noctule

English

Etymology

Late 18th century: via French, from New Latin noctula, from noctua (“small owl”, from nox, noctis, “night”) +‎ -ula (diminutive suffix). Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *nókʷts (“night”).

Pronunciation

(UK) IPA^(key): /ˈnɒktjuːl/
(US) IPA^(key): /ˈnɑktʃul/

Noun

noctule (plural noctules)

A bat, of the genus Nyctalus, that lives in tree hollows.
- For quotations of use of this term, see Citations:noctule.
Hyponyms: Azores noctule, birdlike noctule, Chinese noctule, common noctule, greater noctule bat, Japanese noctule, lesser noctule, mountain noctule

Translations

bat of the genus Nyctalus

Albanian: noktulë f
Armenian: իրիկնաչղջիկ (iriknačʿłǰik)
Azerbaijani: axşam yarasası
Basque: gau-saguzar
Belarusian: вячэ́рніца f (vjačérnica)
Breton: nozigell f
Bulgarian: вечерник m (večernik)
Catalan: nòctul m
Chinese:
Cantonese: 山蝠 (saan¹ fuk¹), 夜蝠 (je⁶ fuk¹)
Mandarin: 山蝠 (zh) (shānfú), 夜蝠 (yèfú)
Dutch: vroegvlieger m
Estonian: videvlane
Finnish: isolepakko
French: noctule (fr) f
Georgian: მეღამურა (meɣamura)
German: Abendsegler m
Hungarian: koraidenevér
Italian: nottola f
Japanese: 山蝙蝠 (やまこうもり, yamakōmori), ヤマコウモリ (yamakōmori)

Korean: 멧박쥐 (metbakjwi)
Lithuanian: nakviša f
Norwegian:
Bokmål: storflaggermus m or f
Nynorsk: storflaggermus f
Persian: خفاش جنگلی‎ (xoffâš jangali)
Polish: borowiec (pl) m
Portuguese: morcego-arborícola m, morcego arborícola m
Russian: вече́рница (ru) f (večérnica)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: но̏ћнӣк m
Roman: nȍćnīk (sh) m
Slovak: raniak m
Slovene: mračnik m
Spanish: nóctulo m
Swedish: brunfladdermus c
Thai: ค้างคาวกินแมลง (káang-kaao gin má-lɛɛng)
Ukrainian: вечі́рниця f (večírnycja)
Venetian: nòtoła f
Western Panjabi: نائکٹالس‎ m (nāykṭālas)

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