Etymology
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From Modern Latin Mammalia, coined 1758 by Linnaeus for the class of mammals, from neuter plural of Late Latin mammalis (“of the breast”), from Latin mamma (“breast”), perhaps cognate with mamma (mother).
Pronunciation
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mammal (plural mammals)
- An animal of the class Mammalia, characterized by being warm-blooded, having hair and producing milk with which to feed its young.
- (paleontology) A vertebrate with three bones in the inner ear and one in the jaw.
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Translations
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animal of the class Mammalia
- Afrikaans: soogdier (af)
- Albanian: gjitar (sq) m
- Arabic: ثَدْيِيّ m (ṯadyiyy)
- Armenian: կաթնասուն (hy) (katʻnasun)
- Assamese: স্তন্যপায়ী (stoinnopayi), স্তন্যপায়ী প্ৰাণী (stoinnopayi prani)
- Asturian: mamíferu (ast) m
- Azerbaijani: məməli
- Basque: ugaztun (eu)
- Belarusian: млекако́рмячае n (mljekakórmjačaje), сысу́н m (sysún), звер m (zvjer)
- Bengali: স্তন্যপায়ী (bn) (stonnopaẏi)
- Bulgarian: боза́йник (bg) m (bozájnik)
- Burmese: နို့တိုက်သတ္တဝါ (my) (nui.tuiksatta.wa)
- Catalan: mamífer (ca) m
- Chechen: декха дийнат (deqa diı̇nat)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 哺乳類／哺乳类 (zh) (bǔrǔlèi), 哺乳動物／哺乳动物 (zh) (bǔrǔ dòngwù)
- Czech: savec (cs) m
- Danish: pattedyr (da) n
- Dutch: zoogdier (nl) n
- Esperanto: mamulo (eo)
- Estonian: imetaja
- Faroese: súgdjór (fo) n
- Finnish: nisäkäs (fi)
- French: mammifère (fr) m
- Galician: mamífero (gl) m
- Georgian: ძუძუმწოვარი (ka) (ʒuʒumc̣ovari)
- German: Säugetier (de) n
- Greek: θηλαστικό (el) n (thilastikó)
- Guaraní: okambúva (gn)
- Hebrew: יוֹנֵק (he) (yonék)
- Hindi: स्तनपायी (hi) m (stanpāyī), स्तनधारी (hi) m (standhārī)
- Hungarian: emlős (hu)
- Icelandic: spendýr (is) n
- Ido: mamifero (io)
- Indonesian: mamalia (id), hewan menyusui
- Interlingua: mammifero, mammal
- Inuktitut: ᒪᒻᒪᓛᑎᒃ (mammalaatik)
- Irish: mamach (ga) m
- Italian: mammifero (it) m
- Japanese: 哺乳類 (ja) (ほにゅうるい, honyūrui)
- Kannada: ಸಸ್ತನಿ (sastani)
- Kazakh: сүтқоректі (sütqorektı)
- Khmer: ថនិកសត្វ (thaʼnikaʼ sat)
- Korean: 포유류(哺乳類) (ko) (poyuryu)
- Kurdish:
- Northern Kurdish: şîrdar (ku), guhandar (ku)
- Kyrgyz: сүт эмүүчүл (süt emüücül)
- Lao: ສັດລ້ຽງລູກດ້ວຍນົມ (lo) (sat līang lūk duāi nom)
- Latin: mammalis, mammalia
- Latvian: zīdītājs m
- Lithuanian: žinduolis (lt) m
- Low German:
- German Low German: Söögdeert n
- Luxembourgish: Mamendéier (lb) n
- Macedonian: цицач m (cicač)
- Malay: mamalia (ms)
- Malayalam: സസ്തനി (sastani)
- Maori: kararehe whāngote
- Mongolian: хөхтөн (mn) (xöxtön)
- Northwestern Ojibwa: abaagamizan-miskwianimal awesiinh
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: pattedyr (no) n
- Nynorsk: pattedyr n
- Occitan: mamifèr (oc) m
- Persian: پستاندار (fa) (pestândâr)
- Plautdietsch: Sutia n
- Polish: ssak (pl) m anim
- Portuguese: mamífero (pt) m
- Punjabi: ਥਣਧਾਰੀ m (thaṇdhārī)
- Romanian: mamifer (ro) n
- Russian: млекопита́ющее (ru) n (mlekopitájuščeje), зверь (ru) m (zverʹ)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: сисар m, сисавац m
- Roman: sisar (sh) m, sisavac (sh) m
- Silesian: cyckocz m
- Sinhalese: ක්ෂීරපායීන් (kṣīrapāyīn)
- Slovak: cicavec (sk) m
- Slovene: sesalec (sl) m
- Spanish: mamífero (es) m
- Swedish: däggdjur (sv) n
- Tagalog: wilik, mamipero, mamalya (tl)
- Tajik: ширхӯр (tg) (širxür)
- Tatar: имезүче (tt) (imezüçe)
- Telugu: క్షీరదం (te) (kṣīradaṁ)
- Thai: สัตว์เลี้ยงลูกด้วยน้ำนม (th) (sàt-líiang-lûuk-dûai-náam-nom), สัตว์กินนม (sàt-gin-nom)
- Tupinambá: okambúba'e
- Turkish: memeli (tr), memeli hayvan (tr)
- Turkmen: süýdemdiriji
- Ukrainian: ссаве́ць m (ssavécʹ), звір (uk) m (zvir)
- Urdu: ستنپایی (satnapāyī)
- Uzbek: sut emizuvchil
- Vietnamese: động vật có vú, (informal) thú (vi) (獸)
- Volapük: (♂♀) sügaf (vo), (♂♀) süganim (vo)
- Welsh: mamal (cy) m
- West Frisian: sûchdier n
- Yiddish: זויגער m (zoyger)
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paleontology: vertebrate with three bones in the inner ear and one in the jaw
