marmot

English

Etymology

From Middle French marmote, from Old French marmotaine, marmontaine, murmontain, from Old Franco-Provençal marmotan, from Vulgar Latin *mures montani, the plural form of Latin mus monti (“mountain rat”); akin to Engadin Romansch murmont, Old High German muremunto (dialectal German Murmentel, standard Murmeltier).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈmɑː.mət/

  • Audio (Southern England):

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈmɑɹ.mət/
• Rhymes: -ɑɹmət
• Hyphenation: mar‧mot

Noun

marmot (plural marmots)

1. Any of several large ground-dwelling rodents of the genera Marmota and Cynomys in the squirrel family.

Derived terms

• Alaska marmot
• alpine marmot
• black-capped marmot
• bobak marmot
• gray marmot
• Himalayan marmot
• hoary marmot
• long-tailed marmot
• marmot squirrel
• Menzbier's marmot
• olympic marmot
• prairie marmot
• tarbagan marmot
• Vancouver Island marmot
• Vancouver marmot
• whistling marmot
• yellow-bellied marmot

Descendants

• → Irish: marmat
• → Japanese: マーモット (māmotto)
• → Korean: 마멋 (mameot)
• → Thai: มาร์มอต (maa-mɔ́t)
• → Welsh: marmot

Translations

rodent of the genera Marmota

Albanian: (please verify) marmota Arabic: مَرْمُوط m (marmūṭ) Armenian: արջամուկ (arǰamuk) Azerbaijani: marmot Basque: marmota (eu) Belarusian: суро́к m (surók) Breton: moregan an alpoù Bulgarian: мармот (bg) m (marmot) Catalan: marmota (ca) f Chinese: Literary Chinese: 鼧鼥 (tuóbá) Mandarin: 旱獺 / 旱獭 (zh) (hàntǎ), 土撥鼠 / 土拨鼠 (zh) (tǔbōshǔ) Chuvash: сӑвӑр (săvăr) Czech: svišť (cs) m Danish: murmeldyr n Dutch: marmot (nl) f Esperanto: marmoto Estonian: ümiseja Even: ча̄ма̇к (cāmȧk) Faroese: múrmildýr Finnish: murmeli (fi) French: marmotte (fr) f Friulian: marmote Galician: marmota Georgian: ზაზუნა (ka) (zazuna) German: Murmeltier (de) n Greek: μαρμότα (el) f (marmóta) Hindi: फीया (phīyā), मारमोट (mārmoṭ) Hungarian: mormota (hu) Icelandic: múrmeldýr (is) n Irish: marmat Italian: marmotta (it) Japanese: マーモット (ja) (māmotto) Kalmyk: тарвһн (tarvğn) Kanakanabu: kukuvara Kazakh: суыр (suyr) Khakas: тарбаған (tarbağan) Korean: 마멋 (mameot) Kyrgyz: суур (ky) (suur) Ladin: marmota Latvian: murkšķis m Lithuanian: švilpikas m Macedonian: мрмот m (mrmot) Malay: marmut Maltese: far il-ġebel Manchu: ᡨᠠᡵᠪᠠᡥᡳ (tarbahi) Mòcheno: marmota f Mongolian: тарвага (mn) (tarvaga) Navajo: dilchaʼ Norwegian: murmeldyr n Occitan: marmòta (oc), dormilhosa, muret Ottoman Turkish: طاغ صیچانی (dağ sıçanı) Persian: مارموت (mârmut) Polish: świstak (pl) m, świszcz (pl) m Portuguese: marmota (pt) f Romanian: marmotă (ro) f Romansch: muntanella Russian: суро́к (ru) m (surók), байба́к (ru) m (bajbák) Sami: murmel, murmelealli Sardinian: marmotta, drummiccioni Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: свизац m, свизавац m, мрмот m Roman: svizac (sh) m, svizavac m, mrmot (sh) m Slovak: svišť m Slovene: svizec (sl) m Sorbian: Lower: boback m Upper: bobak m Southern Altai: тарбаган (tarbagan) Spanish: marmota (es) f Swedish: murmeldjur (sv) n Tajik: суғур (suġur) Tatar: байбак (tt) (baybaq), сөркә (sörkä), суыр (suwır) Thai: มาร์มอต (maa-mɔ́t) Tibetan: ཕྱི་བ (phyi ba) Turkish: dağ sıçanı (tr) Tuvan: тарбаган (tarbagan) Ukrainian: баба́к (uk) m (babák), байба́к m (bajbák) Uyghur: سۇغۇر (sughur) Uzbek: sugʻur (uz) Vietnamese: macmôt, mác-mốt Welsh: twrlla, marmot West Frisian: bargemot, marmot Written Oirat: ᡐᠠᠷᡋᠠᡎᠠ (tarbaɣa) Yakut: таарбаҕан (taarbağan)

See also

• groundhog
• woodchuck

Further reading

• marmot on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Marmota on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Category:Marmota on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French marmotte. Possibly related to Middle Dutch marmotte (“goblin, kobold”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɑrˈmɔt/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: mar‧mot
• Rhymes: -ɔt

Noun

marmot f (plural marmotten)

1. marmot, rodent of the genus Marmota

Derived terms

• alpenmarmot
• bosmarmot
• marmottenslaap

Descendants

• Afrikaans: marmot
• → Caribbean Javanese: marmut
• → Indonesian: marmot
• → Japanese: モルモット (morumotto, “guinea pig”)
  • → Korean: 모르모트 (moreumoteu)
• → Papiamentu: marmòt

French

Etymology

Probably from marmotter.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /maʁ.mo/

Noun

marmot m (plural marmots, feminine marmotte)

1. (archaic) an architectural grotesque, especially a door knocker
2. (colloquial) kid, brat
   • 2015 [2004], Stéphane Dompierre, Un petit pas pour l'homme [A small step for man], →ISBN, page 171:

     — C’est bon. Et en lui posant des questions sur elle, tu finis par apprendre qu’elle a un marmot. Tu fais quoi ?

     "That's alright. And by asking her questions about her, you end up learning she has a kid. What are you doing?"

Derived terms

• croquer le marmot
• marmaille

Descendants

• → Italian: marmaglia, marmocchio

Further reading

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

Norman

Etymology

Borrowed from French marmot.

Noun

marmot m (plural marmots)

1. (Jersey) brat