kabaragoya

See also: Kabaragoya

English

Varanus salvator

Etymology

Borrowed from Sinhalese කබරගොයා (kabaragoyā).

Noun

kabaragoya (plural kabaragoyas)

1. The water monitor, Varanus salvator, a large lizard of Southeast Asia.
   • 1923, The Tropical Agriculturalist, volume 60, page 287:

     The Chairman said that Kegalla raised the question of protecting the Kabaragoya from destruction and the Department of Agriculture took up the matter […] .

   • 2007, Amitav Ghosh, Incendiary Circumstances: A Chronicle of the Turmoil of our Times, page 37:

     […] I remember after-school cricket matches on Layard's Road and wickets knocked over by kabaragoyas; […] .

   • 2009, H. Ronken Lynton, Veiled Destinies, page 52:

     Cobras had nothing to fear from men; their most deadly enemy was the kabaragoya, of which two called our campus home.

   • 2012, Arcadius (Shelton A. Gunaratne), Village Life in the Forties: Memories of a Lankan Expatriate, page 150,

     A kabaragoya, scenting food, tried to drive away the crows, slashing at them with its tail.

Translations

Varanus salvator

• German: Kabaragoya f
• Russian: полоса́тый вара́н m (polosátyj varán)
• Thai: เหี้ย (th) (hîia)