monitor lizard

English

Wikispecies

Etymology

From the obsolete taxa Monitor and Lacerta monitor now displaced by Varanus within the single-species family Varanidae. The word Monitor is a calque of German Warner, which is a loanword from Arabic وَرَن‎ (waran). The conflation of the two words was encouraged by the lizards' habit of standing on their hind legs and appearing to monitor their surroundings.

Noun

monitor lizard (plural monitor lizards)

Any of various large carnivorous lizards of the family Varanidae, all of whose extant species are of genus Varanus, native to Africa, Asia and Australia.
Synonym: safeguard

Translations

lizard of the genus Varanus

Arabic: وَرَل‎ m (waral)
Assamese: গুঁই (gũi), গুঁই সাপ (gũi xap)
Bau Bidayuh: biowak
Belarusian: вара́н m (varán)
Bengali: গুই সাপ (bn) (gui sap), গুইসাপ (guisap), গোসাপ (gosap)
Bikol Central: guto
Bulgarian: вара́н (bg) m (varán)
Burmese: ဖွတ် (my) (hpwat)
Catalan: varà (ca) m
Central Melanau: kelibui, alou
Chichewa: gondwa
Chinese:
Mandarin: 巨蜥 (zh) (jùxī)
Czech: varan m
Danish: varan c
Dutch: varaan (nl) m
Esperanto: varano
Estonian: varaan
Finnish: varaani (fi)
French: varan (fr) m, goanna (fr) f
German: Waran (de) m
Hebrew: כּוֹחַ‎ (he) m (kóaẖ)
Hindi: गोह (hi) f (goh), गोधा (hi) f (godhā)
Hungarian: varánusz (hu)
Ido: varano (io)
Indonesian: biawak (id)
Irish: laghairt mhonatóra f
Italian: varano (it)
Japanese: オオトカゲ (ja) (ōtokage), 大蜥蜴 (おおとかげ, ōtokage)
Kalmyk: мигүл (migül)
Kapampangan: timbabalak
Kazakh: кесел (kesel)
Korean: 왕도마뱀 (ko) (wangdomabaem)
Latvian: varāns m
Lithuanian: varanas m
Luo: ng'ech
Macedonian: варан m (varan)
Malay: biawak (ms)
Persian: بزمجه‎ (fa) (bozmajje, bozmaje)
Polish: waran (pl) m
Portuguese: varano m, lagarto-monitor m, monitor (pt) m
Punjabi: ਗੋਹ m (goh)
Russian: вара́н (ru) m (varán)
Sanskrit: गोधा (sa) f (godhā)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: варан m
Roman: varan (sh) m
Shor: қомдат
Slovak: varan (sk) m
Slovene: varan m
Spanish: varano
Sundanese: bayawak (su)
Swahili: kenge
Swedish: varan (sv)
Tagal Murut: andaatan
Tagalog: bayawak
Tausug: bibang
Thai: เหี้ย (th) (hîia)
Ukrainian: вара́н (uk) m (varán)
Vietnamese: kì đà
West Coast Bajau: paang
Wolof: mbag mi

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