Noun: narval
Gender: m
Hyphenation: nar‧val
| Singular m | narval |
| Plural m | narvales |
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like narval
ionizador,
serbal,
serial,
serpol,
serval,
depurador,
sector,
sentir,
sensor,
senior,
sauzal,
sartal,
safrol,
santol,
saibey,
salmer,
urunday,
definidor,
cristóbal,
superconductor, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Danish and Norwegian narhval, based on Old Norse nár "corpse" + hvalr "whale", likely because of the pale color of the narwhal's skin (compare Icelandic and Faroese náhvalur). See: Old Norse Nouns '
nár', Faroese Nouns '
náhvalur'.
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