agouti

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EtymologyEdit

From French agouti or Spanish agutí, both from Old Tupi akuti and other Tupian languages. The name of the acouchi is probably from the same source.

PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): /əˈɡuːti/
• Rhymes: -uːti

NounEdit

agouti ‎(plural agoutis)

1. A rodent similar in appearance to a guinea pig but having longer legs.
2. A fur containing a pattern of pigmentation in which individual hairs have several bands of light and dark pigment with black tips; any of several genes responsible for this pigmentation.

TranslationsEdit

a rodent similar in appearance to a guinea pig but having longer legs

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 刺豚鼠 ‎(cìtún shǔ)

• Dutch: agoeti
• Esperanto: agutio
• Finnish: aguti
• French: agouti (fr)
• Georgian: აგუტი ‎(aguṭi)
• German: Aguti (de)
• Guaraní: akuti
• Hebrew: אגוטי
• Italian: aguti (it)
• Korean: 아구티 ‎(aguti)
• Lithuanian: agutis m, tikrieji agučiai
• Navajo: Shádiʼááhdę́ę́ʼ łéʼétsoh bitseeʼ ádinígíí
• Old Tupi: akuti

• Persian: كم‌گوش ‎(kamgush)
• Polish: aguti złocisty
• Portuguese: cutia f
• Quechua: chiwayru
• Romanian: aguti (ro) m
• Russian: агу́ти (ru) m ‎(agúti)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: агути

  Roman: aguti (sh)

• Spanish: agutí (es) m, (Peru) añuje m, (El Salvador, Guatemala) cotuza (es) f, (Costa Rica, Honduras, Nicaragua) guatusa f, (Bolivia) jochi colorado m, (Colombia, Panama) ñeque (es) m, (Venezuela) picure m, (Mexico) sereque m
• Swedish: aguti (sv)
• Turkish: aguti
• Ukrainian: агуті ‎(ahuti)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Help:How to check translations.

Translations to be checked

• Arabic: ^{(please verify)} أَغُوطِي ‎(ʾaḡūṭī)
• Japanese: ^{(please verify)} アグーチ
• Korean: ^{(please verify)} 아구티 ‎(aguti)

See alsoEdit

• Appendix:Animals

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FrenchEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowing from Old Tupi akuti.

NounEdit

agouti m ‎(plural agoutis)

1. agouti (rodent)

External linksEdit

• “agouti” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).