mongoose

English

Helogale parvula

Wikispecies

Wikispecies

Etymology

Borrowing from Portuguese mangus, from Marathi मुंगूस (muṅgūs), from Telugu ముంగిస (muṃgisa).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈmɒŋɡuːs/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈmɑŋɡus/, /ˈmʌŋɡus/

Noun

mongoose (plural mongooses or mongeese)

1. Carnivores of the family Herpestidae and the similar Malagasy mongooses (Galidiinae), ranging in size from small rats to large cats, including the Indian mongoose famed as a predator of venomous snakes.

Translations

a small carnivore of the family Herpestidae

• Afrikaans: muishond
• Arabic: نِمْس‏‎ m (nims)
• Armenian: մանգուստ (mangust)
• Belarusian: мангу́ст m (manhúst)
• Bulgarian: мангу́ста (bg) f (mangústa)
• Burmese: မြွေပါ (my) (mrwepa)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 獴 (zh) (měng), 貓鼬 (zh), 猫鼬 (zh) (māoyòu)

• Czech: mangusta (cs) f (genera Bdeogale, Crossarchus, Cynictis, Dologale, Helogale, Ichneumia, Liberiictis, Mungos, Paracynictis and Rhynchogale), promyka (cs) f (genera Atilax, Galerella and Herpestes), surikata (cs) f (genus Suricata)
• Dutch: mangoeste c
• Estonian: mangust
• Finnish: mungo, mangusti (fi)
• French: mangouste (fr)
• German: Manguste f, Mungo (de) m
• Greek: μαγκούστα (el) (magkoústa)
• Hebrew: נְמִיָּה‏‎ (he) f (nemiya)
• Hindi: नेवला (hi) (nevlā)
• Hungarian: mongúz (hu)
• Ido: mangusto (io)
• Indonesian: garangan (id), cerpelai (id)
• Irish: mongús m
• Italian: mangusta (it) f
• Japanese: マングース (ja) (mangūsu)
• Javanese: garangan (jv)
• Khmer: សត្វស្កា (satvoskaa)
• Korean: 몽구스 (mongguseu)

• Lao: ຈອນພອນ (chǭn phǭn)
• Lithuanian: mangusta f
• Malay: cerpelai, bambun
• Malayalam: കീരി (ml) (kīri)
• Marathi: मुंगूस (muṅgūs)
• Navajo: dlǫ́ʼii yił aheełtʼéhígíí
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: mungo m

• Persian: خدنگ‏‎ (fa) (xadang)
• Polish: mangusta (pl) f
• Portuguese: mangusto m, fuinha (pt) m
• Romanian: mangustă (ro) f
• Russian: мангу́ст (ru) m (mangúst)
• Slovene: mungo (sl) m
• Spanish: mangosta (es) f
• Swahili: nguchiro
• Swedish: mungo c, mangust (sv) c
• Tamil: கீரி (ta) (kīri), கீரிப்பிள்ளை (ta) (kīrippiḷḷai)
• Telugu: ముంగిస (te) (muṃgisa)
• Thai: พังพอน (pang-pɔɔn)
• Turkish: firavun faresi, kuyruksüren (tr)
• Ukrainian: мангу́ст m (manhúst)
• Vietnamese: (cầy) mangut
• Volapük: mungud (vo)
• Welsh: mongŵs m
• Wolof: sikkóor bi

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