iguana

iguana

English

marine iguanas (Amblyrhynchus cristatus)

Etymology

From Spanish iguana, from Taíno *iwana.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ɪ.ɡjuˈɑːnə/, /ɪˈɡwɑːnə/

• Audio (UK)

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• (US) enPR: ĭ-gwäʹ-nə, IPA^(key): /ɪˈɡwɑnə/, /əˈɡwɑnə/
• Rhymes: -ɑːnə

Noun

iguana (plural iguanas)

1. A green iguana (Iguana iguana), a large tropical American lizard often kept as a pet.
2. (zoology) Any member of the genus Iguana.
3. Colloquially, in America and the Pacific, any of several members of the lizard family Iguanidae.
4. Colloquially, in Africa, any large member of the genus Varanus, especially the aquatic Nile monitor (see leguan).
5. (Australia, formerly) Any member of the genus Varanus (see goanna).
   • 1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 161:

     The last they had had, was an iguana one of the blacks had brought in; and though he felt disgusted at the idea of eating it, he made up into a kind of stew, and they both enjoyed it immensely.

Derived terms

terms derived from iguana

• American iguana (Iguana iguana)
• black iguana (Ctenosaura similis)
• black spiny-tailed iguana (Ctenosaura similis)
• blue iguana (Cyclura lewisi)
• desert iguana (Dipsosaurus dorsalis)
• eastern casquehead iguana (Laemanctus longipes)
• Fiji banded iguana (Brachylophus fasciatus)
• Fiji crested iguana (Brachylophus vitiensis)
• green iguana (Iguana iguana)
• ground iguana (Cyclura spp.)
• guana
• helmeted iguana (Corytophanes cristatus)
• iguanoid
• Jamaican iguana (Cyclura collei)
• land iguana (Conolophus spp.)
• lesser antillean iguana (Iguana delicatissima)
• marine iguana (Amblyrhynchus cristatus)
• Mona island iguana (Cyclura cornuta stejnegeri)
• pink iguana (Conolophus marthae)
• rhino iguana/rhinoceros iguana (Cyclura cornuta)
• rock iguana (Cyclura spp.)
• Tarapaca Pacific iguana (Microlophus tarapacensis)

Translations

any of several members of the lizard family Iguanidae

Arabic: إِغْوَانَا‎ f (ʾiḡwānā) Belarusian: ігуа́на f (ihuána) Bikol Central: layagan (bcl) Bulgarian: игуа́на (bg) f (iguána) Catalan: iguana (ca) f Chamicuro: kamashe Chinese: Mandarin: 鬣蜥 (zh) (lièxī) Dutch: leguaan (nl) m, iguana (nl) m Esperanto: igvano Finnish: leguaani French: iguane (fr) f German: Leguan (de) m Greek: ιγκουάνα f (igkouána) Guerrero Nahuatl: kojketspalin Gujarati: ઘો (gho) Hebrew: איגואנה‎ Ido: iguano (io) Inabaknon: layagan Indonesian: iguana Irish: ioguána m Italian: iguana (it) f Japanese: イグアナ (ja) (iguana) Korean: 이구아나 (ko) (iguana) Mon: ဓကောတ် (mnw) Macedonian: игуана f (iguana) Malay: iguana Navajo: naʼashǫ́ʼiitsoh Pali: godhā f Pangasinan: basakay, tilay Persian: (please verify) ایگوانا‎ (igvânâ) Polish: iguana (pl) f, legwan (pl) m Portuguese: iguana (pt) f Romanian: iguană (ro) f Russian: игуа́на (ru) f (iguána) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: игуана f Roman: iguana (sh) f Spanish: iguana (es) f Swedish: leguan (sv) c Tagalog: bayawak Thai: อิกัวนา (ì-guua-nâa) Turkish: iguana (tr) Ukrainian: ігуа́на f (ihuána) Vietnamese: kỳ nhông, cự đà Volapük: liguan Welsh: igwana m

any member of the genus Iguana

Chamicuro: kamashe Czech: leguán m Dutch: leguaan (nl) m Finnish: iguaani (fi) German: Leguan (de) m Italian: iguana (it) f Malay: iguana Navajo: naʼashǫ́ʼiitsoh Polish: iguana (pl) f, legwan (pl) m Portuguese: iguana (pt) f Romanian: iguană (ro) f Spanish: iguana (es) f Turkish: iguana (tr) Volapük: leguan m or f, hileguan m, jileguan f; (offspring) leguanül m or f, hileguanül m, jileguanül f

a green iguana (Iguana iguana)

