jackal

English

A jackal (1)

Etymology

From Turkish çakal, from Persian شغال (šağâl), from Sanskrit सृगाल (sṛgālá, “jackal”)

Pronunciation

Wikipedia

• X-SAMPA: /'dZ{k@l/

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -ækəl

Noun

jackal (plural jackals)

1. Any of several wild canine species, native to the tropical Old World, smaller than a wolf.
2. A person who performs menial/routine tasks, dogsbody
3. (pejorative) A person who behaves in an opportunistic way; especially a base collaborator.
4. (slang, rare) A jack (the playing card.)

Hyponyms

• black-backed jackal
  • Cape jackal
  • East African Jackal
• golden jackal
• side-striped jackal

Hypernyms

• canid

Related terms

• American jackal (the coyote)
• simian jackal (the Ethiopian Wolf)

Translations

wild canine

• Albanian: çakall (sq) m
• Arabic: واوي (ar) (waawiy) m
• Aramaic:

  Syriac: ܝܪܘܪܐ (yārōrā’) f

  Hebrew: ירורא (yārōrā’) f

• Armenian: շնագայլ (hy) (šnagayl)
• Azeri: çaqqal (az)
• Basque: txakal (eu)
• Catalan: xacal (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 胡狼 (cmn) (húláng), 狐狼 (cmn) (húláng), 豺狼 (cmn) (cháiláng)

• Czech: šakal (cs) m
• Dutch: jakhals (nl) m
• Esperanto: ŝakalo (eo)
• Finnish: sakaali (fi)
• French: chacal (fr) m
• Galician: chacal (gl) m
• Georgian: ტურა (ka) (tura)
• German: Schakal (de) m
• Greek:

  Ancient: θώς m and f, λυκοπάνθηρ m

  Modern: τσακάλι (el) (tsakáli) n

• Hindi: सियार (hi) (siyār) m
• Hungarian: sakál (hu)
• Italian: sciacallo (it)
• Japanese: ジャッカル (ja) (jakkaru)

• Kurdish:

  Sorani: چه‌قه‌ڵ

• Latin: canis aureus m
• Latvian: šakālis (lv) m
• Lithuanian: šakalas (lt) m
• Macedonian: чакал (mk) (čákal) m
• Malagasy: sagaly (mg)
• Malay:

  Rumi: jakal (ms)

  Jawi: جاکل (ms)

• Manx: coo conveyrt (gv) m
• Persian: شغال (fa) (šoğâl)
• Polish: szakal (pl) m
• Portuguese: chacal (pt) m
• Russian: шакал (ru) (šakál) m
• Spanish: chacal (es) m
• Swedish: schakal (sv) c, sjakal (sv) c
• Telugu: నక్క (te) (nakka)
• Turkish: çakal (tr)
• Volapük: (male or female) jakal (vo), (male) hijakal (vo), (female) jijakal (vo), (male or female offspring, young) jakalül (vo), (male offspring, young) hijakalül (vo), (female offspring, young) jijakalül (vo)
• Wolof: till gi (wo)
• Yiddish: שאַקאַל (yi) (shakal) m
• Zulu: impungushe (zu)

person who performs menial/routine tasks

• Macedonian: аргат (mk) (árgat) m

person who behaves in an opportunistic way

• Albanian: çakall (sq) m, çakalle (sq) f
• Finnish: liero (fi)
• Greek: τσακάλι (el) (tsakáli) n

• Italian: sciacallo (it)
• Turkish: çakal (tr)

slang for the playing card jack

• Dutch: boer (nl) m

• Italian: fante (it)

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• Swahili: mbweha

See also

• (canids) canid; coyote, dog, fox, jackal, wolf ^{(Category: en:Canids)}

References

• Weisenberg, Michael (2000) The Official Dictionary of Poker. MGI/Mike Caro University. ISBN 978-1880069523

Verb

jackal (third-person singular simple present jackals, present participle jackalling, simple past and past participle jackalled)

1. To perform menial or routine tasks
   • 1800, Pamphlets on British Taxation^[1]:

     They have jackalled for the great beast, to pick in turns the bones of each other; they have subserved those above, to oppress and defraud those below; and they are suffering, and, so far as classes can, justly suffering their purgation.