cannibal

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish caníbal, from Taíno caniba, the Taíno form recorded by Christopher Columbus for the Caribs, who were greatly feared. From an Arawakan language, probably Taíno.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkænɪbl/
• Rhymes: -ænɪbl

Noun

cannibal (plural cannibals)

1. 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?)

   • 2017, John Oliver, “The Trump Presidency”, in Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, season 4, episode 30, written by Tim Carvell; Josh Gondelman; Dan Gurewitch; Jeff Maurer; Ben Silva; Will Tracy; Jill Twiss; Seena Vali; Julie Weiner, HBO, Warner Bros. Television:

     The presidency of Donald Trump, the man voted “least edible” by Cannibal Magazine six years in a row!

Synonyms

• man-eater

Related terms

• cannibalise
• cannibalism
• cannibalistic

Translations

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
• Galician: caníbal m, f
• German: Kannibale (de) m, (female) Kannibalin (de) f
• Greek: κανίβαλος (el) m, f (kanívalos)
• Greenlandic: inuttuumasoq
• 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