English [edit]
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Etymology [edit]
From Old French cocodril (modern crocodile), from Medieval Latin cocodrillus, from Latin crocodilus, from Ancient Greek κροκόδειλος (krokodeilos). The word was later refashioned after the Latin and Greek forms.
Pronunciation [edit]
crocodile (plural crocodiles)
- Any of a variety of related predatory amphibious reptiles, related to the alligator.
- A long line or procession of people (especially children) walking together.
- 1939, George Orwell, Coming Up for Air, part 2, chapter 8
- Sometimes the kids from the slap-up boys' schools in Eastbourne used to be led round in crocodiles to hand out fags and peppermint creams to the 'wounded Tommies', as they called us.
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Translations [edit]
reptile
- Acehnese: buya
- Afrikaans: krokodil (af)
- Albanian: krokodili (sq)
- Arabic: تمساح (ar) (timsāḥ) m (plural: تماسيح (ar) (tamāsīḥ) m pl)
- Egyptian Arabic: تمساح (temsaaḥ) m
- Armenian: կոկորդիլոս (hy) (kokordilos)
- Asturian: cocodrilu (ast) m
- Azeri: timsah (az)
- Basque: krokodilo (eu)
- Belarusian: кракадзіл (be) (krakadzíl) m
- Bemba: íñ-ñandú
- Bengali: কুমীর (bn) (kumir)
- Breton: krokodil (br) m
- Bulgarian: крокодил (bg) (krokodíl) m
- Burmese: မိကျောင်း (my) (mi. gjaun:)
- Catalan: cocodril (ca) m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 鰐 (cmn) (è)
- Cantonese: 鱷 (ngōg6)
- Czech: krokodýl (cs) m
- Danish: krokodille (da) c
- Dutch: krokodil (nl)
- Egyptian: dpy
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- Esperanto: (♂♀) krokodilo (eo), (♂) virkrokodilo (eo)(♀) krokodilino (eo), (♂♀ offspring) krokodilido (eo), (♂ offspring) virkrokodilido (eo), (♀ offspring) krokodilidino (eo)
- Estonian: krokodill (et)
- Faroese: krokodilla (fo) f
- Finnish: krokotiili (fi), krokodiili (fi) (old)
- French: crocodile (fr) m
- Old French: cocodril m
- Galician: crocodilo (gl) m
- Georgian: ნიანგი (ka) (niangi), ნიანგი (ka) (niangi)
- German: Krokodil (de) n
- Greek: κροκόδειλος (el) (krokódeilos) m
- Guaraní: jakare (gn)
- Hebrew: תַּנִּין (he) (tanín) m
- Hindi: मगर (hi) (magar) m, घड़ियाल (hi) (ghaṛiyāl) m
- Hungarian: krokodil (hu)
- Icelandic: krókódíll (is) m
- Ido: (♂♀) krokodilo (io), (♂) krokodilulo (io)(♀) krokodilino (io), (♂♀ offspring) krokodilyuno (io), (♂ offspring) krokodilyunulo (io), (♀ offspring) krokodilyunino (io)
- Indonesian: buaya (id)
- Interlingua: crocodilo (ia)
- Irish: crogall (ga) m
- Italian: coccodrillo (it) m
- Japanese: 鰐 (ja) (わに, wani), ワニ (ja) (wani)
- Javanese: baya (jv)
- Karachay-Balkar: (Karachay) сарыубек (sarıubek), (Balkar) сарыуек (sarıuek)
- Kazakh: қолтырауын (kk) (qoltırawın)
- Khmer: ក្រពើ (km) (grabpeu)
- Korean: 악어 (ko) (ageo)
- Kuna: tain
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- Kurdish: neheng (ku)
- Kyrgyz: крокодил (ky) (krokodil)
- Lao: ແຂ້ (lo) (kʰɛ̏ː)
- Latin: crocodilus (la) m, corcodillus (la) m
- Latvian: krokodils (lv) m
- Lithuanian: krokodilas (lt) m
- Luo: nyang'
- Macedonian: крокодил (mk) (krókodil) m
- Malay: buaya (ms)
- Maltese: kukkudrill (mt) m
- Meru: king'ang'i
- Minangkabau: buayo
- Navajo: táłkááʼ tsʼin
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: krokodille (nb) m and f
- Nynorsk: krokodille (nn) m and f
- Occitan: crocodil (oc) m
- Pali: suṃsumāra (pi) m
- Persian: تمساح (fa) (temsâh), کروکودیل (fa) (krokodil)
- Polish: krokodyl (pl) m
- Portuguese: crocodilo (pt) m
- Romanian: crocodil (ro)
- Russian: крокодил (ru) (krokodíl) m
- Scottish Gaelic: crogall (gd) m
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: крокодил (sh) m
- Roman: krokodil (sh) m
- Slovak: krokodíl (sk) m
- Slovene: krokodílovité (sl)
- Spanish: cocodrilo (es) m
- Sundanese: buhaya (su)
- Swahili: mamba (sw)
- Swedish: krokodil (sv) c
- Tagalog: buwaya (tl)
- Tajik: тимсоҳ (tg) (timsoh), крокодил (tg) (krokodil)
- Tamil: முதலை (ta) (mudalai)
- Telugu: మొసలి (te) (mosali)
- Tetum: lafaek
- Thai: จระเข้ (th) (jor rá kây)
- Tok Pisin: pukpuk (tpi)
- Tswana: kwena (tn) 9/10
- Turkish: timsah (tr)
- Turkmen: krokodil (tk)
- Ukrainian: крокодил (uk) (krokodýl) m
- Urdu: مگر (ur) (magar) m, گھڑیال (ur) (ghaṛiyāl) m
- Uzbek: timsoh (uz)
- Vietnamese: cá sấu (vi)
- Volapük: (♂♀) krokod (vo), (♂) hikrokod (vo), (♀) jikrokod (vo), (♂♀ offspring) krokodül (vo), (♂ offspring) hikrokodül (vo), (♀ offspring) jikrokodül (vo), (obsolete) klokod (vo), (obsolete) neilaf (vo)
- Welsh: crocodeil (cy) m
- Wolof: jasig ji (wo)
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See also [edit]
French [edit]
Etymology [edit]
From Old French cocodril, from Medieval Latin cocodrillus, from Classical Latin crocodilus, from Ancient Greek κροκόδειλος (krokodeilos). The word was later refashioned after the Latin and Greek forms.
Pronunciation [edit]
crocodile m (plural crocodiles)
- crocodile
Jèrriais [edit]
Etymology [edit]
From Old French cocodril, from Medieval Latin cocodrillus, from Classical Latin crocodilus, from Ancient Greek κροκόδειλος (krokodeilos). The word was later refashioned after the Latin and Greek forms.
crocodile f (plural crocodiles)
- crocodile
