フェネック狐

Japanese

Kanji in this term
狐
きつね > ぎつね
Hyōgai
kun'yomi

Etymology

フェネック (fenekku, “fennec”) +‎ 狐 (kitsune, “fox”). The kitsune changes to gitsune as an instance of rendaku (連濁).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ɸe̞ne̞k̚kɯ̟ɡʲit͡sɨne̞]

Noun

フェネック狐(ぎつね) or フェネック狐(ギツネ) • (fenekku-gitsune) 

  1. (rare) a fennec fox

Usage notes

The shorter form フェネック (fenekku) is much more common.

Synonyms

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