Etymology
From the obsolete taxa Monitor and Lacerta monitor now displaced by Varanus within the single-genus family Varanidae. The word Monitor is a calque of German Warner, which is a loanword from Arabic وَرَن (waran). The conflation of the two words was encouraged by the lizards' habit of standing on their hind legs and appearing to monitor their surroundings.
Noun
monitor lizard (plural monitor lizards)
- Any of various large carnivorous lizards of the family Varanidae, all of whose extant species are of genus Varanus, native to Africa, Asia and Australia.
- Synonym: safeguard
- Also: the earless monitor lizard, Lanthanotus borneensis; the sole member of the family Lanthanotidae.
Translations
lizard of the genus Varanus
- Afrikaans: varaan, likkewaan (af)
- Arabic: وَرَل m (waral)
- Assamese: গুঁই (gũi), গুঁই সাপ (gũi xap)
- Bau Bidayuh: biowak
- Belarusian: вара́н m (varán)
- Bengali: গুই সাপ (bn) (gui śap), গুইসাপ (bn) (guiśap), গোসাপ (bn) (gōśap)
- Bhojpuri: गोह (gōh)
- Bikol Central: guto
- Bulgarian: вара́н (bg) m (varán)
- Burmese: ဖွတ် (my) (hpwat)
- Catalan: varà (ca) m
- Central Melanau: kelibui, alou
- Chichewa: gondwa
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 巨蜥 (zh) (jùxī)
- Czech: varan m
- Danish: varan c
- Dutch: varaan (nl) m
- Esperanto: varano
- Estonian: varaan
- Finnish: varaani (fi)
- French: varan (fr) m, goanna (fr) f
- German: Waran (de) m
- Greek: βαράνος m (varános)
- Hanunoo: akdat
- Hebrew: כּוֹחַ (he) m (kóaẖ)
- Hindi: गोह (hi) f (goh), गोधा (hi) f (godhā)
- Hungarian: varánusz (hu)
- Ido: varano (io)
- Indonesian: biawak (id)
- Irish: laghairt mhonatóra f
- Italian: varano (it)
- Japanese: 大蜥蜴 (おおとかげ, ōtokage)
- Kalmyk: мигүл (migül)
- Kapampangan: timbabalak, tarebalak
- Kazakh: кесел (kesel)
- Korean: 왕도마뱀 (ko) (wangdomabaem)
- Kurdish:
- Central Kurdish: بزنمژ (bizinmij)
- Latvian: varāns m
- Lithuanian: varanas m
- Luo: ng'ech
- Macedonian: варан m (varan)
- Malay: biawak (ms)
- Malayalam: ഉടുമ്പ് (ml) (uṭumpŭ)
- Persian: بزمجه (fa) (bozmajje, bozmaje)
- Polish: waran (pl) m
- Portuguese: varano m, lagarto-monitor m, monitor (pt) m
- Punjabi: ਗੋਹ m (goh)
- Romanian: varan m
- Russian: вара́н (ru) m (varán)
- Sanskrit: गोधा (sa) f (godhā)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: варан m
- Roman: varan (sh) m
- Shor: қомдат
- Slovak: varan (sk) m
- Slovene: varan m
- Spanish: varano
- Sundanese: bayawak (su)
- Swahili: kenge (sw)
- Swedish: varan (sv)
- Tagal Murut: andaatan
- Tagalog: bayawak
- Tamil: உடும்பு (ta) (uṭumpu)
- Tausug: bibang
- Thai: เหี้ย (th) (hîia), กิ้งก่ามอนิเตอร์ (gîng-gàa-mɔɔ-ní-dtəə)
- Ukrainian: вара́н (uk) m (varán)
- Vietnamese: kì đà
- West Coast Bajau: paang
- Wolof: mbag mi
- Yakan: pāhang
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References
- Zimmern, Heinrich (1915), Akkadische Fremdwörter als Beweis für babylonischen Kultureinfluss (in German), Leipzig: A. Edelmann, page 52