caracal

See also: Caracal

English

A caracal.

Etymology

From French caracal, from Ottoman Turkish قره‌قولاق (kara-kulak, literally “black ear”), a calque of Persian سیاه‌گوش (siyâh-guš). Compare modern Turkish karakulak.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkaɹəkal/
• IPA^(key): /ˈkæɹəkæl/

Noun

caracal (plural caracals)

1. A type of cat native to Southern Africa, West Asia, and parts of Central and South Asia, Caracal caracal.

Synonyms

• African lynx, Asian lynx, Persian lynx, Indian lynx, desert lynx (varying with location); lynx (improper)

Translations

Caracal caracal

• Afrikaans: rooikat (af)
• Armenian: կարակալ (karakal)
• Azerbaijani: qaraqulaq
• Basque: karakal
• Bulgarian: каракал (karakal), степен рис (stepen ris)
• Catalan: caracal m
• Cherokee: ᎢᎾᎨ ᎬᎮ (inage gvhe)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 獰貓／狞猫 (zh) (níngmāo), 狞猫 (zh) (níngmāo)

• Czech: karakal
• Danish: karakal c
• Dutch: caracal (nl) m
• Esperanto: karakalo
• Estonian: karakal
• Finnish: aavikkoilves (fi), karakali (fi)
• French: caracal (fr)
• German: Karakal (de) m
• Gujarati: હેણોતરો (heṇotro)
• Hindi: स्याहगोश (syāhgoś)
• Hungarian: karakál, sivatagi hiúz
• Ido: karakalo (io)
• Indonesian: karakal, caracal
• Italian: caracal (it) m, lince persiana f
• Japanese: カラカル (ja) (karakaru)
• Korean: 카라칼 (karakal)
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• Kumyk: къаракъулакъ (qaraqulaq)
• Kurdish: ,
• Latvian: karakals
• Lithuanian: karakalas
• Malay: karakal
• Nahuatl: caracalmiztli
• Navajo: náshdóí bijaałizhiní
• Pashto: تورغوږی
• Persian: سیاه‌گوش (fa) (siyâh-guš)
• Polish: karakal (pl)
• Portuguese: caracal
• Russian: карака́л (ru) m (karakál)
• Serbo-Croatian: karakal (sh)
• Shona: twana
• Spanish: caracal m
• Swahili: simba mangu class 9/10
• Swedish: ökenlo
• Tamil: please add this translation if you can
• Tedaga: ngam ouidenanga
• Turkish: karakulak (tr)
• Turkmen: garagulak
• Udmurt: каракал (karakal)
• Uzbek: qoraquloq (uz)
• Zulu: indabushe class 9/10

References

• caracal on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Caracal on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Caracal on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Caracal caracal in Mammal Species of the World^[1] at Bucknell.

• “caracal”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• “caracal”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

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Dutch

Pronunciation

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• Hyphenation: ca‧ra‧cal

Noun

caracal m (plural caracals, diminutive caracalletje n)

1. caracal

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French

Etymology

From Turkish karakulak.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka.ʁa.kal/
• Hyphenation: ca‧ra‧cal

Noun

caracal m (plural caracals)

1. caracal

Synonyms

• lynx du désert
• lynx de Perse

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Italian

Etymology

From Turkish karakulak.

Noun

caracal m (uncountable)

1. caracal

Synonyms

• lince persiana

Anagrams

• acclara
• calcara

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Portuguese

caracal

Etymology

From Turkish karakulak.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka.ɾa.ˈkaw/
• IPA^(key): /kɐ.ɾɐ.ˈkaɫ/
• Hyphenation: ca‧ra‧cal

Noun

1. caracal (Caracal caracal)

Synonyms

• lince-do-deserto