manatee

English

West Indian manatee (Trichechus manatus)

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish manatí, from a Cariban-language term meaning ‘breast’, ultimately from Proto-Cariban *manatɨ; compare Kari'na manaty, Trió manatï, Apalaí manaty, Akawaio manatï, Pemon manatü, Macushi manatî.

Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: mănʹə-tēˊ, IPA^(key): /ˈmæn.əˌtiː/

  • Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ænəti

Noun

manatee (plural manatees or manatee)

2. A mostly herbivorous sirenian of the genus Trichechus, having a paddle-like tail and nails on their flippers, found in tropical regions.

   Synonym: lamantin (archaic)

   Hypernyms: sea cow, sirenian < marine mammal < mammal < vertebrate < animal < organism < creature

   Coordinate terms: (fellow sirenian) dugong; (fellow marine mammals) dolphin, whale, walrus, seal

   • 1988 September, Tampa Bay Magazine, numbers Sept–Oct, page 60:

     The ecological importance of the manatee is clear; scientists have demonstrated the dependancy^[sic] of all components of an ecosystem on one another […]

Derived terms

• Manatee County

Descendants

• → Japanese: マナティー (manatī)
• → Korean: 매너티 (maeneoti)
• → Welsh: manatî

Translations

any of several plant-eating marine mammals, of family Trichechidae

• Afrikaans: lamantyn, manatee
• Albanian: lopë deti f, lamantina f
• Arabic: خَرُوف البَحْر (ḵarūf al-baḥr)
• Armenian: լամանտին (lamantin)
• Asturian: manatí (ast) m
• Azerbaijani: lamantin
• Bambara: maa
• Basque: manati
• Belarusian: ламанцін m (lamancin)
• Breton: ejen-mor (br) m
• Bulgarian: морска крава f (morska krava)
• Catalan: manatí m
• Cherokee: ᎹᎾᏘ (manati)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 海牛 (hoi² ngau⁴)

  Hokkien: 海牛 (hái-gû)

  Mandarin: 海牛 (zh) (hǎiniú)

• Czech: kapustňák (cs) m
• Danish: søko c, manat c
• Dutch: zeekoe (nl) f, lamantijn (nl) m
• Esperanto: manato
• Estonian: lamantiin
• Faroese: sjókúgv f
• Finnish: manaatti (fi)
• French: lamantin (fr) m
• Frisian:

  West Frisian: lamantinen

• Galician: manatí (gl) m
• German: (strictly) Rundschwanzseekuh f, Manati m; usually simply called Seekuh (de) f

  Alemannic German: Manati m

• Greek: μανάτος (el) m (manátos)
• Hausa: àyū
• Hawaiian: lākamikini
• Hebrew: תַּחַשׁ נְהָרוֹת (he) m (tákhash neharót)
• Hindi: मैनाटी (maināṭī)
• Hungarian: lamantin (hu), manátusz, tengeritehén
• Icelandic: sækýr f
• Ido: lamantino (io)
• Indonesian: lembu laut (id)
• Irish: bó mhara f
• Italian: lamantino (it) m, manato (it) m
• Japanese: マナティー (ja) (manatī)
• Kari'na: jarawa
• Kazakh: ламантин (lamantin)
• Korean: 매너티 (maeneoti)
• Latin: manatus (la) m, bōs marīna f, trichechus (la) m
• Latvian: lamantīns m, manati m
• Limburgish: zieëków f
• Lithuanian: lamantinas m
• Luxembourgish: Ronnschwanzséikou f, Manati m
• Macedonian: ламантин m (lamantin)
• Malay: manati, lembu laut
• Maltese: lamantin m
• Manx: booa varrey f
• Myene: màŋgà
• Nahuatl: tlacamichin (nah)

  Classical Nahuatl: tlacamichin

• Neapolitan: lamantino m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: manat m

  Nynorsk: manat m

• Pirahã: pigáagi
• Polish: manat (pl) m
• Portuguese: peixe-boi (pt) m, manati (pt) m, manatim m
• Quechua: manati
• Romanian: lamantin (ro) m
• Russian: ламанти́н (ru) m (lamantín), морска́я коро́ва f (morskája koróva)
• Senni:

  Koyraboro Senni: ayu

• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: лама̀нтӣн m

  Latin: lamàntīn m

• Sicilian: lamantinu m, manatì m
• Slovak: lamantín m
• Slovene: lamantin m
• Spanish: manatí (es) m, pez mujer m, manato m
• Swahili: manatii
• Swedish: sjöko c, manat (sv) c
• Tagalog: manati
• Tamil: கடற்பசு (ta) (kaṭaṟpacu)
• Tatar: lamantin
• Thai: แมนนาที (mɛɛn-naa-tîi)
• Turkish: denizayısı, manati
• Ukrainian: ламантин m (lamantyn)
• Vietnamese: lợn biển
• Welsh: morfuwch f, manatî m
• Wolof: leraw
• Yiddish: ים־קו (yam-ku)

See also

• manatee on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• dugong
• mermaid
• sea cow
• siren

Anagrams

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