agouti

English

Etymology

From French agouti, from Old Tupi akuti. The name of the acouchi is probably from the same source.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /əˈɡuːti/

• Audio (General American):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -uːti

Noun

agouti (plural agoutis)

1. A rodent similar in appearance to a guinea pig but having longer legs, of the genus Dasyprocta.
   • 1988, Octavia E. Butler, “Part II, Chapter 6”, in Adulthood Rites, page 99:

     Akin looked around to be certain he was unobserved, then went out to watch the agouti. He had not seen one close up before. Lilith claimed they looked like a cross between deer and rats.

2. A fur containing a pattern of pigmentation in which individual hairs have several bands of light and dark pigment with black tips; any of several genes responsible for this pigmentation.

Derived terms

• Orinoco agouti

 

Translations

a rodent similar in appearance to a guinea pig but having longer legs

• Afrikaans: agoeti, goudhaas
• Catalan: agutí m
• Chayahuita: ipi
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 刺豚鼠 (cìtún shǔ)

• Dutch: agoeti (nl)
• Esperanto: agutio
• Finnish: aguti (fi)
• French: agouti (fr)
• Georgian: აგუტი (aguṭi)
• German: Aguti (de)
• Guaraní: akuti
• Hebrew: אגוטי
• Italian: aguti (it)
• Korean: 아구티 (aguti)
• Lithuanian: agutis m, tikrieji agučiai
• Mbyá Guaraní: akuxi
• Old Tupi: akuti
• Persian: کم‌گوش (kam-guš)
• Polish: aguti złocisty
• Portuguese: cutia (pt) f
• Quechua: chiwayru
• Romanian: aguti (ro) m
• Russian: агу́ти (ru) m (agúti)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: агути

  Roman: aguti (sh)

• Spanish: agutí (es) m, (Peru) añuje m, (El Salvador, Guatemala) cotuza (es) f, (Costa Rica, Honduras, Nicaragua) guatusa f, (Bolivia) jochi colorado m, (Colombia, Panama) ñeque (es) m, (Venezuela) picure m, (Mexico) sereque m
• Swedish: aguti (sv)
• Turkish: aguti
• Ukrainian: агуті (ahuti)
• Zazaki: aguti c

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Arabic: ^{(please verify)} أَغُوطِي (ʔaḡūṭī)
• Japanese: ^{(please verify)} アグーチ
• Korean: ^{(please verify)} 아구티 (aguti)

See also

• Appendix:Animals

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Tupi akuti.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.ɡu.ti/

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

agouti m (plural agoutis)

1. agouti (rodent)

Descendants

• → English: agouti

Further reading

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