dormouse

English

African Dormouse

Etymology

From Middle English dormous, of uncertain origin. Possibly from dor-, from Old Norse dár (“benumbed”) + mous (“mouse”). More at doze, mouse.

The word is sometimes considered to come from an Anglo-Norman derivative of Old French dormir (“to sleep”), but no such Anglo-Norman word is known to have existed.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdɔɹmaʊs/
• IPA^(key): /ˈdɔːmaʊs/

Noun

dormouse (plural dormice)

1. Any of several species of small, mostly European rodents of the family Gliridae; also called Myoxidae or by some taxonomists.
2. Glis glis, the edible dormouse
3. (UK) , the hazel dormouse.
4. (figuratively) A person who sleeps a great deal, or who falls asleep readily (by analogy with the sound hibernation of the dormouse).

Derived terms

• Japanese dormouse ()

Translations

rodent

• Albanian: gjumashi i majmë
• Armenian: քնամուկ (hy) (kʻnamuk)
• Basque: muxar
• Belarusian: соня-палчок (sonja-palčok)
• Breton: hunegan gris
• Bulgarian: сънливец (bg) (sǎnlivec)
• Catalan: liró
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 睡鼠 (zh) (shuìshǔ)

• Czech: plch (cs)
• Danish: syvsover (da), hasselmus
• Dutch: relmuis (nl) f, hazelmuis (nl) f
• Esperanto: gliro
• Estonian: kunel
• Faroese: heslimús
• Finnish: unikeko (fi)
• French: loir (fr) m
• Friulian: glîr
• Galician: leirón
• German: Bilch (de) m, Schläfer (de) m, Schlafmaus (de) f, Siebenschläfer (de) m

  Alemannic German: Haselmuus f

• Greek: δασομυωξός (el) m (dasomyoxós)
• Hungarian: pele (hu)
• Icelandic: heslimús
• Interlingue:
• Irish: luch chodlamáin f, dallóg fhéir f
• Italian: ghiro (it) m, moscardino (it) m
• Japanese: ヤマネ (yamane)
• Ladin: ghiro m
• Latin: glīs m, nītēdula f
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• Latvian: susuris
• Lithuanian: miegapelė
• Macedonian: полв (polv)
• Maltese: ġurdien ta’ denbu pjuma
• Navajo: yéigo ałhoshii
• Norwegian: syvsover, sovemus
• Occitan: missara (oc) f, greule
• Polish: popielica f
• Portuguese: arganaz (pt) m
• Romani: xurtso m, xurtsaika f
• Romanian: șoarece de pădure
• Romansch: durmigliet m, glirida f
• Russian: со́ня (ru) f (sónja)
• Sardinian: topi de venadroxu, medrona de tzirva
• Scottish Gaelic: dallag f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: пух m

  Roman: puh (sh) m

• Slovak: plch
• Slovene: polh (sl) m
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: pjelch m

  Upper Sorbian: lěsna myška f, połch m, połšk m

• Spanish: lirón (es) m
• Swedish: sjusovare (sv), sovmöss, hasselmus (sv)
• Turkish: kakırca (tr)
• Ukrainian: соня f (sonja)
• Vietnamese: chuột sóc
• Welsh: pathew m
• West Frisian: sânslieper

A person who sleeps a great deal

• German: Siebenschläfer (de), Schlafmütze (de) m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: syvsover m, sjusover m

  Nynorsk: sjusovar m

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• Russian: соня (ru) f (sonja)
• Spanish: lirón (es) m
• Turkish: yediuyuklayangiller (tr)