guanaco

See also: guanacó

English

A guanaco

Wikispecies

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish guanaco, from Quechua wanaku.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡwəˈnɑːkəʊ/

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Noun

guanaco (plural guanacos or guanacoes)

1. A South American ruminant (Lama guanicoe), closely related to the other lamoids, the alpaca, llama, and vicuña in the family Camelidae.

Synonyms

• (obsolete) Auchenia huanaco

Hypernyms

• camelid

Hyponyms

• chulengo (a young guanaco)

Coordinate terms

• (Camelids) camelid; camel (dromedary, Bactrian camel), llama, guanaco, alpaca, vicuna/vicuña ^{(Category: en:Camelids)}

Translations

Lama guanicoe

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Belarusian: please add this translation if you can
• Bulgarian: дива лама f (diva lama)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 原駝, 原驼 (yuántuo)

• Czech: guanako
• Dutch: guanaco (nl)
• Finnish: guanako (fi)
• French: guanaco (fr) m
• German: Guanako (de) n, Huanako n
• Interlingua: guanaco
• Irish: guanacó m
• Italian: guanaco m

• Japanese: グアナコ (guanako)
• Korean: 과나코 (gwanako)
• Macedonian: гва́нако n (gvánako)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: guanako m

  Nynorsk: guanako m

• Portuguese: guanaco (pt) m
• Quechua: wanaku
• Romanian: guanaco (ro) m
• Russian: гуана́ко (ru) n (guanáko)
• Spanish: guanaco (es) m
• Ukrainian: please add this translation if you can
• Volapük: huanak
• Yámana: amára

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Noun

guanaco m (plural guanaco's, diminutive guanacootje n)

1. guanaco

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French

Noun

guanaco m (plural guanacos)

1. guanaco

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Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish guanaco, from Quechua wanaku.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡwaˈna.ko/
• Rhymes: -ako
• Hyphenation: gua‧nà‧co

Noun

guanaco m (plural guanachi)

1. guanaco (Lama guanicoe)

   Hypernym: camelide

Further reading

• guanaco on the Italian Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^it

References

• guanaco in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
• guanaco in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication

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Portuguese

Noun

guanaco m (plural guanacos)

1. guanaco (Lama guanicoe, a ruminant of South America)

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Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Quechua wanaku.

Pronunciation

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• IPA^(key): /ɡwaˈnako/, [ɡwaˈna.ko]

Noun

guanaco m (plural guanacos)

1. guanaco
2. (colloquial, Chile) water cannon used for riot control

Hyponyms

• chulengo (young guanaco)

Adjective

guanaco (feminine guanaca, masculine plural guanacos, feminine plural guanacas)

1. (colloquial, Central America) Salvadoran, pertaining to El Salvador

   Synonyms: salvadoreño, cuscatleco

Alternative forms

• huanaco

Further reading

• “guanaco” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.