name
Meaning 1
A surname.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
koala
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.
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Pronunciation
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kō-ä'lə
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/koʊˈɑː.lə/
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/kəʊˈɑː.lə/
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/ˈkwɑː.lə/
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Australian: /kəˈwɑː.lə/
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Australian: /kəʊˈɑː.lə/
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rhymes with -ɑːlə
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CMU ARPABET: K OW0 AA1 L AH0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
name
Meaning 2
A West African placename
A village and commune of Saaba department, Kadiogo, Centre, Burkina Faso.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
name
Meaning 3
A West African placename
A village and commune of Sourgoubila department, Kourwéogo, Plateau-Central, Burkina Faso.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
name
Meaning 4
A West African placename
A former settlement and capital of Koala, Liptako, West Africa, destroyed at the end of the eponymous kingdom by Fula rebellion
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, historical, obsolete, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
name
Meaning 5
A West African placename
A former kingdom in Liptako, West Africa founded by the Gourmantché people
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, historical, obsolete, uncountable
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Synonyms: none provided
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name
Meaning 6
A West African placename
A former kingdom in Liptako, West Africa founded by the Gourmantché people after the destruction of the first kingdom by the Fula
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, historical, obsolete, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 7
A tree-dwelling marsupial, Phascolarctos cinereus, that resembles a small bear with a broad head, large ears and sharp claws, mainly found in eastern Australia.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: Phascolarctos cinereus, koala bear, native bear, native monkey, carbora
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 8
sluggish tailless Australian arboreal marsupial with grey furry ears and coat; feeds on eucalyptus leaves and bark
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: koala bear, kangaroo bear, native bear, Phascolarctos cinereus
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: phalanger, opossum, possum
History
Etymology
From French Koala, from West Africa.
From Dharug gula or gulawany.
Across languages
Translations
93 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- French: Koala — surname
- Korean: 코알라 (koalla) — surname
- Marathi: कोआला (koālā) — surname
- Albanian: koalë — a tree-dwelling marsupial that resembles a small bear
- Arabic: كُوَالَا (kuwalā) — a tree-dwelling marsupial that resembles a small bear
- Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܟܘܿܐܵܠܵܐ (kōˀālā) — a tree-dwelling marsupial that resembles a small bear
- Armenian: կոալա (koala) — a tree-dwelling marsupial that resembles a small bear
- Armenian: պարկավոր արջ (parkavor arǰ) — a tree-dwelling marsupial that resembles a small bear
- Asturian: coala — a tree-dwelling marsupial that resembles a small bear
- Azerbaijani: koala — a tree-dwelling marsupial that resembles a small bear
- Basque: koala — a tree-dwelling marsupial that resembles a small bear
- Belarusian: каа́ла (kaála) — a tree-dwelling marsupial that resembles a small bear
- Bengali: কোয়ালা (kōẇala) — a tree-dwelling marsupial that resembles a small bear
- Bulgarian: коа́ла (koála) — a tree-dwelling marsupial that resembles a small bear
- Burmese: ကွားလားကောင် (kwa:la:kaung) — a tree-dwelling marsupial that resembles a small bear
- Catalan: coala — a tree-dwelling marsupial that resembles a small bear
- Cherokee: ᎪᏩᎳ ᏲᎾ (gowala yona) — a tree-dwelling marsupial that resembles a small bear
- Chinese Cantonese: 樹熊 /树熊 — a tree-dwelling marsupial that resembles a small bear
- Chinese Cantonese: 樹袋熊 /树袋熊 (syu6 doi6 hung4) — a tree-dwelling marsupial that resembles a small bear
- Hakka Chinese: 無尾熊 /无尾熊 (mò-mî-yùng) — a tree-dwelling marsupial that resembles a small bear
- Chinese: 無尾熊 /无尾熊 (zh-min-nan) — a tree-dwelling marsupial that resembles a small bear
- Chinese Mandarin: 樹袋熊 /树袋熊 (shùdàixióng) — a tree-dwelling marsupial that resembles a small bear
- Chinese Mandarin: 無尾熊 /无尾熊 (wúwěixióng) — a tree-dwelling marsupial that resembles a small bear
- Chinese Mandarin: 考拉 (kǎolā) — a tree-dwelling marsupial that resembles a small bear
- Czech: koala — a tree-dwelling marsupial that resembles a small bear
- Czech: medvídek koala — a tree-dwelling marsupial that resembles a small bear
- Danish: koala — a tree-dwelling marsupial that resembles a small bear
