- Abkhaz: адельфин (adelʲfin), амшынҳәа (amŝənḥʷa)
- Adyghe: хыкъо (xəqʷo), псыкъу (psəqʷu)
- Afrikaans: dolfyn(af)
- Ainu: オコㇺ (okom), タンヌ (tannu), トゥワユㇰ (tuwayuk)
- Albanian: delfin(sq)
- Arabic: دُلْفِينm (dulfīn), دَرْفِيلm (darfīl), دُخَسm (duḵas)
- Aragonese: dalfínm
- Armenian: դելֆին(hy) (delfin)
- Old Armenian: դելփին (delpʿin)
- Assamese: শিহু (xihu), উলুপী (ulupi)
- Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܕܹܠܦܝܼܢܵܐm (delpīna)
- Asturian: toliña(ast)f, golfín(ast)m, llofín(ast)m
- Azerbaijani: delfin(az)
- Basque: izurde(eu)
- Belarusian: дэльфі́нm (delʹfín)
- Bengali: ডলফিন(bn) (ḍolphin)
- Bikol Central: lumod(bcl)
- Breton: delfinm, beg-hir(br)m
- Bulgarian: делфи́н(bg)m (delfín)
- Burmese: လင်းပိုင်(my) (lang:puing)
- Catalan: dofí(ca)m
- Central Atlas Tamazight: ⴰⵣⵢⴰⵎ (azyam)
- Central Melanau: belusok
- Chamicuro: walali
- Cherokee: ᏗᏁᏍᏆᏕᎩ (dinesquadegi)
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 海豚 (hoi2 tyun4)
- Hakka: 海豚 (hói-thùn)
- Mandarin: 海豚(zh) (hǎitún), 海豬/海猪(zh) (hǎizhū), 海豨(zh) (hǎixī) (literary)
- Min Nan: 海豬/海猪(zh-min-nan) (hái-ti, hái-tu), 海豬仔/海猪仔 (hái-ti-á, hái-tu-á), 海豚(zh-min-nan) (hái-thûn), 海鼠 (hái-chhú) (Magong), 鯃魚/鯃鱼 (gô͘-hî, gô͘-hû), 海徛 (hái-khiā), 海鰡/海𱈊 (hái-liu), 烏鯃/乌鯃 (o͘-ngô͘), 白鯃 (pe̍h-gô͘, pe̍h-ngô͘), 白鰗/白𬶞 (pe̍h-kô͘)
- Wu: 海豚 (2he-den)
- Cornish: pyffyerm, morhoghm
- Crimean Tatar: yunus balığı
- Czech: plískavicef, delfín(cs)m
- Danish: delfin(da)
- Dutch: dolfijn(nl)m
- Egyptian: (please verify)
- Esperanto: delfenom
- Estonian: delfiin(et)
- Faroese: springarim, delfinf
- Finnish: delfiini(fi)
- French: dauphin(fr)m
- Galician: golfiño(gl)m, touliñaf
- Georgian: დელფინი (delpini)
- Old Georgian: დელფინი (delpini)
- German: Delphin(de)m, Delfin(de)m
- Greek: δελφίνι(el)n (delfíni)
- Greenlandic: aarluarsuk
- Guaraní: guayraka
- Gujarati: શિશુમારn (śiśumār)
- Haitian Creole: dofen
- Hawaiian: hoikiuna
- Hebrew: דּוֹלְפִין(he)m (dólfin)
- Hindi: सूंसm (sūns) (also porpoise), डॉल्फ़िन (ḍŏlfin)
- Hungarian: delfin(hu)
- Icelandic: höfrungur(is)
- Indonesian: lumba-lumba(id)
- Interlingua: delphino
- Irish: deilf
- Istriot: dulfeînm
- Italian: delfino(it)m
- Japanese: 海豚(ja) (いるか, iruka), イルカ(ja) (iruka)
- Javanese: lumba-lumba
- Kabardian: хыкхъуэ(kbd) (xəqχʷɛ)
- Kabyle: azyam
- Kazakh: дельфин (delfin)
- Khmer: ផ្សោត(km) (phsaot)
- Kikai: 海豚 (ふぃとぅ, fitu, ぴとぅ, pitu)
- Korean: 돌고래(ko) (dolgorae)
- Kunigami: 海豚 (ひーとぅい, hiitui)
- Kyrgyz: дельфин(ky) (delfin)
- Lao: ປາເດິນຟິນ(lo) (pā dœn fin), ປາໂລມາ (pā lō mā), ເດິນຟິນ (dœn fin), ໂລມາ (lō mā), ໝູທະເລ (mū tha lē)
- Latin: delphīnus(la)m
- Latvian: delfīnsm
- Laz: delpina
- Lithuanian: delfinas(lt)m
- Low German:
- German Low German: Meerswien(nds)n, Swienfischm
- Macedonian: делфинm (delfin)
- Malagasy: feso(mg)
- Malay: lumba-lumba
- Malayalam: ഏടി(ml) (ēṭi)
- Maltese: delfini
- Manchu: ᠨᠠᠮᡠ
ᡠᠯᡤᡳᠶᠠᠨ (namu ulgiyan) - Mansaka: lomba
- Manx: doraid
- Maori: aihe
- Middle English: delphyn, mereswyn
- Mongolian: далайн гахай (dalajn gaxaj)
- Navajo: tééh hóyáanii
- Nivkh: поми (pomi)
- Norman: dauphînm
- Northern Amami-Oshima: 海豚 (ふとぅ, futu)
- Norwegian:
- Occitan: dalfin(oc)m
- Okinawan: 海豚 (ふぃーとぅ, fiitu)
- Old English: mereswīnn
- Ottoman Turkish: یونس بالغی (yunus balığı)
- Papiamentu: dòlfein
- Persian: دلفین(fa) (dolfin), خوکماهی (xuk-mâhi)
- Polish: delfin(pl)m
- Portuguese: golfinho(pt)m, delfim(pt)m
- Quechua: phujpuri
- Romagnol: dilfòinm
- Romanian: delfin(ro)m
- Romansch: delfin
- Russian: дельфи́н(ru)m (delʹfín)
- Samoan: masimasi(sm)
- Sardinian: gorfinu, grufinu, gurfinu
- Scots: dowphin
- Scottish Gaelic: leumadairm, bèist-ghormf, deilff, muc-bhiorachf
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: дупинm, делфинm, плискавицаf
- Roman: dupin(sh)m, delfin(sh)m, pliskavica(sh)f
- Sicilian: derfinu(scn)m, dirfinu(scn), derfinu(scn), draffinu(scn), darfinu(scn)
- Sinhalese: ඩොල්ෆින් (ḍolfin)
- Slovak: delfín(sk)m
- Slovene: delfin(sl)m
- Somali: hoombarada
