Etymology Edit From Spanish caníbal , from Caniba Taino Arawakan Taino
Pronunciation Edit cannibal (plural cannibals
An organism which eats others of its own species , especially a human who eats human flesh.
(Can we find and add a quotation of Charles Darwin to this entry?)
Related terms Edit Translations Edit
an organism which eats others of its own species
Arabic: غُول (ar) f ḡūl )
Catalan: caníbal m , f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 食人者 shí rén zhě ), 吃同类的生物 chī tóng lèi de shēngwù )
Czech: kanibal (cs) m lidožrout (cs) m ( eating humans ) lidojed m ( eating humans )
Dutch: kannibaal (nl)
Esperanto: ( ♂♀ ) kanibalo ( ♂ ) virkanibalo ( ♀ ) kanibalino
Estonian: kannibal (et)
Finnish: kannibaali (fi) , ihmissyöjä
French: cannibale (fr) m , f
Friulian: canibal m
German: Kannibale (de) m Kannibalin (de) f
Greek: κανίβαλος (el) m , f kanívalos )
Hebrew: קניבל m kanibál )
Hungarian: kannibál (hu)
Icelandic: ( human cannibal ) mannæta (is) f
Ido: ( ♂♀ ) kanibalo (io) , ( ♂ ) kanibalulo ( ♀ ) kanibalino
Irish: canablach m
Italian: cannibale m , f antropofago (it) m
Kurdish:
Sorani: خۆخۆر xoxor )
Latin: anthrōpophagus (la) m
Manx: canniblagh m
Maori: kaitangata
Norman: cannibale m , f
Norwegian:
Bokmål: kannibal (no) m
Nynorsk: kannibal m
Persian: همگون خوار (fa) (hamgûn x(w)âr ) , آدمخوار (fa) (âdamx(w)âr )
Polish: kanibal (pl) m human cannibal ) ludożerca (pl) m
Portuguese: canibal (pt)
Romanian: canibal (ro) m canibală (ro) f
Russian: канниба́л (ru) m kannibál ), людое́д (ru) m ljudojéd )
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: људождер m канибал m
Roman: ljudòžder (sh) m kànibal (sh) m
Spanish: caníbal (es) m , f
Swedish: kannibal (sv) c
Tagalog: kaing-kapuwa
Turkish: yamyam (tr)
Volapük: ( ♂♀ ) kaniban (vo) , ( ♂ ) hikaniban ( ♀ ) jikaniban