capybara
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Etymology
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From Spanish capibara , from Portuguese capivara , from Old Tupi kapi'iûara ( literally “ grass eater ” ) .
Pronunciation
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capybara (plural capybaras )
A semi-aquatic South American rodent , Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris , the largest living rodent.
1876 , William H. G. Kingston , The Three Lieutenants , published 2010 , page 430 :“Our fires burned well,” continued Tom, “and we roasted our young capybara to perfection; we only wanted salt and pepper, and an onion or two to make it delicious. [ …] "
1914 , Theodore Roosevelt , Through the Brazilian Wilderness , published 2004 , page 53 :It was tenanted by the small caymans and by capybaras - the largest known rodent, a huge aquatic guinea-pig, the size of a small sheep.
2009 , The Illustrated Atlas of Wildlife , page 106 :The largest of all the 1,729 rodent species, the semi-aquatic capybara is extremely agile in the water, using its partly webbed toes like tiny paddles. Troops containing up to 20 animals live along riverbanks where young capybaras are sometimes preyed on by caimans.
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Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris
Arabic: خِنْزِير الْمَاء m ( ḵinzīr al-māʔ )
Armenian: ջրախոզուկ ( ǰraxozuk )
Assamese: কেপিৱাৰা ( kepiwara )
Aymara: kapiwara
Bulgarian: капибара ( kapibara )
Canela: cũmtũm
Cashinahua: amen
Catalan: capibara (ca) m
Chácobo: ámeno
Chamicuro: masiklo
Chinese:
Mandarin: 水豚 (zh) ( shuǐtún )
Czech: ( obsolete ) plavoun m , kapybara f
Danish: kapivar , flodsvin
Dutch: capibara (nl) , waterzwijn (nl)
Esperanto: hidroĥero , kapibaro
Estonian: kapibaara , veesiga
Faroese: vatnsvín
Finnish: vesisika , kapybara (fi)
French: capybara (fr) m , cabiai (fr) m
German: Capybara (de) n , Wasserschwein (de) n
Greek: καπιμπάρα ( kapimpára ) , υδρόχοιρος ( ydróchoiros )
Guanano: dia wachʉ
Guaraní: please add this translation if you can
Hebrew: קפיבארה (he) f ( kapibára )
Huambisa: kashai
Hungarian: vízidisznó (hu) , kapibara (hu)
Icelandic: flóðsvín n
Indonesian: kapibara
Irish: capabára m
Italian: capibara (it) m
Japanese: カピバラ (ja) ( kapibara ) , 鬼天竺鼠 (ja) ( おにてんじくねずみ , onitenjikunezumi) , オニテンジクネズミ ( onitenjikunezumi )
Korean: 카피바라 ( kapibara )
Latvian: kapibara f
Lokono: kapoa , kibiole , kibiwarha , kawalainaro
Macedonian: капиба́ра f ( kapibára ) , во́дно пра́се n ( vódno práse )
Mapuche: please add this translation if you can
Norwegian: flodsvin (no) , kapivar , kapybara
Old Tupi: ka'apiûara , kapibara
Pashto: کاپيوره (ps) f ( kāpíwəra )
Persian: please add this translation if you can
Polish: kapibara (pl) f
Portuguese: capivara (pt) f
Quechua: kapiwara
Romanian: capibara (ro) f
Russian: капиба́ра (ru) f ( kapibára ) , водосви́нка (ru) f ( vodosvínka )
Shipibo-Conibo: amen
Slovene: kapibara (sl) f
Spanish: capibara (es) m , carpincho (es) m ( Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay ) , chigüire (es) m ( Venezuela ) , chigüiro (es) m ( Colombia ) , poncho (es) m ( Panama ) , ronsoco (es) m ( Peru )
Swedish: kapybara , kapybar , vattensvin (sv)
Tagalog: kapibara
Tariana: hemasiéle
Trió: iwïrï
Tupinambá: kapi'wara
Turkish: kapibara sg
Ukrainian: капібара f ( kapibara )
Uyghur: سۇ چوشقىسى ( su choshqisi )
Záparo: kápishu
References
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^ "capybara, n. ", in the Oxford English Dictionary , Oxford: Oxford University Press.
^ "capybara" in Collegiate Dictionary , 11th ed., New York: Merriam-Webster.