armadillo

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• General-American: /ɑɹməˈdɪloʊ/
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• Received-Pronunciation: /ɑːməˈdɪləʊ/
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• rhymes with -ɪləʊ
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• CMU ARPABET: AA2 R M AH0 D IH1 L OW0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h2er-der. Proto-Indo-European *h2(e)rmosder. Latin arma Proto-Indo-European *-h2 Proto-Indo-European *-éh2 Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh2yéti Proto-Indo-European *-h2tiinflu. Proto-Italic *-ājō Proto-Italic *-āō Latin -ō Latin armō ▲ Proto-Indo-European *-éh2 Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Indo-European *-eh2tos Proto-Italic *-ātos Latin -ātus Latin armātus Old Spanish armado Spanish armado Proto-Indo-European *-lós Proto-Indo-European *-elós Proto-Italic *-elos Latin -lus Latin -ellus Old Spanish -iello Spanish -illo Spanish armadillobor. English armadillo Borrowed from Spanish armadillo, diminutive of armado (“armored”) in reference to its protective plates.

122 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Achi: ib’ooy — burrowing mammal covered with bony, jointed, protective plates
• Afrikaans: armadil — burrowing mammal covered with bony, jointed, protective plates
• Afrikaans: gordeldier — burrowing mammal covered with bony, jointed, protective plates
• Guerrero Amuzgo: kíchio' — burrowing mammal covered with bony, jointed, protective plates
• Arabic: مُدَرَّع (mudarraʕ) — burrowing mammal covered with bony, jointed, protective plates
• Armenian: զրահակիր (zrahakir) — burrowing mammal covered with bony, jointed, protective plates
• Asturian: armadillu — burrowing mammal covered with bony, jointed, protective plates
• Belarusian: браняно́сец (branjanósjec) — burrowing mammal covered with bony, jointed, protective plates
• Breton: tatou — burrowing mammal covered with bony, jointed, protective plates
• Bulgarian: бронено́сец (bronenósec) — burrowing mammal covered with bony, jointed, protective plates
• Catalan: armadillo — burrowing mammal covered with bony, jointed, protective plates
• Chamicuro: memili — burrowing mammal covered with bony, jointed, protective plates
• Cherokee: ᎤᏯᏍᎦᎳ (uyasgala) — burrowing mammal covered with bony, jointed, protective plates
• Cherokee: ᎤᏤᏣᏍᏗ ᎤᏯᏍᎦᏟ (utsetsasdi uyasgatli) — burrowing mammal covered with bony, jointed, protective plates
• Chickasaw: hattak illapa' — burrowing mammal covered with bony, jointed, protective plates
• Chinese Mandarin: 犰狳 (qiúyú) — burrowing mammal covered with bony, jointed, protective plates
• Czech: pásovec — burrowing mammal covered with bony, jointed, protective plates
• Danish: bæltedyr — burrowing mammal covered with bony, jointed, protective plates
• Dutch: gordeldier — burrowing mammal covered with bony, jointed, protective plates
• Dutch: armadillo — burrowing mammal covered with bony, jointed, protective plates
• Dutch: schildvarken — burrowing mammal covered with bony, jointed, protective plates
• Dutch: kapasie — burrowing mammal covered with bony, jointed, protective plates
• Esperanto: dazipo — burrowing mammal covered with bony, jointed, protective plates
• Estonian: vöölane — burrowing mammal covered with bony, jointed, protective plates
• Estonian: vööloom — burrowing mammal covered with bony, jointed, protective plates
• Finnish: vyötiäinen — burrowing mammal covered with bony, jointed, protective plates
• French: tatou — burrowing mammal covered with bony, jointed, protective plates
• Galician: armadillo — burrowing mammal covered with bony, jointed, protective plates
• German: Gürteltier — burrowing mammal covered with bony, jointed, protective plates
• German: Armadill — burrowing mammal covered with bony, jointed, protective plates
• Greek: αρμαντίλλο (armantíllo) — burrowing mammal covered with bony, jointed, protective plates
