mongoose

English

Helogale parvula

Wikispecies

Wikispecies

Etymology

Borrowed from Portuguese mangus, from Marathi मुंगूस (muṅgūs), from Telugu ముంగిస (muṅgisa).

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)
• Assamese: নেউল (neul)
• Azerbaijani: manqustlar
• 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)
• Gujarati: નોળિયો (noḷiyo)
• Hawaiian: manakuke
• 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
• Maharastri Prakrit: 𑀡𑀉𑀮 (ṇaüla)
• Malay: cerpelai, bambun
• Malayalam: കീരി (ml) (kīri)
• Marathi: मुंगूस (muṅgūs)
• Navajo: dlǫ́ʼii yił aheełtʼéhígíí
• Nepali: न्याउरी (nyāurī)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: mungo m

• Persian: خدنگ‎‎ (fa) (xadang)
• Polish: mangusta (pl) f
• Portuguese: mangusto m, fuinha (pt) m
• Punjabi: ਨਿਓਲਾ (niolā)
• Romanian: mangustă (ro) f
• Russian: мангу́ст (ru) m (mangúst)
• Sanskrit: नकुल (sa) (nakula)
• Shona: jerenyenje
• Slovene: mungo (sl) m
• Spanish: mangosta (es) f
• Sundanese: ᮜᮞᮥᮔ᮪ (lasun)
• Swahili: nguchiro
• Swedish: mungo c, mangust (sv) c
• Tamil: கீரி (ta) (kīri), கீரிப்பிள்ளை (ta) (kīrippiḷḷai)
• Telugu: ముంగిస (te) (muṅgisa)
• 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

Anagrams

• gonosome