- Danish: koalabjørn — a tree-dwelling marsupial that resembles a small bear
- Darkinjung: kuluwañ — a tree-dwelling marsupial that resembles a small bear
- Dutch: koala — a tree-dwelling marsupial that resembles a small bear
- Dutch: koalabeer — a tree-dwelling marsupial that resembles a small bear
- Dutch: koalabeertje — a tree-dwelling marsupial that resembles a small bear
- Esperanto: koalo — a tree-dwelling marsupial that resembles a small bear
- Estonian: koaala — a tree-dwelling marsupial that resembles a small bear
- Finnish: pussikarhu — a tree-dwelling marsupial that resembles a small bear
- Finnish: koala — a tree-dwelling marsupial that resembles a small bear
- French: koala — a tree-dwelling marsupial that resembles a small bear
- Gabi: gulla — a tree-dwelling marsupial that resembles a small bear
- Galician: coala — a tree-dwelling marsupial that resembles a small bear
- Galician: koala — a tree-dwelling marsupial that resembles a small bear
- Georgian: კოალა (ḳoala) — a tree-dwelling marsupial that resembles a small bear
- German: Koala — a tree-dwelling marsupial that resembles a small bear
- Greek: κοάλα (koála) — a tree-dwelling marsupial that resembles a small bear
- Hebrew: קוֹאָלָה (koala) — a tree-dwelling marsupial that resembles a small bear
- Hindi: कोआला (koālā) — a tree-dwelling marsupial that resembles a small bear
- Hungarian: koala — a tree-dwelling marsupial that resembles a small bear
- Icelandic: pokabjörn — a tree-dwelling marsupial that resembles a small bear
- Ido: koalo — a tree-dwelling marsupial that resembles a small bear
- Indonesian: koala — a tree-dwelling marsupial that resembles a small bear
- Interlingua: koala — a tree-dwelling marsupial that resembles a small bear
- Irish: cóála — a tree-dwelling marsupial that resembles a small bear
- Italian: koala — a tree-dwelling marsupial that resembles a small bear
- Italian: fascolarto — a tree-dwelling marsupial that resembles a small bear
- Japanese: コアラ (koara) — a tree-dwelling marsupial that resembles a small bear
- Japanese: 子守熊 (komoriguma) — a tree-dwelling marsupial that resembles a small bear
- Japanese: 袋熊 (fukuro-guma) — a tree-dwelling marsupial that resembles a small bear
- Kaurna: kuula — a tree-dwelling marsupial that resembles a small bear
- Kazakh: коала (koala) — a tree-dwelling marsupial that resembles a small bear
- Korean: 코알라 (koalla) — a tree-dwelling marsupial that resembles a small bear
- Central Kurdish: کوالا (kwala) — a tree-dwelling marsupial that resembles a small bear
- Kyrgyz: коала (koala) — a tree-dwelling marsupial that resembles a small bear
- Latvian: koala — a tree-dwelling marsupial that resembles a small bear
- Lithuanian: koala — a tree-dwelling marsupial that resembles a small bear
- Malay: koala — a tree-dwelling marsupial that resembles a small bear
- Māori: koāra — a tree-dwelling marsupial that resembles a small bear
- Mongolian: коала (koala) — a tree-dwelling marsupial that resembles a small bear
- Navajo: shash bizaʼazis hólóní — a tree-dwelling marsupial that resembles a small bear
- Ngarrindjeri: miluriwatitji — a tree-dwelling marsupial that resembles a small bear
- Norwegian: koala — a tree-dwelling marsupial that resembles a small bear
- Persian: کوآلا (ko-âlâ) — a tree-dwelling marsupial that resembles a small bear
- Polish: koala — a tree-dwelling marsupial that resembles a small bear
- Portuguese: coala — a tree-dwelling marsupial that resembles a small bear
- Romanian: koala — a tree-dwelling marsupial that resembles a small bear
- Russian: коа́ла (koála) — a tree-dwelling marsupial that resembles a small bear
- Samoan: koala — a tree-dwelling marsupial that resembles a small bear
- Serbo-Croatian: коа̀ла — a tree-dwelling marsupial that resembles a small bear
- Serbo-Croatian: koàla — a tree-dwelling marsupial that resembles a small bear
- Slovak: koala — a tree-dwelling marsupial that resembles a small bear
- Slovene: koala — a tree-dwelling marsupial that resembles a small bear
- Spanish: koala — a tree-dwelling marsupial that resembles a small bear
- Swedish: koala — a tree-dwelling marsupial that resembles a small bear
- Tagalog: kowala — a tree-dwelling marsupial that resembles a small bear
- Thai: โคอาลา (koo-aa-lâa) — a tree-dwelling marsupial that resembles a small bear
- Turkish: koala — a tree-dwelling marsupial that resembles a small bear
- Turkmen: koala — a tree-dwelling marsupial that resembles a small bear
- Ukrainian: коа́ла (koála) — a tree-dwelling marsupial that resembles a small bear
- Urdu: کوآلا (koālā) — a tree-dwelling marsupial that resembles a small bear
- Uzbek: koala — a tree-dwelling marsupial that resembles a small bear
- Vietnamese: koala — a tree-dwelling marsupial that resembles a small bear
- Vietnamese: gấu túi — a tree-dwelling marsupial that resembles a small bear
- Welsh: coala — a tree-dwelling marsupial that resembles a small bear
- Wiradjuri: barrandhang — a tree-dwelling marsupial that resembles a small bear
- Woiwurrung: gurborra — a tree-dwelling marsupial that resembles a small bear
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