fennec

fennec

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic فَنَك‎ (fanak).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɛnɪk/
  • Homophone: Fenwick

Noun

fennec (plural fennecs)

1. A small fox of the species Vulpes zerda, found in the Sahara (excluding the coast) and having distinctive oversized ears.

Synonyms

• desert fox
• fennec fox

Translations

fox

Arabic: فَنَك‎ m (fanak) Bulgarian: фенек m (fenek) Catalan: fennec m Chinese: Mandarin: 耳廓狐 (zh) (ěrkuòhú), 耳郭狐 (ěrguōhú), 𦗒狐 (guōhú) Czech: fenek (cs) m Dutch: fennek (nl) m Egyptian: please add this translation if you can Esperanto: feneko Finnish: aavikkokettu (fi) French: fennec (fr) m Fula: please add this translation if you can German: Fennek (de) m Hausa: Fennec m Hebrew: פֶנֶק‎ (he) m (féneq) Italian: fennec m Japanese: フェネックギツネ (fenekku-gitsune), フェネック (ja) (fenekku) Kazakh: қалқанқұлақ түлкі (qalqanqūlaq tülkı), фенек (fenek) Korean: 페넥여우 (peneg-yeou), 사막여우 (samag-yeou) Maltese: volpi tad-deżert m Mongolian: цөлийн үнэг (cöliin üneg) Navajo: Mąʼii bijaaʼtsohí Norwegian: ørkenrev m Polish: fenek (pl) m Portuguese: feneco m Romanian: fenec (ro) m Russian: фе́нек (ru) m (fének) Spanish: fénec m Swedish: fennek c, ökenräv c Tuareg: please add this translation if you can Vietnamese: cáo Fennec, cáo tai to châu Phi Welsh: ffennec Wolof: please add this translation if you can Yoruba: kọ̀lọ̀kọ̀lọ̀

Further reading

• Fennec fox on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Vulpes zerda on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

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French

Pronunciation

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Noun

fennec m (plural fennecs)

1. fennec

Further reading

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

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Italian

Etymology

From Arabic فَنَك‎ (fanak).

Noun

fennec m (invariable)

1. fennec