chacal

French

Etymology

From Turkish çakal, from Persian ‎ (šağāl), from Sanskrit सृगाल (sṛgālá, “jackal”)

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ʃa.kal/
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Noun

chacal m (plural chacals)

jackal

Hyponyms

Descendants

→ Basque: txakal
→ Catalan: xacal
→ Danish: sjakal
→ Dutch: jakhals
- Afrikaans: jakkals
→ Estonian: šaakal
→ Faroese: sjakalur
→ Finnish: sakaali, šakaali, shakaali
→ German: Schakal (see there for further descendants)
→ Galician: chacal
→ Icelandic: sjakali
→ Irish: seacál
→ Italian: sciacallo
→ Latvian: šakālis
→ Lithuanian: šakalas
→ Malagasy: sagaly
→ Norwegian: sjakal
→ Polish: szakal
→ Portuguese: chacal
→ Romanian: șacal
→ Spanish: chacal
- → Tagalog: tsakal
→ Yiddish: שאַקאַל‎ (shakal)

Further reading

“chacal” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Galician

Noun

chacal m (plural chacais)

jackal

Portuguese

Noun

chacal m (plural chacais)

jackal

Spanish

Etymology

From French chacal, from Turkish çakal, from Persian ‎ (šagāl), from Sanskrit सृगाल (sṛgālá, “jackal”)

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /t͡ʃaˈkal/

Noun

chacal m (plural chacales)

jackal

Hyponyms

Descendants

→ Tagalog: tsakal

Further reading

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

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