yeti

See also: Yeti, yéti, and yètǐ

English

Etymology

From Tibetan གཡའ་དྲེད (g.ya' dred, “rock bear”), compound of གཡའ (g.ya', “rocky or rocky place”) and དྲེད (dred, “bear”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈjɛ.ti/

• Audio (Southern England)

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈjɛ.ti/, [ˈjɛ.ɾi]
• Rhymes: -ɛti

Noun

yeti (plural yeti or yetis)

1. (cryptozoology) An unidentified humanoid animal said to live in the Himalayas.

   Synonym: abominable snowman

   Coordinate terms: bigfoot, sasquatch, yowie, menk

Translations

unidentified animal

• Arabic: يَتِي‎ m (yatī)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 雪人 (zh) (xuěrén), 野人 (zh) (yěrén)

• Czech: yeti m, sněžný muž m
• Dutch: yeti (nl) m
• Dzongkha: མི་རྒོད​ (mi rgod​)
• Esperanto: jetio
• Finnish: lumimies (fi), jeti (fi)
• French: yéti (fr) m, migou (fr) m
• Georgian: იეტი (ieṭi), თოვლის კაცი (tovlis ḳaci)
• German: Yeti (de) m, Schneemensch (de) m
• Hebrew: יטי‎
• Hungarian: jeti (hu)
• Italian: yeti (it) m
• Japanese: イエティー (ietī), 野人 (やじん, yajin)

• Korean: 예티 (yeti)
• Mongolian: алмас (mn) (almas), цасны хүн (tsasny khün)
• Nepali: हिममानव (himmānav)
• Persian: یتی‎
• Polish: yeti (pl) m
• Portuguese: ieti m, iéti (pt) m, yeti (pt) m, abominável homem das neves m
• Russian: йе́ти (ru) m (jéti) (indeclinable), сне́жный челове́к (ru) m (snéžnyj čelovék), бигфу́т (ru) m (bigfút)
• Sherpa: please add this translation if you can
• Slovak: yeti m
• Swedish: yeti (sv) c, jeti c, snöman (sv)
• Thai: เยติ (th) (yaydtì)
• Tibetan: མི་རྒོད (mi rgod)
• Yakut: чучунаа (çuçunaa)

Anagrams

• -iety, yite

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Anguthimri

Noun

yeti

1. (Mpakwithi) bird

References

• Terry Crowley, The Mpakwithi dialect of Anguthimri (1981), page 189

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Czech

Alternative forms

• yetti

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈjɛtɪ]
• Hyphenation: ye‧ti

Noun

yeti m anim

1. (cryptozoology) yeti

Declension

Declension

	singular	plural
nominative	yeti	yetiové, yeti
genitive	yetiho	yetiů, yetich
dative	yetimu	yetiům, yetim
accusative	yetiho	yetie, yeti
vocative	yeti	yetiové, yeti
locative	yetim	yetiích, yetich
instrumental	yetim	yetii, yetimi

Synonyms

• sněžný muž

Further reading

• yeti in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu

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Dutch

Etymology

Probably borrowed from English yeti, from Tibetan གཡའ་དྲེད (g.ya' dred, “rock bear”), compound of གཡའ (g.ya', “rocky or rocky place”) and དྲེད (dred, “bear”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈjeː.ti/

• Audio

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• Hyphenation: ye‧ti

Noun

yeti m (plural yeti's, diminutive yetietje n)

1. (cryptozoology) yeti

   Synonym: verschrikkelijke sneeuwman

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Italian

Noun

yeti m (invariable)

1. (cryptozoology) yeti

   Synonym: abominevole uomo delle nevi

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Polish

Etymology

From Tibetan གཡའ་དྲེད (g.ya' dred, “rock bear”), compound of གཡའ (g.ya', “rocky or rocky place”) and དྲེད (dred, “bear”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈjɛ.ti/

Noun

yeti m anim (indeclinable)

1. (cryptozoology) yeti

Further reading

• yeti in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• yeti in Polish dictionaries at PWN

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Portuguese

Alternative forms

• iéti, ieti, yéti

Noun

yeti m (plural yetis)

1. (cryptozoology) yeti (unidentified humanoid of the Himalayas)

   Synonym: abominável homem das neves

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Slovak

Etymology

From Tibetan གཡའ་དྲེད (g.ya' dred, “rock bear”), compound of གཡའ (g.ya', “rocky or rocky place”) and དྲེད (dred, “bear”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈjeti]

Noun

yeti m (genitive singular yetiho, nominative plural yetiovia, genitive plural yetiov, declension pattern of kuli)

1. (cryptozoology) yeti

Declension

Declension of yeti

	singular	plural
nominative	yeti	yetiovia
genitive	yetiho	yetiov
dative	yetimu	yetiom
accusative	yetiho	yetiov
locative	yetim	yetioch
instrumental	yetim	yetiami

Synonyms

• snežný človek m
• snežný muž m

References

• yeti in Slovak dictionaries at slovnik.juls.savba.sk

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Spanish

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ˈʝeti/, [ˈɟ͡ʝe.t̪i]

• IPA^(key): (everywhere but Argentina and Uruguay) /ˈʝeti/, [ˈɟ͡ʝe.t̪i]
• IPA^(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /ˈʃeti/, [ˈʃe.t̪i]
• IPA^(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /ˈʒeti/, [ˈʒe.t̪i]

Noun

yeti m (plural yetis)

1. (folklore) yeti

Further reading

• “yeti” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

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Swedish

Noun

yeti c

1. (cryptozoology) yeti

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Turkish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [jeti]
• Hyphenation: ye‧ti

Noun

yeti (definite accusative yetiyi, plural yetiler)

1. (cryptozoology) yeti
2. (philosophy, psychology) faculty, skill

Declension

Inflection
Nominative	yeti
Definite accusative	yetiyi
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	yeti	yetiler
Definite accusative	yetiyi	yetileri
Dative	yetiye	yetilere
Locative	yetide	yetilerde
Ablative	yetiden	yetilerden
Genitive	yetinin	yetilerin