wombat

English

Common wombat (Vombatus ursinus)

Etymology

Borrowed from Dharug wambad, wambaj, or wambag. It was originally written whom-batt in English.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈwɑmˌbæt/
• (UK, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈwɒm.bæt/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ɑmbæt, -ɒmbæt

Noun

wombat (plural wombats)

1. Any of several herbivorous, burrowing marsupials, of the family Vombatidae, mainly found in southern and eastern Australia.
2. (Australia, slang) A slow and stupid person; a dullard.

Derived terms

• bare-nosed wombat
• northern hairy-nosed wombat
• southern hairy-nosed wombat
• wombat crossing
• wombat-headed
• wombat trail

Translations

marsupial

• Adnyamathanha: wartu
• Arabic: وُمْبَت m (wumbat)
• Armenian: վոմբաթ (vombatʻ)
• Azerbaijani: vombat
• Barngarla: wardoo
• Basque: wombat (eu)
• Belarusian: во́мбат m (vómbat)
• Bulgarian: во́мбат m (vómbat)
• Catalan: uombat m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 袋熊 (zh) (dàixióng)

• Czech: vombat n
• Danish: vombat c
• Dharug: wumbat
• Dutch: wombat (nl) m
• Esperanto: vombato
• Finnish: vompatti (fi)
• French: wombat (fr) m
• Georgian: ვომბატი (vombaṭi)
• German: Wombat (de) m
• Greek: φασκωλόμυς (el) m (faskolómys)
• Hindi: वॉम्बैट (vŏmbaiṭ)
• Indonesian: wombat (id)
• Interlingua: wombat
• Irish: vombat m
• Italian: vombato (it) m
• Japanese: ウォンバット (ja) (wonbatto)
• Kaurna: wartu
• Kazakh: вомбат (vombat)
• Korean: 웜뱃 (ko) (wombaet)
• Kyrgyz: вомбат (vombat)
• Lithuanian: vombatas m
• Macedonian: вомбат m (vombat)
• Malay: wombat (ms)
• Marathi: वॉम्बॅट m (vŏmbĕṭ)
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: вомбат (vombat)

• Navajo: shash naʼazísí
• Ngadjuri: watu
• Ngarrindjeri: moimoiri
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: vombat m

• Persian: وامبت (vâmbat)
• Polish: wombat (pl) m anim
• Portuguese: vombate m, wombat (pt) m
• Romanian: wombat (ro) m
• Russian: во́мбат (ru) m (vómbat), вомба́т (ru) m (vombát)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: во̀мбат m

  Roman: vòmbat (sh) m

• Slovak: vombat m
• Slovene: vombat (sl) m
• Spanish: vombátido m, wombat m
• Swahili: wombati
• Swedish: vombat c
• Tajik: вомбат (vombat)
• Tatar: вомбат (wombat)
• Thai: วอมแบต (wɔm-bɛ̀t)
• Turkish: vombat (tr)
• Turkmen: wombat
• Ukrainian: во́мбат m (vómbat)
• Uyghur: خالتىلىق ئېيىق (xaltiliq ëyiq)
• Uzbek: vombat
• Vietnamese: gấu túi mũi trần
• Volapük: vombat
• Welsh: wombat m
• Wiradjuri: wambad
• Woiwurrung: warin

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈʋɔm.bɑt/

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

wombat m (plural wombats, diminutive wombatje n)

1. wombat

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English wombat.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /wɔ̃.bat/, /vɔ̃.bat/

• Audio:

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Noun

wombat m (plural wombats)

1. wombat

   Synonym: (dated) phascolome

Further reading

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

Indonesian

Etymology

From English wombat, from Dharug wambad, wambaj, or wambag.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈwombat/ [ˈwom.bat̪̚]
• Rhymes: -ombat
• Syllabification: wom‧bat

Noun

wombat (plural wombat-wombat)

1. wombat (any of several herbivorous, burrowing marsupials, of the family Vombatidae)

Interlingua

Noun

wombat

1. wombat

Polish

Etymology

Orthographic borrowing from English wombat, from Dharug wambad, wambaj, or wambag.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈvɔm.bat/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɔmbat
• Syllabification: wom‧bat

Noun

wombat m animal

1. wombat

Declension

Declension of wombat

	singular	plural
nominative	wombat	wombaty
genitive	wombata	wombatów
dative	wombatowi	wombatom
accusative	wombata	wombaty
instrumental	wombatem	wombatami
locative	wombacie	wombatach
vocative	wombacie	wombaty

Derived terms

(noun):

• wombatowate

Further reading

• wombat in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /uˈõ.ba.t͡ʃi/ [ʊˈõ.ba.t͡ʃi], (faster pronunciation) /ˈwõ.ba.t͡ʃi/, /uˈõ.bat͡ʃ/ [ʊˈõ.bat͡ʃ], (faster pronunciation) /ˈwõ.bat͡ʃ/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /uˈõ.ba.t͡ʃi/ [ʊˈõ.ba.t͡ʃi], (faster pronunciation) /ˈwõ.ba.t͡ʃi/, /uˈõ.bat͡ʃ/ [ʊˈõ.bat͡ʃ], (faster pronunciation) /ˈwõ.bat͡ʃ/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /uˈõ.bat͡ʃ/ [ʊˈõ.bat͡ʃ], (faster pronunciation) /ˈwõ.bat͡ʃ/, /uˈõ.ba.t͡ʃi/ [ʊˈõ.ba.t͡ʃi], (faster pronunciation) /ˈwõ.ba.t͡ʃi/

Noun

wombat m (plural wombats)

1. Alternative form of vombate

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from English wombat.

Noun

wombat m (plural wombați)

1. wombat

Declension

Declension of wombat

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	wombat	wombatul		wombați	wombații
genitive-dative	wombat	wombatului		wombați	wombaților
vocative	wombatule			wombaților