wallaby
See also: Wallaby
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Dharug wollabi (“rock-wallaby”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈwɒləbi/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - (General American) IPA(key): /ˈwɑləbi/
Audio (US): (file)
Noun
wallaby (plural wallabies)
Derived terms
- agile wallaby
- antilopine wallaby
- banded hare-wallaby
- Bennett's wallaby
- black-footed rock wallaby
- black-striped wallaby
- black wallaby
- dama wallaby
- hare-wallaby
- nail-tail wallaby
- nailtail wallaby
- on the wallaby
- on the wallaby track
- parma wallaby
- Parma wallaby
- pretty-faced wallaby
- red-necked wallaby
- rock-wallaby
- scrub wallaby
- swamp wallaby
- tammar wallaby
- toolache wallaby
- western brush wallaby
Descendants
- → Catalan: ualabi
- → Dutch: wallaby
- → Finnish: vallabi
- → French: wallaby
- → German: Wallaby
- → Irish: valbaí
- → Italian: wallaby
- → Japanese: ワラビー (warabī)
- → Maori: warapī
- → New Latin: Wallabia
- → Polish: walabia
- → Portuguese: wallaby
- → Russian: валлаби (vallabi)
- → Spanish: ualabí
Translations
any of several species of marsupial
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See also
French
Etymology
Borrowed from English wallaby, from Dharug wollabi.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /wa.la.bi/
Noun
wallaby m (plural wallabys)
Further reading
- “wallaby”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English wallaby, from Dharug wollabi.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈwal.la.bi/
- Rhymes: -allabi
- Hyphenation: wàl‧la‧by
Noun
wallaby m (invariable)
Further reading
- wallaby in garzantilinguistica.it – Garzanti Linguistica, De Agostini Scuola Spa
- wallaby in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication
- wallaby in sapere.it – De Agostini Editore
- wallaby in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Portuguese
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English wallaby, from Dharug wollabi.
Noun
wallaby m (plural wallabies)
- wallaby (any of several Australian species of marsupial)