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English
Alternative forms
Noun
wild animal (plural wild animals)
- Any (nonhuman) animal living in a natural, undomesticated state.
- Coordinate terms: livestock, pet, working animal
Visitors must not feed the wild animals, for the health and safety of both the animals and the visitors.
- (figuratively) A person exhibiting uncontrolled and risky, possibly aggressive, behaviour.
We've got some wild animals up in here tonight!
Translations
animal living in a natural, undomesticated state
- Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܚܲܝܘܲܬ ܒܲܪܝܼܵܐ f (ḥaywat barīyā)
- Bulgarian: ди́во живо́тно n (dívo živótno)
- Catalan: fera (ca) f, bèstia (ca) f
- Central Sierra Miwok: halé·-to-
- Cherokee: ᎡᎿᎢ (ehnai)
- Chickasaw: nannimilhlha'
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 野獸／野兽 (zh) (yěshòu), 野生動物／野生动物 (zh) (yěshēng dòngwù)
- Crimean Tatar: kiyik ayvan
- Czech: divoké zvíře sg or n
- Danish: vilddyr n
- Dutch: wild dier
- Finnish: villieläin (fi)
- French: animal sauvage m
- Galician: animal salvaxe m, besta brava f (archaic)
- Georgian: ნადირი (ka) (nadiri), მხეცი (mxeci), გარეული ცხოველი (gareuli cxoveli)
- German: wildes Tier n, Wildtier (de) n
- Greek: αγρίμι (el) n (agrími)
- Hebrew: חַיַּת בַּר f (khayyát bar)
- Hungarian: vadállat (hu), vad (hu)
- Icelandic: villidýr (is) n
- Indonesian: binatang liar
- Irish: beithíoch allta m
- Italian: animale selvatico m
- Japanese: 野生動物 (やせいどうぶつ, yaseidōbutsu)
- Khmer: សត្វព្រៃ (sat prɨy)
- Korean: 야생 동물 (yasaeng dongmul)
- Latin: bēstia (la) f, fera (la) f
- Mari:
- Eastern Mari: янлык (janlyk)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: villdyr n
- Nynorsk: villdyr n
- Old English: wilddēor n
- Portuguese: fera (pt) f
- Quechua: k'ita uywa
- Romanian: animal sălbatic n
- Russian: ди́кое живо́тное n (díkoje živótnoje)
- Sicilian: vestia (scn) f, bestia (scn) f
- Spanish: fiera (es) f, animal salvaje m, animal silvestre m
- Swahili: mnyama wa porini
- Thai: สัตว์ป่า (th) (sàt-bpàa)
- Wutunhua: redak
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