chacal

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish چقال (modern Turkish çakal), from Persian شغال (šaġâl), from Sanskrit सृगाल (sṛgālá, “jackal”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʃa.kal/

• Audio; “un chacal”:

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Noun

chacal m (plural chacals)

1. jackal

Hyponyms

• chacal à chabraque
• chacal à flancs rayés
• chacal doré

Descendants

• → Basque: txakal
• → Corsican: sciaccallu
• → Catalan: xacal
• → Danish: sjakal
• → Dutch: jakhals
  • Afrikaans: jakkals
• → English: jackal
  • → Irish: seacál
  • → Japanese: ジャッカル (jakkaru)
  • → Korean: 자칼 (jakal)
  • → Malay: jakal
    • Indonesian: jakal
  • → Thai: แจ็กคัล (jɛ̀k-kal)
  • → Welsh: siacal
• → Faroese: sjakalur
• → Finnish: sakaali, šakaali, shakaali
• → German: Schakal
  • → Belarusian: шакал (šakal)
  • → Czech: šakal
  • → Estonian: šaakal
  • → Hungarian: sakál
  • → Macedonian: шакал (šakal)
  • → Russian: шакал (šakal)
    • → Armenian: շակալ (šakal)
  • → Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: шакал

    Latin script: šakal

  • → Slovak: šakal
  • → Slovene: šakal
  • → Swedish: schakal
  • → Ukrainian: шакал (šakal)
• → Galician: chacal
• → Icelandic: sjakali
• → Irish: seacál
• → Italian: sciacallo
• → Latvian: šakālis
• → Lithuanian: šakalas
• → Norwegian: sjakal
• → Polish: szakal
• → Portuguese: chacal
• → Romanian: șacal
• → Spanish: chacal
  • → Tagalog: tsakal
• → Volapük: jakal
• → Yiddish: שאַקאַל (shakal)

Further reading

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

Galician

Noun

chacal m (plural chacais)

1. jackal

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from French chacal, from Turkish çakal, from Persian شغال (šagâl).

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ʃaˈkaw/ [ʃaˈkaʊ̯]

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ʃɐˈkal/ [ʃɐˈkaɫ]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ʃɐˈkal/ [ʃɐˈkaɫ]
  • (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /t͡ʃɐˈkal/ [t͡ʃɐˈkaɫ]
  • (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): /ʃɐˈka.li/

• Audio (Brazil (Caipira)):

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• Rhymes: (Portugal) -al, (Brazil) -aw
• Hyphenation: cha‧cal

Noun

chacal m (plural chacais)

1. jackal

Further reading

• “chacal”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “chacal”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from French chacal, from Turkish çakal, from Persian شغال (šagâl), from Sanskrit सृगाल (sṛgālá, “jackal”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃaˈkal/ [t͡ʃaˈkal]

• Audio (Spain):

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• Rhymes: -al
• Syllabification: cha‧cal

Noun

chacal m (plural chacales)

1. jackal
2. (slang) hoodlum

Hyponyms

• chacal rayado
• chacal de gualdrapa
• chacal de lomo negro
• chacal dorado
• chacal común
• chacal de Simien

Descendants

• → Tagalog: tsakal

Further reading

• “chacal”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025
• “chacal”, in Diccionario de americanismos [Dictionary of Americanisms] (in Spanish), Association of Academies of the Spanish Language [Spanish: Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española], 2010