English
Etymology
Borrowed from Hindi चीता (cītā, “leopard, panther”), ultimately from Sanskrit चित्र (citra, “multicolored, speckled”) (akin to Old High German haitar (“bright”) [1] > German heiter; Old Norse heiðr (“bright”)) + Sanskrit काय (kāya, “body”), thus “having a spotted body”.
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Noun
cheetah (plural cheetahs)
- (zoology) A distinctive member (Acinonyx jubatus) of the cat family, slightly smaller than the leopard, but with proportionately longer limbs and a smaller head; native to Africa and southeast Asia (where it is nearly extinct) and also credited with being the fastest terrestrial animal.
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Acinonyx jubatus
- Afrikaans: jagluiperd (af)
- Albanian: gepard m
- Amharic: አቦሸማኔ (ʾäbošämane)
- Arabic: فَهْد (ar) m (fahd), شِيتَه f (šītah)
- Armenian: վագրակատու (hy) (vagrakatu), գեպարդ (gepard)
- Assamese: চিতা বাঘ (sita bagh)
- Asturian: guepardu (ast)
- Azerbaijani: çita, gepard, qepard
- Basque: gepardo
- Belarusian: гепа́рд m (hjepárd)
- Bengali: চিতা (bn) (cita)
- Bulgarian: гепа́рд (bg) m (gepárd)
- Burmese: သစ်ကျုတ် (my) (sackyut)
- Catalan: guepard
- Cherokee: ᏢᏓᏥ ᎠᎦᏣᏄᎳ (tlvdatsi agatsanula)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 獵豹 / 猎豹 (zh) (lièbào)
- Czech: gepard m
- Danish: gepard c
- Dutch: jachtluipaard (nl) m or n, cheeta (nl) m
- Egyptian: (ꜣby-mḥw m)
- Esperanto: gepardo
- Estonian: gepard
- Finnish: gepardi (fi)
- French: guépard (fr) m
- Galician guepardo (gl) m
- Georgian: ავაზა (avaza)
- German: Gepard (de) m
- Greek: γατόπαρδος (el) m (gatópardos), τσιτάχ (el) m (tsitách)
- Gujarati: ચિત્તો (citto)
- Hebrew: בַּרְדְּלָס (he) m (bard'lás), צִ׳יטָה f (chíta)
- Hindi: चीता (hi) m (cītā)
- Hungarian: gepárd (hu)
- Icelandic: blettatígur (is) m
- Ido: gepardo (io)
- Indonesian: citah
- Irish: síota m, liopard fiaigh m
- Italian: ghepardo (it) m
- Japanese: チーター (ja) (chītā), 狩猟豹 (しゅりょうひょう, shuryōhyō)
- Kazakh: қабылан (qabylan)
- Khmer: ឆីតា (chəytaa)
- Korean: 치타 (ko) (chita)
- Kurdish:
- Northern Kurdish: yûzpiling (ku), yûz, çîta (ku)
- Kyrgyz: гепард (ky) (gepard), куулан (kuulan)
- Latvian: gepards m
- Lithuanian: gepardas m
- Macedonian: гепард m (gepard)
- Malay:
- Jawi: چيته
- Rumi: citah
- Maltese: ċita f
- Maori: tīta
- Marathi: चीता m (cītā)
- Middle Persian: 𐭩𐭥𐭮𐭩 (yʿsy /yōz/)
- Mongolian:
- Cyrillic: үчимбэр (üčimber), гепард (gepard)
- Mongolian: ᠦᠴᠢᠮᠪᠡᠷ (üčimber)
- Navajo: náshdóí dilwoʼí
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: gepard m
- Nynorsk: gepard m
- Ottoman Turkish: یوز (yuz)
- Persian: یوزپلنگ (fa) (yuzpalang), چیتا (čitâ), یوز (fa) (yuz)
- Polish: gepard (pl) m
- Portuguese: guepardo (pt) m, chita (pt) f
- Romanian: ghepard (ro) m
- Russian: гепа́рд (ru) m (gepárd)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: ге̏па̄рд m
- Roman: gȅpārd (sh) m
- Sinhalese: චීටා (cīṭā)
- Slovak: gepard (sk) m
- Slovene: gẹ̑pard (sl) m
- Somali: harimacad
- Sorbian:
- Lower Sorbian: gepard m
- Spanish: guepardo (es) m, chita (es) m or f, gatopardo (es) m
- Swahili: duma (sw)
- Swedish: gepard (sv) c, jaktleopard c
- Tagalog: gepardo
- Tajik: юз (yuz), гепард (gepard)
- Tamil: சிறுத்தை (ta) (ciṟuttai)
- Telugu: చిరుతపులి (te) (cirutapuli), చిరుతగండు (te) (cirutagaṇḍu)
- Thai: ชีตาห์ (chii-dtâa)
- Tibetan: ཤ་གཟིག (sha gzig)
- Tigrinya: ቺታ (čita)
- Turkish: çita (tr)
- Turkmen: geçigaplaň
- Ukrainian: гепа́рд (uk) m (hepárd), ґепа́рд m (gepárd) (rare spelling)
- Urdu: چیتا m (cītā)
- Uzbek: gepard (uz)
- Vietnamese: báo săn, báo bờm, báo ghêpa
- Welsh: llewpart hela m, tsita m
- Wolof: tene mi (wo)
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