dhole

See also: d-hole

English

a dhole

Etymology

Unknown, possibly from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Kannada ತೋಳ (tōḷa, “wolf”).

Pronunciation

• (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) IPA^(key): /doʊl/

Noun

dhole (plural dholes or dhole)

1. An Asian wild dog, Cuon alpinus.
   • 1895, Rudyard Kipling, Red Dog

     Mowgli's wanderings had taken him to the edge of the high grassy downs of the Dekkan, and he had seen the fearless dholes sleeping and playing and scratching themselves in the little hollows and tussocks that they use for lairs.

   • 2001, Marshall Cavendish Corporation, "'Dhole", in Endangered Wildlife and Plants of the World, page 451,

     This whistling, a means of communication for a pack of dhole regrouping after an unsuccessful hunt, inspired the other common name of this species—the whistling dog.

Synonyms

• (Cuon alpinus): Asian wild dog, Indian wild dog, whistling dog, red wolf, red dog, mountain wolf, kholsun

Translations

Asian wild dog

• Assamese: ৰাং কুকুৰ (raṅ kukur)
• Bengali: [script needed] (bon-kutta), [script needed] (bon-kukur)
• Burmese: တောခွေး (my) (tau:hkwe:)
• Buryat: зурби (zurbi)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 豺 (zh) (chái), 豺狼 (zh) (cháiláng), 豺蜀 (cháishǔ)

• Dzongkha: [script needed] (phara)
• Erzya: пандоверьгиз (pandoveŕgiz)
• Esperanto: kuono
• Finnish: vuorisusi, aasianvillikoira
• French: dhole (fr) m or f
• German: Rothund m
• Gondi: eram-naiko
• Gujarati: કુત્ર (kutra)
• Hindi: [script needed] (adivi-kutta), [script needed] (son-kuta), [script needed] (sona-kutta), [script needed] (rasa-kutta)
• Indonesian: ajak (id)
• Italian: cuon alpino
• Japanese: ドール (ja) (dōru)
• Javanese: asu alas
• Kannada: [script needed] (kadu nai), [script needed] (korku), [script needed] (bun-seeta), ಕೆನ್ನಾಯಿ (kn) (kennāyi)
• Kashmiri: [script needed] (jangli-kuta), [script needed] (ram-hun), [script needed] (ban-kuta), [script needed] (bhansa)
• Kazakh: чуе (çue)
• Khmer: ឆ្កែចចក (chkae cɑcɑɑk), ឆ្កែព្រៃ (km) (chkae prɨy), ចចក (km) (cɑcɑɑk)
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• Korean: 승냥이 (ko) (seungnyang'i)
• Lao: ໝາໃນ (mā nai)
• Lepcha: [script needed] (sa-tun)
• Lü: please add this translation if you can
• Malay: anjing hutan

  Jawi: انجيڠ هوتن

• Malayalam: [script needed] (vatai-karau)
• Manchu: please add this translation if you can
• Marathi: [script needed] (kolsun), [script needed] (kolasna), [script needed] (kolasra), [script needed] (kolsa)
• Meitei: [script needed] (huithou)
• Mongolian: дшергул (dšergul)
• Navajo: Náátsʼózídę́ę́ʼ mąʼiiłchííʼ
• Nepali: please add this translation if you can
• Nivkh: чорамлач (ț’oramlaț’)
• Oriya: [script needed] (balia kukura)
• Polish: cyjon (pl) m
• Russian: кра́сный волк m (krásnyj volk), ди́кая соба́ка m (díkaja sobáka)
• Shan: please add this translation if you can
• Spanish: cuón m
• Tamil: செந்நாய் (cennāy)
• Telugu: రేచు కుక్క (rēcu kukka), [script needed] (reza-kutta), అడవి కుక్క (aḍavi kukka)
• Thai: หมาใน (th) (mǎa-nai)
• Tibetan: please add this translation if you can
• Tungus: дергил (dzergil)
• Urdu: [script needed] (jangli kutta)
• Vietnamese: chó rừng, chó sói lửa

Further reading

• dhole on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Cuon alpinus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Category:Cuon alpinus on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Anagrams

• Hodel, holde, holed