caracal

See also: Caracal

English

A caracal.

Etymology

From French caracal, from Ottoman Turkish قره‌ قولاق (kara kulak, literally “black ear”), a calque of Classical Persian سیاه‌گوش (siyāh-gōš). Compare modern Turkish karakulak.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈkæ.ɹəˌkæl/
• (General American, without the Mary–marry–merry merger) IPA^(key): /ˈkæɹ.əˌkæl/
• (General American, Mary–marry–merry merger) IPA^(key): /ˈkeɚ.əˌkæl/, /ˈkɛɚ.əˌkæl/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Hyphenation: ca‧ra‧cal, car‧a‧cal

Noun

caracal (plural caracals)

1. A type of cat native to Southern Africa, West Asia, and parts of Central and South Asia, Caracal caracal.

Synonyms

• African lynx, Asian lynx, Persian lynx, Indian lynx, desert lynx (varying with location); lynx (improper)

Translations

Caracal caracal

• Afrikaans: rooikat (af)
• Arabic: عَنَاق الْأَرْض (ʕanāq al-ʔarḍ)
• Armenian: կարակալ (karakal)
• Azerbaijani: qaraqulaq
• Basque: karakal
• Bulgarian: каракал (karakal), степен рис (stepen ris)
• Catalan: caracal m
• Cherokee: ᎢᎾᎨ ᎬᎮ (inage gvhe)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 獰貓／狞猫 (zh) (níngmāo)

• Czech: karakal (cs)
• Danish: karakal c
• Dutch: caracal (nl) m
• Esperanto: karakalo
• Estonian: karakal
• Finnish: aavikkoilves (fi), karakali (fi)
• French: caracal (fr)
• German: Karakal (de) m
• Gujarati: હેણોતરો (heṇotro)
• Hausa: metso m
• Hindi: स्याहगोश (syāhgoś)
• Hungarian: karakál, sivatagi hiúz
• Ido: karakalo (io)
• Indonesian: karakal, caracal
• Irish: lincse chluasdubh f
• Italian: caracal (it) m, lince persiana f
• Japanese: カラカル (ja) (karakaru)
• Kazakh: қарақал (qaraqal)
• Korean: 카라칼 (karakal)
• Kumyk: къаракъулакъ (qaraqulaq)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: گوێڕەش (gwêrreş)

  Northern Kurdish: گۆرەویلک (gorewîlk), گوھرەشک (guhreşk)

• Latvian: karakals
• Lithuanian: karakalas
• Malay: karakal
• Maltese: karakall tal-Asja m
• Nahuatl: caracalmiztli
• Navajo: náshdóí bijaałizhiní
• Pashto: تورغوږی
• Persian: سیاه‌گوش (fa) (siyâh-guš)
• Polish: karakal (pl)
• Portuguese: caracal
• Russian: карака́л (ru) m (karakál)
• Serbo-Croatian: karakal (sh)
• Shona: twana
• Spanish: caracal m
• Swahili: simba mangu class 9/10
• Swedish: ökenlo
• Tamil: please add this translation if you can
• Tedaga: ngam ouidenanga
• Turkish: vaşak (tr), karakulak (tr), (textile) karakulak kürkü, (textile) karakulak kürkünden kumaş
• Turkmen: garagulak
• Udmurt: каракал (karakal)
• Uzbek: qoraquloq (uz)
• Zulu: indabushe class 9/10

References

• caracal on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Caracal on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Caracal on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Caracal caracal in Mammal Species of the World^[1] at Bucknell.
• “caracal”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• “caracal”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

Dutch

Een wilde caracal. — A wild caracal.

Etymology

Borrowed from French caracal, from Ottoman Turkish قره‌قولاق (kara kulak), a calque of Persian سیاه‌گوش (siyah guš).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkaː.raːˌkɑl/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: ca‧ra‧cal

Noun

caracal m (plural caracals, diminutive caracalletje n)

1. caracal, Caracal caracal

   Synonym: woestijnlynx

Hypernyms

• katachtige

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Turkish karakulak.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka.ʁa.kal/

• Audio (Switzerland):

  (file)

• Hyphenation: ca‧ra‧cal

Noun

caracal m (plural caracals)

1. caracal

   Synonyms: lynx du désert, lynx de Perse

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Turkish karakulak.

Noun

caracal m (invariable)

1. caracal

   Synonym: lince persiana

Anagrams

• acclara, calcara

Portuguese

caracal

Etymology

From Turkish karakulak.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ka.ɾaˈkaw/ [ka.ɾaˈkaʊ̯]

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /kɐ.ɾɐˈkal/ [kɐ.ɾɐˈkaɫ]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /kɐ.ɾɐˈkal/ [kɐ.ɾɐˈkaɫ]
  • (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): /kɐ.ɾɐˈka.li/

• Hyphenation: ca‧ra‧cal

Noun

caracal m (plural caracais)

1. caracal (Caracal caracal)

   Synonym: lince-do-deserto

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kaɾaˈkal/ [ka.ɾaˈkal]
• Rhymes: -al
• Syllabification: ca‧ra‧cal

Noun

caracal m (plural caracales)

1. caracal

Further reading

• “caracal”, in Diccionario de la lengua española (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy, 2023 November 28