otter

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English

Wikipedia

otter (1)

Etymology 1

From Old English oter, from Proto-Germanic *utraz, from Proto-Indo-European *udrós (“water-animal, otter”), from *wed- (“water”). Cognate with Old High German ottar, Old Church Slavonic ⰲⱏⰺⰴⱃⰰ (vydra), and Ancient Greek ὕδρα (hydra, “water snake”). More etymology under English water.

Pronunciation

• (RP) IPA: /ˈɒt.ə/
• (US) IPA: /ˈɑtɚ/
• Rhymes: -ɒtə(ɹ)

Noun

otter (plural otters)

1. Any aquatic or marine carnivorous mammal, member of the family Mustelidae, which also includes weasels, polecats, badgers, and others.
2. (gay slang) A hairy man with a slender physique, in contrast with a bear, who is more broadly set

Derived terms

• otterless
• otterlike
• sea otter

Translations

mammal

• Albanian: lundërz (sq) f
• Algonquin: nigig
• Arabic: ثعلب الماء (ar) (táʿlab al-māʾ) m
• Armenian: ջրասամույր (hy) (ǰrasamuyr)
• Azeri: susamuru (az)
• Basque: igaraba (eu), urtxakur (eu)
• Bau Bidayuh: biron
• Belarusian: выдра (be) (výdra) f
• Breton: dourgi (br) m
• Bulgarian: видра (bg) (vídra) f
• Burmese: ဖျံ (my) (hpyan)
• Catalan: llúdria (ca) f, llúdriga (ca) f
• Central Melanau: dengen
• Cherokee: ᏥᏯ (chr) (tsiya)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 水獺 (cmn), 水獭 (cmn) (shuǐtǎ)

• Czech: vydra (cs) f
• Danish: odder (da) c
• Dutch: otter (nl) m
• Esperanto: lutro (eo)
• Estonian: saarmas (et)
• Faroese: otur (fo)
• Finnish: saukko (fi)
• French: loutre (fr) f
• Friulian: lodre (fur)
• Galician: lontra (gl), londra (gl)
• Georgian: წავი (ka) (cavi)
• German: Otter (de) m
• Greek: βίδρα (el) (vídra) f
• Hindi: ऊदबिलाव (hi) (ūd-bilāv) m
• Hungarian: vidra (hu)
• Icelandic: otur (is) m
• Ido: lutro (io)
• Indonesian: linsang (id)
• Irish: dobharchú (ga) m, madra uisce (ga) m, dobhrán (ga) m, cú dobhráin (ga) m

  Old Irish: doburchú f

• Italian: lontra (it) f
• Japanese: (freshwater) 獺 (ja) (かわうそ, kawauso), 川獺 (ja) (かわうそ, kawauso), カワウソ (ja) (kawauso), (marine) 海獺 (ja) (らっこ, rakko), ラッコ (ja) (rakko)
• Korean: 수달 (ko) (sudal)
• Ladin: lontra
• Latgalian: iudrys m
• Latin: lutra (la) f
• Latvian: ūdrs (lv) m

• Lithuanian: ūdra (lt) f
• Macedonian: видра (mk) (vídra) f
• Malay:

  Rumi: anjing air (ms), berang-berang (ms)

  Jawi: انجيڠ اءير (ms), برڠ٢ (ms)

• Maltese: lutra (mt)
• Manx: dooarchoo (gv) m, moddey ushtey (gv) m
• Navajo: tábąąstíín
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: oter (nb) m

  Nynorsk: oter (nn) m

• Occitan: loira (oc) f
• Old English: otor (ang) m
• Ossetian:

  Digor: урдæ (urdæ)

  Iron: уырд (uyrd)

• Polish: wydra (pl) f
• Portuguese: lontra (pt)
• Romanian: lutră (ro) f, vidră (ro) f
• Romansch: ludra (rm) f
• Russian: выдра (ru) (výdra) f
• Sami: čeavrris
• Sardinian: lontra (sc)
• Scottish Gaelic: dòbhran (gd) m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ви̏дра (sh) f

  Roman: vȉdra (sh) f

• Slovak: vydra (sk) f
• Slovene: vidra (sl) f
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: wudra f

  Upper Sorbian: wudra (hsb) f

• Spanish: nutria (es) f, lutria (es) f
• Swedish: utter (sv) c
• Tagal Murut: tilung
• Turkish: su samuru (tr), lutr (tr)
• Ukrainian: видра (uk) (výdra) f
• Urdu: اودبلاؤ (ur) (ūd-bilā'o) m
• Volapük: lutar (vo)
• Walloon: lote (wa)
• Welsh: dyfrgi (cy)
• West Coast Bajau: dongor, embirud
• West Frisian: fiskotter (fy)

hairy man

• Japanese: 熊 (ja) (くま, kuma)

• Turkish: (literally "bear") ayı (tr)

Etymology 2

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Noun

otter (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) Annatto.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.

Anagrams

• torte

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Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch otter, from Old Dutch ottar, from Proto-Germanic *utraz, from Proto-Indo-European *udrós (“water-animal, otter”), from *wed- (“water”).

Pronunciation

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Noun

otter m (plural otters, diminutive ottertje)

1. otter