Wikispecies
From the obsolete taxa Monitor and Lacerta monitor now displaced by Varanus within the single-species family Varanidae . The word Monitor is a calque of German Warner , which is a loanword from Arabic وَرَن ( waran ) . The conflation of the two words was encouraged by the lizards' habit of standing on their hind legs and appearing to monitor their surroundings.
monitor lizard (plural monitor lizards )
Any of various large carnivorous lizards of the family Varanidae , all of whose extant species are of genus Varanus , native to Africa , Asia and Australia .
Synonym: safeguard
lizard of the genus Varanus
Afrikaans: varaan , likkewaan (af)
Arabic: وَرَل m ( waral )
Assamese: গুঁই ( gũi ) , গুঁই সাপ ( gũi xap )
Bau Bidayuh: biowak
Belarusian: вара́н m ( varán )
Bengali: গুই সাপ (bn) ( gui śap ) , গুইসাপ (bn) ( guiśap ) , গোসাপ (bn) ( gōśap )
Bhojpuri: गोह ( gōh )
Bikol Central: guto
Bulgarian: вара́н (bg) m ( varán )
Burmese: ဖွတ် (my) ( hpwat )
Catalan: varà (ca) m
Central Melanau: kelibui , alou
Chichewa: gondwa
Chinese:
Mandarin: 巨蜥 (zh) ( jùxī )
Czech: varan m
Danish: varan c
Dutch: varaan (nl) m
Esperanto: varano
Estonian: varaan
Finnish: varaani (fi)
French: varan (fr) m , goanna (fr) f
German: Waran (de) m
Hebrew: כּוֹחַ (he) m ( kóaẖ )
Hindi: गोह (hi) f ( goh ) , गोधा (hi) f ( godhā )
Hungarian: varánusz (hu)
Ido: varano (io)
Indonesian: biawak (id)
Irish: laghairt mhonatóra f
Italian: varano (it)
Japanese: オオトカゲ (ja) ( ōtokage ) , 大蜥蜴 ( おおとかげ, ōtokage )
Kalmyk: мигүл ( migül )
Kapampangan: timbabalak , tarebalak
Kazakh: кесел ( kesel )
Korean: 왕도마뱀 (ko) ( wangdomabaem )
Latvian: varāns m
Lithuanian: varanas m
Luo: ng'ech
Macedonian: варан m ( varan )
Malay: biawak (ms)
Malayalam: ഉടുമ്പ് (ml) ( uṭumpŭ )
Persian: بزمجه (fa) ( bozmajje, bozmaje )
Polish: waran (pl) m
Portuguese: varano m , lagarto-monitor m , monitor (pt) m
Punjabi: ਗੋਹ m ( goh )
Romanian: varan m
Russian: вара́н (ru) m ( varán )
Sanskrit: गोधा (sa) f ( godhā )
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: варан m
Roman: varan (sh) m
Shor: қомдат
Slovak: varan (sk) m
Slovene: varan m
Spanish: varano
Sundanese: bayawak (su)
Swahili: kenge
Swedish: varan (sv)
Tagal Murut: andaatan
Tagalog: bayawak
Tausug: bibang
Thai: เหี้ย (th) ( hîia )
Ukrainian: вара́н (uk) m ( varán )
Vietnamese: kì đà
West Coast Bajau: paang
Wolof: mbag mi
Zimmern, Heinrich (1915 ) Akkadische Fremdwörter als Beweis für babylonischen Kultureinfluss (in German), Leipzig: A. Edelmann, page 52