• Hebrew: אַרְמָדִיל (armadíl) — burrowing mammal covered with bony, jointed, protective plates
• Hindi: आर्माडिलो (ārmāḍilo) — burrowing mammal covered with bony, jointed, protective plates
• Hungarian: tatu — burrowing mammal covered with bony, jointed, protective plates
• Hungarian: övesállat — burrowing mammal covered with bony, jointed, protective plates
• Hungarian: armadilló — burrowing mammal covered with bony, jointed, protective plates
• Hunsrik: Tattu — burrowing mammal covered with bony, jointed, protective plates
• Icelandic: beltisdýr — burrowing mammal covered with bony, jointed, protective plates
• Ido: armadilo — burrowing mammal covered with bony, jointed, protective plates
• Indonesian: trenggiling — burrowing mammal covered with bony, jointed, protective plates
• Indonesian: armadilo — burrowing mammal covered with bony, jointed, protective plates
• Irish: armadailín — burrowing mammal covered with bony, jointed, protective plates
• Italian: armadillo — burrowing mammal covered with bony, jointed, protective plates
• Japanese: アルマジロ (arumajiro) — burrowing mammal covered with bony, jointed, protective plates
• Kari'na: kapasi — burrowing mammal covered with bony, jointed, protective plates
• Kazakh: сауытты аң (sauytty añ) — burrowing mammal covered with bony, jointed, protective plates
• Kazakh: кіреукей (kıreukei) — burrowing mammal covered with bony, jointed, protective plates
• Korean: 아르마딜로 (areumadillo) — burrowing mammal covered with bony, jointed, protective plates
• Latvian: bruņnesis — burrowing mammal covered with bony, jointed, protective plates
• Lithuanian: šarvuotis — burrowing mammal covered with bony, jointed, protective plates
• Lokono: andadike — burrowing mammal covered with bony, jointed, protective plates
• Lokono: jesi — burrowing mammal covered with bony, jointed, protective plates
• Lokono: jesere — burrowing mammal covered with bony, jointed, protective plates
• Macedonian: оклопник (oklopnik) — burrowing mammal covered with bony, jointed, protective plates
• Malay: armadillo — burrowing mammal covered with bony, jointed, protective plates
• Maléku Jaíka: lenhífa — burrowing mammal covered with bony, jointed, protective plates
• Manx: armadillo — burrowing mammal covered with bony, jointed, protective plates
• Central Nahuatl: ayotochtli — burrowing mammal covered with bony, jointed, protective plates
• Classical Nahuatl: ayotochtli — burrowing mammal covered with bony, jointed, protective plates
• Orizaba-Nahuatl: ayotochin — burrowing mammal covered with bony, jointed, protective plates
• Navajo: kááʼtsʼiní — burrowing mammal covered with bony, jointed, protective plates
• Nheengatu: tatú — burrowing mammal covered with bony, jointed, protective plates
• Norwegian Bokmål: beltedyr — burrowing mammal covered with bony, jointed, protective plates
• Old Tupi: tatu — burrowing mammal covered with bony, jointed, protective plates
• Paumarí: tato — burrowing mammal covered with bony, jointed, protective plates
• Persian: آرمادیلو (ârmâdilo) — burrowing mammal covered with bony, jointed, protective plates
• Polish: pancernik — burrowing mammal covered with bony, jointed, protective plates
• Portuguese: tatu — burrowing mammal covered with bony, jointed, protective plates
• Q'eqchi: ib'oy — burrowing mammal covered with bony, jointed, protective plates
• Classical Quechua: quiriquincho — burrowing mammal covered with bony, jointed, protective plates
• Cusco-Quechua: khirkinchu — burrowing mammal covered with bony, jointed, protective plates
• Cusco-Quechua: khirki — burrowing mammal covered with bony, jointed, protective plates
• Romanian: tatu — burrowing mammal covered with bony, jointed, protective plates
• Russian: бронено́сец (bronenósec) — burrowing mammal covered with bony, jointed, protective plates
• Scottish Gaelic: armadillo — burrowing mammal covered with bony, jointed, protective plates
• Serbo-Croatian: пасанац — burrowing mammal covered with bony, jointed, protective plates
