Cheetah
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Borrowed from Hindi चीता ( cītā , “ leopard, panther ” ) , ultimately from Sanskrit चित्र ( citra , “ multicolored, speckled ” ) (akin to Old High German haitar ( “ bright ” ) [1] > German heiter ; Old Norse heiðr ( “ bright ” ) ) + Sanskrit काय ( kāya , “ body ” ) , thus “having a spotted body”.
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cheetah (plural cheetahs )
A distinctive member (Acinonyx jubatus ) of the cat family, slightly smaller than the leopard , but with proportionately longer limbs and a smaller head; native to Africa and southeast Asia (where it is nearly extinct) and also credited with being the fastest terrestrial animal.
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Acinonyx jubatus
Afrikaans: jagluiperd (af)
Albanian: gepard m
Amharic: አቦሸማኔ ( ʾäbošämane )
Arabic: فَهْد (ar) m ( fahd ) , شِيتَه f ( šītah )
Armenian: վագրակատու (hy) ( vagrakatu ) , գեպարդ ( gepard )
Assamese: চিতা বাঘ ( sita bagh )
Asturian: guepardu (ast)
Azerbaijani: çita , gepard , qepard
Basque: gepardo
Belarusian: гепа́рд m ( hjepárd )
Bengali: চিতা ( cita )
Bulgarian: гепа́рд (bg) m ( gepárd )
Burmese: သစ်ကျုတ် (my) ( sackyut )
Catalan: guepard
Cherokee: ᏢᏓᏥ ᎠᎦᏣᏄᎳ ( tlvdatsi agatsanula )
Chinese:
Mandarin: 獵豹 / 猎豹 (zh) ( lièbào )
Czech: gepard m
Danish: gepard c
Dutch: jachtluipaard (nl) m or n , cheeta (nl) m
Egyptian: (ꜣby-mḥw m )
Esperanto: gepardo
Estonian: gepard
Finnish: gepardi (fi)
French: guépard (fr) m
Georgian: ავაზა ( avaza )
German: Gepard (de) m
Greek: γατόπαρδος (el) m ( gatópardos ) , τσιτάχ (el) m ( tsitách )
Gujarati: ચિત્તો ( citto )
Hebrew: בַּרְדְּלָס (he) m ( bard'lás ) , צִ׳יטָה f ( chíta )
Hindi: चीता (hi) m ( cītā )
Hungarian: gepárd (hu)
Icelandic: blettatígur (is) m
Ido: gepardo (io)
Indonesian: cheetah
Irish: síota m , liopard fiaigh m
Italian: ghepardo (it) m
Japanese: チーター (ja) ( chītā ) , 狩猟豹 ( しゅりょうひょう, shuryōhyō )
Kazakh: қабылан ( qabylan )
Khmer: ឆីតា ( chəytaa )
Korean: 치타 (ko) ( chita )
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: yûzpiling (ku) , yûz , çîta (ku)
Kyrgyz: гепард (ky) ( gepard ) , куулан ( kuulan )
Latvian: gepards m
Lithuanian: gepardas m
Macedonian: гепард m ( gepard )
Malay:
Jawi: چيته
Rumi: citah
Maltese: ċita f
Maori: tīta
Marathi: चीता m ( cītā )
Middle Persian: 𐭩𐭥𐭮𐭩 ( yʿsy /yōz/ )
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: үчимбэр ( üčimber ) , гепард ( gepard )
Mongolian: ᠦᠴᠢᠮᠪᠡᠷ ( üčimber )
Navajo: náshdóí dilwoʼí
Norwegian:
Bokmål: gepard m
Nynorsk: gepard m
Persian: یوزپلنگ (fa) ( yuzpalang ) , چیتا ( čitâ ) , یوز (fa) ( yuz )
Polish: gepard (pl) m
Portuguese: guepardo (pt) m , chita (pt) f
Romanian: ghepard (ro) m
Russian: гепа́рд (ru) m ( gepárd )
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: ге̏па̄рд m
Roman: gȅpārd (sh) m
Sinhalese: චීටා ( cīṭā )
Slovak: gepard (sk) m
Slovene: gẹ̑pard (sl) m
Somali: harimacad
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: gepard m
Spanish: guepardo (es) m , chita (es) m
Swahili: duma (sw)
Swedish: gepard (sv) c , jaktleopard c
Tagalog: gepardo
Tajik: юз ( yuz ) , гепард ( gepard )
Tamil: சிறுத்தை (ta) ( ciṟuttai )
Telugu: చిరుతపులి (te) ( cirutapuli ) , చిరుతగండు (te) ( cirutagaṇḍu )
Thai: ชีตาห์ ( chii-dtâa )
Tibetan: ཤ་གཟིག ( sha gzig )
Tigrinya: ቺታ ( čita )
Turkish: çita (tr)
Turkmen: geçigaplaň
Ukrainian: гепа́рд (uk) m ( hepárd ) , ґепа́рд m ( gepárd ) ( rare spelling )
Urdu: چیتا m ( cītā )
Uzbek: gepard (uz)
Vietnamese: báo săn , báo bờm , báo ghêpa
Welsh: llewpart hela m , tsita m
Wolof: tene mi (wo)
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