numbat

English

A numbat.

Etymology

From Nyunga nhumbad.

Noun

numbat (plural numbats)

1. A small marsupial carnivore, Myrmecobius fasciatus, endemic to western Australia, that eats almost exclusively termites.

Synonyms

• (Myrmecobius fasciatus): banded anteater (obsolete)

Translations

small marsupial

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 袋食蟻獸／袋食蚁兽 (dàishíyǐshòu)

• Czech: mravencojed m
• Esperanto: numbato
• Finnish: pussimuurahaiskarhu (fi), numbatti
• French: numbat (fr) m, myrmécopie à bandes m
• German: Ameisenbeutler m
• Greek: νούμπατ n (noúmpat)
• Japanese: 袋蟻食 (フクロアリクイ, fukuroarikui)
• Navajo: tsinaʼayąʼii yildeełí
• Polish: mrówkożer workowaty m, mrówkożer (pl) m
• Romanian: numbat m
• Russian: су́мчатый муравье́д m (súmčatyj muravʹjéd), на́мбат m (námbat), намба́т m (nambát)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Latin: numbat m, mravljar m

• Spanish: numbat m
• Swahili: numbati
• Swedish: myrpungdjur n

Anagrams

• Tubman, tubman