Bulgarian: игуана (bg) f (iguana) Dutch: leguaan (nl) m Finnish: iguaani (fi) German: grüner Leguan m Guerrero Amuzgo: kítzkó Hungarian: iguána Italian: iguana (it) f Navajo: naʼashǫ́ʼiitsoh dootłʼizhígíí Polish: legwan zielony Portuguese: iguana (pt) f Romanian: iguană (ro) f Russian: игуа́на (ru) f (iguána) Spanish: iguana (es) f Swedish: grön leguan c Turkish: iguana (tr)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

Isthmus Zapotec: (please verify) guchachiʼ, (please verify) guiu (small)

References

• iguana at OneLook Dictionary Search
• iguana in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911
• Iguana on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Iguana on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Iguana on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Anagrams

• Guiana, Inagua

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Galician

Noun

iguana f (plural iguanas)

1. iguana

Further reading

• “iguana” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.

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Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /iˈɡwa.na/
• Rhymes: -ana
• Hyphenation: i‧guà‧na

Noun

iguana f (plural iguane)

1. iguana

Anagrams

• Guiana, agunai, guaina

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Japanese

Romanization

iguana

1. Rōmaji transcription of イグアナ

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Kikuyu

Etymology

Reciprocal form of kũigua (“to hear”);[1] literally, “to hear each other”.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /iɣuana/

Verb

iguana (infinitive kũiguana)

1. to agree[1]
2. to be reconciled[1]
3. to be in one mind[1]
4. to be friendly[1]

   Nĩmũiguanĩte ta gĩkwa na mũkũngũgũ.

   You (plural) agree like David and Jonathan.[2]

Related terms

(Nouns)

• ũiguano class 14

References

1. “igua” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 183. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
2. Barra, G. (1960). 1,000 Kikuyu proverbs: with translations and English equivalents, p. 85. London: Macmillan.

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Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish iguana, from Taíno *iwana.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /i.ɡuˈa.na/

• Audio

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• Rhymes: -ana
• Syllabification: i‧gu‧a‧na

Noun

iguana f

1. iguana

   Synonym: legwan

Declension

Declension of iguana

	singular	plural
nominative	iguana	iguany
genitive	iguany	iguan
dative	iguanie	iguanom
accusative	iguanę	iguany
instrumental	iguaną	iguanami
locative	iguanie	iguanach
vocative	iguano	iguany

Further reading

• iguana in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• iguana in Polish dictionaries at PWN

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Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /iˈɡwɐ̃.nɐ/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /iˈɡwɐ̃.nɐ/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /iˈɡwɐ.na/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /iˈɡwɐ.nɐ/ [iˈɣwɐ.nɐ]

Noun

iguana f (plural iguanas)

1. iguana

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Spanish

Etymology

From Taíno *iwana.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /iˈɡwana/ [iˈɣ̞wa.na]

• Audio (Spain)

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ana
• Syllabification: i‧gua‧na

Noun

iguana f (plural iguanas)

1. iguana

Descendants

• → Dutch: leguaan
  • Afrikaans: likkewaan
  • Berbice Creole Dutch: linggwana
  • → German: Leguan
  • → Sranan Tongo: legwana
    • → Caribbean Hindustani: lagwáná
• → English: iguana
• → French: iguane
• → Japanese: イグアナ

Further reading

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

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Turkish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [iɡʋˈɑnɑ]
• Hyphenation: i‧gu‧a‧na

Noun

iguana (definite accusative iguanayı, plural iguanalar)

1. iguana

Declension

Inflection
Nominative	iguana
Definite accusative	iguanayı
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	iguana	iguanalar
Definite accusative	iguanayı	iguanaları
Dative	iguanaya	iguanalara
Locative	iguanada	iguanalarda
Ablative	iguanadan	iguanalardan
Genitive	iguananın	iguanaların