babirusa

See also: babi rusa

English

From scientific Latin babyroussa (later as specific name), and its source, Malay babi rusa, from babi (“pig”) + rusa (“deer”).

babirusa (plural babirusas)

Any of several mammals in the genus Babyrousa in the pig family Suidae, in which the upper tusk grows upward.
- 2018, Hanneke Meijer, The Guardian, 17 May:
  And there are wild pigs, babirusas, with wrinkled skin and impressive upper tusks that instead of growing down, grow up and backwards toward the skull.

a member of the genus Babyrousa

Arabic: بَابِيرُوسَة‎ f (bābīrūsa)
Belarusian: бабіру́са f (babirúsa)
Bulgarian: бабиру́са f (babirúsa)
Catalan: babirussa f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 馬魯古鹿豚／马鲁古鹿豚 (mǎlǔgǔlùtún), 鹿豚 (lùtún), 鹿豬／鹿猪 (lùzhū), 逐鹿 (zh) (zhúlù)
Dutch: babiroessa
Esperanto: (♂♀) babiruso, (♂) virbabiruso, (♀) babirusino, (♂♀ offspring) babirusido, (♂ offspring) virbabirusido, (♀ offspring) babirusidino,
Finnish: babirussa (fi)
French: babiroussa (fr) m
Galician: babirusa (gl) m
German: (♂♀) Hirscheber (de) m, (♂♀) Babirusa n, männlicher Hirscheber m, weiblicher Hirscheber m
Greek: μπαμπιρούσα f (bampiroúsa)
Indonesian: babirusa
Irish: babarúsa m
Italian: babirussa (it) m
Japanese: 鹿猪 (しかいのしし, shikainoshishi), バビルサ (babirusa)
Korean: 바비루사 (babirusa)
Malay: babi rusa
Navajo: bisóodi bideeʼ názhahígíí
Portuguese: babirussa (pt) f
Russian: бабиру́сса (ru) f (babirússa)
Spanish: babirusa (es) f
Ukrainian: бабіру́са f (babirúsa)
Vietnamese: lợn hươu

From babi (“pig”) +‎ rusa (“deer”), from the resemblance of the tusks to antlers.

babirusa (first-person possessive babirusaku, second-person possessive babirusamu, third-person possessive babirusanya)

Borrowed from Malay babirusa.

babirusa f (plural babirusas)