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He is called Thaddäus Tentakel in German or Bläckvard Tentakel in Swedish.

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Squiduid Tentacles (Hebrew), just because names that end with -ward are kinda goofy sounding in our language.

[–] CuraVonAux@lemmy.zip 8 points 1 day ago

Squidward (Indonesian)

[–] alexandr08@lemmy.ml 25 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Calamardo in LATAM Spanish

[–] wuphysics87@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 days ago
[–] DrBob@lemmy.ca 27 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] TargaryenTKE@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Damn you were faster than me

[–] DrBob@lemmy.ca 8 points 2 days ago

It's your language too. You can still answer.

[–] jayrar@lemy.lol 2 points 1 day ago

Carlo tentacule in French

[–] mr_anny@sopuli.xyz 26 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Jalmari Kalmari in Finnish.

Kalmari means squid.

...and Jalmari is a common Finnish male name.

[–] _g_be@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

This one is fun to say.

Calamari exists on English too, I wonder where it is borrowed from

[–] FreeAZ@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Calamari is Italian for squid. We just call the food calamari in English but it's just ripped from Italian, not really an English word.

[–] lagoon8622@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago

Every language has loanwords, and they become part of that language when enough people use them.

[–] helix@feddit.org 15 points 2 days ago

Thaddäus Tentakel (German).

[–] lzs_jinxin@lemmy.world 19 points 2 days ago (1 children)

He is called shafiq(شفيق) in Arabic.

[–] doomsdayrs@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago

BWHAHAH Shafiq fits him so much

[–] ZeroHora@lemmy.ml 16 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] grranibal@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 day ago

Squidward in pt-pt

[–] Freakazoid@lemmy.ml 16 points 2 days ago

Octo in Dutch

[–] mushroommunk@lemmy.today 14 points 2 days ago

Sulwyn Surbwch in Welsh

[–] Limfjorden@feddit.dk 11 points 2 days ago

In Danish it's the same as in Swedish: Blækvard Tentakel

[–] Vitaly@feddit.uk 6 points 2 days ago

Сквідвард щупальця(squidwars tentacles)

[–] NahMarcas@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 day ago

Culomardo (peninsular spanish)