caracal

caracal

See also: Caracal

English

A caracal.

Etymology

From French caracal, from Ottoman Turkish قره‌قولاق‎ (kara-kulak, literally “black ear”), a calque of Persian سیاه‌گوش‎ (siyâh-guš). Compare modern Turkish karakulak.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈkaɹəkal/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈkæɹəkæl/

Noun

caracal (plural caracals)

1. A type of cat native to Southern Africa, West Asia, and parts of Central and South Asia, Caracal caracal.

Synonyms

• African lynx, Asian lynx, Persian lynx, Indian lynx, desert lynx (varying with location); lynx (improper)

Translations

Caracal caracal

Afrikaans: rooikat (af) Arabic: عَنَاق الْأَرْض‎ (ʿanāq al-ʾarḍ) Armenian: կարակալ (karakal) Azerbaijani: qaraqulaq Basque: karakal Bulgarian: каракал (karakal), степен рис (stepen ris) Catalan: caracal m Cherokee: ᎢᎾᎨ ᎬᎮ (inage gvhe) Chinese: Mandarin: 獰貓／狞猫 (zh) (níngmāo) Czech: karakal (cs) Danish: karakal c Dutch: caracal (nl) m Esperanto: karakalo Estonian: karakal Finnish: aavikkoilves (fi), karakali (fi) French: caracal (fr) German: Karakal (de) m Gujarati: હેણોતરો (heṇotro) Hausa: metso m Hindi: स्याहगोश (syāhgoś) Hungarian: karakál, sivatagi hiúz Ido: karakalo (io) Indonesian: karakal, caracal Irish: lincse chluasdubh f Italian: caracal (it) m, lince persiana f Japanese: カラカル (ja) (karakaru) Kazakh: қарақал (qaraqal) Korean: 카라칼 (karakal) Kumyk: къаракъулакъ (qaraqulaq) Kurdish: Central Kurdish: گوێڕەش‎ (gwêrreş) Northern Kurdish: گۆرەویلک‎, گوھرەشک‎ Latvian: karakals Lithuanian: karakalas Malay: karakal Maltese: karakall tal-Asja m Nahuatl: caracalmiztli Navajo: náshdóí bijaałizhiní Pashto: تورغوږی‎ Persian: سیاه‌گوش‎ (fa) (siyâh-guš) Polish: karakal (pl) Portuguese: caracal Russian: карака́л (ru) m (karakál) Serbo-Croatian: karakal (sh) Shona: twana Spanish: caracal m Swahili: simba mangu class 9/10 Swedish: ökenlo Tamil: please add this translation if you can Tedaga: ngam ouidenanga Turkish: vaşak (tr), karakulak (tr), (textile) karakulak kürkü, (textile) karakulak kürkünden kumaş Turkmen: garagulak Udmurt: каракал (karakal) Uzbek: qoraquloq (uz) Zulu: indabushe class 9/10

References

• caracal on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Caracal on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Caracal on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Caracal caracal in Mammal Species of the World at Bucknell.
• caracal at OneLook Dictionary Search
• caracal in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911

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Dutch

Een wilde caracal. — A wild caracal.

Etymology

Borrowed from French caracal, from Ottoman Turkish قره‌قولاق‎ (kara kulak), a calque of Persian سیاه‌گوش‎ (siyah guš).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkaː.raːˌkɑl/

• audio

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• Hyphenation: ca‧ra‧cal

Noun

caracal m (plural caracals, diminutive caracalletje n)

1. caracal, Caracal caracal

   Synonym: woestijnlynx

Hypernyms

• katachtige

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French

Etymology

From Turkish karakulak.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka.ʁa.kal/

• Audio (Switzerland)

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• Hyphenation: ca‧ra‧cal

Noun

caracal m (plural caracals)

1. caracal

   Synonyms: lynx du désert, lynx de Perse

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Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Turkish karakulak.

Noun

caracal m (invariable)

1. caracal

   Synonym: lince persiana

Anagrams

• acclara, calcara

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Portuguese

caracal

Etymology

From Turkish karakulak.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ka.ɾaˈkaw/ [ka.ɾaˈkaʊ̯]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /kɐ.ɾɐˈkal/ [kɐ.ɾɐˈkaɫ]

• Hyphenation: ca‧ra‧cal

Noun

caracal m (plural caracais)

1. caracal (Caracal caracal)

   Synonym: lince-do-deserto

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Spanish

Noun

caracal m (plural caracales)

1. caracal

Further reading

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