meerkat

English

meerkat

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Etymology

From Afrikaans meerkat, transferrative use of Dutch meerkat (“guenon (monkey)”). Compare English mercat.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /ˈmɪəkat/
• (US) IPA: /ˈmɪɻkæt/

Noun

meerkat (plural meerkats)

1. Suricata suricatta, a small carnivorous mammal of the mongoose family, from the Kalahari Desert, known for its habit of standing on its hind legs.

Translations

small carnivorous mammal

• Afrikaans: meerkat (1)
• Arabic: سرقاط (ar) (suriqaaT) m, ميركات (ar) (mirkaat) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 狐獴 (cmn) (húměng)

• Czech: surikata (cs) f
• Danish: surikat (da) c
• Dutch: stokstaartje n (1)
• Esperanto: surikato (eo)
• Finnish: nelisormimangusti (fi)
• French: suricate (fr) m
• German: Erdmännchen (de) n

• Hungarian: szurikáta (hu)
• Italian: suricato (it) m
• Japanese: ミーアキャット (ja) (mīakyatto)
• Navajo: dlǫ́tʼą́ʼí
• Portuguese: suricate (pt) m
• Russian: сурикат (ru) (surikát) m , суриката (ru) (surikáta) f , миркат (ru) (mirkát) m 
• Sotho: mosha (st)
• Spanish: suricata (es) f, suricato (es) m
• Swedish: surikat (sv) c

Related terms

• suricate

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Afrikaans

Noun

meerkat (plural meerkatte)

1. meerkat

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Dutch

guenon (C. mitis)

Etymology

From Middle Dutch meercatte (“monkey, ape”), possibly from mere (“lake, sea”) + catte (“cat”) (modern Dutch meer +‎ kat). Cognate with Old High German merikazza (German Meerkatze).

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈmeːrˌkɑt/, [ˈmɪːrˌkɑt]

Noun

meerkat f (plural meerkatten, diminutive meerkatje)

1. guenon, one of a number of monkeys of the genus Cercopithecus