fennec

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic فَنَك‎ (fanak).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈfɛnɪk/
- Homophone: Fenwick

Noun

fennec (plural fennecs)

A small fox of the species Vulpes zerda, found in the Sahara (excluding the coast) and having distinctive oversized ears.

Synonyms

Translations

fox

Arabic: فَنَك‎ m (fanak)
Bulgarian: фенек m (fenek)
Catalan: fennec m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 耳廓狐 (zh) (ěrkuòhú), 耳郭狐 (ěrguōhú), 𦗒狐 (guōhú)
Czech: fenek (cs) m
Dutch: fennek (nl) m
Egyptian: please add this translation if you can
Esperanto: feneko
Finnish: aavikkokettu (fi)
French: fennec (fr) m
Fula: please add this translation if you can
German: Fennek (de) m
Hausa: Fennec m
Hebrew: פֶנֶק‎ (he) m (féneq)
Italian: fennec m
Japanese: フェネックギツネ (fenekku-gitsune), フェネック (ja) (fenekku)
Kazakh: қалқанқұлақ түлкі (qalqanqūlaq tülkı), фенек (fenek)
Korean: 페넥여우 (peneg-yeou), 사막여우 (samag-yeou)
Maltese: volpi tad-deżert m
Mongolian: цөлийн үнэг (cöliin üneg)
Navajo: Mąʼii bijaaʼtsohí
Norwegian: ørkenrev m
Polish: fenek (pl) m
Portuguese: feneco m
Romanian: fenec (ro) m
Russian: фе́нек (ru) m (fének)
Spanish: fénec m
Swedish: fennek c, ökenräv c
Tuareg: please add this translation if you can
Vietnamese: cáo Fennec, cáo tai to châu Phi
Welsh: ffennec
Wolof: please add this translation if you can
Yoruba: kọ̀lọ̀kọ̀lọ̀

Further reading

Fennec fox on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Vulpes zerda on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

French

Pronunciation

Audio (file)
Audio (Paris) (file)

Noun

fennec m (plural fennecs)

fennec

Further reading

“fennec”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Italian

Etymology

From Arabic فَنَك‎ (fanak).

Noun

fennec m (invariable)

fennec

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