javelina

English
The javelina

Alternative forms
  • javeli

Etymology

From Spanish javalina (obsolete), jabalina, feminine form of jabalí (“wild boar”), from Andalusian Arabic جَبَلِي‎ (jabalī) (in خِنْزِير جَبَلِيّ‎ (ḵinzīr jabaliyy, “mountain pig”)[1]), from Arabic جَبَل‎ (jabal, “mountain”). Cognate with Portuguese javalina, and similar in other Iberian languages.

Pronunciation
  • (UK) IPA(key): /havəˈliːnə/

Noun

javelina (plural javelinas)

  1. (Canada, US) The peccary, especially the collared peccary. [from 19th c.]
    • 1831, The Genius of Universal Emancipation, Benjamin Lundy, ed. p. 117:
      The Javelina (Peccari) is an animal peculiar so far as I know to Spanish America.
    • about 1900, O. Henry, Hygeia at the Solito
      Some well-mounted heads of deer and one of an enormous black javeli projected from the walls.
    • 2013, Philipp Meyer, The Son, Simon & Schuster 2014, p. 264:
      We […] were ready to send some prickly pears to the next world when the most unfortunate group of javelina on earth walked into view.

References
  1. The Arabic Contributions to the English Language: An Historical Dictionary, by Garland Hampton Cannon, Alan S. Kaye, p. 25

Catalan

Noun

javelina f (plural javelines)

  1. javelin
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