chinchilla

chinchilla

See also: Chinchilla

English

A domestic chinchilla

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish chinchilla.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃɪnˈt͡ʃɪlə/

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• Rhymes: -ɪlə

Noun

chinchilla (countable and uncountable, plural chinchillas)

1. (countable) Either of two small, crepuscular rodents of the genus Chinchilla, native to the Andes, prized for their very soft fur and often kept as pets.
   • 2004, Jamie Huggins, Chinchillas - from Pets to Profession, page 3,

     It's important to put a lot of thought into owning a chinchilla since they have a considerably long lifespan of 10 to 20 years.

     Chinchillas are most widely known for their exceptional fur coat.

   • 2008, Jeff Wyatt, Chapter 17: Anesthesia and Analgesia in Other Mammals, Richard E. Fish, Marilyn J. Brown, Peggy J. Danneman, Alicia Z. Karas (editors), Anesthesia and Analgesia in Laboratory Animals, page 469,

     Chinchillas inhabit high elevations (3,000–5,000m) of the Chilean Andes Mountains. The chinchillas kept as pet or research animals in North America are all descendents^[sic] of 13 founders wild caught in 1927.

   • 2009, Ron E. Banks, Julie M. Sharp, Sonia D. Doss, Deborah A. Vanderford, Exotic Small Mammal Care and Husbandry, page 125,

     Chinchillas are long-lived rodents that are native to South America, primarily Peru, Argentina, Bolivia, and Chile. The chinchilla is a hystricomorph (hedgehoglike) rodent closely related to guinea pigs, porcupines, and agoutis (Hrapkiewicz et al., 1998).

2. (uncountable) The fur of a chinchilla, used for clothing.
3. A variety of Persian cat with white fur and green eyes.

Derived terms

• Bolivian chinchilla
• Chilean chinchilla
• chinchilla rat
• chinchilla wattle
• coastal chinchilla
• common chinchilla
• long-tailed chinchilla (Chinchilla lanigera)
• Peruvian chinchilla
• royal chinchilla
• short-tailed chinchilla (Chinchilla chinchilla, syn. Chinchilla brevicaudata)

 

Translations

rodent

Afrikaans: chinchilla Bulgarian: чинчила f (činčila) Catalan: xinxilla f Chinese: Mandarin: 毛絲鼠／毛丝鼠 (zh) (máosīshǔ), 絨鼠／绒鼠 (zh) (róngshǔ), 龍貓／龙猫 (zh) (lóngmāo), 栗鼠 (zh) (lìshǔ) Czech: činčila (cs) f Danish: chinchilla Dutch: chinchilla (nl) f or m Esperanto: ĉinĉilo, ĉinĉilino (female) Finnish: sinsilla (fi), tsintsilla French: chinchilla (fr) m Galician: chinchilla f German: Chinchilla (de) f Greek: τσιντσιλά (el) (tsintsilá) Hungarian: csincsilla (hu) Italian: cincillà (it) m Japanese: チンチラ (ja) (chinchira) Kazakh: шиншилла (şinşilla) Malay: cincila Norwegian: Bokmål: chinchilla m Nynorsk: chinchilla m Polish: szynszyla (pl) f Portuguese: chinchila m or f Quechua: chinchilla Romanian: șinșilă (ro) f, cincila (ro) f Russian: шинши́лла (ru) f (šinšílla) Spanish: chinchilla (es) f Swedish: chinchilla (sv) c

fur

Afrikaans: chinchillabont Dutch: chinchilla (nl) n Esperanto: ĉinĉilaĵo Finnish: tsintsilla French: chinchilla (fr) German: Chinchilla (de) n Hungarian: csincsilla (hu) Italian: cincillà (it) m Russian: шинши́лла (ru) f (šinšílla)

See also

• viscacha

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Danish

Noun

chinchilla (singular definite chinchillaen, plural indefinite chinchillaer)

1. chinchilla

References

• “chinchilla” in Den Danske Ordbog

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Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish chinchilla.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌtʃɪnˈtʃɪ.laː/

• Audio

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• Hyphenation: chin‧chil‧la

Noun

chinchilla f (plural chinchilla's, diminutive chinchillaatje n)

1. chinchilla, rodent of the genus Chinchilla
2. lesser chinchilla, long-tailed chinchilla, Chinchilla lanigera

