adj
Meaning 1
Of or relating to Australia.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
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Standard Lemma guide
kangaroo
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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Australian: /ˌkæŋ.ɡəˈɹʉː/
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Australian: [ˌkhæŋ.ɡəˈɹʊ̈ʉ̯]
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/ˌkæŋ.ɡəˈɹuː/ without æ-raising
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[ˌkhæŋ.ɡəˈɹʊu̯] without æ-raising
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/ˌkeɪ̯ŋ.ɡəˈɹuː/ æ-raising
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[ˌkheɪ̯ŋ.ɡəˈɹʊu̯] æ-raising
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/ˌkɛ̃ŋ.ɡəˈɹuː/ æ-raising
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[ˌkɛ̃ŋ.ɡəˈɹʊu̯] æ-raising
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CMU ARPABET: K AE2 NG G ER0 UW1 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
adj
Meaning 2
Characterized by rapidly jumping prices in securities markets or by belief that the prices are unstable in contrast to bear and bull markets.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
Qualifier: investments
Topics: business, finance
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noun
Meaning 3
A member of the Macropodidae family of large marsupials with strong hind legs for hopping, native to Australia and New Guinea.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Meaning 4
A hooded jacket with a front pocket, usually of fleece material, a kangaroo jacket.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Canada, attributive
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verb
Meaning 5
To practice kangaroo care on an infant; to hold a premature infant against the skin.
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verb
Meaning 6
To hunt kangaroo.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
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verb
Meaning 7
To move like a kangaroo.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
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noun
Meaning 8
any of several herbivorous leaping marsupials of Australia and New Guinea having large powerful hind legs and a long thick tail
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: marsupial, pouched mammal
Narrower terms: giant kangaroo, great grey kangaroo, Macropus giganteus, wallaby, brush kangaroo, musk kangaroo, Hypsiprymnodon moschatus, rat kangaroo, kangaroo rat
History
Etymology
Borrowed from Guugu Yimidhirr gangurru (“eastern grey kangaroo”). Despite a popular misconception, the Guugu Yimidhirr term does not mean "I don't know".
Across languages
Translations
173 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Adnyamathanha: mandya — marsupial
- Adnyamathanha: urdlu — marsupial
- Afrikaans: kangaroe — marsupial
- Alawa: girimbọ — marsupial
- Albanian: kangur — marsupial
- Arabic: كَنْغَر (kanḡar) — marsupial
- Aragonese: canguro — marsupial
- Armenian: կենգուրու (kenguru) — marsupial
- Armenian: ագեվազ (agevaz) — marsupial
- Eastern Arrernte: aherre — marsupial
- Assamese: কেংগেৰু (keṅgeru) — marsupial
- Asturian: canguru — marsupial
- Australian Kriol: keingurru — marsupial
- Azerbaijani: kenquru — marsupial
- Azerbaijani: kenğur — marsupial
- Baagandji: tharlta — marsupial
- Bashkir: көнгөрә (köngörə) — marsupial
- Basque: kanguru — marsupial
- Belarusian: кенгуру́ (kjenhurú) — marsupial
- Bengali: ক্যাংগারু (kêṅgaru) — marsupial
- Bulgarian: ке́нгуру (kénguru) — marsupial
- Burmese: သားပိုက်ကောင် (sa:puikkaung) — marsupial
- Catalan: cangur — marsupial
- Catalan: cangurú — marsupial
- Cherokee: ᎤᏜᏩᏓ (udlawada) — marsupial
- Cherokee: ᏗᎵᏔᏕᎩ ᏥᏍᏕᏥᏳᏍᏗ (dilitadegi tsisdetsiyusdi) — marsupial
- Cherokee: ᎧᎾᎦᏭ (kanagawu) — marsupial
- Chinese Cantonese: 袋鼠 (doi6 syu2) — marsupial
- Chinese Mandarin: 袋鼠 (dàishǔ) — marsupial
- Cornish: kangarou — marsupial
- Czech: klokan — marsupial
- Danish: kænguru — marsupial
- Darkinjung: wallumbang — marsupial
- Dharug: buru — marsupial
- Dharug: baragarang — marsupial
- Dharug: gawulgung — marsupial
- Dhivehi: ކެންގަރޫ (ken̊garū) — marsupial
- Dutch: kangoeroe — marsupial
- Esperanto: kanguruo — marsupial
- Estonian: känguru — marsupial
- Faroese: kengura — marsupial
- Finnish: kenguru — marsupial
- French: kangourou — marsupial
- West-Frisian: kangoeroe — marsupial
- Gabi: mari — marsupial
