mongoose

English

Helogale parvula

Wikipedia

Wikispecies

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Etymology

From Portuguese mangus, from Marathi मुंगूस (mumgūsa), 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 predators of venomous snakes.

Translations

a small carnivore of the family Herpesidae

• Afrikaans: muishond
• Armenian: մանգուստ (mangust)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 獴 (zh) (měng), 貓鼬, 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 f (genus Suricata)
• Dutch: mangoeste c
• Estonian: mangust
• Finnish: mungo, mangusti (fi)
• French: mangouste (fr)
• German: Manguste f, Mungo (de) m
• Hungarian: mongúz (hu)
• Indonesian: garangan (id)
• Italian: mangusta (it) f
• Japanese: マングース (mangūsu)
• Khmer: សត្វស្កា (satvoskaa)

• Lithuanian: mangusta f
• Malay: cerpelai, bambun
• Malayalam: കീരി (ml) (kīri)
• Marathi: मुंगूस (mumgūsa)
• Navajo: dlǫ́ʼii yił aheełtʼéhígíí
• Portuguese: mangusto m, fuinha (pt) m
• Romanian: mangustă (ro) f
• Russian: мангуст (ru) m (mangúst)
• Slovene: mungo (sl) m
• Spanish: mangosta (es) f
• Swahili: nguchiro
• Swedish: mungo c
• Tamil: கீரி (ta) (kīri), கீரிப்பிள்ளை (ta) (kīrippiḷḷai)
• Telugu: ముంగిస (te) (muMgisa)
• Turkish: firavun faresi, kuyruksüren (tr)
• Volapük: (♂♀) mungud (vo), (♂) himungud, (♀) jimungud, (♂♀ offspring, young) mungudül, (♂ offspring, young) himungudül, (♀ offspring, young) jimungudül
• Wolof: sikkóor bi