javelina

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The javelina

Alternative forms

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Spanish javalina (obsolete), jabalina, feminine form of jabalí (“wild boar”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Andalusian Arabic جَبَلِي (jabalī) (in خِنْزِير جَبَلِيّ (ḵinzīr jabaliyy, “mountain pig”)[1]), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Arabic جَبَل (jabal, “mountain”). Cognate with Portuguese javalina, and similar in other Iberian languages.

Pronunciation

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Noun

javelina (plural javelinas)

  1. (Canada, US) The peccary, especially the collared peccary. [from 19th c.]
    • 1831, Benjamin Lundy, editor, The Genius of Universal Emancipation‎[1], page 117:
      The Javelina (Peccari) is an animal peculiar so far as I know to Spanish America.
    • c. 1900, O. Henry, Hygeia at the Solito:
      Some well-mounted heads of deer and one of an enormous black javeli projected from the walls.
    • 2013, Philipp Meyer, The Son, Simon & Schuster, published 2014, page 264:
      We […] were ready to send some prickly pears to the next world when the most unfortunate group of javelina on earth walked into view.

References

  1. ^ The Arabic Contributions to the English Language: An Historical Dictionary, by Garland Hampton Cannon, Alan S. Kaye, p. 25

Catalan

Noun

javelina f (plural javelines)

  1. javelin
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