mammoth

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• /ˈmæməθ/
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From obsolete Russian ма́мант (mámant), modern ма́монт (mámont), probably from a Uralic word, such as Proto-Mansi *mān-oŋt (“earth horn”). Possibly influenced by behemoth. Adjectival use was popularized in the early 1800s by references to the Cheshire Mammoth Cheese presented to American paleontologist and president Thomas Jefferson.

99 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Bulgarian: гигантски (gigantski) — very large
• Catalan: mastodòntic — very large
• Chinese Mandarin: 巨大 (jùdà) — very large
• Chinese Mandarin: 巨型 (jùxíng) — very large
• Czech: mamutí — very large
• Finnish: mammutti- — very large
• Finnish: mammuttimainen — very large
• Finnish: jättiläismäinen — very large
• French: éléphantesque — very large
• Italian: mastodontico — very large
• Italian: elefantesco — very large
• Polish: mamuci — very large
• Slovak: mamutí — very large
• Spanish: gigantesco — very large
• Swedish: mastodontisk — very large
• Swedish: mastodont- — very large
• Swedish: gigantisk — very large
• Albanian: mamuth — elephant-like mammal
• Southern Altai: торос (toros) — elephant-like mammal
• Arabic: مَامُوث (māmūṯ) — elephant-like mammal
• Armenian: մամոնտ (mamont) — elephant-like mammal
• Assamese: মেমথ (memoth) — elephant-like mammal
• Asturian: mamú — elephant-like mammal
• Azerbaijani: mamont — elephant-like mammal
• Bashkir: мамонт (mamont) — elephant-like mammal
• Basque: mamut — elephant-like mammal
• Belarusian: ма́мант (mámant) — elephant-like mammal
• Bengali: ম্যামথ (mêmoth) — elephant-like mammal
• Bulgarian: маму́т (mamút) — elephant-like mammal
• Catalan: mamut — elephant-like mammal
• Chinese Mandarin: 猛獁 /猛犸 (měngmǎ) — elephant-like mammal
• Chinese Mandarin: 長毛象 /长毛象 (chángmáoxiàng) — elephant-like mammal
• Chinese Mandarin: 毛象 (máoxiàng) — elephant-like mammal
• Czech: mamut — elephant-like mammal
• Danish: mammut — elephant-like mammal
• Dutch: mammoet — elephant-like mammal
• Esperanto: mamuto — elephant-like mammal
• Estonian: mammut — elephant-like mammal
• Faroese: mammutur — elephant-like mammal
• Faroese: loðfílur — elephant-like mammal
• Finnish: mammutti — elephant-like mammal
• French: mammouth — elephant-like mammal
• Galician: mamut — elephant-like mammal
• Georgian: მამონტი (mamonṭi) — elephant-like mammal
• German: Mammut — elephant-like mammal
• Greek: μαμούθ (mamoúth) — elephant-like mammal
• Greenlandic: kiliffak — elephant-like mammal
• Hebrew: מָמוּתָה (mamúta) — elephant-like mammal
• Hindi: मैमथ (maimath) — elephant-like mammal
• Hungarian: mamut — elephant-like mammal
• Icelandic: loðfíll — elephant-like mammal
• Icelandic: fornfíll — elephant-like mammal
• Icelandic: mammútur — elephant-like mammal
• Interlingua: mammut — elephant-like mammal
• Irish: mamat — elephant-like mammal
• Italian: mammut — elephant-like mammal
• Japanese: マンモス (manmosu) — elephant-like mammal
• Kalmyk: арслң зан (arslñ zan) — elephant-like mammal
• Kazakh: мамонт (mamont) — elephant-like mammal
• Korean: 매머드 (maemeodeu) — elephant-like mammal
• Kyrgyz: мамонт (mamont) — elephant-like mammal
• Lao: ສານ (sān) — elephant-like mammal
• Latvian: mamuts — elephant-like mammal
• Lithuanian: mamutas — elephant-like mammal
• Macedonian: мамут (mamut) — elephant-like mammal
• Malay: mamot — elephant-like mammal
• Mongolian: арслан заан (arslan zaan) — elephant-like mammal
• Navajo: bíchį́į́h yee adilohii ditłʼoígíí — elephant-like mammal
• Norwegian Bokmål: mammut — elephant-like mammal
• Norwegian Nynorsk: mammut — elephant-like mammal
• Pashto: ماموت — elephant-like mammal
• Persian: ماموت (mâmut) — elephant-like mammal
• Polish: mamut — elephant-like mammal
• Portuguese: mamute — elephant-like mammal
• Romanian: mamut — elephant-like mammal
• Russian: ма́монт (mámont) — elephant-like mammal
• Serbo-Croatian: ма̀мут — elephant-like mammal
• Serbo-Croatian: màmut — elephant-like mammal
• Slovak: mamut — elephant-like mammal
• Slovene: mamut — elephant-like mammal
• Spanish: mamut — elephant-like mammal
• Swedish: mammut — elephant-like mammal
• Tajik: мамонт (mamont) — elephant-like mammal
• Tajik: момут (momut) — elephant-like mammal
• Thai: แมมมอธ (mɛm-mɔ́ɔt) — elephant-like mammal
• Turkish: mamut — elephant-like mammal
• Turkmen: mamont — elephant-like mammal
• Ukrainian: ма́монт (mámont) — elephant-like mammal
• Ukrainian: ма́мут (mámut) — elephant-like mammal
• Urdu: جسام (jusām) — elephant-like mammal
• Urdu: میمتھ (maimath) — elephant-like mammal
• Uyghur: مامونت (mamont) — elephant-like mammal
• Uzbek: mamont — elephant-like mammal
• Vietnamese: voi ma mút — elephant-like mammal
• Vietnamese: ma mút — elephant-like mammal
• Welsh: mamoth — elephant-like mammal
• Yakut: сэлии (selii) — elephant-like mammal
• Yakut: мааман (maaman) — elephant-like mammal
• Southern Yukaghir: холҕут (qolhut) — elephant-like mammal