Etymology
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New Latin, from Ancient Greek ὕραξ (húrax, “shrewmouse”).
Pronunciation
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- IPA(key): /ˈhaɪ.ɹæks/
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hyrax (plural hyraxes or hyraces)
- Any of several small, paenungulate herbivorous mammals of the order Hyracoidea, with a bulky frame and fang-like incisors, native to Africa and the Middle East.
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Translations
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mammal of the order Hyracoidea
- Afrikaans: dassie (af)
- Arabic: وَبْر (ar) (wabr), طَبْسُون (ṭabsūn)
- Bulgarian: даман m (daman)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 蹄兔 (títù)
- Czech: daman (cs) m
- Danish: klippegrævling
- Dutch: klipdas (nl) m
- Dyula: farakɔrɔba
- Esperanto: hyrako
- Faroese: fjallagrevlingur m
- Finnish: tamaani (fi)
- French: daman (fr) m
- German: Schliefer (de) m
- Hadza: tláshowa, jjabâkho
- Hausa: rēmā m
- Hebrew: שָׁפָן (he) m (shafan)
- Hungarian: szirti borz
- Icelandic: hnubbi m, klettagrefingi m, stökkhéri m (archaic)
- Italian: irace (it) m, procavia f
- Japanese: 岩狸 (ja) (イワダヌキ, iwadanuki)
- Kazakh: даман (daman)
- Lithuanian: damanas m
- Malay: hiraks
- Persian: خرگوش کوهی (xarguš-e kuhi)
- Polish: góralek (pl) m
- Portuguese: damão m, hirax m, hírax m
- Romanian: daman (ro) m
- Russian: дама́н (ru) m (damán), жиря́к (ru) m (žirják)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Latin: pećinar m
- Slovak: daman m
- Spanish: damán m
- Swahili: pelele, kwanga (sw), wibari, pimbi
- Swedish: hyrax (sv) c, dass (sv) c
- Turkish: daman
- Ukrainian: дама́н m (damán)
- Vietnamese: đa-man
- Welsh: cwning m
- Yoruba: agà, ọ̀fàfà, ọ̀wàwà
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