marmot

English

Marmota caligata

Etymology

From Middle French marmote, from Old French marmotaine, marmontaine, murmontain, from Old Franco-Provençal marmotan, from Vulgar Latin *mures montani, from Latin mus monti (“mountain rat”), from Classical Latin mus alpini; akin to Engadin Romansch murmont, Old High German muremunto (dialectal German Murmentel, standard Murmeltier).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈmɑɹ.mət/
Hyphenation: mar‧mot

Noun

marmot (plural marmots)

Any of several large ground-dwelling rodents of the genera Marmota and Cynomys in the squirrel family.

Derived terms

marmot

Translations

rodent of the genera Marmota

Albanian: ^{(please verify)} marmota
Arabic: مَرْمُوط‎ m (marmūṭ)
Armenian: արջամուկ (arǰamuk)
Azerbaijani: marmot
Basque: marmota (eu)
Belarusian: суро́к m (surók)
Breton: moregan an alpoù
Bulgarian: мармот m (marmot)
Catalan: marmota (ca) f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 旱獺 (zh), 旱獭 (zh) (hàntǎ), 土撥鼠 (zh), 土拨鼠 (zh) (tǔbōshǔ)
Chuvash: сӑвӑр (săvăr)
Czech: svišť (cs) m
Danish: murmeldyr n
Dutch: marmot (nl)
Esperanto: marmoto
Estonian: ümiseja
Faroese: múrmildýr
Finnish: murmeli (fi)
French: marmotte (fr) f
Friulian: marmote
Galician: marmota
Georgian: ზაზუნა (ka) (zazuna)
German: Murmeltier (de) n
Greek: μαρμότα (el) f (marmóta)
Hindi: फीया (phīyā), मारमोट (mārmoṭ)
Hungarian: mormota (hu)
Icelandic: múrmeldýr (is) n
Irish: marmat
Italian: marmotta (it)
Japanese: マーモット (māmotto)
Kazakh: суыр (swır)
Korean: 마멋 (mameot)
Kyrgyz: суур (ky) (suur)
Ladin: marmota

Latvian: murkšķis m
Lithuanian: švilpikas m
Macedonian: мрмот m (mrmot)
Maltese: far il-ġebel
Mongolian: тарвага (mn) (tarvaga)
Navajo: dilchaʼ
Norwegian: murmeldyr n
Occitan: marmòta (oc), muret
Persian: مارموت‎ (mârmut)
Polish: świstak (pl) m, świszcz m
Portuguese: marmota (pt) f
Romanian: marmotă (ro) f
Romansch: muntanella
Russian: суро́к (ru) m (surók), байба́к (ru) m (bajbák)
Sami: murmel, murmelealli
Sardinian: marmotta, drummiccioni
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: свизац m, свизавац m, мрмот m

Roman: svizac (sh) m, svizavac m, mrmot (sh) m
Slovak: svišť m
Slovene: svizec (sl) m
Sorbian:
Lower: boback m

Upper: bobak m
Spanish: marmota f
Swedish: murmeldjur n
Tajik: суғур (suġur)
Thai: มาร์มอต (maa-mɔ̂ɔt)
Tibetan: ཕྱི་བ (phyi ba)
Turkish: dağ sıçanı (tr)
Ukrainian: баба́к (uk) m (babák), байба́к m (bajbák)
Uzbek: sugʻur (uz)
Welsh: twrlla, marmot
West Frisian: bargemot, marmot

See also

French

Etymology

Probably from marmotter.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /maʁ.mo/

Noun

marmot m (plural marmots)

(colloquial) kid, brat

Further reading

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

Norman

Etymology

Borrowed from French marmot.

Noun

marmot m (plural marmots)

(Jersey) brat

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