jackal

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From French chacal, chacale, checale, schakal, ciacale, from Turkish çakal, from Persian شغال (šaġâl), borrowed from Sanskrit शृगाल (śṛgāla, “jackal”).

161 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Abkhaz: абга (abga) — wild canine
• Afar: wákri — wild canine
• Afrikaans: jakkals — wild canine
• Albanian: çakall — wild canine
• Amharic: ቀበሮ (ḳäbäro) — wild canine
• Arabic: اِبْن آوَى (ibn ʔāwā) — wild canine
• Aramaic: ܝܪܘܪܐ (yārōrā) — wild canine
• Aramaic: ܫܓܠ (šəḡal) — wild canine
• Aramaic: יָרוֹרָא (yārōrā) — wild canine
• Armenian: շնագայլ (šnagayl) — wild canine
• Old Armenian: թեպեկ (tʻepek) — wild canine
• Assamese: শিয়াল (xial) — wild canine
• Atong (India): sial — wild canine
• Azerbaijani: çaqqal — wild canine
• Basque: txakal — wild canine
• Belarusian: шака́л (šakál) — wild canine
• Bengali: শৃগাল (srigal) — wild canine
• Bengali: শিয়াল (śiẏal) — wild canine
• Breton: aourgi — wild canine
• Bulgarian: чака́л (čakál) — wild canine
• Burmese: ခွေးအ (hkwe:a.) — wild canine
• Burmese: ခှေး — wild canine
• Catalan: xacal — wild canine
• Central Atlas Tamazight: ⵓⵛⵛⵏ (uccn) — wild canine
• Central Atlas Tamazight: ⵜⵓⵛⵛⵏⵜ (tuccnt) — wild canine
• Chechen: чагӏалкх (čağalq) — wild canine
• Chichewa: nkhandwe — wild canine
• Chinese Mandarin: 胡狼 (húláng) — wild canine
• Chinese Mandarin: 狐狼 (húláng) — wild canine
• Chinese Mandarin: 豺狼 (cháiláng) — wild canine
• Coptic: ⲃⲟⲓϣⲓ (boiši) — wild canine
• Crimean Tatar: çaqal — wild canine
• Czech: šakal — wild canine
• Danish: sjakal — wild canine
• Dutch: jakhals — wild canine
• Egyptian: z:A-b-E17 (zꜣb) — wild canine
• Egyptian: wn:n-S-E17 (wnš) — wild canine
• Demotic Egyptian: spe — wild canine
• Esperanto: ŝakalo — wild canine
• Estonian: šaakal — wild canine
• Faroese: sjakalur — wild canine
• Finnish: sakaali — wild canine
• French: chacal — wild canine
• Galician: chacal — wild canine
• Georgian: ტურა (ṭura) — wild canine
• German: Schakal — wild canine
• German: Schakalin — wild canine
• Greek: τσακάλι (tsakáli) — wild canine
• Ancient Greek: θώς (thṓs) — wild canine
• Ancient Greek: λυκοπάνθηρ (lukopánthēr) — wild canine
• Pontic Greek: θώπεκας (thópekas) — wild canine
• Gujarati: શિયાળ (śiyāḷ) — wild canine
• Hausa: dilā — wild canine
• Hawaiian: iākala — wild canine
• Hawaiian: ʻīlio hae — wild canine
• Hebrew: תַּן (tan) — wild canine
• Hebrew: אִי (i) — wild canine
• Hindi: सियार (siyār) — wild canine
• Hungarian: sakál — wild canine
• Icelandic: sjakali — wild canine
• Ido: shakalo — wild canine
• Indonesian: jakal — wild canine
• Irish: seacál — wild canine
• Italian: sciacallo — wild canine
• Italian: sciacalla — wild canine
• Japanese: ジャッカル (jakkaru) — wild canine
• Javanese: asu alas — wild canine
• Kabyle: ⵓⵞⴻⵏ (učen) — wild canine
• Kalmyk: шоһл чон (şoğl çon) — wild canine
• Kashmiri: شال (śāl) — wild canine
• Kashmiri: شٲج (śạ̄j) — wild canine
• Kazakh: шағал (şağal) — wild canine
• Kazakh: шақал (şaqal) — wild canine
• Kazakh: қорқау қасқыр (qorqau qasqyr) — wild canine
• Khmer: សិគាល (sekiəl) — wild canine
• Korean: 자칼 (jakal) — wild canine
• Korean: 재칼 (jaekal) — wild canine
• Central Kurdish: چەقەڵ (çeqell) — wild canine
• Northern Kurdish: çeqel — wild canine
• Kyrgyz: көркоо (körkoo) — wild canine
• Kyrgyz: чөө (cöö) — wild canine
