pangolin

English

A pangolin raids a termite cathedral mound for a meal.

A tree pangolin.

Etymology

Borrowing from Malay penggoling, from peng- (denominative prefix) + goling (to roll)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpæŋɡoʊˌlɪn/

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

Translations

mammal

• Afrikaans: ietermagog
• Amis: 'alem
• Assamese: বন-ৰৌ (bôn-rôu)
• Bau Bidayuh: wuom
• Belarusian: пангалі́н m (panhalín)
• Bengali: বনরুই (bônrui)
• 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 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)

• Erzya: коткодавшуля (kotkodavšulja)
• Esperanto: maniso
• Finnish: muurahaiskäpy (fi)
• French: pangolin (fr) m, pangoline f
• German: Schuppentier (de) n, Tannenzapfentier n
• Hindi: सल्लू साँप (sallū sā̃p)
• Hungarian: tobzoska (hu)
• Indonesian: trenggiling (id)
• Irish: pangailin f
• Italian: pangolino m
• Japanese: センザンコウ (senzankō), 穿山甲 (ja) (せんざんこう, senzankō)
• Kanakanabu: kaniarumi
• Kavalan: eRem

• Kimaragang: bulukun
• Korean: 천산갑 (ko) (cheonsan-gap)
• Malay: tenggiling, pengguling
• Nataoran Amis: alem
• Navajo: wóláchííʼ yildeełí bikágí ntłʼizí
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: skjelldyr n, pangolin (no) m

  Nynorsk: skjeldyr n

• Portuguese: pangolim m
• Rukai: karadha
• Russian: панголи́н (ru) m (pangolín), я́щер (ru) m (jáščer)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: љускавац m, панголин m

  Roman: ljuskavac m, pangolin (sh) m

• Sotho: kgaha
• Spanish: pangolín (es) m
• Swahili: kakakuona
• Sylheti: ꠛꠘ-ꠞꠃ (bon-rou)
• Tagal Murut: bulukun
• Tagalog: balintong
• Taroko: arung
• Thai: นิ่ม (nîm), ลิ่น (lîn)
• Thao: qalhum
• Tsou: hiaemoza
• Ukrainian: панголі́н m (panholín)
• Vietnamese: (con) tê tê (vi), (con) trút (vi)
• Volapük: manit
• West Coast Bajau: tenggiling

Further reading

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