numbat

English

A numbat.

Etymology

Borrowed from Nyunga nhumbad.

Pronunciation

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Noun

numbat (plural numbats)

1. A small marsupial carnivore, Myrmecobius fasciatus, endemic to western Australia, that eats almost exclusively termites.

Synonyms

• (Myrmecobius fasciatus): banded anteater (obsolete)

Translations

small marsupial

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 袋食蟻獸 / 袋食蚁兽 (dàishíyǐshòu)

• Czech: mravencojed žíhaný (cs) m
• Esperanto: numbato
• Finnish: pussimuurahaiskarhu (fi), numbatti
• French: numbat (fr) m, myrmécopie à bandes m
• German: Ameisenbeutler m
• Greek: νούμπατ n (noúmpat)
• Hungarian: erszényeshangyász, numbat (hu)
• Japanese: 袋蟻食 (フクロアリクイ, fukuroarikui)
• Latvian: nambats m
• Lithuanian: sterblinė skruzdėda f
• Navajo: tsinaʼayąʼii yildeełí
• Polish: mrówkożer (pl) m anim, mrówkożer workowaty m anim
• Romanian: numbat m
• Russian: су́мчатый муравье́д m (súmčatyj muravʹjéd), на́мбат m (námbat), намба́т m (nambát)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Latin: numbat m, mravljar m

• Slovak: numbat pásavý m
• Spanish: numbat m
• Swahili: numbati
• Swedish: myrpungdjur n

Anagrams

• Tubman, tubman