fennec

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Mongolic *hüne-

Proto-Mongolic *-gan

Proto-Mongolic *hünegen

der.

Persian فنک

bor.

Arabic فَنَك (fanak)

der.

French fennec

bor.

English fennec

Borrowed from French fennec, from Arabic فَنَك (fanak).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɛnɪk/
  • Homophone: Fenwick

Noun

fennec (plural fennecs)

1. A small fox of the species Vulpes zerda, found in the Sahara (excluding the coast) and having distinctive oversized ears.

Synonyms

• desert fox
• fennec fox

Translations

fox

• Arabic: فَنَك m (fanak)
• Bulgarian: фенек m (fenek)
• Catalan: fennec m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 耳廓狐 (zh) (ěrkuòhú), 耳郭狐 (ěrguōhú), 𦗒狐 (guōhú)

• Czech: fenek (cs) m
• Dutch: fennek (nl) m
• Egyptian: please add this translation if you can
• Esperanto: feneko
• Finnish: aavikkokettu (fi)
• French: fennec (fr) m
• Fula: please add this translation if you can
• German: Fennek (de) m
• Hausa: Fennec m
• Hebrew: פֶנֶק (he) m (féneq)
• Hungarian: please add this translation if you can
• Italian: fennec m
• Japanese: フェネック (ja) (fenekku), フェネック狐 (fenekku-gitsune)
• Kazakh: қалқанқұлақ түлкі (qalqanqūlaq tülkı), фенек (fenek)
• Korean: 페넥여우 (peneg-yeou), 사막여우 (samag-yeou)
• Maltese: volpi tad-deżert m
• Mongolian: цөлийн үнэг (cöliin üneg)
• Navajo: Mąʼii bijaaʼtsohí
• Norwegian: ørkenrev m
• Polish: fenek (pl) m
• Portuguese: feneco m
• Romanian: fenec (ro) m
• Russian: фе́нек (ru) m (fének)
• Spanish: fénec m
• Swedish: fennek c, ökenräv c
• Tuareg: please add this translation if you can
• Vietnamese: cáo Fennec, cáo tai to châu Phi
• Welsh: ffennec
• Wolof: please add this translation if you can
• Yoruba: kọ̀lọ̀kọ̀lọ̀

Further reading

• Fennec fox on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Category:Vulpes zerda on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic فَنَك (fanak).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fɛ.nɛk/, /fe.nɛk/

• Audio:

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• Audio (Paris):

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Noun

fennec m (plural fennecs)

1. fennec

Further reading

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

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from French fennec, from Arabic فَنَك (fanak).

Noun

fennec m (invariable)

1. fennec