guanaco
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A guanaco
See also: guanacó
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish guanaco, from Quechua wanaku.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɡwəˈnɑːkəʊ/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Noun
guanaco (plural guanacos or guanacoes)
- A South American ruminant (Lama guanicoe), closely related to the other lamoids, the alpaca, llama, and vicuña in the family Camelidae.
Synonyms
Hypernyms
Hyponyms
- chulengo (a young guanaco)
Coordinate terms
- (Camelids) camelid; camel (dromedary, Bactrian camel), llama, guanaco, alpaca, vicuna/vicuña (Category: en:Camelids)
Descendants
- → Irish: guanacó
Translations
Lama guanicoe
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Dutch
Pronunciation
Audio: (file)
Noun
guanaco m (plural guanaco's, diminutive guanacootje n)
- guanaco (a South American ruminant (Lama guanicoe), closely related to the other lamoids, the alpaca, llama, and vicuña in the family Camelidae)
French
Pronunciation
Audio: (file)
Noun
guanaco m (plural guanacos)
- guanaco (a South American ruminant (Lama guanicoe), closely related to the other lamoids, the alpaca, llama, and vicuña in the family Camelidae)
Further reading
- “guanaco”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.
Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish guanaco, from Quechua wanaku.
Pronunciation
Noun
guanaco m (plural guanachi)
- guanaco (a South American ruminant (Lama guanicoe), closely related to the other lamoids, the alpaca, llama, and vicuña in the family Camelidae)
- Hypernym: camelide
Further reading
guanaco on the Italian Wikipedia.Wikipedia it- guanaco in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
- guanaco in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication
Portuguese
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish guanaco, from Quechua wanaku.[1][2]
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: gua‧na‧co
Noun
guanaco m (plural guanacos)
- guanaco (a South American ruminant (Lama guanicoe), closely related to the other lamoids, the alpaca, llama, and vicuña in the family Camelidae)
Coordinate terms
- (Camelids) camelídeo; camelo (dromedário, camelo-bactriano), lhama／lama, guanaco, alpaca, vicunha (Category: pt:Camelids)
References
- ^ “guanaco”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024
- ^ “guanaco”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024
Spanish
Alternative forms
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
guanaco m (plural guanacos)
- guanaco (a South American ruminant (Lama guanicoe), closely related to the other lamoids, the alpaca, llama, and vicuña in the family Camelidae)
- (colloquial, Chile) water cannon used for riot control
- (colloquial, El Salvador) Salvadoran
Hyponyms
- chulengo (young guanaco)
Coordinate terms
- (Camelids) camélido; camello (dromedario, camello bactriano), llama, guanaco, alpaca, vicuña (Category: es:Camelids)
Descendants
- → Dutch: guanaco
- → English: guanaco
- → Irish: guanacó
- → French: guanaco
- → Italian: guanaco
- → Portuguese: guanaco
Adjective
guanaco (feminine guanaca, masculine plural guanacos, feminine plural guanacas)
- (colloquial, Central America) Salvadoran, pertaining to El Salvador
- Synonyms: salvadoreño, cuscatleco
Further reading
- “guanaco”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28