• Lak: чакъал (čaq:al) — wild canine
• Lao: ຫມາຈອກ (mā chǭk) — wild canine
• Lao: ຫມາຈິກຈອກ (mā chik chǭk) — wild canine
• Latin: canis aureus — wild canine
• Latin: thōs — wild canine
• Latin: ciacalis — wild canine
• Latvian: šakālis — wild canine
• Laz: მკჲაფუ (mǩyapu) — wild canine
• Lezgi: чакъал (čaq̄al) — wild canine
• Lithuanian: šakalas — wild canine
• Macedonian: чакал (čakal) — wild canine
• Macedonian: шакал (šakal) — wild canine
• Malay: جاکل — wild canine
• Malay: jakal — wild canine
• Manx: coo conveyrt — wild canine
• Mongolian: цөөвөр чоно (cöövör čono) — wild canine
• Norwegian Bokmål: sjakal — wild canine
• Norwegian Nynorsk: sjakal — wild canine
• Occitan: chacal — wild canine
• Oromo: jeedala — wild canine
• Oromo: waangoo — wild canine
• Pannonian Rusyn: шакал (šakal) — wild canine
• Persian: شغال (šoġâl) — wild canine
• Polish: szakal — wild canine
• Portuguese: chacal — wild canine
• Punjabi: ਗਿੱਦੜ (giddaṛ) — wild canine
• Punjabi: گِدَّڑ (giddaṛ) — wild canine
• Rohingya: 𐴇𐴞𐴥𐴘𐴝𐴓 (híiyal) — wild canine
• Rohingya: híiyal — wild canine
• Romanian: șacal — wild canine
• Russian: шака́л (šakál) — wild canine
• Sanskrit: सृगाल (sṛgāla) — wild canine
• Serbo-Croatian: ша̏кал — wild canine
• Serbo-Croatian: šȁkal — wild canine
• Sikkimese: ཅེ་སྤྱང (ce spyang) — wild canine
• Slovak: šakal — wild canine
• Slovene: šakal — wild canine
• Spanish: chacal — wild canine
• Swahili: mbweha — wild canine
• Swedish: schakal — wild canine
• Swedish: sjakal — wild canine
• Sylheti: ꠢꠤꠀꠟ (hial) — wild canine
• Tagalog: tsakal — wild canine
• Tajik: шағол (šaġol) — wild canine
• Tarifit: uššen — wild canine
• Tedaga: turki — wild canine
• Telugu: నక్క (nakka) — wild canine
• Thai: แจ็กคัล (jɛ̀k-kal) — wild canine
• Tibetan: འཕར་བ ('phar ba) — wild canine
• Tocharian B: niśācare — wild canine
• Turkish: çakal — wild canine
• Ottoman Turkish: چقال (çakal) — wild canine
• Turkmen: şagal — wild canine
• Ubykh: б'агьашә (ḅagjaŝw) — wild canine
• Ukrainian: шака́л (šakál) — wild canine
• Urdu: گِیدَڑ (gīdaṛ) — wild canine
• Urdu: سیار (siyār) — wild canine
• Uyghur: چىلبۆرە (chilböre) — wild canine
• Uzbek: shaqal — wild canine
• Uzbek: chiyaboʻri — wild canine
• Vietnamese: chó rừng — wild canine
• Volapük: jakal — wild canine
• Welsh: siacal — wild canine
• Wolof: till gi — wild canine
• Yiddish: שאַקאַל (shakal) — wild canine
• Zulu: impungushe — wild canine
• Georgian: შავი სამუშაოს შემსრულებელი (šavi samušaos šemsrulebeli) — person who performs menial/routine tasks
• Macedonian: аргат (argat) — person who performs menial/routine tasks
• Polish: przegryw — person who performs menial/routine tasks
• Albanian: çakall — person who behaves in an opportunistic way
• Albanian: çakalle — person who behaves in an opportunistic way
• Finnish: liero — person who behaves in an opportunistic way
• Greek: τσακάλι (tsakáli) — person who behaves in an opportunistic way
• Italian: sciacallo — person who behaves in an opportunistic way
• Polish: szakal — person who behaves in an opportunistic way
• Russian: шака́л (šakál) — person who behaves in an opportunistic way
• Turkish: çakal — person who behaves in an opportunistic way
• Dutch: boer — slang for the playing card jack
• Italian: fante — slang for the playing card jack
• Polish: jopek — slang for the playing card jack