guanaco

See also: guanacó

English

A guanaco

Wikispecies

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish guanaco, from Quechua wanaku.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡwəˈnɑːkəʊ/

  • Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

guanaco (plural guanacos or guanacoes)

2. 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)}

Derived terms

• llamanaco

Descendants

• → Irish: guanacó

Translations

Lama guanicoe

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

  Mandarin: 原駝 / 原驼 (yuántuo)

• Czech: guanako
• Danish: guanaco c, guanako c
• Dutch: guanaco (nl)
• Finnish: guanako (fi)
• French: guanaco (fr) m
• Galician: guanaco (gl) m
• Georgian: ჰუანაკო (huanaḳo)
• German: Guanako (de) n, Huanako n
• Greek: γουανάκος m (gouanákos)
• 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
• Swedish: guanaco (sv) c
• Ukrainian: please add this translation if you can
• Volapük: huanak
• Yámana: amára

Danish

Alternative forms

• guanako

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish guanaco, from Quechua wanaku.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ɡuaˈnɑɡo]

Noun

guanaco c (singular definite guanacoen, plural indefinite guanacoer)

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

Inflection

Declension of guanaco

common gender	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	guanaco	guanacoen	guanacoer	guanacoerne
genitive	guanacos	guanacoens	guanacoers	guanacoernes

Further reading

• “guanaco” in Den Danske Ordbog

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Noun

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

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

French

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Noun

guanaco m (plural guanacos)

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

Further reading

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

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

   Hypernym: camelide

Further reading

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

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish guanaco, from Quechua wanaku.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ɡwaˈna.ku/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ɡwaˈna.ku/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ɡwaˈna.ko/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɡwɐˈna.ku/

• Hyphenation: gua‧na‧co

Noun

guanaco m (plural guanacos)

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

Coordinate terms

camelids: camelídeosedit

• alpaca
• camelo
• dromedário
• guanaco
• lhama / lama
• vicunha

Spanish

Alternative forms

• huanaco

Etymology

Borrowed from Quechua wanaku.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡwaˈnako/ [ɡwaˈna.ko]

• Audio (Peru):

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• Rhymes: -ako
• Syllabification: gua‧na‧co

Noun

guanaco m (plural guanacos)

1. guanaco (a South American ruminant (Lama guanicoe), closely related to the other lamoids, the alpaca, llama, and vicuña in the family Camelidae)
2. (colloquial, Chile) water cannon used for riot control
3. (colloquial, El Salvador) Salvadoran

Hyponyms

• chulengo (young guanaco)

Coordinate terms

• (Camelids) camélido; camello (dromedario, camello bactriano), llama, guanaco, alpaca, vicuña ^{(Category: es:Camelids)}

Descendants

• → Dutch: guanaco
• → English: guanaco
  • → Irish: guanacó
• → French: guanaco
• → Italian: guanaco
• → Portuguese: guanaco
• → Danish: guanaco

Adjective

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

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

   Synonyms: salvadoreño, cuscatleco

Further reading

• “guanaco”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10