Noun

chinchilla n (uncountable)

1. chinchilla fur

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Finnish

Alternative forms

• sinsilla
• tsintsilla

Etymology

From Spanish chinchilla.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtʃintʃil(ː)ɑ/, [ˈt̪ʃin̪t̪ʃil(ː)ɑ]
• IPA^(key): /ˈtsintsil(ː)ɑ/, [ˈts̠ints̠il(ː)ɑ]
• IPA^(key): /ˈsinsil(ː)ɑ/, [ˈs̠ins̠il(ː)ɑ]
• Rhymes: -ilːɑ
• Syllabification^(key): chin‧chil‧la

Noun

chinchilla

1. chinchilla

Declension

Inflection of chinchilla (Kotus type 9/kala, no gradation)
nominative		chinchilla	chinchillat
genitive		chinchillan	chinchillojen
partitive		chinchillaa	chinchilloja
illative		chinchillaan	chinchilloihin
		singular	plural
nominative		chinchilla	chinchillat
accusative	nom.	chinchilla	chinchillat
	gen.	chinchillan
genitive		chinchillan	chinchillojen chinchillainrare
partitive		chinchillaa	chinchilloja
inessive		chinchillassa	chinchilloissa
elative		chinchillasta	chinchilloista
illative		chinchillaan	chinchilloihin
adessive		chinchillalla	chinchilloilla
ablative		chinchillalta	chinchilloilta
allative		chinchillalle	chinchilloille
essive		chinchillana	chinchilloina
translative		chinchillaksi	chinchilloiksi
instructive		—	chinchilloin
abessive		chinchillatta	chinchilloitta
comitative		—	chinchilloineen

Possessive forms of chinchilla (type kala)
possessor	singular	plural
1st person	chinchillani	chinchillamme
2nd person	chinchillasi	chinchillanne
3rd person	chinchillansa

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French

Etymology

From Spanish, from Aymara.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʃɛ̃.ʃi.la/

Noun

chinchilla m (plural chinchillas)

1. chinchilla (rodent)
2. (uncountable) chinchilla fur
3. chinchilla (cat)

Further reading

• “chinchilla”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Spanish chinchilla, from either Aymara or Quechua.

Noun

chinchilla m (definite singular chinchillaen, indefinite plural chinchillaer, definite plural chinchillaene)

1. a chinchilla

References

• “chinchilla” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “chinchilla” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Spanish chinchilla, from either Aymara or Quechua.

Noun

chinchilla m (definite singular chinchillaen, indefinite plural chinchillaer or chinchillaar, definite plural chinchillaene or chinchillaane)

1. a chinchilla

References

• “chinchilla” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Aymara [Term?].

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃinˈt͡ʃiʝa/ [t͡ʃĩnʲˈt͡ʃi.ʝa]

• IPA^(key): (most of Spain and Latin America) /t͡ʃinˈt͡ʃiʝa/ [t͡ʃĩnʲˈt͡ʃi.ʝa]
• IPA^(key): (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains) /t͡ʃinˈt͡ʃiʎa/ [t͡ʃĩnʲˈt͡ʃi.ʎa]
• IPA^(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /t͡ʃinˈt͡ʃiʃa/ [t͡ʃĩnʲˈt͡ʃi.ʃa]
• IPA^(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /t͡ʃinˈt͡ʃiʒa/ [t͡ʃĩnʲˈt͡ʃi.ʒa]

 

• Rhymes: -iʝa

• (most of Spain and Latin America) Rhymes: -iʝa
• (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains) Rhymes: -iʎa
• (Buenos Aires and environs) Rhymes: -iʃa
• (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) Rhymes: -iʒa

• Syllabification: chin‧chi‧lla

Noun

chinchilla f (plural chinchillas)

1. chinchilla

Derived terms

• chinchilla chilena
• chinchilla cordillerana
• chinchilla costera
• chinchilla de cola corta
• chinchilla de cola larga
• chinchilla del altiplano
• chinchilla menor
• chinchilla peruana
• chinchilla real

 

Further reading

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

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Swedish

Noun

chinchilla c

1. chinchilla

Declension

Declension of chinchilla
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	chinchilla	chinchillan	chinchillor	chinchillorna
Genitive	chinchillas	chinchillans	chinchillors	chinchillornas