pangolin

See also: pangolín

English

A pangolin raids a termite cathedral mound for a meal

A tree pangolin

Etymology

Borrowed from Malay pengguling, from peng- (“denominative prefix”) ‎ guling (“to roll”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpæŋɡəlɪn/, /pæŋˈɡoʊlɪn/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

pangolin (plural pangolins)

1. 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

   • 2022, Shehan Karunatilaka, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida, Sort Of Books, page 302:

     Like many Sri Lankans, pangolins have big tongues, thick hides and small brains. They pick on ants, rats and anything smaller than them. They hide in terror when faced with bullies and get up to mischief when the lights are out. They are hundreds of thousands of years old and are plodding towards extinction.

Derived terms

Derived terms

• Chinese pangolin
• giant pangolin
• ground pangolin
• Indian pangolin
• long-tailed pangolin
• Philippine pangolin
• Sunda pangolin
• tree pangolin
• pangopup

Translations

mammal

• Afrikaans: ietermagog, ietermagô
• Albanian: pangolín m, pangolíni m
• Amis: 'alem, alem (Nataoran Amis)
• Armenian: թեփամորթ (hy) (tʻepʻamortʻ), պանգոլին (pangolin), թեփամողես (hy) (tʻepʻamoġes) (rare)
• Assamese: বন-ৰৌ (bon-rou)
• Asturian: folidoto m
• Basque: folidoto
• Bau Bidayuh: wuom
• Belarusian: пангалі́н m (panhalín)
• Bengali: বনরুই (bonorui)
• Breton: pangolined
• 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)

  Eastern Min: 鯪鯉／鲮鲤 (lìng-lī)

  Hakka: 鰱鯉／鲢鲤 (lièn-lî)

  Hokkien: 鯪鯉／鲮鲤 (zh-min-nan) (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／涂龟, 塗龟 (thô͘-ku)

  Mandarin: 穿山甲 (zh) (chuānshānjiǎ), 鯪鯉／鲮鲤 (zh) (línglǐ), 龍鯉／龙鲤 (zh) (lónglǐ)

• Corsican: pangolinu m, pangulinu m
• Czech: luskoun (cs) m
• Danish: skældyr c
• Dutch: schubdier (nl) m
• Erzya: коткодавшуля (kotkodavšuľa)
• Esperanto: maniso
• Faroese: skeldýr n
• Finnish: muurahaiskäpy (fi)
• French: pangolin (fr) m, pangoline f
• Galician: folidoto m, pangolín (gl) m
• German: Schuppentier (de) n, Tannenzapfentier n
• Greek:

  Ancient: φαττάγης m (phattágēs)

• Hindi: सल्लू साँप (sallū sā̃p)
• Hungarian: tobzoska (hu)
• Indonesian: trenggiling (id)
• Irish: pangailin f
• Italian: pangolino (it) m
• Japanese: センザンコウ (ja) (senzankō), 穿山甲 (ja) (せんざんこう, senzankō)
• Kanakanabu: kaniarumi
• Kavalan: iRem
• Khmer: ពង្រូល (km) (pŭəngruul)
• Kimaragang: bulukun
• Korean: 천산갑 (ko) (cheonsan'gap)
• Lithuanian: skujuotis m
• Malay: tenggiling (ms), pengguling (ms)
• Malayalam: ഈനാമ്പേച്ചി (īnāmpēcci)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: skjelldyr n, pangolin (no) m

  Nynorsk: skjeldyr n

• Occitan: folidòt m, pangolin m
• Polish: łuskowiec (pl) m
• Portuguese: pangolim m
• Punjabi: ਪੈਂਗੋਲਿਨ (paiṅgolin)
• Rukai: karadha
• Russian: панголи́н (ru) m (pangolín), я́щер (ru) m (jáščer)
• Saaroa: 'arʉmʉ
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: љускавац m, панголин m

  Roman: ljuskavac m, pangolin (sh) m

• Sicilian: pangulinu m
• Slovak: pangolín m, šupinavec m, šupinovec m
• Slovene: luskavec m
• Sotho: kgaha
• Spanish: pangolín (es) m
• Swahili: kakakuona
• Swedish: myrkott c
• Sylheti: ꠛꠘ-ꠞꠃ (bono-rou)
• Tagal Murut: bulukun
• Tagalog: panggolin
• Taroko: arung
• Thai: นิ่ม (th) (nîm), ลิ่น (th) (lîn)
• Thao: qalhum
• Tsou: hiaemoza
• Turkish: pangolin
• Ukrainian: панголі́н m (panholín)
• Vietnamese: (con) tê tê (vi), (con) trút (vi)
• Volapük: manit
• Welsh: pangolin m
• West Coast Bajau: tenggiling
• Zhuang: linh
• Zulu: imfinyezi

Further reading

• Pholidota on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Malay pengguling.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɑ̃.ɡɔ.lɛ̃/

• Audio:

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• Audio (Switzerland):

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Noun

pangolin m (plural pangolins)

1. pangolin

Descendants

• → Romanian: pangolin

Further reading

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

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French pangolin.

Noun

pangolin m (plural pangolini)

1. pangolin

Declension

	singular			plural
	indefinite article	definite article		indefinite article	definite article
nominative/accusative	(un) pangolin	pangolinul		(niște) pangolini	pangolinii
genitive/dative	(unui) pangolin	pangolinului		(unor) pangolini	pangolinilor
vocative	pangolinule			pangolinilor