Whelk in Hindi
Meaning, Devanagari spelling and pronunciation
The meaning of “whelk” in Hindi is खाद्य शंखमीन, pronounced khady shanakhamin — it is a noun. Copy the Devanagari word above, hear how it is pronounced, and use it anywhere. To type words like this yourself, try our Hindi typing tool, or explore more words in the vocabulary sets.
large carnivorous marine gastropods of coastal waters and intertidal regions having a strong snail-like shell
From Middle English whelke, a variant of welk, from Old English weoloc, wiloc, wioloc, weluc, from Proto-West Germanic *weluk (compare Middle Dutch willoc, Dutch wulk), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *welH- (“to turn, revolve”) (whence vulva and volute). Unetymological spelling with wh- from the 15th century.
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