stingray - Wiktionary, the free dictionary (original) (raw)

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Ocellate river stingray (Potamotrygon motoro)

From sting +‎ ray.

• IPA(key): /ˈstɪŋˌɹeɪ/

stingray (plural stingrays)

1. Any of various large, venomous rays, of the orders Rajiformes and Myliobatiformes, having a barbed, whiplike tail.
   Synonym: stingaree
2. (US law enforcement) A device that simulates a cell tower, used to intercept cell phone communications.
   Synonym: IMSI catcher
   • 2014, Catherine Nolan; Ashley M. Wilson, JD, The Audacity to Spy: How Government, Business, and Hackers Rob Us of Privacy, Technics Publications, →ISBN, page 74:
     The device mimics a cell phone tower and gets the phone to connect to it. […] Once a signal is found, the stingray measures its strength and can provide a general location on the map.

• whiptail stingray

venomous ray of the orders Rajiformes and Myliobatiformes

• Arabic: سَمَكَة رَاي لَاسِع f (samakat rāy lāsiʕ), سْتِينْغْرَي m (stīnḡray)

• Baluchi: پٹن (piťťin)

• Breton: please add this translation if you can

• Catalan: please add this translation if you can

• Chinese:
  Cantonese: please add this translation if you can
  Hakka: please add this translation if you can
  Hokkien: please add this translation if you can
  Mandarin: 魟魚 / 𫚉鱼 (zh) (hóngyú), 黃貂魚 / 黄貂鱼 (zh) (huángdiāoyú)

• Czech: rejnok (cs)

• Danish: pilrokke

• Dutch: pijlstaartrog (nl) m

• Esperanto: rajo

• Estonian: astelrai

• Faroese: stingskøta f

• Finnish: suurrausku, keihäsrauskut

• French: raie à aiguillon (fr) f, pastenague (fr) f

• Galician: estinga f, raia estriga f, uxa f

• Georgian: სკაროსი (sḳarosi)

• German: Stachelrochen (de) m

• Greek:
  Ancient Greek: νάρκη f (nárkē)

• Hungarian: tüskésrájafélék, mérges rája

• Icelandic: stingskötur f

• Indonesian: ikan pari (id)

• Iranun: pagi

• Irish: roc ga nimhe m

• Italian: razza (it) f, pastinaca (it) f

• Japanese: 赤鱝 (ja), 赤鱏 (ja) (アカエイ, akaei)

• Korean: 가오리 (ko) (gaori)

• Lao: please add this translation if you can

• Latin: trȳgōn m

• Malay: ikan pari

• Māori: whai

• Marshallese: boraan̄

• Norman: têgrêsse f, raie à didget f

• Norwegian:
  Bokmål: piggrokke (no) m or f

• Portuguese: arraia/raia venenosa f, uje (pt), uja, xuxo (pt), peixe-rato, ratão (pt)

• Pukapukan: wai

• Romanian: pisică de mare f

• Russian: хвостоко́л (ru) m (xvostokól), морско́й кот (ru) m (morskój kot) , скат (ru) m (skat)

• Satawalese: nifoaro

• Serbo-Croatian:
  Latin: žutulja (sh) f

• Spanish: pastinaca (es) f

• Sranan Tongo: spari

• Swedish: spjutrocka (sv) c

• Tagalog: pagi (tl)

• Tamil: please add this translation if you can

• Thai: ปลากระเบนธง (bplaa grà bayn tong)

• Turkish: vatoz (tr)

• Vietnamese: cá đuối ó

• Woiwurrung: barbewor

• (cell phone): IMSI

• stingray on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• straying