babirusa

See also: babi rusa

English

Etymology

From scientific Latin babyroussa (later as specific name), and its source, Malay babi rusa, from babi (“pig”) + rusa (“deer”).

Noun

babirusa (plural babirusas)

1. Any of several mammals in the genus in the pig family Suidae, in which the upper tusk grows upward.
   • 2018, Hanneke Meijer, The Guardian, 17 May:

     And there are wild pigs, babirusas, with wrinkled skin and impressive upper tusks that instead of growing down, grow up and backwards toward the skull.

Hyponyms

• Bola Batu babirusa, Buru babirusa, Malenge babirusa, North Sulawesi babirusa

Translations

a member of the genus Babyrousa

• Arabic: بَابِيرُوسَة f (bābīrūsa)
• Belarusian: бабіру́са f (babirúsa)
• Bulgarian: бабиру́са f (babirúsa)
• Catalan: babirussa f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 馬魯古鹿豚／马鲁古鹿豚, 马鲁古鹿豚 (mǎlǔgǔlùtún), 鹿豚 (lùtún), 鹿豬／鹿猪, 鹿猪 (lùzhū), 逐鹿 (zh) (zhúlù)

• Dutch: babiroessa
• Esperanto: (♂♀) babiruso, (♂) virbabiruso, (♀) babirusino, (♂♀ offspring) babirusido, (♂ offspring) virbabirusido, (♀ offspring) babirusidino,
• Finnish: babirussa (fi)
• French: babiroussa (fr) m
• German: (♂♀) Hirscheber (de) m, (♂♀) Babirusa n, männlicher Hirscheber m, weiblicher Hirscheber m
• Greek: μπαμπιρούσα f (bampiroúsa)
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• Indonesian: babirusa
• Irish: babarúsa m
• Italian: babirussa (it) m
• Japanese: 鹿猪 (しかいのしし, shikainoshishi), バビルサ (babirusa)
• Korean: 바비루사 (babirusa)
• Malay: babi rusa
• Navajo: bisóodi bideeʼ názhahígíí
• Portuguese: babirussa (pt) f
• Russian: бабиру́сса (ru) f (babirússa)
• Spanish: babirusa (es) f
• Ukrainian: бабіру́са f (babirúsa)
• Vietnamese: lợn hươu

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Indonesian

Etymology

From babi (“pig”) +‎ rusa (“deer”), from the resemblance of the tusks to antlers

Noun

babirusa (first-person possessive babirusaku, second-person possessive babirusamu, third-person possessive babirusanya)

1. Buru babirusa,

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Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Malay babirusa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /babiˈɾusa/ [ba.β̞iˈɾu.sa]

Noun

babirusa f (plural babirusas)

1. babirusa

Further reading

• “babirusa”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014