panther

See also: Panther

English

Wikispecies

A panther.

A modern depiction (resembling that found on a 1900s book plate) of the multicolored panther of the dukes of Beaufort, on the viewer's left.

A depiction from the 1440s of the heraldic panther of Styria.

Etymology

From Middle English panter, panther, pantere, from Old French pantere, from Latin panthēra, from Ancient Greek πάνθηρ (pánthēr, “panther”).

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈpænθɚ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈpænθə/
• (Southern American English, obsolete) IPA^(key): /ˈpæntə(ɹ)/, /ˈpeɪntə(ɹ)/

• Audio (Southern England)

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Noun

panther (plural panthers)

1. Any of various big cats with black fur; most especially, the black-coated leopard of Africa and Asia.
2. Any big cat of the genus Panthera.
3. A cougar; especially the Florida panther.
4. (slang) A girl, especially a young one, who pursues older men.

   Antonyms: cougar, cradle robber, cub

5. (mythology, heraldry) A creature resembling a big cat, typically incensed (“emitting fire”), and often having a multicolored hide, found in Ancient Greek mythology and in medieval and later heraldry (in which its depiction sometimes approaches that of a horse).

Derived terms

• black panther
• mountain panther
• panther cap
• Panther Creek
• pantheress
• pantherlike
• panther lily
• sea panther
• snow panther

 

Translations

big cat with black fur

• Abkhaz: please add this translation if you can
• Arabic: نَمِر أَسْوَد m (namir ʔaswad), فَهْد (ar) m (fahd)
• Armenian: հովազ (hy) (hovaz)
• Assamese: ঘোং (ghüṅ)
• Azerbaijani: panter
• Belarusian: пантэ́ра f (pantéra)
• Bulgarian: панте́ра (bg) f (pantéra)
• Chechen: please add this translation if you can
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 黑豹 (hēibào), 豹子 (zh) (bàozi), 豹 (zh) (bào)

• Czech: panter m
• Danish: panter c
• Dutch: panter (nl)
• Esperanto: nigra pantero
• Finnish: musta pantteri
• French: panthère noire (fr) f
• Galician: pantera negra f
• Georgian: ავაზა (avaza), ჯიქი (ka) (ǯiki), პანტერა (ṗanṭera)
• German: Panther (de) m, Panter (de) m
• Greek: πάνθηρας (el) m (pánthiras)
• Hebrew: פַּנְתֵּר שָׁחֹר m (pantér šaḥór)
• Hungarian: fekete párduc
• Icelandic: pardusdýr (is) n
• Italian: pantera nera f
• Japanese: 豹 (ja) (ひょう, hyō), パンサー (pansā)
• Korean: 흑표범 (heukpyobeom)
• Latvian: melnā pantera
• Laz: please add this translation if you can
• Malay: harimau kumbang (ms), harimau peturun
• Malayalam: കരിമ്പുലി (karimpuli)
• Maori: panata
• Middle English: panter
• Middle Persian: 𐭯𐭫𐭭𐭪𐭩 (plnky /⁠palang⁠/)
• Mingrelian: please add this translation if you can
• Norman: nièr léopard m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: panter (no) m

  Nynorsk: panter m

• Occitan: pantèra (oc) f
• Persian: پلنگ (fa) (palang)
• Polish: pantera (pl) f
• Portuguese: pantera-negra f
• Romanian: panteră neagră (ro)
• Russian: панте́ра (ru) f (pantɛ́ra)
• Scottish Gaelic: paindeal
• Spanish: pantera negra (es) f
• Swedish: panter (sv) c
• Tagalog: pantera
• Thai: เสือดำ (sʉ̌ʉa-dam)
• Turkish: panter (tr)
• Ukrainian: панте́ра f (pantéra)
• Vietnamese: báo đen
• Wolof: segg mu ñuul

big cat of genus Panthera

• Arabic: نَمِر (ar) m (namir), نِمْر (ar) m (nimr), نَمِر أَسْوَد m (namir ʔaswad), فَهْد (ar) m (fahd)
• Armenian: հովազ (hy) (hovaz)
• Cherokee: ᏢᏓᏥ (tlvdatsi)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 黑豹 (hēi bào), 豹子 (zh) (bàozi), 豹 (zh) (bào)

• Coptic: ϫⲓⲕⲣⲏⲥ (čikrēs)
• Danish: panter
• Dutch: panter (nl) m
• Egyptian: (ꜣby m)
• Esperanto: pantero
• Finnish: suurkissa
• French: panthère (fr) f
• Galician: pantera (gl) f
• Georgian: ჯიქი (ka) (ǯiki), ავაზა (avaza)
• German: Panther (de) m
• Greek: πάνθηρας (el) m (pánthiras)

  Ancient: πάνθηρ m (pánthēr)

• Hungarian: párduc (hu)
• Italian: pantera (it)
• Japanese: 豹 (ja) (ひょう, hyō), ヒョウ (ja) (hyō), パンサー (pansā)
• Kazakh: бабыр (babyr)
• Latvian: pantera f
• Malay: harimau (ms)
• Middle English: panter
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: panter (no) m

  Nynorsk: panter m

• Persian: پلنگ (fa) (palang)
• Polish: pantera (pl) f
• Portuguese: pantera (pt) f
• Romanian: panteră (ro) f
• Russian: панте́ра (ru) f (pantɛ́ra)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Roman: pantera (sh) f

• Swedish: panter (sv)
• Tagalog: pantera
• Thai: เสือดำ (sʉ̌ʉa-dam)
• Turkish: panter (tr), pars (tr)

Further reading

• “panther” in Collins English Dictionary, 12th edition, Glasgow: Collins, 2014, →ISBN; reproduced on TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2024.

Anagrams

• Penarth, parthen-

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• Hyphenation: pan‧ther

Noun

panther m (plural panthers, diminutive panthertje n)

1. Obsolete form of panter.

Middle English

Noun

panther

1. Alternative form of panter (“panther”)