peccary

English

Collared peccary, Pecari tajacu

Etymology

From Kari'na pakira (“collared peccary”), from Proto-Cariban *pakira.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɛk.ə.ɹi/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

peccary (plural peccaries)

1. Any of the family Tayassuidae of mammals from the Americas, related to pigs and hippos.
   • 2023 March 1, “Amazon jungle: Man survives 31 days by eating worms”, in BBC News‎^[1]:

     He says he drank rainwater collected in his shoes and ate worms and insects while hiding from jaguars and peccaries, a type of pig-like mammal.

Synonyms

• javelina (Southwest US, from Mexican Spanish 'jabalina')

Derived terms

• Chacoan peccary (Catagonus wagneri)
• collared peccary (Pecari tajacu)
• white-lipped peccary (Tayassu pecari)
• giant peccary (Pecari maximus)

Translations

a family of mammals related to pigs and hippos

• Arabic: بِيكَارْيَة f (pikarya)
• Catalan: pècari m
• Central Huasteca Nahuatl: koapitsotl
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 西貒 (xītuān), 西猯 (xītuān), 西趪 (xīhuáng), 野豬 / 野猪 (zh) (yězhū)

• Dutch: pekari (nl)
• Esperanto: tajasuo
• Finnish: pekari (fi)
• French: pécari (fr) m
• German: Nabelschwein, Pekari m
• Hungarian: pekari (hu)
• Italian: pecari (it) m
• Japanese: 臍猪 (ヘソイノシシ, hesoinoshishi)
• Korean: 산돼지류 (sandwaejiryu)
• Portuguese: tajaçu m, pecari m, queixada (pt) m
• Romanian: pecari (ro) m
• Russian: пе́кари (ru) m (pékari)
• Spanish: pecarí (es) m, báquiro m (Venezuela), chancho de monte m (Argentina, Bolivia, El Salvador, Honduras), coche de monte m (Guatemala), jabalí m (Mexico), jabalina f (Mexico), saíno (es) m, (Colombia, Costa Rica, Panama), sahíno m (Ecuador, Nicaragua), sajino m (Peru)