pangolin

English

A pangolin raids a termite cathedral mound for a meal.

A tree pangolin.

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

• Audio (UK)

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Noun

pangolin (plural pangolins)

1. The scaly anteater; any of several long-tailed, scale-covered mammals of the order Pholidota of tropical Africa and Asia, the sole extant genus of which is Manis.

   Synonyms: trenggiling, scaly anteater

Derived terms

Derived terms

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

Translations

mammal

• Afrikaans: ietermagog
• Amis: 'alem, alem (Nataoran Amis)
• Armenian: թեփամորթ (hy) (tʿepʿamortʿ), պանգոլին (pangolin), թեփամողես (hy) (tʿepʿamołes) (rare)
• Assamese: বন-ৰৌ (bon-rou)
• Asturian: folidoto m
• Basque: folidoto
• Bau Bidayuh: wuom
• Belarusian: пангалі́н m (panhalín)
• Bengali: বনরুই (bônrui)
• Breton: pangolined
• Bulgarian: люспеник (bg) m (ljuspenik), панголи́н (bg) m (pangolín)
• Bunun: halum
• Catalan: pangolí m
• Central Melanau: aam
• Cherokee: ᎤᏯᏍᎦᏟᏳᏍᏗ (uyasgatliyusdi)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 穿山甲 (cyun¹ saan¹ gaap³)

  Hakka: 鰱鯉, 鲢鲤 (lièn-lî)

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

  Min Dong: 鯪鯉 (lìng-lī)

  Min Nan: 鯪鯉 (zh-min-nan), 鲮鲤 (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, 塗龟 (thô͘-ku)

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

  Ancient: 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: eRem
• Khmer: ពង្រូល (km) (pŭəngruul)
• Kimaragang: bulukun
• Korean: 천산갑 (ko) (cheonsangap)
• Lithuanian: skujuotis m
• Malay: tenggiling, pengguling
• Malayalam: ഈനാമ്പേച്ചി (īnāmpēcci)
• Navajo: wóláchííʼ yildeełí bikágí ntłʼizí
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: skjelldyr n, pangolin (no) m

  Nynorsk: skjeldyr n

• Occitan: folidòt m, pangolin m
• Portuguese: pangolim m
• Punjabi: ਪੈਂਗੋਲਿਨ (paiṅgolin)
• Rukai: karadha
• Russian: панголи́н (ru) m (pangolín), я́щер (ru) m (jáščer)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: љускавац m, панголин m

  Roman: ljuskavac m, pangolin (sh) m

• Sicilian: pangulinu m
• Sotho: kgaha
• Spanish: pangolín (es) m
• Swahili: kakakuona
• Swedish: myrkott c
• Sylheti: ꠛꠘ-ꠞꠃ (bono-rou)
• Tagal Murut: bulukun
• Tagalog: panggolin
• Taroko: arung
• Thai: นิ่ม (th) (nîm), ลิ่น (th) (lîn)
• Thao: qalhum
• Tsou: hiaemoza
• Ukrainian: панголі́н m (panholín)
• Vietnamese: (con) tê tê (vi), (con) trút (vi)
• Volapük: manit
• Welsh: pangolin m
• West Coast Bajau: tenggiling
• Zulu: imfinyezi

Further reading

• pangolin on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Pholidota on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

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French

Etymology

Borrowed from Malay pengguling.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɑ̃.ɡɔ.lɛ̃/

• Audio

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• Audio (Switzerland)

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Noun

pangolin m (plural pangolins)

1. pangolin

Further reading

• “pangolin” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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Romanian

Etymology

From French pangolin.

Noun

pangolin m (plural pangolini)

1. pangolin

Declension

Declension of pangolin

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) pangolin	pangolinul	(niște) pangolini	pangolinii
genitive/dative	(unui) pangolin	pangolinului	(unor) pangolini	pangolinilor
vocative	pangolinule		pangolinilor