inflection templates: {{el-decl-noun|φάλαινα|φάλαινες|φάλαινας|φαλαινών|φάλαινα|φάλαινες|φάλαινα|φάλαινες|gp-v=|note=}} Forms: fálaina [romanization], φάλαινες [plural], no-table-tags [table-tags], φάλαινα [nominative, singular], φάλαινες [nominative, plural], φάλαινας [genitive, singular], φαλαινών [genitive, plural], φάλαινα [accusative, singular], φάλαινες [accusative, plural], φάλαινα [singular, vocative], φάλαινες [plural, vocative]
  1. whale Categories (lifeform): Cetaceans, Mammals
    Sense id: en-φάλαινα-el-noun-pdKuKG0N Disambiguation of Cetaceans: 63 37 Disambiguation of Mammals: 74 26 Categories (other): Greek nouns declining like 'βασίλισσα' Disambiguation of Greek nouns declining like 'βασίλισσα': 50 50
  2. (figuratively, derogatory) fat woman, landwhale Tags: derogatory, figuratively
    Sense id: en-φάλαινα-el-noun-H8Gni1i1 Categories (other): Greek entries with incorrect language header, Greek nouns declining like 'βασίλισσα' Disambiguation of Greek entries with incorrect language header: 20 80 Disambiguation of Greek nouns declining like 'βασίλισσα': 50 50
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: φάλινα (fálina), φάλ'να (fál'na) [dialectal], φάλλαινα (fállaina) [feminine] Coordinate_terms (see): κητώδη (kitódi) (english: cetacea) [neuter, plural]
Disambiguation of 'see': 0 0

Alternative forms

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}

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Greek dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-12-21 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-12-04 using wiktextract (d8cb2f3 and 4e554ae). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.