• Serbo-Croatian: армадѝло — burrowing mammal covered with bony, jointed, protective plates
• Serbo-Croatian: pasanac — burrowing mammal covered with bony, jointed, protective plates
• Serbo-Croatian: armadìlo — burrowing mammal covered with bony, jointed, protective plates
• Slovak: pásavec — burrowing mammal covered with bony, jointed, protective plates
• Slovene: pasavec — burrowing mammal covered with bony, jointed, protective plates
• Spanish: armadillo — burrowing mammal covered with bony, jointed, protective plates
• Spanish: armado — burrowing mammal covered with bony, jointed, protective plates
• Spanish: cachicamo — burrowing mammal covered with bony, jointed, protective plates
• Spanish: carachupa — burrowing mammal covered with bony, jointed, protective plates
• Spanish: cusuco — burrowing mammal covered with bony, jointed, protective plates
• Spanish: gurre — burrowing mammal covered with bony, jointed, protective plates
• Spanish: jerrejerre — burrowing mammal covered with bony, jointed, protective plates
• Spanish: mulita — burrowing mammal covered with bony, jointed, protective plates
• Spanish: pitero — burrowing mammal covered with bony, jointed, protective plates
• Spanish: quirquincho — burrowing mammal covered with bony, jointed, protective plates
• Spanish: tatú — burrowing mammal covered with bony, jointed, protective plates
• Spanish: toche — burrowing mammal covered with bony, jointed, protective plates
• Spanish: tumulle — burrowing mammal covered with bony, jointed, protective plates
• Spanish: tatuejo — burrowing mammal covered with bony, jointed, protective plates
• Spanish: run — burrowing mammal covered with bony, jointed, protective plates
• Spanish: timbo — burrowing mammal covered with bony, jointed, protective plates
• Sranan Tongo: kapasi — burrowing mammal covered with bony, jointed, protective plates
• Swahili: kakakuona — burrowing mammal covered with bony, jointed, protective plates
• Swedish: bälta — burrowing mammal covered with bony, jointed, protective plates
• Swedish: bältdjur — burrowing mammal covered with bony, jointed, protective plates
• Tagalog: armadilyo — burrowing mammal covered with bony, jointed, protective plates
• Teribe: dupkwo — burrowing mammal covered with bony, jointed, protective plates
• Thai: นิ่ม (nîm) — burrowing mammal covered with bony, jointed, protective plates
• Tswana: kgaga — burrowing mammal covered with bony, jointed, protective plates
• Turkish: armadillo — burrowing mammal covered with bony, jointed, protective plates
• Ukrainian: бронено́сець (bronenósecʹ) — burrowing mammal covered with bony, jointed, protective plates
• Uzbek: bronenosets — burrowing mammal covered with bony, jointed, protective plates
• Vietnamese: tatu — burrowing mammal covered with bony, jointed, protective plates
• Volapük: tatud — burrowing mammal covered with bony, jointed, protective plates
• Wapishana: kapashi — burrowing mammal covered with bony, jointed, protective plates
• Wayana: kapasi — burrowing mammal covered with bony, jointed, protective plates
• Wayana: mëlaimë — burrowing mammal covered with bony, jointed, protective plates
• Wayana: lahpo — burrowing mammal covered with bony, jointed, protective plates
• Wayana: latawa — burrowing mammal covered with bony, jointed, protective plates
• Wayana: lemu — burrowing mammal covered with bony, jointed, protective plates
• Welsh: armadilo — burrowing mammal covered with bony, jointed, protective plates
• Welsh: armellog — burrowing mammal covered with bony, jointed, protective plates
• Yucatec Maya: weech — burrowing mammal covered with bony, jointed, protective plates
• Yuracare: dyolojoto — burrowing mammal covered with bony, jointed, protective plates
• Záparo: múraka — burrowing mammal covered with bony, jointed, protective plates
• Isthmus Zapotec: ngupi — burrowing mammal covered with bony, jointed, protective plates