- Southern Amami-Oshima: 海豚 (ふとぅ, futu)
- Spanish: delfín(es)m
- Sranan Tongo: profosu
- Sundanese: ᮜᮥᮙ᮪ᮘᮜᮥᮙ᮪ᮘ (lumbalumba)
- Swahili: pomboo
- Swedish: delfin(sv)c
- Tagalog: lumba-lumba, lumbalumba
- Tahitian: please add this translation if you can
- Tajik: делфин (delfin)
- Tamil: ஓங்கில்(ta) (ōṅkil)
- Ternate: kohia, kahia
- Thai: โลมา(th) (loo-maa), ปลาโลมา (bplaa loo-maa)
- Tibetan: མཚོ་ཕག (mtsho phag)
- Tidore: kahia
- Tigrinya: ኣቡ ሰላማ (ʾabu sälama)
- Tongan: please add this translation if you can
- Turkish: yunus(tr), delfin(tr), ırgay
- Turkmen: delfin
- Ugaritic: 𐎀𐎐𐎃𐎗 (ảnḫr)
- Ukrainian: дельфі́нm (delʹfín)
- Urdu: ڈالفن (ḍolfin)
- Uyghur: دېلفىن (dëlfin)
- Uzbek: delfin(uz)
- Venetian: dolfin(vec), delfin
- Vietnamese: cá heo(vi)
- Welsh: dolffin(cy)m
- West Frisian: dolfin
- Yámana: sauyánux
- Yanyuwa: miriyi
- Yiddish: דעלפֿיןm (delfin)
- Zulu: ihlengethwa(zu)
FAQs
What does the 🐬 mean? ›
The Facebook and WhatsApp versions depict the dolphin in gray. While the Dolphin emoji 🐬 is used to refer to actual dolphins and various topics related to the ocean, the emoji is also widely used to refer to tropical vacations, going to the beach, and the popular idea of a warm, sandy paradise.
What is the Old English word for dolphin? ›Old English (otherwise called Anglo-Saxon) is the language spoken over 1,500 years ago in parts of what is present-day England. According to my dictionary, the Old English world for dolphin was … Delfin.
What is the plural of dolphin? ›Dolphins is the plural form of Dolphin.
What is the ancient Greek word for dolphin? ›Delphis, the Greek for dolphin, is a very similar word to delplys, meaning womb.
What does 👉👈 mean in texting? ›👉👈 — Shy, nervous (usually in the context of flirting)
What does <3 mean mean? ›emoticon means love on social media. This cute symbol is most commonly used to discuss romantic relationships, friendships, or passions when texting, tweeting, or posting. Someone may use a <3 to replace the word “love” in a sentence or to convey warm feelings for someone or something.
What is the P word for dolphin? ›A porpoise is a sea animal that looks like a dolphin.
What is a dolphins cry called? ›Whistles. Dolphins produce many different types of whistles. One whistle which dolphins use most frequently, called a signature whistle, appears to serve as identification of individual dolphins since each dolphin develops a signature whistle that is uniquely its own.
What is a family of dolphins called? ›A group of dolphins is called a pod. Dolphins are social mammals that interact with one another, swim together, protect each other, and hunt for food as a team.
What does this symbol means (~)? ›The English language does not use the tilde as a diacritic, though it is used in some loanwords. The standalone form of the symbol is used more widely. Informally, it means "approximately", "about", or "around", such as "~30 minutes before", meaning "approximately 30 minutes before".
What does this symbol means '~'? ›
In informal writing, a tilde is sometimes used before a number to mean “about” or “approximately.” For example, a sentence that reads I think my dog weighs ~20 pounds means I think my dog weighs about/around 20 pounds. This usage is likely based on the math usage of the tilde symbol to mean an approximate equivalency.
What is the meaning of this symbol (#)? ›Answer. The symbol known as the hashtag (#) in Twitter has a history of different names and uses in American English, including pound sign – used after a number to mean “weight in pounds,” number sign – used in front of a number to mean “number” (as in "Please review item #2 on the list"), crosshatch, and hash mark.
What is the meaning of this symbol (@)? ›at sign, symbol (@) used primarily to direct electronic communication to specified entities, most notably in email addresses and social media handles. Before the late 20th century its primary use was commercial, where it signified “at the rate of.”