gorilla

See also Gorilla

English

Wikipedia

A gorilla

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA: /ɡəˈɹɪl.ə/

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -ɪlə

Etymology

Ancient Greek Γόριλλαι (Gorillai, “a tribe of hairy women”), described by Hanno the Navigator, a Carthaginian navigator and possible visitor to the area that later became Sierra Leone.

Noun

gorilla (plural gorillas)

1. The largest of the apes, native to the forests of central Africa, and known for its trait of knuckle-walking
2. A big and brutish man or a thug; a goon or ruffian.

Translations

ape

• Arabic: غوريلا (ar) (ghuriila) f
• Armenian: գորիլլա (hy) (gorilla)
• Asturian: gorila (ast) m
• Belarusian: гарыла (be) (harýla) f
• Bengali: গরিলা (bn)
• Bulgarian: горила (bg) (gorila) f
• Catalan: goril·la (ca) m
• Cherokee: ᎠᏓᎵᏍᎩᏱᏍᎩ ᎤᏔᎾ (chr) (adalisgiyisgi utana), ᎪᎵᎳ (chr) (golila)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 大猩猩 (cmn) (dàxīngxing)

• Czech: gorila (cs) f
• Dutch: gorilla (nl) m
• Esperanto: gorilo (eo)
• Estonian: gorilla (et)
• Finnish: gorilla (fi)
• French: gorille (fr) m
• Galician: gorila (gl) m
• German: Gorilla (de) m
• Greek: γορίλας (el) (gorílas) m
• Hindi: गोरिल्ला (hi) (gorillā) m
• Hungarian: gorilla (hu)

• Icelandic: górilla (is) f
• Italian: gorilla (it) m
• Japanese: ゴリラ (ja) (gorira)
• Jèrriais: gorille m
• Korean: 고릴라 (ko) (gorilla)
• Navajo: mágítsoh
• Norwegian: gorilla (no) m
• Palau: korira
• Persian: گوریل (fa) (goril)
• Polish: goryl (pl) m
• Portuguese: gorila (pt) m
• Romanian: gorilă (ro) f, gorile (ro) f pl
• Russian: горилла (ru) (gorílla) f
• Serbo-Croatian: gorila (sh)
• Spanish: gorila (es) m
• Swahili: ngagi (9/10)
• Swedish: gorilla (sv) c
• Thai: กอริลลา (th) (gor-rin-lâa), ลิงกอริลลา (th) (ling-gor-rin-laa)
• Turkish: goril (tr)
• Ukrainian: горила (uk) (horýla) f
• Vietnamese: khỉ đột (vi)
• Wolof: dàngin gi (wo)

thug

• Finnish: gorilla (fi)
• Greek: γορίλας (el) (gorílas) m

• Serbo-Croatian: gorila (sh), grmalj (sh)
• Swedish: gorilla (sv)

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Dutch

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Noun

gorilla m (plural gorilla's, diminutive gorillaatje)

1. gorilla

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Finnish

Noun

gorilla

1. gorilla

Declension

Declension of gorilla (type katiska) singular plural nominative gorilla gorillat genitive gorillan gorilloiden gorilloitten gorillojen gorillain1 partitive gorillaa gorilloita gorilloja accusative gorilla gorillan gorillat inessive gorillassa gorilloissa elative gorillasta gorilloista illative gorillaan gorilloihin adessive gorillalla gorilloilla ablative gorillalta gorilloilta allative gorillalle gorilloille essive gorillana gorilloina translative gorillaksi gorilloiksi instructive – gorilloin abessive gorillatta gorilloitta comitative – gorilloineen 1) Rare.

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Hungarian

Wikipedia ^hu

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈɡorilːɒ/

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• Hyphenation: go‧ril‧la

Noun

gorilla (plural gorillák)

1. gorilla

Declension

declension of gorilla singular plural nominative gorilla gorillák accusative gorillát gorillákat dative gorillának gorilláknak instrumental gorillával gorillákkal causal-final gorilláért gorillákért translative gorillává gorillákká terminative gorilláig gorillákig essive-formal gorillaként gorillákként essive-modal - - inessive gorillában gorillákban superessive gorillán gorillákon adessive gorillánál gorilláknál illative gorillába gorillákba sublative gorillára gorillákra allative gorillához gorillákhoz elative gorillából gorillákból delative gorilláról gorillákról ablative gorillától gorilláktól

possessives of gorilla possessor singular possession plural possession 1st person sing. gorillám gorilláim 2nd person sing. gorillád gorilláid 3rd person sing. gorillája gorillái 1st person plural gorillánk gorilláink 2nd person plural gorillátok gorilláitok 3rd person plural gorillájuk gorilláik

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Italian

Noun

gorilla m (invariable)

1. gorilla

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Swedish

Noun

gorilla c

1. gorilla

Declension

Declension of gorilla

	singular		plural
common	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	gorilla	gorillan	gorillor	gorillorna
genitive	gorillas	gorillans	gorillors	gorillornas