pangolin

See also: pangolín

English

Indian pangolin (Manis crassicaudata)

Etymology

Borrowed from Malay pengguling, from peng- (“denominative prefix”) +‎ guling (“to roll”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpæŋɡəlɪn/, /pæŋˈɡoʊlɪn/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

pangolin (plural pangolins)

1. Any of several long-tailed, scale-covered mammals of the family Manidae within the order Pholidota of tropical Africa and Asia.

   Synonyms: manid, scaly anteater, trenggiling

   • 2022, Shehan Karunatilaka, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida, Sort Of Books, page 302:

     Like many Sri Lankans, pangolins have big tongues, thick hides and small brains. They pick on ants, rats and anything smaller than them. They hide in terror when faced with bullies and get up to mischief when the lights are out. They are hundreds of thousands of years old and are plodding towards extinction.

Derived terms

• Chinese pangolin
• giant pangolin
• ground pangolin
• Indian pangolin
• long-tailed pangolin
• pangopup
• Philippine pangolin
• sea pangolin
• Sunda pangolin
• tree pangolin

Descendants

• → Catalan: pangolí
• → Irish: pangailin
• → Italian: pangolino
• → Welsh: pangolin

Translations

mammal

• Afrikaans: ietermagog (af), ietermagô (af)
• Albanian: pangolín m, pangolíni m
• Amis: 'alem, alem (Nataoran Amis)
• Armenian: թեփամորթ (hy) (tʻepʻamortʻ), պանգոլին (pangolin), թեփամողես (hy) (tʻepʻamoġes) (rare)
• Assamese: বন-ৰৌ (bon-rou)
• Asturian: folidoto m
• Bajau:

  West Coast Bajau: tenggiling

• Basque: folidoto
• Belarusian: пангалі́н m (panhalín)
• Bengali: বনরুই (bonorui)
• Bidayuh:

  Bau Bidayuh: wuom

• Breton: pangolined
• Bulgarian: люспеник (bg) m (ljuspenik), панголи́н (bg) m (pangolín)
• Bunun: halum
• Catalan: pangolí m
• Cherokee: ᎤᏯᏍᎦᏟᏳᏍᏗ (uyasgatliyusdi)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 穿山甲 (cyun¹ saan¹ gaap³)

  Eastern Min: 鯪鯉 / 鲮鲤 (lìng-lī)

  Hakka: 鰱鯉 / 鲢鲤 (lièn-lî)

  Hokkien: 鯪鯉 / 鲮鲤 (zh-min-nan) (lâ-lí), 穿山甲 (chhoan-san-kah), 濆仔 / 𣸣仔 (bùn-á), 石鯪魚 / 石鲮鱼 (chio̍h-lêng-hî, chio̍h-lêng-hû), 步山虎 (pō͘-soaⁿ-hó͘), 塗龜 / 涂龟, 塗龟 (thô͘-ku)

  Mandarin: 穿山甲 (zh) (chuānshānjiǎ), 鯪鯉 / 鲮鲤 (zh) (línglǐ), 龍鯉 / 龙鲤 (zh) (lónglǐ)

• Corsican: pangolinu m, pangulinu m
• Czech: luskoun (cs) m
• Danish: skældyr c
• Dutch: schubdier (nl) m
• Erzya: коткодавшуля (kotkodavšuľa)
• Esperanto: maniso
• Estonian: soomusloom
• Faroese: skeldýr n
• Finnish: muurahaiskäpy (fi)
• French: pangolin (fr) m, pangoline f
• Galician: folidoto m, pangolín (gl) m
• German: Schuppentier (de) n, Tannenzapfentier n
• Greek: παγκολίνος (el) m (pagkolínos)

  Ancient Greek: φαττάγης m (phattágēs)

• Hindi: सल्लू साँप (sallū sā̃p)
• Hungarian: tobzoska (hu)
• Indonesian: trenggiling (id)
• Irish: pangailin f
• Italian: pangolino (it) m
• Japanese: センザンコウ (ja) (senzankō), 穿山甲 (ja) (せんざんこう, senzankō)
• Kanakanabu: kaniarumi
• Kavalan: iRem
• Khmer: ពង្រូល (km) (pŭəngruul)
• Kimaragang: bulukun
• Korean: 천산갑 (ko) (cheonsan'gap)
• Lithuanian: skujuotis m
• Malay: tenggiling (ms), pengguling (ms)
• Malayalam: ഈനാമ്പേച്ചി (īnāmpēcci)
• Melanau:

  Central Melanau: aam

• Murut:

  Tagal Murut: bulukun

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: skjelldyr n, pangolin (no) m

  Nynorsk: skjeldyr n

• Occitan: folidòt m, pangolin m
• Polish: łuskowiec (pl) m anim
• Portuguese: pangolim m
• Punjabi: ਪੈਂਗੋਲਿਨ (paiṅgolin)
• Puyuma: arem
• Rukai: karadha
• Russian: панголи́н (ru) m (pangolín), я́щер (ru) m (jáščer)
• Saaroa: 'arʉmʉ
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: љускавац m, панголин m

  Latin: ljuskavac m, pangolin (sh) m

• Sicilian: pangulinu m
• Slovak: pangolín m, šupinavec m, šupinovec m
• Slovene: luskavec m
• Sotho: kgaha
• Spanish: pangolín (es) m
• Swahili: kakakuona (sw)
• Swedish: myrkott c
• Sylheti: ꠛꠘ-ꠞꠃ (bono-rou)
• Tagalog: panggolin
• Tamil: அழுங்கு (ta) (aḻuṅku), எறும்புத்தின்னி (ta) (eṟumputtiṉṉi)
• Taroko: arung
• Thai: นิ่ม (th) (nîm), ลิ่น (th) (lîn)
• Thao: qalhum
• Tsou: hiaemoza
• Turkish: pangolin
• Ukrainian: панголі́н m (panholín)
• Vietnamese: (con) tê tê (vi), (con) trút (vi)
• Volapük: manit
• Welsh: pangolin m
• Zhuang: linh
• Zulu: imfinyezi
• ǃXóõ: ǁɡū'm

Further reading

• Pholidota on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Malay pengguling.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɑ̃.ɡɔ.lɛ̃/

• Audio (France (Vosges)):

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• Audio (Switzerland (Valais)):

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• Rhymes: -ɛ̃
• Hyphenation: pan‧go‧lin

Noun

pangolin m (plural pangolins)

1. pangolin

Descendants

• → Portuguese: pangolim
• → Romanian: pangolin

Further reading

• “pangolin”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French pangolin.

Noun

pangolin m (plural pangolini)

1. pangolin

Declension

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	pangolin	pangolinul	pangolini	pangolinii
genitive-dative	pangolin	pangolinului	pangolini	pangolinilor
vocative	pangolinule		pangolinilor