varika
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Malagasy[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Related to Banjarese warik (“monkey”) and Ma'anyan warik (“monkey”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
varika
- brown lemur (Eulemur spp.)
- (by extension) any lemur
- Synonym: gidro
References[edit]
- Blench, Roger; Walsh, Martin (2011), “Faunal names in Malagasy: their etymologies and implications for the prehistory of the East African coast”, in 11th International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics[1], Aussois, France, pages 1–31
- Hébert, Jean-Claude (1964), “Les noms d'animaux en malgache”, in Civilisation Malgache[2], archived from the original on 2017-07-13, pages 299