chacal
French edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish چقال (modern Turkish çakal), from Persian شغال (šağâl), from Sanskrit सृगाल (sṛgālá, “jackal”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
chacal m (plural chacals)
Hyponyms edit
Descendants edit
- → Basque: txakal
- → Corsican: sciaccallu
- → Catalan: xacal
- → Danish: sjakal
- → Dutch: jakhals
- Afrikaans: jakkals
- → English: jackal
- → Faroese: sjakalur
- → Finnish: sakaali, šakaali, shakaali
- → German: Schakal
- → Galician: chacal
- → Icelandic: sjakali
- → Irish: seacál
- → Italian: sciacallo
- → Latvian: šakālis
- → Lithuanian: šakalas
- → Norwegian: sjakal
- → Polish: szakal
- → Portuguese: chacal
- → Romanian: șacal
- → Spanish: chacal
- → Tagalog: tsakal
- → Volapük: jakal
- → Yiddish: שאַקאַל (shakal)
Further reading edit
- “chacal”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Galician edit
Noun edit
chacal m (plural chacais)
Portuguese edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Turkish çakal.[1]
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
chacal m (plural chacais)
References edit
- ^ “chacal” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024.
Spanish edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from French chacal, from Turkish çakal, from Persian شغال (šagâl), from Sanskrit सृगाल (sṛgālá, “jackal”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
chacal m (plural chacales)
Hyponyms edit
Descendants edit
- → Tagalog: tsakal
Further reading edit
- “chacal”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014