arctic fox

English

Vulpes lagopus

Alternative forms

• Arctic fox

Noun

arctic fox (plural arctic foxes)

1. Vulpes lagopus, a fox of the family Canidae, living in the Arctic regions of North America and Eurasia.
   • 2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 205:

     Its ʽcore faunaʼ consisted of the woolly mammoth, woolly rhino, saiga, muskox and the arctic fox. All except the woolly rhino evolved in the northern Arctic, and all had been evolving for several million years before their modern forms appeared.

Synonyms

• (Vulpes lagopus): polar fox, snow fox, white fox

Hyponyms

• (Vulpes lagopus): blue fox

Translations

Vulpes lagopus

• Afrikaans: poolvos, sneeuvos
• Armenian: բևեռային աղվես (beweṙayin aġves)
• Catalan: guineu àrtica f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 北極狐／北极狐 (zh) (běijíhú), 藍狐／蓝狐 (zh) (lánhú), 白狐 (zh) (báihú)

• Chukchi: рэӄокаԓгын (rėqokaḷgyn)
• Danish: polarræv, fjeldræven
• Dutch: poolvos (nl) m
• Esperanto: arkta vulpo (eo)
• Estonian: polaarrebane (et)
• Finnish: naali (fi), napakettu (fi)
• French: renard polaire (fr) m
• German: Polarfuchs (de) m
• Hungarian: sarki róka
• Icelandic: heimskautarefur (is) m
• Inuktitut: ᑎᕆᒐᓂᐊᖅ (tiricaniaq)
• Irish: sionnach Artach m
• Japanese: 北極狐 (ja) (ホッキョクギツネ, hokkyoku-gitsune), 白狐 (しろぎつね, shirogitsune, びゃっこ, byakko)
• Komi-Permyak: кынь (kyń)
• Komi-Zyrian: кынь (kyń)
• Korean: 북극여우 (ko) (bukgeugyeou)
• Malay:

  Jawi: روبه ارتيک

  Rumi: rubah artik

• Nanai: ча̄гдян соли (čāgʒan soli)
• Navajo: mąʼiiłgaii
• Northern Mansi: ^{(please verify)} лэ̄пык (lè̄pyk)
• Norwegian: fjellrev m
• Persian: روباه قطبی (rubâh-e qotbi)
• Polish: lis polarny (pl) m, piesak m, piesiec (pl) m
• Portuguese: raposa polar f, raposa-do-ártico f
• Romanian: vulpe polară f, vulpe arctică f
• Russian: песе́ц (ru) m (peséc), поля́рная лиси́ца f (poljárnaja lisíca)
• Sami:

  Inari Sami: njaaḷâ

  Kildin Sami: нёа̄лл (njååll)

  Lule Sami: sválla

  Northern Sami: njálla

  Pite Sami: sválla

  Skolt Sami: njaall

  Southern Sami: svaale

• Slovak: líška polárna (sk)
• Spanish: zorro polar m, zorro ártico m, zorro blanco m, zorro de las nieves m
• Swedish: fjällräv (sv) c
• Turkish: kutup tilkisi (tr)
• Tuvan: элбээңги (elbeeñgi)