mammouth
French edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Russian ма́монт (mámont), from Uralic.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
mammouth m (plural mammouths)
- mammoth (extinct elephant-like mammal)
- Hyponym: mastodonte
- (figuratively) mammoth (something very large)
- Synonym: mastodonte
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
- → German: Mammut
- → Hungarian: mamut
- → Portuguese: mamute
- → Spanish: mamut
- → Persian: ماموت (mâmut)
- → Italian: mammut
- → Romanian: mamut
- → Turkish: mamut
- → Vietnamese: ma mút
Further reading edit
- “mammouth”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.