English [ edit ] Etymology [ edit ] Borrowed from Spanish caníbal Taino caniba Taino Arawakan Taino
Pronunciation [ edit ] cannibal (plural cannibals
An organism which eats others of its own species , especially a human who eats human flesh.
(Can we find and add a quotation of Charles Darwin to this entry?)
Synonyms [ edit ] Related terms [ edit ] Translations [ edit ]
an organism which eats others of its own species
Arabic: غُول (ar) f ( ḡūl )
Bengali: রাক্ষস ( rakhôsh )
Catalan: caníbal m , f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 食人者 ( shí rén zhě ) , 吃同类的生物 ( chī tóng lèi de shēngwù )
Czech: kanibal (cs) m lidožrout (cs) m ( eating humans ) , lidojed m ( eating humans )
Dutch: kannibaal (nl)
Esperanto: ( ♂♀ ) kanibalo ( ♂ ) virkanibalo ( ♀ ) kanibalino
Estonian: kannibal (et)
Finnish: kannibaali (fi) , ihmissyöjä
French: cannibale (fr) m , f
Friulian: canibal m
German: Kannibale (de) m ( female ) Kannibalin (de) f
Greek: κανίβαλος (el) m , f ( kanívalos )
Hebrew: קניבל m ( kanibál )
Hungarian: kannibál (hu)
Icelandic: ( human cannibal ) mannæta (is) f
Ido: ( ♂♀ ) kanibalo (io) , ( ♂ ) kanibalulo ( ♀ ) kanibalino
Indonesian: kanibal (id)
Irish: canablach m
Italian: cannibale (it) m , f antropofago (it) m
Japanese: 人食い人種 ( hitokuijinshu )
Korean: 식인종 (ko) ( siginjong )
Kurdish:
Sorani: خۆخۆر ( xoxor )
Latin: anthrōpophagus (la) m ( eating humans ) , (please verify ) canibalus m
Malay: kanibal
Manx: canniblagh m
Maori: kaitangata
Norman: cannibale m , f
Norwegian:
Bokmål: kannibal (no) m
Nynorsk: kannibal m
Persian: همگون خوار (fa) ( hamgûn x(w)âr ) , آدمخوار (fa) ( âdamx(w)âr )
Polish: kanibal (pl) m ( human cannibal ) ludożerca (pl) m
Portuguese: canibal (pt)
Romanian: canibal (ro) m canibală (ro) f
Russian: канниба́л (ru) m ( kannibál ) , людое́д (ru) m ( ljudojéd )
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: људождер m канибал m
Roman: ljudòžder (sh) m kànibal (sh) m
Spanish: caníbal (es) m , f
Swedish: kannibal (sv) c
Tagalog: kaing-kapuwa
Turkish: yamyam (tr)
Volapük: ( ♂♀ ) kaniban (vo) , ( ♂ ) hikaniban ( ♀ ) jikaniban
