agouti

English

Etymology

From French agouti or Spanish agutí, both from Old Tupi akuti and other Tupian languages. The name of the acouchi is probably from the same source.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /əˈɡuːti/
• Rhymes: -uːti

Noun

agouti (plural agoutis)

1. A rodent similar in appearance to a guinea pig but having longer legs, of the genus Dasyprocta.
2. A fur containing a pattern of pigmentation in which individual hairs have several bands of light and dark pigment with black tips; any of several genes responsible for this pigmentation.

Translations

a rodent similar in appearance to a guinea pig but having longer legs

• Afrikaans: agoeti, goudhaas
• Catalan: agutí m
• Chayahuita: ipi
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 刺豚鼠 (cìtún shǔ)

• Dutch: agoeti (nl)
• Esperanto: agutio
• Finnish: aguti (fi)
• French: agouti (fr)
• Georgian: აგუტი (aguṭi)
• German: Aguti (de)
• Guaraní: akuti
• Hebrew: אגוטי
• Italian: aguti (it)
• Korean: 아구티 (aguti)
• Lithuanian: agutis m, tikrieji agučiai
• Mbyá Guaraní: akuxi
• Old Tupi: akuti
• Persian: کم‌گوش (kam-guš)
• Polish: aguti złocisty
• Portuguese: cutia (pt) f
• Quechua: chiwayru
• Romanian: aguti (ro) m
• Russian: агу́ти (ru) m (agúti)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: агути

  Roman: aguti (sh)

• Spanish: agutí (es) m, (Peru) añuje m, (El Salvador, Guatemala) cotuza (es) f, (Costa Rica, Honduras, Nicaragua) guatusa f, (Bolivia) jochi colorado m, (Colombia, Panama) ñeque (es) m, (Venezuela) picure m, (Mexico) sereque m
• Swedish: aguti (sv)
• Turkish: aguti
• Ukrainian: агуті (ahuti)
• Zazaki: aguti c

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Translations to be checked

• Arabic: ^{(please verify)} أَغُوطِي (ʔaḡūṭī)
• Japanese: ^{(please verify)} アグーチ
• Korean: ^{(please verify)} 아구티 (aguti)

See also

• Appendix:Animals

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Tupi akuti.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.ɡu.ti/

• Audio

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Noun

agouti m (plural agoutis)

1. agouti (rodent)

Further reading

• “agouti”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.