guanaco

guanaco

See also: guanacó

English

A guanaco

Wikispecies

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish guanaco, from Quechua wanaku.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡwəˈnɑːkəʊ/

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Noun

guanaco (plural guanacos or guanacoes)

1. A South American ruminant (Lama guanicoe), closely related to the other lamoids, the alpaca, llama, and vicuña in the family Camelidae.

Synonyms

• (obsolete) Auchenia huanaco

Hypernyms

• camelid

Hyponyms

• chulengo (a young guanaco)

Coordinate terms

• (Camelids) camelid; camel (dromedary, Bactrian camel), llama, guanaco, alpaca, vicuna/vicuña ^{(Category: en:Camelids)}

Translations

Lama guanicoe

Arabic: please add this translation if you can Armenian: please add this translation if you can Belarusian: гуанака (huanaka) Bulgarian: дива лама f (diva lama) Chinese: Mandarin: 原駝／原驼 (yuántuo) Czech: guanako Dutch: guanaco (nl) Finnish: guanako (fi) French: guanaco (fr) m German: Guanako (de) n, Huanako n Interlingua: guanaco Irish: guanacó m Italian: guanaco m Japanese: グアナコ (guanako) Korean: 과나코 (gwanako) Macedonian: гва́нако n (gvánako) Norwegian: Bokmål: guanako m Nynorsk: guanako m Portuguese: guanaco (pt) m Quechua: wanaku Romanian: guanaco (ro) m Russian: гуана́ко (ru) n (guanáko) Spanish: guanaco (es) m Swedish: guanaco (sv) c Ukrainian: please add this translation if you can Volapük: huanak Yámana: amára

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Dutch

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Noun

guanaco m (plural guanaco's, diminutive guanacootje n)

1. guanaco

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French

Pronunciation

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Noun

guanaco m (plural guanacos)

1. guanaco

Further reading

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

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Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish guanaco, from Quechua wanaku.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡwaˈna.ko/
• Rhymes: -ako
• Hyphenation: gua‧nà‧co

Noun

guanaco m (plural guanachi)

1. guanaco (Lama guanicoe)

   Hypernym: camelide

Further reading

• guanaco on the Italian Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^it
• guanaco in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
• guanaco in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication

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Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish guanaco, from Quechua wanaku.[1][2]

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ɡwaˈna.ku/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ɡwaˈna.ku/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ɡwaˈna.ko/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɡwɐˈna.ku/

• Hyphenation: gua‧na‧co

Noun

guanaco m (plural guanacos)

1. guanaco (Lama guanicoe, a ruminant of South America)

References

1. “guanaco” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2023.
2. “guanaco” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

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Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Quechua wanaku.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡwaˈnako/ [ɡwaˈna.ko]

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• Rhymes: -ako
• Syllabification: gua‧na‧co

Noun

guanaco m (plural guanacos)

1. guanaco
2. (colloquial, Chile) water cannon used for riot control

Hyponyms

• chulengo (young guanaco)

Descendants

• → Portuguese: guanaco

Adjective

guanaco (feminine guanaca, masculine plural guanacos, feminine plural guanacas)

1. (colloquial, Central America) Salvadoran, pertaining to El Salvador

   Synonyms: salvadoreño, cuscatleco

Alternative forms

• huanaco

Further reading

• “guanaco”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014