chacal
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish چقال (modern Turkish çakal), from Persian شغال (šağâl), from Sanskrit सृगाल (sṛgālá, “jackal”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ʃa.kal/
audio (file) Audio (Paris) (file)
Descendants
- → Basque: txakal
- → Corsican: sciaccallu
- → Catalan: xacal
- → Danish: sjakal
- → Dutch: jakhals
- Afrikaans: jakkals
- → English: jackal
- → Faroese: sjakalur
- → Finnish: sakaali, šakaali, shakaali
- → German: Schakal
- → Galician: chacal
- → Icelandic: sjakali
- → Irish: seacál
- → Italian: sciacallo
- → Latvian: šakālis
- → Lithuanian: šakalas
- → Norwegian: sjakal
- → Polish: szakal
- → Portuguese: chacal
- → Romanian: șacal
- → Spanish: chacal
- → Tagalog: tsakal
- → Volapük: jakal
- → Yiddish: שאַקאַל (shakal)
Further reading
- “chacal”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Portuguese
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /ʃaˈkaw/ [ʃaˈkaʊ̯]
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /ʃɐˈkal/ [ʃɐˈkaɫ]
- (Northern Portugal) IPA(key): /t͡ʃɐˈkal/ [t͡ʃɐˈkaɫ]
- (Southern Portugal) IPA(key): /ʃɐˈka.li/
- Rhymes: (Portugal) -al, (Brazil) -aw
- Hyphenation: cha‧cal
References
- “chacal” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024.
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from French chacal, from Turkish çakal, from Persian شغال (šagâl), from Sanskrit सृगाल (sṛgālá, “jackal”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /t͡ʃaˈkal/ [t͡ʃaˈkal]
Audio (Spain): (file) - Rhymes: -al
- Syllabification: cha‧cal
Hyponyms
- chacal rayado
- chacal de gualdrapa
- chacal de lomo negro
- chacal dorado
- chacal común
- chacal de Simien
Descendants
- → Tagalog: tsakal
Further reading
- “chacal”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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