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Red Squirrel doing push-ups.
[edit] Etymology
From Anglo-Norman esquirel, from Old French escurel (whence French écureuil), from Vulgar Latin scuriolus, diminutive of scurius, variant of Latin sciurus, from Ancient Greek σκίουρος (skiouros).
[edit] Pronunciation
squirrel (plural squirrels)
- Any of the rodents of the family Sciuridae distinguished by their large bushy tail.
- (often disparaging) (Scientology) A freezoner or other who fails to apply L Ron Hubbard's technology as is considered appropriate. [1] [2]
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[edit] Translations
rodent
- Albanian: ketër (sq) m.
- Arabic: سنجاب (ar) (sinjāb) m.
- Armenian: սկյուռ (hy) (skyuṙ)
- Old Armenian: սկիւռ (skiwṙ)
- Bashkir: тейен (teyen)
- Basque: katagorri, urtxintxa (eu)
- Belarusian: вавёрка (be) (vavjórka) f.
- Breton: gwiñver (br) m., kaz-koad (br) m.
- Bulgarian: катерица (bg) (katerica) f.
- Cantabrian: esquilu m.
- Catalan: esquirol m.
- Cherokee: ᏌᎳᎵ (salali)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 松鼠 (cmn) (sōngshǔ), 松鼠 (cmn) (huīshǔ), 栗鼠 (cmn) (lìshǔ)
- Chuvash: пакша (pakşa)
- Croatian: vjeverica (hr) m.
- Czech: veverka (cs) f.
- Danish: egern (da) n.
- Dolgan: тииҥ (tiiñ)
- Dutch: eekhoorn (nl) m.
- Erzya: ур (ur)
- Esperanto: sciuro (eo)
- Estonian: orav (et)
- Faroese: íkorni (fo) m.
- Finnish: orava (fi)
- French: écureuil (fr) m.
- Friulian: sghirat m., sghirate
- Galician: esquío (gl) m.
- Georgian: ციყვი (ka) (c'iqvi)
- German: Eichhörnchen (de) n., Hörnchen (de) n.
- Greek: σκίουρος (el) (skíouros) m.
- Hebrew: סנאי (he) (snai) m.
- Hopi: sakuna
- Hungarian: mókus (hu)
- Icelandic: íkorni (is) m.
- Indonesian: bajing (id)
- Interlingua: sciuro (ia), scuriolo (ia)
- Irish: iora (ga) m., madra crainn (ga) m.
- Isthmus Zapotec: chisa
- Italian: scoiattolo (it) m.
- Japanese: 栗鼠 (ja) (りす, risu)
- Karachay-Balkar: эрлен (erlen), (karachay) агъач къоян (ağaç qoyan), (obsolete) тыйын (tıyın)
- Kazakh: тиін (kk) (tiïn)
- Khakas: тиин (tiin)
- Khmer: កំប្រុក (km) (kɑmprok)
- Korean: 다람쥐 (ko) (daramjwi)
- Kumyk: атъялман (atyalman)
- Kurdish: سیمۆره
- Kyrgyz: тыйын чычкан (ky) (tıyın çıçqan)
- Ladin: schirata f.
- Latin: sciurus (la) m.
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- Latvian: vāvere (lv) f.
- Lithuanian: voverė (lt) f.
- Lojban: ricyratcu (jbo)
- Lower Sorbian: njewjericka f.
- Luxembourgish: Kaweechelchen (lb)
- Macedonian: верверица (mk) (vervérica) f.
- Maltese: skwiril (mt) m.
- Navajo: tseekʼinástánii
- Norwegian: ekorn (no) n.
- Occitan: esquiròl (oc) m.
- Old English: ācweorna (ang) m.
- Old Norse: íkorni m.
- Polish: wiewiórka (pl) f.
- Portuguese: esquilo (pt) m.
- Powhatan: messanik
- Romani: viaveritsa f.
- Romanian: veveriță (ro) f.
- Romansch: stgilat m.
- Russian: белка (ru) (bélka) f.
- Sami: oarri
- Sardinian: schirrittu m., schirrimatta f., iscojàttulu m.
- Scottish Gaelic: feòrag (gd)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: (Ekavian) ве̏верица (sh) f., (Ijekavian) вје̏верица (sh) f.
- Roman: (Ekavian) vȅverica (sh) f., (Ijekavian) vjȅverica (sh) f.
- Shor: тииң (tiiñ)
- Slovak: veverica (sk) f.
- Slovene: veverica (sl) f.
- Southern Altai: тийиҥ (tiyiñ)
- Spanish: ardilla (es) f.
- Swahili: kindi (nc 9/10)
- Swedish: ekorre (sv) c.
- Taos: c’ùwala’ána
- Tatar: tien (tt)
- Telugu: ఉడుత (uDuta)
- Turkish: sincap (tr)
- Tuvan: дииң (diiñ)
- Ukrainian: білка (uk) (bílka) f.
- Upper Sorbian: wjewjerčka f.
- Uyghur: تىيىن (ug) (tiyin)
- Uzbek: olmaxon (uz)
- Venetian: schirat
- Vilamovian: achkienła
- Volapük: (♂♀) yat (vo), (♂) hiyat (vo), (♀) jiyat (vo), (♂♀ offspring, young) yatül (vo), (♂ offspring, young) hiyatül (vo), (♀ offspring, young) jiyatül (vo)
- Welsh: gwiwer f.
- West Frisian: iikhoarntsje n.
- Wolof: jaar ji (wo)
- Yakut: тииҥ (tiiñ)
- Yiddish: וועוורקע (yi) (veverke) f., וועווריק (yi) (vevrik) m.
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[edit] Derived terms
squirrel (third-person singular simple present squirrels, present participle squirreling, simple past and past participle squirreled)
- with "away": To hoard in a hidden place, by analogy to squirrels' habit of hoarding nuts.
- with "around": To move or search erratically, especially as if hurried or confused.
- My mother warned me not to squirrel around in my dad's workshop.
[edit] Usage notes
The participles with a double 'l' (squirrelling and squirrelled) are less common, but supported by the OED for UK usage.
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