balena

See also: balenă, baléna, and bałéna

Albanian

Noun

balena

1. inflection of balenë:
   1. definite nominative singular
   2. indefinite nominative/accusative plural

Catalan

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

• Audio (Catalonia):

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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 [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “balena”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026
• “balena” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• Alcover, Antoni Maria; Moll, Francesc de Borja (1963), “balena”, in Diccionari català-valencià-balear (in Catalan)

Corsican

Noun

balena f (plural balene)

1. whale

References

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

Esperanto

Etymology

Etymology tree

Esperanto baleno

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂

Proto-Italic *-ā

Latin -ader.

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Latin -a

Italian -ader.

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Latin -a

Old Spanish -a

Spanish -ader.

Esperanto -a

Esperanto balena

From baleno (“whale”) + -a.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /baˈlena/
• Rhymes: -ena
• Syllabification: ba‧le‧na

Adjective

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

1. cetacean, relating to whales

Anagrams

• abelan

Italian

Etymology 1

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *bʰel-der.?

Pre-Greekder.?

Ancient Greek φάλλαινα (phállaina)bor.

Latin ballaena

Late Latin ballēnader.

Italian balena

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

• → Albanian: balenë
• → Armenian: բաղենա (baġena)
• → Maltese: balena
• → 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 Vocabolario Treccani on line (in Italian), Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana, 2026

Anagrams

• banale

Occitan

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /baˈleno/

• Audio (Béarn):

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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