- Gagauz: kanguru — marsupial
- Galician: canguro — marsupial
- Gamilaraay: bandaarr — marsupial
- Georgian: კენგურუ (ḳenguru) — marsupial
- German: Känguru — marsupial
- Githabul: guruman — marsupial
- Greek: καγκουρό (kagkouró) — marsupial
- Guugu Yimidhirr: gangurru — marsupial
- Haitian Creole: kangourou — marsupial
- Hawaiian: kanakulū — marsupial
- Hebrew: קֶנְגּוּרוּ (kénguru) — marsupial
- Hebrew: קֶנְגּוּרוּאִים (kenguruim) — marsupial
- Hindi: कंगारू (kaṅgārū) — marsupial
- Hungarian: kenguru — marsupial
- Icelandic: kengúra — marsupial
- Ido: kanguruo — marsupial
- Indonesian: kanguru — marsupial
- Interlingua: kanguru — marsupial
- Irish: cangarú — marsupial
- Italian: canguro — marsupial
- Japanese: カンガルー (kangarū) — marsupial
- Javanese: kanguru — marsupial
- Kala Lagaw Ya: usar — marsupial
- Kalmyk: кенгуру (kenguru) — marsupial
- Kalmyk: имҗ (imj) — marsupial
- Kaurna: tarnta — marsupial
- Kaurna: kurlu — marsupial
- Kaurna: nantu — marsupial
- Kaurna: wauwi — marsupial
- Kazakh: кенгуру (keñuru) — marsupial
- Khmer: កង់ហ្គូរូ (kɑngguuruu) — marsupial
- Korean: 캥거루 (kaenggeoru) — marsupial
- Korean: 캉가루 (kanggaru) — marsupial
- Northern Kurdish: kengur — marsupial
- Kyrgyz: кенгуру (kenguru) — marsupial
- Kyrgyz: бөрсө (börsö) — marsupial
- Lao: ຈິງໂຈ້ (ching chō) — marsupial
- Latin: halmaturus — marsupial
- Latin: macropus — marsupial
- Latvian: ķengurs — marsupial
- Lithuanian: kengūra — marsupial
- Macedonian: кенгур (kengur) — marsupial
- Malay: kanggaru — marsupial
- Maltese: kangarù — marsupial
- Manx: kangaroo — marsupial
- Māori: kangarū — marsupial
- Marathi: कांगारु (kāṅgāru) — marsupial
- Meriam Mir: usar — marsupial
- Mongolian: имж (imž) — marsupial
- Mongolian: кенгуру (kenguru) — marsupial
- Murrinh-Patha: baybayye — marsupial
- Narungga: nhandhu — marsupial
- Narungga: dharandu — marsupial
- Narungga: wawi — marsupial
- Navajo: nahatʼeʼiitsoh — marsupial
- Ngadjuri: gudla — marsupial
- Ngarla: mangkuru — marsupial
- Niuean: kangakalū — marsupial
- Norman: kangarou — marsupial
- Norwegian Bokmål: kenguru — marsupial
- Norwegian Nynorsk: kenguru — marsupial
- Nyunga: yonga — marsupial
- Occitan: cangoró — marsupial
- Ojibwe: ᒥᐦᓴᐴᔅ (misabooz) — marsupial
- Pallanganmiddang: putju — marsupial
- Persian: کانگورو (kânguru) — marsupial
- Pitjantjatjara: maḻu — marsupial
- Polish: kangur — marsupial
- Polish: kangurzyca — marsupial
- Portuguese: canguru — marsupial
- Rapa Nui: kanakalū — marsupial
- Romanian: cangur — marsupial
- Romanian: cangură — marsupial
- Russian: кенгуру́ (kengurú) — marsupial
- Inari-Sami: keŋŋuru — marsupial
- Samoan: kāgalū — marsupial
- Saulteaux: ᒥᐦᓴᐴᐢ (mihsapôs) — marsupial
- Scottish Gaelic: cangaru — marsupial
- Serbo-Croatian: ке̏нгӯр — marsupial
- Serbo-Croatian: кло̀кан — marsupial
- Serbo-Croatian: kȅngūr — marsupial
- Serbo-Croatian: klòkan — marsupial
- Siberian Tatar: көнгөрә (köngörä) — marsupial
- Slovak: klokan — marsupial
- Slovak: kengura — marsupial
- Slovene: kenguru — marsupial
- Slovene: klokan — marsupial
- Lower Sorbian: kenguru — marsupial
- Spanish: canguro — marsupial
- Swahili: kangaruu — marsupial
- Swedish: känguru — marsupial
- Tagalog: kangguru — marsupial
- Tagalog: kangguro — marsupial
- Tagalog: kanggaru — marsupial
- Tagalog: kanggaro — marsupial
- Tajik: кенгуру (kenguru) — marsupial
- Tamil: கங்காரு (kaṅkāru) — marsupial
- Tatar: көнгерә (köngerä) — marsupial
- Tetum: kangurú — marsupial
- Thai: จิงโจ้ (jing-jôo) — marsupial
- Tibetan: ཁུག་བྱི། (khug byi) — marsupial
- Tiwi: diraga — marsupial
- Tokelauan: kāgalū — marsupial
- Tok Pisin: bikpela magani — marsupial
- Tongan: kangakalū — marsupial
- Torres Strait Creole: kangru — marsupial
- Turkish: kanguru — marsupial
- Turkmen: kenguru — marsupial
- Turkmen: kengir — marsupial
- Ukrainian: кенгуру́ (kenhurú) — marsupial
- Urdu: کنگارو (kangārū) — marsupial
- Uyghur: كېنگۇرۇ (kën'guru) — marsupial
- Uyghur: xaltiliq chashqan — marsupial
- Uzbek: kenguru — marsupial
- Vietnamese: căng-gu-ru — marsupial
- Vietnamese: kangaroo — marsupial
- Vietnamese: chuột túi — marsupial
- Volapük: kangur — marsupial
- Wardaman: gangman — marsupial
- Warlpiri: wawirri — marsupial
- Warlpiri: marlu — marsupial
- Welsh: cangarŵ — marsupial
- Woiwurrung: marram — marsupial
- Woiwurrung: kuyim — marsupial
- Woiwurrung: too-re-mut — marsupial
- Worora: wara — marsupial
- Yagara: barrar — marsupial
- Yiddish: קענגורו (kenguru) — marsupial
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