wallaby

See also: Wallaby

English

Red-necked wallaby (Notamacropus rufogriseus)

Etymology

Borrowed from Dharug wollabi (“swamp wallaby”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈwɒləbi/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈwɑləbi/

• Audio (US):

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Noun

wallaby (plural wallabies)

1. Any of several species of macropod marsupials; usually smaller and stockier than kangaroos.
   • 2015 September 14, Oliver Milman, “California set to ban kangaroo imports despite lobbying efforts by Australia”, in The Guardian‎^[1], archived from the original on 12 March 2021:

     Australia’s states and territories oversee management of kangaroos and wallabies but the federal government is involved in exports.

Derived terms

• agile wallaby
• antilopine wallaby
• banded hare-wallaby
• Bennett's wallaby
• black-footed rock wallaby
• black-gloved wallaby
• black-striped wallaby
• black-tailed wallaby
• black wallaby
• central hare-wallaby
• dama wallaby
• eastern hare-wallaby
• hare-wallaby
• little rock wallaby
• nail-tailed wallaby
• nail-tail wallaby
• nailtail wallaby
• on the wallaby
• on the wallaby track
• parma wallaby
• pretty-faced wallaby
• pretty-face wallaby
• red-necked wallaby
• rock-wallaby
• scrub wallaby
• spectacled hare-wallaby
• swamp wallaby
• tammar wallaby
• toolache wallaby
• tree wallaby
• wallaby grass
• western brush wallaby
• whiptail wallaby
• white-throated wallaby

Descendants

• → Catalan: ualabi
• → Dutch: wallaby
• → Finnish: vallabi
• → French: wallaby
• → German: Wallaby
• → Irish: valbaí
• → Italian: wallaby
• → Japanese: ワラビー (warabī)
• → Māori: warapī
• → New Latin: Wallabia
• → Polish: walabia
• → Portuguese: wallaby
• → Russian: валлаби (vallabi)
• → Spanish: ualabí

Translations

any of several species of marsupial

• Abau: pareis
• Adnyamathanha: andu, unda
• Amurdag: malayiwar
• Assamese: ওৱালাবি (üalabi)
• Barngarla: yoombala, yooridni
• Bulgarian: вид дребно кенгуру (vid drebno kenguru)
• Catalan: ualabi m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 小袋鼠 (zh) (xiǎodàishǔ), 沙袋鼠 (shādàishǔ)

• Czech: klokan wallaby m
• Dharug: wollabi
• Dutch: wallaby (nl) m or f
• Dyaabugay: dulbil
• Dyirbal: barrgan
• Finnish: vallabi (fi), kenguru (fi)
• French: wallaby (fr) m
• German: Wallaby (de) n
• Hebrew: וַלַּבִּי m (wállabi)
• Hiri Motu: magani
• Irish: valbaí m
• Italian: wallaby m
• Japanese: ワラビー (ja) (warabī)
• Kaurna: kurnta, kunadna, wadlha
• Kayardild: karnjina
• Korean: 왈라비 (wallabi)
• Malay: walabi
• Māori: warapī
• Narungga: gandu
• Ngadjuri: wadla (scrub wallaby), gandu (rock wallaby), gunda (small wallaby)
• Ngarrindjeri: pargi, wargi
• Nukunu: kaantu
• Polish: walabia (pl) f
• Portuguese: wallaby (pt) m
• Russian: ва́ллаби (ru) m (vállabi)
• Samoan: walopi
• Spanish: ualabí m
• Tagalog: walabi
• Tok Pisin: magani
• Turkish: valabi
• Welsh: walabi
• Woiwurrung: wimbirr

See also

• joey
• kangaroo
• marsupial
• boomer
• Wallabies

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English wallaby, from Dharug wollabi.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /wa.la.bi/

Noun

wallaby m (plural wallabies or wallabys)

1. wallaby

Further reading

• “wallaby”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

Italian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English wallaby, from Dharug wollabi.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈwal.la.bi/
• Rhymes: -allabi
• Hyphenation: wàl‧la‧by

Noun

wallaby m (invariable)

1. wallaby

Further reading

• “wallaby” in garzantilinguistica.it – Garzanti Linguistica, De Agostini Scuola Spa
• “wallaby” in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication
• wallaby in sapere.it – De Agostini Editore
• “wallaby”, in Vocabolario Treccani on line (in Italian), Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana, 2026

Portuguese

Etymology

Etymology tree

Dharug wollabi

English wallabyubor.

Portuguese wallaby

Unadapted borrowing from English wallaby, from Dharug wollabi.

Noun

wallaby m (plural wallabies)

1. wallaby (any of several Australian species of marsupial)