fennec

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Mongolic *hüne-

Proto-Mongolic *-gan

Proto-Mongolic *hünegender.

Persian فنکbor.

Arabic فَنَك (fanak)der.

French fennecbor.

English fennec

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɛnɪk/

• Audio (General American):

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• Rhymes: -ɛnɪk
• 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
• fen (clipping)
• 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: sivatagi róka Icelandic: eyðimerkurrefur (is) m, fennec-refur m 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) 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 (France (Lyon)):

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• Audio (Paris):

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• Audio (France (Somain)):

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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