marmot

English

Marmota caligata

Etymology

From Middle French marmote, from Old French marmotaine, marmontaine, murmontain, from Old Franco-Provençal marmotan, from Vulgar Latin *mures montani, the plural form of Latin mus monti (“mountain rat”); akin to Engadin Romansh murmont, Old High German muremunto (dialectal German Murmentel, standard Murmeltier).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈmɑː.mət/

  • Audio (Southern England):

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈmɑɹ.mət/
• Rhymes: -ɑɹmət
• Hyphenation: mar‧mot

Noun

marmot (plural marmots)

1. Any of several large ground-dwelling rodents of the genera Marmota and Cynomys in the squirrel family.

Derived terms

• Alaska marmot
• alpine marmot
• black-capped marmot
• bobak marmot
• gray marmot
• Himalayan marmot
• hoary marmot
• long-tailed marmot
• marmot squirrel
• Menzbier's marmot
• olympic marmot
• prairie marmot
• tarbagan marmot
• Vancouver Island marmot
• Vancouver marmot
• whistling marmot
• yellow-bellied marmot

Descendants

• → Irish: marmat
• → Japanese: マーモット (māmotto)
• → Korean: 마멋 (mameot)
• → Thai: มาร์มอต (maa-mɔ́t)
• → Welsh: marmot

Translations

rodent of the genera Marmota

• Ahtna: kuyxi
• Albanian: ^{(please verify)} marmota
• Altai:

  Southern Altai: тарбаган (tarbagan)

• Arabic: مَرْمُوط m (marmūṭ)
• Armenian: արջամուկ (arǰamuk)
• Azerbaijani: marmot
• Basque: marmota (eu)
• Belarusian: суро́к m (surók)
• Breton: moregan an alpoù
• Bulgarian: мармот (bg) m (marmot)
• Catalan: marmota (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Literary Chinese: 鼧鼥 (tuóbá)

  Mandarin: 旱獺 / 旱獭 (zh) (hàntǎ), 土撥鼠 / 土拨鼠 (zh) (tǔbōshǔ)

• Chuvash: сӑвӑр (săvăr)
• Czech: svišť (cs) m
• Danish: murmeldyr n
• Dutch: marmot (nl) f
• Esperanto: marmoto
• Estonian: ümiseja
• Even: ча̄ма̇к (cāmȧk)
• Faroese: múrmildýr
• Finnish: murmeli (fi)
• French: marmotte (fr) f
• Frisian:

  West Frisian: bargemot, marmot

• Friulian: marmote
• Galician: marmota
• Georgian: ზაზუნა (ka) (zazuna)
• German: Murmeltier (de) n
• Greek: μαρμότα (el) f (marmóta)
• Hindi: फीया (phīyā), मारमोट (mārmoṭ)
• Hungarian: mormota (hu)
• Icelandic: múrmeldýr (is) n
• Irish: marmat
• Italian: marmotta (it)
• Japanese: マーモット (ja) (māmotto)
• Kalmyk: тарвһн (tarvğn)
• Kanakanabu: kukuvara
• Kazakh: суыр (suyr)
• Khakas: тарбаған (tarbağan)
• Korean: 마멋 (mameot)
• Kyrgyz: суур (ky) (suur)
• Ladin: marmota
• Latvian: murkšķis m
• Lithuanian: švilpikas m
• Macedonian: мрмот m (mrmot)
• Malay: marmut
• Maltese: far il-ġebel
• Manchu: ᡨᠠᡵᠪᠠᡥᡳ (tarbahi)
• Mòcheno: marmota f
• Mongolian: тарвага (mn) (tarvaga)
• Lower Tanana: xwyeghi
• Navajo: dilchaʼ
• Norwegian: murmeldyr n
• Occitan: marmòta (oc), dormilhosa, muret
• Persian: مارموت (mârmut)
• Polish: świstak (pl) m, świszcz (pl) m
• Portuguese: marmota (pt) f
• Romanian: marmotă (ro) f
• Romansh: muntanella
• Russian: суро́к (ru) m (surók), байба́к (ru) m (bajbák)
• Sami: murmel, murmelealli
• Sardinian: marmotta, drummiccioni
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: свизац m, свизавац m, мрмот m

