abominable snowman

English

Etymology

First attested in 1921. Calque of Tibetan མི་སྡུག་གངས་མི (mi sdug gangs mi), from མི་སྡུག (mi sdug, “repulsive, unlovely, ugly, hideous”) and གངས་མི (gangs mi, “snowman”).

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /əˈbɑm.ə.nə.bl̩ ˈsnoʊ.mæn/, /əˈbɑm.nə.bl̩ ˈsnoʊ.mæn/

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Noun

abominable snowman (plural abominable snowmen)

1. (cryptozoology, often capitalized) A humanoid or apelike animal said to exist in the Himalayas.

Synonyms

• yeti

Translations

humanoid or apelike animal said to exist in the Himalayas

• Bulgarian: йети m (jeti)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 雪人 (zh) (xuěrén)

• Dutch: verschrikkelijke sneeuwman m, yeti (nl) m
• Esperanto: jetio
• Finnish: lumimies (fi)
• French: abominable homme des neiges (fr) m, yéti (fr) m
• German: Yeti (de) m, Schneemensch (de) m
• Hungarian: jeti (hu)
• Icelandic: snjómaður m
• Italian: abominevole uomo delle nevi m
• Japanese: 雪男 (ゆきおとこ, yukiotoko), イエティ (ieti)
• Polish: człowiek śniegu (pl) m
• Portuguese: abominável homem das neves m
• Romanian: omul zăpezilor m
• Russian: сне́жный челове́к (ru) m (snéžnyj čelovék), йе́ти (ru) m (jjéti)
• Serbo-Croatian: strašni snježni čovjek, jeti (sh) m
• Spanish: abominable hombre de las nieves m
• Yakut: чучунаа (cucunaa)

See also

• Bigfoot
• menk
• sasquatch
• yeti
• yowie