bandicoot

English

eastern barred bandicoot (Perameles gunnii)

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Etymology

Ultimately from Telugu పందికొక్కు (pandikokku), from పంది (pandi, “pig, boar”) +‎ కొక్కు (kokku, “bandicoot”); first used of Asian murids, now called bandicoot rats, 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 marsupials of Australia and New Guinea, some with distinctive long snouts, of the family Peramelidae (with the exception of genus Macrotis, called bilbies).
2. A bandicoot rat; any of the genera Bandicota and Nesokia of rat-like rodents of southeast Asia.

Derived terms

• bandicoot grass (taxlink|Austrodanthonia bipartita|species}})
• bandicoot rat (Bandicota spp, Nesokia spp.)
• eastern barred bandicoot (Perameles gunnii)
• eastern striped bandicoot (Microperoryctes ornata)
• Fly River bandicoot (Echymipera echinista)
• desert bandicoot (Perameles eremiana)
• giant bandicoot (Peroryctes broadbenti))
• golden bandicoot (Isodon auratus)
• long-nosed bandicoot (Perameles nasuta)|species}})
• Menzies' spiny bandicoot (Echymipera echinista)
• mouse bandicoot (Microperoryctes murina)
• New Guinean long-nosed bandicoot (Peroryctes spp.)
• New Guinean mouse bandicoot (Microperoryctes spp.)
• New Guinean spiny bandicoot (Echymipera spp.)
• northern brown bandicoot (Isoodon macrourus)
• Papuan bandicoot (Microperoryctes papuensis)
• pig-footed bandicoot (Chaeropus app.)
• rabbit bandicoot, rabbit-eared bandicoot (Macrotis spp.)
• rat bandicoot
• Shark Bay bandicoot (Perameles bougainville)
• short-nosed bandicoot (Isoodon spp.)
• southern brown bandicoot (Isoodon obesulus)
• southern pig-footed bandicoot (†Chaeropus ecaudatus)
• spiny bandicoot (Echymipera spp.)
• striped bandicoot (Microperoryctes spp.)
• typical bandicoot
• western barred bandicoot (Perameles bougainville)

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 on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “bandicoot”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• “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)