bandicoot

English

Model of a bandicoot

Etymology

Ultimately from Telugu పందికొక్కు (pandikokku), from పంది (pandi, “pig, boar”) +‎ కొక్కు (kokku, “bandicoot”); first used of the Asian murids, thence applied to the Australian marsupials which bear some resemblance.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈbændɪˌkuːt/

  • Audio (Southern England):

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈbændiˌkut/

Noun

bandicoot (plural bandicoots)

1. Any of various small Australian marsupials with distinctive long snouts, of the family Peramelidae (with the exception of genus Macrotis, called bilbies).
2. Any of several rat-like rodents of the genera Bandicota and Nesokia of southeast Asia.

   Synonym: bandicoot rat

Derived terms

• bandicoot rat
• golden bandicoot
• northern brown bandicoot
• pig-footed bandicoot
• rabbit bandicoot
• rabbit-eared bandicoot
• southern brown bandicoot
• typical bandicoot

Translations

marsupial of the genus Peramelidae

• Abinomn: aine
• Arabic: بَنْدَقُوط m (bandaqūṭ)
• Bandjalang: yaguy
• Bulgarian: бандикут m (bandikut)
• Catalan: bàndicut m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 袋狸 (dàilí)

• Czech: bandikut m
• Danish: punggrævling c
• Dhuwal: waṉʼkurra
• Dutch: neusbuideldas m
• Esperanto: bandikoto
• Estonian: bilbi
• Finnish: pusseli
• French: bandicoot (fr) m, péramélidé m
• Galician: peramélido m
• Georgian: ჩანთოსანი მაჩვისებრნი (čantosani mačvisebrni)
• German: Nasenbeutler m
• Greek: μπάντικουτ (bántikout)
• Hebrew: בַנדִיקוּט m (bandikút)
• Hungarian: bandikut
• Irish: bandacút m
• Italian: peramelide m, bandicoot m
• Japanese: バンディクート (bandikūto)
• Kannada: ಹೆಗ್ಗಣ (kn) (heggaṇa), ಪೆಗ್ಗಣ (kn) (peggaṇa), ಪೆರ್ಗಣ (kn) (pergaṇa)
• Kazakh: бандикут (bandikut), қалталы борсық (qaltaly borsyq)
• Korean: 큰쥐 (keunjwi), 반디쿠트 (bandikuteu)
• Kriol: brudbrud, bendigut
• Kyrgyz: бандикут (bandikut)
• Linngithigh: kiyu
• Lithuanian: bandikutas m
• Malayalam: പന്നിയെലി (ml) (panniyeli), പെരുച്ചാഴി (ml) (peruccāḻi)
• Navajo: naʼastsʼǫǫsíʼniiʼí
• Persian: باندیکوت (bândikot)
• Polish: jamraj (pl) m
• Portuguese: bandicoot m
• Romanian: peramelidă f, bursuc marsupial m
• Russian: бандику́т (ru) m (bandikút), су́мчатый барсу́к m (súmčatyj barsúk)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Latin: bandikut m, jazavičar m

• Spanish: bandicut m, peramélido m
• Swedish: punggrävling c
• Tamil: பெருச்சாளி (ta) (peruccāḷi)
• Telugu: పందికొక్కు (te) (pandikokku), కొక్కు (te) (kokku), ఆఖువు (te) (ākhuvu)
• Turkish: keseli porsuk
• Ukrainian: бандику́т m (bandykút)
• Vietnamese: chuột gộc

rat-like rodent of the genera Bandicota or Nesokia

• Finnish: intianrotta (Bandicota)

Verb

bandicoot (third-person singular simple present bandicoots, present participle bandicooting, simple past and past participle bandicooted)

1. (Australia, informal) To steal growing root vegetables from a garden by digging the vegetable out but leaving the tops undisturbed.

References

“bandicoot, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, December 2020., “bandicoot”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022..

Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English bandicoot, in turn borrowed from Telugu పందికొక్కు (pandikokku).

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /bɐ̃.d͡ʒiˈku.t͡ʃi/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /bɐ̃.d͡ʒiˈku.t͡ʃi/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /bɐ̃.d͡ʒiˈku.te/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /bɐ̃.diˈku.tɨ/

Noun

bandicoot m (plural bandicoots)

1. bandicoot (small Australian marsupial of the family Peramelidae)