marsupial

English

Etymology

From Latin marsupium, marsuppium (“pouch, purse”), from Ancient Greek μαρσύπιον (marsúpion) or μαρσύππιον (marsúppion), variants of μαρσίππιον (marsíppion), diminutive of μάρσιππος (mársippos, “bag, pouch”); with English -al.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /mɑːˈsuː.pi.əl/
• (US) IPA^(key): /mɑɹˈsu.pi.əl/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: mar‧su‧pial

The kangaroo is a marsupial.

Noun

marsupial (plural marsupials)

1. Any member of the mammalian infraclass Marsupialia, including those where the female has a pouch in which it rears its young through early infancy, such as kangaroos, koalas, wombats and opossums, as well as the pouchless shrew opossums.

Hyponyms

• See also Thesaurus:marsupial

Derived terms

• marsupial bone
• marsupial frog
• marsupial lion
• marsupial mole
• marsupial mouse

Related terms

• Marsupialia
• marsupialoid
• marsupium

Translations

mammal of which the female typically has a pouch

• Afrikaans: buideldier
• Arabic: جِرَابِيّ m (jirābiyy), جِرَاب m (jirāb)
• Armenian: պարկավոր (hy) (parkavor)
• Asturian: marsupial (ast)
• Belarusian: су́мчаты (súmčaty), то́рбачкавы m (tórbačkavy)
• Catalan: marsupial (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 有袋動物 / 有袋动物 (yǒudài dòngwù), 有袋類 / 有袋类 (zh) (yǒudàilèi)

• Czech: vačnatec (cs) m
• Danish: pungdyr (da) n
• Dutch: buideldier (nl) n
• Esperanto: marsupiulo
• Faroese: pungdýr n
• Finnish: pussieläin (fi)
• French: marsupial (fr) m
• Galician: marsupial m or f
• German: Beuteltier (de) n
• Hebrew: חיית כיס f
• Hungarian: erszényes (hu)
• Icelandic: pokadýr (is) n
• Ido: marsupialo (io)
• Italian: marsupiale (it) m
• Japanese: 有袋類 (ja) (ゆうたいるい, yūtairui), 有袋動物 (ゆうたいどうぶつ, yūtai-dōbutsu)
• Kazakh: қалталы (qaltaly)
• Korean: 육아 낭이 (yuga nang'i), 유대류 (yudaeryu)
• Latin: marsupial (la) n
• Lithuanian: sterblinis m
• Macedonian: торбар m (torbar)
• Malay: marsupial, binatang marsupial, haiwan marsupial
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: уутат амьтан (uutat amʹtan)

• Navajo: bizaʼazis hólónígíí
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: pungdyr n

  Nynorsk: pungdyr n

• Plautdietsch: Biedeltia n
• Polish: torbacz (pl) m
• Portuguese: marsupial (pt) m
• Romanian: marsupial (ro)
• Russian: су́мчатый (ru) (súmčatyj)
• Serbo-Croatian: торбар, torbar (sh), тоболчар, tobolčar
• Slovene: vrečar (sl) m
• Spanish: marsupial m
• Swedish: pungdjur (sv) n
• Turkish: keseli hayvan
• Ukrainian: су́мчастий m (súmčastyj)
• Vietnamese: thú có túi
• Welsh: bolgodog (cy) m

See also

• Category:Marsupials

Adjective

marsupial (comparative more marsupial, superlative most marsupial)

1. Of or pertaining to a marsupial.
   • 1892, The American naturalist, page 125:

     Showing that this animal is marsupial, consists of the following characters.

   • 1952, The Motor, page 520:

     It seemed to me, meandering around Earls Court, that motors should be more marsupial.

   • 2002, Fiction Fix: First Injection, page 58:

     But there's this pouch just below my belly button, very marsupial, where the kangaroo lives.

2. (anatomy) Of or relating to a marsupium.

   the marsupial bones

Translations

of or pertaining to a marsupial

• Afrikaans: buidel
• Asturian: marsupial (ast)
• Belarusian: су́мчаты (súmčaty), то́рбачкавы (tórbačkavy)
• Bulgarian: двуутробен (dvuutroben)
• Catalan: marsupial (ca)
• Galician: marsupial m or f
• Icelandic: pokadýr (is) n
• Italian: marsupiale (it)
• Kazakh: қалталы (qaltaly)
• Latin: marsupialis
• Macedonian: торбарски m (torbarski)
• Malay: marsupial
• Portuguese: marsupial (pt)
• Romanian: marsupial (ro)
• Russian: су́мчатый (ru) (súmčatyj)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: торбарски m

  Roman: torbarski (sh) m

• Spanish: marsupial
• Ukrainian: су́мчастий (súmčastyj)
• Welsh: bolgodog (cy)

Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [mər.su.piˈal]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [maɾ.su.piˈal]

• Audio:

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Noun

marsupial m (plural marsupials)

1. marsupial

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /maʁ.sy.pjal/

• Audio:

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Noun

marsupial m (plural marsupiaux)

1. marsupial

Further reading

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

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /maʁ.su.piˈaw/ [mah.su.pɪˈaʊ̯], (faster pronunciation) /maʁ.suˈpjaw/ [mah.suˈpjaʊ̯]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /maʁ.su.piˈaw/ [mah.su.pɪˈaʊ̯], (faster pronunciation) /maʁ.suˈpjaw/ [mah.suˈpjaʊ̯]
  • (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /maɾ.su.piˈaw/ [maɾ.su.pɪˈaʊ̯], (faster pronunciation) /maɾ.suˈpjaw/ [maɾ.suˈpjaʊ̯]
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /maʁ.su.piˈaw/ [maχ.su.pɪˈaʊ̯], (faster pronunciation) /maʁ.suˈpjaw/ [maχ.suˈpjaʊ̯]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /maɻ.su.piˈaw/ [maɻ.su.pɪˈaʊ̯], (faster pronunciation) /maɻ.suˈpjaw/ [maɻ.suˈpjaʊ̯]

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /mɐɾ.suˈpjal/ [mɐɾ.suˈpjaɫ]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /mɐɾ.suˈpjal/ [mɐɾ.suˈpjaɫ]
  • (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): /mɐɾ.suˈpja.li/

• Hyphenation: mar‧su‧pi‧al

Noun

marsupial m (plural marsupiais)

1. marsupial (mammal species whose females have a pouch to carry the offspring)

Adjective

marsupial m or f (plural marsupiais)

1. marsupial (of or relating to marsupials)

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French marsupial.

Noun

marsupial n (plural marsupiale)

1. marsupial

Declension

Declension of marsupial

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	marsupial	marsupialul		marsupiale	marsupialele
genitive-dative	marsupial	marsupialului		marsupiale	marsupialelor
vocative	marsupialule			marsupialelor

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from New Latin marsūpiālis, from Latin marsūpium "pouch", from Ancient Greek μαρσίππιον (marsíppion). More at marsupio.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /maɾsuˈpjal/ [maɾ.suˈpjal]
• Rhymes: -al
• Syllabification: mar‧su‧pial

Adjective

marsupial m or f (masculine and feminine plural marsupiales)

1. marsupial

Derived terms

• bolsa marsupial

Noun

marsupial m (plural marsupiales)

1. marsupial

Related terms

• marsupio

Further reading

• “marsupial”, 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