noun
Meaning 1
A rat of species Rattus norvegicus, common worldwide.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Phrase guide
brown rat
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noun
Meaning 2
common domestic rat; serious pest worldwide
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: Norway rat, Rattus norvegicus
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: rat
Narrower terms: wharf rat, sewer rat
History
Etymology
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Across languages
Translations
32 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Arabic: جُرْذ أَسْمَر (jurḏ ʔasmar) — Rattus norvegicus
- Armenian: շիկամուկ (šikamuk) — Rattus norvegicus
- Basque: arratoi arrunt — Rattus norvegicus
- Catalan: rata comuna — Rattus norvegicus
- Catalan: rata de claveguera — Rattus norvegicus
- Chinese Mandarin: 褐鼠 (hèshǔ) — Rattus norvegicus
- Czech: potkan — Rattus norvegicus
- Danish: brun rotte — Rattus norvegicus
- Dutch: bruine rat — Rattus norvegicus
- Estonian: rändrott — Rattus norvegicus
- Finnish: harmaarotta — Rattus norvegicus
- Finnish: isorotta — Rattus norvegicus
- French: surmulot — Rattus norvegicus
- German: Wanderratte — Rattus norvegicus
- Indonesian: tikus got — Rattus norvegicus
- Irish: francach donn — Rattus norvegicus
- Italian: surmolotto — Rattus norvegicus
- Japanese: ドブネズミ (dobunezumi) — Rattus norvegicus
- Japanese: 溝鼠 (dobunezumi) — Rattus norvegicus
- Korean: 집쥐 (jipjwi) — Rattus norvegicus
- Norwegian Bokmål: brunrotte — Rattus norvegicus
- Norwegian Nynorsk: brunrotte — Rattus norvegicus
- Polish: szczur wędrowny — Rattus norvegicus
- Portuguese: ratazana — Rattus norvegicus
- Russian: се́рая кры́са (séraja krýsa) — Rattus norvegicus
- Russian: пасю́к (pasjúk) — Rattus norvegicus
- Russian: ры́жая кры́са (rýžaja krýsa) — Rattus norvegicus
- Spanish: rata común — Rattus norvegicus
- Swedish: brunråtta — Rattus norvegicus
- Copala Triqui: xtuu yuve̱ — Rattus norvegicus
- Vietnamese: chuột nâu — Rattus norvegicus
- Welsh: llygoden ffyrnig — Rattus norvegicus