peccary

peccary

English

collared peccary, Pecari tajacu

Etymology

From Galibi Carib pakira

Noun

peccary (plural peccaries)

1. Any of the family Tayassuidae of mammals from the Americas related to pigs and hippos

Synonyms

• javelina (Southwest US, from Mexican Spanish 'jabalina')

Derived terms

• Chacoan peccary (Catagonus wagneri)
• collared peccary (Pecari tajacu)
• white-lipped peccary (Tayassu pecari)
• giant peccary (Pecari maximus)

Translations

a family of mammals related to pigs and hippos

Arabic: بِيكَارْيَة‎ f (pikarya) Catalan: pècari m Chinese: Mandarin: 西貒, 西猯 (xītuān), 西趪 (xīhuáng), 野豬 (zh), 野猪 (zh) (yězhū) Dutch: pekari Finnish: pekari (fi) French: pécari (fr) m German: Nabelschweine, Pekari m Hungarian: pekari

Italian: pecari (it) m Japanese: 臍猪 (ヘソイノシシ, hesoinoshishi) Korean: 산돼지류 (sandwaejiryu) Navajo: Shádiʼááhdę́ę́ʼ bisóodi diʼilígíí Portuguese: pecari m, queixada (pt) m Romanian: pecari (ro) m Russian: пе́кари (ru) m (pékari) Spanish: pecarí (es) m, báquiro m (Venezuela), chancho de monte m (Argentina, Bolivia, El Salvador, Honduras), coche de monte m (Guatemala), jabalí m (Mexico), jabalina f (Mexico), saíno (es) m, (Colombia, Costa Rica, Panama), sahíno m (Ecuador, Nicaragua), sajino m (Peru)