Trichechus manatus Etymology
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Borrowed from Spanish manatí , from a Cariban -language term meaning ‘breast’, ultimately from Proto-Cariban *manatɨ ; compare Kari'na manaty , Trió manatï , Apalaí manaty , Akawaio manatï , Pemon manatü , Macushi manatî .
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manatee (plural manatees or manatee )
Any of several plant-eating marine mammals , of family Trichechidae , found in tropical regions.
1988 , Tampa Bay Magazine (Sept–Oct 1988, page 60)
The ecological importance of the manatee is clear; scientists have demonstrated the dependancy[sic ] of all components of an ecosystem on one another . . . Synonyms
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any of several plant-eating marine mammals, of family Trichechidae
Afrikaans: lamantyn , manatee
Albanian: lopë deti f , lamantina f
Arabic: خَرُوف البَحْر ( ḵarūf al-baḥr )
Armenian: լամանտին ( lamantin )
Asturian: manatí (ast) m
Azerbaijani: lamantinlər
Bambara: maa
Basque: manati
Belarusian: ламанцін m ( lamancin )
Breton: ejen-mor (br) m
Bulgarian: морска крава f ( morska krava )
Catalan: manatí m
Cherokee: ᎹᎾᏘ ( manati )
Chinese:
Cantonese: 海牛 ( hoi2 ngau4 )
Hokkien: 海牛 ( hái-gû )
Mandarin: 海牛 (zh) ( hǎiniú )
Classical Nahuatl: tlacamichin
Czech: kapustňák (cs) m
Danish: søko c , manat c
Dutch: zeekoe (nl) f , lamantijn (nl) m
Esperanto: manato
Estonian: lamantiin
Faroese: sjókúgv f
Finnish: manaatti (fi)
French: lamantin (fr) m
Galician: manatí (gl) m
German: ( strictly ) Rundschwanzseekuh f , Manati m ; usually simply called Seekuh (de) f
Alemannic German: Manati m
Greek: μανάτος (el) m ( manátos )
Hausa: àyū
Hawaiian: lākamikini
Hebrew: תַּחַשׁ נְהָרוֹת (he) m ( takhash neharot )
Hindi: मैनाटी ( maināṭī )
Hungarian: lamantin (hu) , manátusz , tengeritehén
Icelandic: sækýr f
Ido: lamantino (io)
Indonesian: lembu laut (id)
Irish: bó mhara f
Italian: lamantino (it) m , manato (it) m
Japanese: マナティー (ja) ( manatī )
Kari'na: jarawa
Kazakh: ламантин ( lamantin )
Korean: 매너티 ( maeneoti )
Koyraboro Senni: ayu
Latin: manatus (la) m
Latvian: lamantīns m , manati m
Limburgish: zieëków f
Lithuanian: lamantinas m
Luxembourgish: Ronnschwanzséikou f , Manati m
Macedonian: ламантин m ( lamantin )
Malay: manati , lembu laut
Maltese: lamantin m
Manx: booa varrey f
Myene: màŋgà
Nahuatl: tlacamichin (nah)
Neapolitan: lamantino m
Norwegian:
Bokmål: manat m
Nynorsk: manat m
Old English: sǣcū f
Pirahã: pigáagi
Polish: manat (pl) m
Portuguese: peixe-boi (pt) m , manati (pt) m , manatim m
Quechua: manati
Romanian: lamantin (ro) m
Russian: ламанти́н (ru) m ( lamantín ) , морска́я коро́ва f ( morskája koróva )
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: лама̀нтӣн m
Roman: lamàntīn m
Sicilian: lamantinu m , manatì m
Slovak: lamantín m
Slovene: lamantin m
Spanish: manatí (es) m
Swahili: manatii
Swedish: sjöko c , manat (sv) c
Tagalog: manati
Tamil: கடற்பசு (ta) ( kaṭaṟpacu )
Tatar: lamantin
Thai: แมนนาที ( mɛɛn-naa-tîi )
Turkish: denizayısı , manati
Ukrainian: ламантин m ( lamantyn )
Vietnamese: lợn biển
Welsh: morfuwch f , manatî m
West Frisian: lamantinen
Wolof: leraw
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