kinkajou

English

WOTD – 19 September 2007

A kinkajou

Alternative forms

• kincajou

Etymology

From French quincajou, from an Algonquian word, probably originally meaning ‘wolverine’ (compare Algonquin Kwingwaage, Ojibwe gwiingwa'aage (“wolverine”)), which was later transferred to the South American animal. Related to carcajou.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɪŋkəˌd͡ʒuː/, /ˈkɪŋkəˌʒuː/

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Noun

kinkajou (plural kinkajous)

1. Potos flavus, a carnivorous mammal of Central America and South America with a long, prehensile tail, related to the raccoon.

   Synonyms: honey bear, potto

Translations

Potos flavus

• Assamese: কিংকাজো (kiṅkazü)
• Bulgarian: кинкажу n (kinkažu)
• Catalan: kinkajú
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 蜜熊 (zh) (mìxióng)

• Czech: kynkažu m
• Esperanto: kinkajuo
• Finnish: kierteishäntäkarhu, kinkaju
• French: kinkajou (fr) m
• German: Wickelbär m, Honigbär m
• Greek: κερκολήπτης m (kerkolíptis)
• Italian: cercoletto (it)
• Japanese: キンカジュー (kinkajū)
• Kazakh: кинкажу (kinkaju), гүл аюы (gül aüy)
• Korean: 킨카주 (kinkaju)
• Kyrgyz: кинкажу (kinkaju)
• Palantla Chinantec: hieh¹² hma²
• Polish: kinkażu n, wikławiec m
• Portuguese: jupará
• Romanian: kinkaju m
• Russian: кинкажу́ (ru) m (kinkažú)
• Spanish: chosna f (Peru), cuchicuchi (es) m (Venezuela), cusumbí m (Panama), cusumbo m (Ecuador), martilla (es) f (Costa Rica), martucha (es) f (Mexico), mico de noche m (Nicaragua), mico león m (El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras), mono michi m (Bolivia), perro de monte m (Colombia)
• Yucuna: kuʼujrí

Further reading

• kinkajou on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Potos flavus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Potos flavus on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

French

Alternative forms

• kincajou
• quincajou (obsolete)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɛ̃.ka.ʒu/

Noun

kinkajou m (plural kinkajous)

1. kinkajou
2. (obsolete) wolverine

Further reading

• “kinkajou”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.