Barbary lion

English

Barbary lion

Noun

Barbary lion (plural Barbary lions)

1. (zoology) Any of the North African population, now extinct in the wild, of the lion subspecies Panthera leo leo.
   • 2015, Bryn Ellis, Half Trace, page 290:

     Barbary lions had been believed extinct in the wild since the mid-twentieth century, survived only by a few odds and bods of DNA carried in captive individuals descended from Haile Selassie's private collection.

Synonyms

• Atlas lion, Nubian lion

Translations

Panthera leo leo

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 巴巴裡獅／巴巴里狮 (Bābālǐ shī)

• Danish: Atlasløve
• Dutch: Berberleeuw, Atlasleeuw, Barabijse leeuw
• Finnish: atlasleijona
• French: lion de barbarie, lion de l’Atlas (fr)
• German: Berberlöwe m, Atlaslöwe m, Nubischer Löwe m
• Italian: leone dell'Atlante, leone berbero
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: berberløve m or f

• Portuguese: leão-do-atlas
• Romanian: leu berber m
• Russian: бербери́йский лев m (berberíjskij lev), барбари́йский лев m (barbaríjskij lev)
• Spanish: león del Atlas m, león bárbaro m, león de Berbería m