marmot

English

Wikipedia

Marmota caligata

Etymology

From Middle French marmote, from Old French marmotaine, marmontaine, murmontain, from Old Franco-Provençal marmotan, Vulgar Latin mures montani, from Latin mus monti 'mountain rat', from Classical Latin mus alpini; akin to Romansch (Engadine) murmont, Old High German muremunto, German dialectal Murmentel, standard Murmeltier.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈmɑrmət/, X-SAMPA: /"mArm@t/
• Hyphenation: mar‧mot

Noun

marmot (plural marmots)

1. Any of several large ground-dwelling rodents of the genera Marmota and Cynomys in the squirrel family.

Derived terms

marmot

Alaska marmot alpine marmot black-capped marmot bobak marmot gray marmot

Himalayan marmot hoary marmot long-tailed marmot Menzbier's marmot

olympic marmot tarbagan marmot Vancouver marmot yellow-bellied marmot

Translations

rodent of the genera Marmota

• Albanian: marmota (sq)
• Armenian: արջամուկ (hy) (arǰamuk)
• Basque: marmota (eu)
• Belarusian: сурок (be) (surok)
• Breton: moregan an alpoù (br)
• Bulgarian: мармот (bg) (marmot)
• Catalan: marmota (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 旱獺 (cmn), 旱獭 (cmn) (hàntǎ), 土撥鼠 (cmn), 土拨鼠 (cmn) (tǔbōshǔ)

• Czech: svišť (cs) m
• Danish: murmeldyr (da)
• Dutch: marmot (nl)
• Esperanto: marmoto (eo)
• Estonian: ümiseja (et)
• Faroese: múrmildýr (fo)
• Finnish: murmeli (fi)
• French: marmotte (fr) f
• Friulian: marmote
• Galician: marmota (gl)
• German: Murmeltier (de) n
• Greek: μαρμότα (el) (marmóta) f
• Hungarian: mormota (hu)
• Icelandic: múrmeldýr (is)
• Irish: marmat (ga)
• Italian: marmotta (it)
• Japanese: マーモット (ja) (māmotto)
• Korean: 마멋 (ko) (mameot)
• Ladin: marmota

• Latvian: murkšķis (lv)
• Lithuanian: švilpikas (lt)
• Lower Sorbian: boback
• Macedonian: мрмот (mk) (mrmot)
• Maltese: far il-ġebel (mt)
• Mongolian: тарвага (mn) (tarwaga)
• Navajo: dilchaʼ
• Norwegian: murmeldyr (no)
• Occitan: marmòta (oc), muret (oc)
• Polish: świstak (pl), świszcz (pl) m
• Portuguese: marmota (pt)
• Romanian: marmota (ro)
• Romansch: muntanella (rm)
• Russian: сурок (ru) (surók) m
• Sami: murmel, murmelealli
• Sardinian: marmotta (sc), drummiccioni (sc)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: свизац (sh) m, свизавац (sh) m, мрмот (sh) m

  Roman: svizac (sh) m, svizavac (sh) m, mrmot (sh) m

• Slovak: svišť (sk)
• Slovene: svizec (sl) m
• Spanish: marmota (es) f
• Swedish: murmeldjur (sv)
• Turkish: dağ sıçanı (tr)
• Ukrainian: бабак (uk) (babak)
• Upper Sorbian: bobak (hsb)
• Welsh: twrlla (cy), marmot
• West Frisian: bargemot (fy), marmot

See also

• groundhog
• woodchuck

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French

Etymology

Probably from marmotter.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /maʁmo/

Noun

marmot m (plural marmots)

1. (colloquial) kid, brat

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Jèrriais

Etymology

From French marmot.

Noun

marmot m (plural marmots)

1. brat