tanuki

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English

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A tanuki or raccoon dog (Nyctereutes procyonoides)
Raccoon dog

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Japanese (たぬき) (tanuki, raccoon dog).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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tanuki (plural tanuki or tanukis)

  1. The raccoon dog, Nyctereutes procyonoides.
    Synonym: mangut
    • 2023 May 28, Nadia Asparouhova, “Remembering GitHub's Office, a Monument to Tech Culture”, in Wired[1], →ISSN:
      At my onboarding, I was told that one of GitHub's employees identified as a tanuki, a Japanese raccoon dog—this was fine.
  2. (Japanese mythology) A folkloric figure in the form of a tanuki, regarded as a shapeshifter and renowned for its enormous scrotum and testicles.
  3. The joining of a living bonsai tree to a piece of dead wood for aesthetic effect.

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Cebuano

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Japanese (たぬき, tanuki, raccoon dog).

Pronunciation

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  • Hyphenation: ta‧nu‧ki

Noun

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tanuki

  1. a raccoon dog (Nyctereutes procyonoides)

Japanese

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Romanization

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tanuki

  1. Rōmaji transcription of たぬき
  2. Rōmaji transcription of タヌキ

Portuguese

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Etymology

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Unadapted borrowing from Japanese (たぬき, tanuki, raccoon dog).

Noun

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tanuki m (plural tanukis)

  1. raccoon dog; tanuki (Nyctereutes procyonoides, a canid of East Asia)