Noun
manatee (plural manatees or manatee)
- Any of several plant-eating marine mammals, of the genus Trichechus, found in tropical regions.
- 1988, Tampa Bay Magazine (Sept–Oct 1988, page 60)
- The ecological importance of the manatee is clear; scientists have demonstrated the dependancy[sic] of all components of an ecosystem on one another . . .
Descendants
- → Japanese: マナティー (manatī)
- → Korean: 매너티 (maeneoti)
- → Welsh: manatî
Translations
any of several plant-eating marine mammals, of family Trichechidae
- Afrikaans: lamantyn, manatee
- Albanian: lopë deti f, lamantina f
- Arabic: خَرُوف البَحْر (ḵarūf al-baḥr)
- Armenian: լամանտին (lamantin)
- Asturian: manatí (ast) m
- Azerbaijani: lamantinlər
- Bambara: maa
- Basque: manati
- Belarusian: ламанцін m (lamancin)
- Breton: ejen-mor (br) m
- Bulgarian: морска крава f (morska krava)
- Catalan: manatí m
- Cherokee: ᎹᎾᏘ (manati)
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 海牛 (hoi2 ngau4)
- Hokkien: 海牛 (hái-gû)
- Mandarin: 海牛 (zh) (hǎiniú)
- Classical Nahuatl: tlacamichin
- Czech: kapustňák (cs) m
- Danish: søko c, manat c
- Dutch: zeekoe (nl) f, lamantijn (nl) m
- Esperanto: manato
- Estonian: lamantiin
- Faroese: sjókúgv f
- Finnish: manaatti (fi)
- French: lamantin (fr) m
- Galician: manatí (gl) m
- German: (strictly) Rundschwanzseekuh f, Manati m; usually simply called Seekuh (de) f
- Alemannic German: Manati m
- Greek: μανάτος (el) m (manátos)
- Hausa: àyū
- Hawaiian: lākamikini
- Hebrew: תַּחַשׁ נְהָרוֹת (he) m (tákhash neharót)
- Hindi: मैनाटी (maināṭī)
- Hungarian: lamantin (hu), manátusz, tengeritehén
- Icelandic: sækýr f
- Ido: lamantino (io)
- Indonesian: lembu laut (id)
- Irish: bó mhara f
- Italian: lamantino (it) m, manato (it) m
- Japanese: マナティー (ja) (manatī)
- Kari'na: jarawa
- Kazakh: ламантин (lamantin)
- Korean: 매너티 (maeneoti)
- Koyraboro Senni: ayu
- Latin: manatus (la) m
- Latvian: lamantīns m, manati m
- Limburgish: zieëków f
- Lithuanian: lamantinas m
- Luxembourgish: Ronnschwanzséikou f, Manati m
- Macedonian: ламантин m (lamantin)
- Malay: manati, lembu laut
- Maltese: lamantin m
- Manx: booa varrey f
- Myene: màŋgà
- Nahuatl: tlacamichin (nah)
- Neapolitan: lamantino m
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: manat m
- Nynorsk: manat m
- Old English: sǣcū f
- Pirahã: pigáagi
- Polish: manat (pl) m
- Portuguese: peixe-boi (pt) m, manati (pt) m, manatim m
- Quechua: manati
- Romanian: lamantin (ro) m
- Russian: ламанти́н (ru) m (lamantín), морска́я коро́ва f (morskája koróva)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: лама̀нтӣн m
- Roman: lamàntīn m
- Sicilian: lamantinu m, manatì m
- Slovak: lamantín m
- Slovene: lamantin m
- Spanish: manatí (es) m, pez mujer m, manato m
- Swahili: manatii
- Swedish: sjöko c, manat (sv) c
- Tagalog: manati
- Tamil: கடற்பசு (ta) (kaṭaṟpacu)
- Tatar: lamantin
- Thai: แมนนาที (mɛɛn-naa-tîi)
- Turkish: denizayısı, manati
- Ukrainian: ламантин m (lamantyn)
- Vietnamese: lợn biển
- Welsh: morfuwch f, manatî m
- West Frisian: lamantinen
- Wolof: leraw
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