mammouth
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French
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Russian ма́монт (mámont), from Uralic.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]mammouth m (plural mammouths)
- mammoth (extinct elephant-like mammal)
- Hyponym: mastodonte
- (figuratively) mammoth (something very large)
- Synonym: mastodonte
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- → German: Mammut
- → Hungarian: mamut
- → Portuguese: mamute
- → Spanish: mamut
- → Persian: ماموت (mâmut)
- → Italian: mammut
- → Romanian: mamut
- → Turkish: mamut
- → Vietnamese: ma mút
Further reading
[edit]- “mammouth”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.