  Latin: svizac (sh) m, svizavac m, mrmot (sh) m

• Slovak: svišť m
• Slovene: svizec (sl) m
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: boback m

  Upper Sorbian: bobak m

• Spanish: marmota (es) f
• Swedish: murmeldjur (sv) n
• Tajik: суғур (suġur)
• Tatar: байбак (tt) (baybaq), сөркә (sörkä), суыр (suwır)
• Thai: มาร์มอต (maa-mɔ́t)
• Tibetan: ཕྱི་བ (phyi ba)
• Turkish: dağ sıçanı (tr)

  Ottoman Turkish: طاغ صیچانی (dağ sıçanı)

• Tuvan: тарбаган (tarbagan)
• Ukrainian: баба́к (uk) m (babák), байба́к m (bajbák)
• Uyghur: سۇغۇر (sughur)
• Uzbek: sugʻur (uz)
• Vietnamese: macmôt, mác-mốt
• Volapük: kriset (vo) n
• Welsh: twrlla, marmot
• Written Oirat: ᡐᠠᠷᡋᠠᡎᠠ (tarbaɣa)
• Yakut: таарбаҕан (taarbağan)

See also

• groundhog
• woodchuck

Further reading

• marmot on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Marmota on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Category:Marmota on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French marmotte. Possibly related to Middle Dutch marmotte (“goblin, kobold”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɑrˈmɔt/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: mar‧mot
• Rhymes: -ɔt

Noun

marmot f (plural marmotten, no diminutive)

1. marmot, rodent of the genus Marmota

Derived terms

• alpenmarmot
• bosmarmot
• marmottenslaap

Descendants

• Afrikaans: marmot
• → Caribbean Javanese: marmut
• → Indonesian: marmot
• → Japanese: モルモット (morumotto, “guinea pig”)
  • → Korean: 모르모트 (moreumoteu)
• → Papiamentu: marmòt

French

Etymology

Probably from marmotter.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /maʁ.mo/

• Audio (France (Vosges)):

  (file)

Noun

marmot m (plural marmots, feminine marmotte)

1. (archaic) an architectural grotesque, especially a door knocker
2. (colloquial) kid, brat
   • 1857, Gustave Flaubert, chapter 1, in Madame Bovary […]‎^[1], Paris: Michel Lévy Frères, first part, page 11:

     Rentré chez eux, le marmot fut gâté comme un prince. Sa mère le nourrissait de confitures; son père le laissait courir sans souliers, et, pour faire le philosophe, disait même qu'il pouvait bien aller tout nu, comme les enfants des bêtes.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

   • 2015 [2004], Stéphane Dompierre, Un petit pas pour l'homme [A small step for man], →ISBN, page 171:

     — C’est bon. Et en lui posant des questions sur elle, tu finis par apprendre qu’elle a un marmot. Tu fais quoi ?

     "That's alright. And by asking her questions about her, you end up learning she has a kid. What are you doing?"

Derived terms

• croquer le marmot
• marmaille

Descendants

• → Italian: marmaglia, marmocchio

Further reading

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

Indonesian

Etymology

Borrowed from Dutch marmot, from French marmotte. Cognate of Japanese モルモット (morumotto).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈmarmot/ [ˈmar.mɔt̪̚]
• Rhymes: -armot
• Syllabification: mar‧mot

Noun

marmot (plural marmot-marmot)

1. marmot
2. guinea pig

   Synonym: tikus belanda

Alternative forms

• marmut

Further reading

• “marmot”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

Norman

Etymology

Borrowed from French marmot.

Noun

marmot m (plural marmots)

1. (Jersey) brat

Welsh

Etymology

Borrowed from English marmot.

Noun

marmot m (plural marmots or marmotiaid or marmotod)

1. marmot

Mutation

Mutated forms of marmot

radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
marmot	farmot	unchanged	unchanged

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke, et al., editors (1950–present), “marmot”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies