noctule

English

Etymology

Late 18th century: via French, from New Latin noctula, from noctua (“small owl”, from nox, noctis, “night”) +‎ -ula (diminutive suffix). Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *nókʷts (“night”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈnɒktjuːl/
• IPA^(key): /ˈnɑktʃul/

Noun

noctule (plural noctules)

1. A bat, of the genus , that lives in tree hollows.
   • For quotations using this term, see Citations:noctule.

   Hyponyms: Azores noctule, birdlike noctule, Chinese noctule, common noctule, greater noctule bat, Japanese noctule, lesser noctule, mountain noctule

Translations

bat of the genus Nyctalus

• Albanian: noktulë f
• Armenian: իրիկնաչղջիկ (iriknačʻġǰik)
• Azerbaijani: axşam yarasası
• Basque: gau-saguzar
• Belarusian: вячэ́рніца f (vjačérnica)
• Breton: nozigell f
• Bulgarian: вечерник m (večernik)
• Catalan: nòctul m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 山蝠 (saan¹ fuk¹), 夜蝠 (je⁶ fuk¹)

  Mandarin: 山蝠 (zh) (shānfú), 夜蝠 (yèfú)

• Dutch: vroegvlieger m
• Estonian: videvlane
• Finnish: isolepakko
• French: noctule (fr) f
• Georgian: მეღამურა (meɣamura)
• German: Abendsegler m
• Hungarian: koraidenevér
• Italian: nottola f
• Japanese: 山蝙蝠 (やまこうもり, yamakōmori), ヤマコウモリ (yamakōmori)
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• Korean: 멧박쥐 (metbakjwi)
• Lithuanian: nakviša f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: storflaggermus m or f

  Nynorsk: storflaggermus f

• Persian: خفاش جنگلی (xoffâš jangali)
• Polish: borowiec (pl) m
• Portuguese: morcego-arborícola m, morcego arborícola m
• Russian: вече́рница (ru) f (večérnica)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: но̏ћнӣк m

  Roman: nȍćnīk (sh) m

• Slovak: raniak m
• Slovene: mračnik m
• Spanish: nóctulo m
• Swedish: brunfladdermus c
• Thai: ค้างคาวกินแมลง (káang-kaao gin má-lɛɛng)
• Ukrainian: вечі́рниця f (večírnycja)
• Venetian: nòtoła f
• Western Panjabi: نائکٹالس m (nāykṭālas)

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