marmot

English

Marmota caligata

Etymology

From Middle French marmote, from Old French marmotaine, marmontaine, murmontain, from Old Franco-Provençal marmotan, from Vulgar Latin *mures montani, from 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):

    (file)

• (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

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

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
• 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