hyrax

See also: Hyrax

English

A hyrax.

Etymology

New Latin, from Ancient Greek ὕραξ (húrax, “shrewmouse”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈhaɪ.ɹæks/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

hyrax (plural hyraxes or hyraces)

1. 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.

Synonyms

• (small paenungulates): ashkoko, coney, daman, dassie

Hyponyms

• (small paenungulates): bush hyrax, cirogrille, klipdachs, rock hyrax, tree hyrax

Derived terms

• Cape hyrax
• Cape rock hyrax

 

Translations

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

Further reading

• “hyrax”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• hyrax on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Hyracoidea on Wikispecies.Wikispecies