English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowing from Malay penggoling, from peng- (denominative prefix) + goling (to roll)
Pronunciation[edit]
pangolin (plural pangolins)
- 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[edit]
Translations[edit]
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
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