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pangolin

noun · 2 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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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  • /ˈpæŋɡəlɪn/
  • /pæŋˈɡoʊlɪn/
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1

noun

Meaning 1

Any of several long-tailed, scale-covered mammals of the family Manidae within the order Pholidota of tropical Africa and Asia.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: manid, scaly anteater, trenggiling

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

toothless mammal of southern Africa and Asia having a body covered with horny scales and a long snout for feeding on ants and termites

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: scaly anteater, anteater

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: placental, placental mammal, eutherian, eutherian mammal

History

Etymology

Borrowed from Malay pengguling, from peng- (“denominative prefix”) + guling (“to roll”).

Across languages

Translations

116 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Afrikaans: ietermagog — mammal
  • Afrikaans: ietermagô — mammal
  • Akan: aprawa — mammal
  • Albanian: pangolín — mammal
  • Albanian: pangolíni — mammal
  • Amis: 'alem — mammal
  • Amis: alem — mammal
  • Armenian: թեփամորթ (tʻepʻamortʻ) — mammal
  • Armenian: պանգոլին (pangolin) — mammal
  • Armenian: թեփամողես (tʻepʻamoġes) — mammal
  • Assamese: বন-ৰৌ (bon-rou) — mammal
  • Asturian: folidoto — mammal
  • West Coast Bajau: tenggiling — mammal
  • Basque: folidoto — mammal
  • Belarusian: пангалі́н (panhalín) — mammal
  • Bengali: বনরুই (bonorui) — mammal
  • Bau Bidayuh: wuom — mammal
  • Breton: pangolined — mammal
  • Bulgarian: люспеник (ljuspenik) — mammal
  • Bulgarian: панголи́н (pangolín) — mammal
  • Bunun: halum — mammal
  • Catalan: pangolí — mammal
  • Cherokee: ᎤᏯᏍᎦᏟᏳᏍᏗ (uyasgatliyusdi) — mammal
  • Chinese Cantonese: 穿山甲 (cyun1 saan1 gaap3) — mammal
  • Eastern Min Chinese: 鯪鯉 /鲮鲤 (lìng-lī) — mammal
  • Hakka Chinese: 鰱鯉 /鲢鲤 (lièn-lî) — mammal
  • Chinese: 鯪鯉 /鲮鲤 (zh-min-nan) — mammal
  • Chinese: 穿山甲 (chhoan-san-kah) — mammal
  • Chinese: 濆仔 /𣸣仔 (bùn-á) — mammal
  • Chinese: 石鯪魚 /石鲮鱼 (chio̍h-lêng-hî, chio̍h-lêng-hû) — mammal
  • Chinese: 步山虎 (pō͘-soan-hó͘) — mammal
  • Chinese: 塗龜 /涂龟 — mammal
  • Chinese: 塗龟 (thô͘-ku) — mammal
  • Chinese Mandarin: 穿山甲 (chuānshānjiǎ) — mammal
  • Chinese Mandarin: 鯪鯉 /鲮鲤 (línglǐ) — mammal
  • Chinese Mandarin: 龍鯉 /龙鲤 (lónglǐ) — mammal
  • Corsican: pangolinu — mammal
  • Corsican: pangulinu — mammal
  • Czech: luskoun — mammal
  • Danish: skældyr — mammal
  • Dutch: schubdier — mammal
  • Erzya: коткодавшуля (kotkodavšuľa) — mammal
  • Esperanto: maniso — mammal
  • Estonian: soomusloom — mammal
  • Faroese: skeldýr — mammal
  • Finnish: muurahaiskäpy — mammal
  • French: pangolin — mammal
  • French: pangoline — mammal
  • Galician: folidoto — mammal
  • Galician: pangolín — mammal
  • German: Schuppentier — mammal
  • German: Tannenzapfentier — mammal
  • Greek: παγκολίνος (pagkolínos) — mammal
  • Ancient Greek: φαττάγης (phattágēs) — mammal
  • Hindi: सल्लू साँप (sallū sā̃p) — mammal
  • Hungarian: tobzoska — mammal
  • Indonesian: trenggiling — mammal
  • Irish: pangailin — mammal
  • Italian: pangolino — mammal
  • Japanese: センザンコウ (senzankō) — mammal
  • Japanese: 穿山甲 (senzankō) — mammal
  • Kanakanabu: kaniarumi — mammal
  • Kavalan: iRem — mammal
  • Khmer: ពង្រូល (pɔɔpŭəngruul) — mammal
  • Kimaragang: bulukun — mammal
  • Korean: 천산갑 (cheonsan'gap) — mammal
  • Lithuanian: skujuotis — mammal
  • Malay: tenggiling — mammal
  • Malay: pengguling — mammal
  • Malayalam: ഈനാമ്പേച്ചി (īnāmpēcci) — mammal
  • Central Melanau: aam — mammal
  • Tagal Murut: bulukun — mammal
  • Norwegian Bokmål: skjelldyr — mammal
  • Norwegian Bokmål: pangolin — mammal
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: skjeldyr — mammal
  • Occitan: folidòt — mammal
  • Occitan: pangolin — mammal
  • Polish: łuskowiec — mammal
  • Portuguese: pangolim — mammal
  • Punjabi: ਪੈਂਗੋਲਿਨ (paiṅgolin) — mammal
  • Puyuma: arem — mammal
  • Rukai: karadha — mammal
  • Russian: панголи́н (pangolín) — mammal
  • Russian: я́щер (jáščer) — mammal
  • Saaroa: 'arʉmʉ — mammal
  • Serbo-Croatian: љускавац — mammal
  • Serbo-Croatian: панголин — mammal
  • Serbo-Croatian: ljuskavac — mammal
  • Serbo-Croatian: pangolin — mammal
  • Sicilian: pangulinu — mammal
  • Slovak: pangolín — mammal
  • Slovak: šupinavec — mammal
  • Slovak: šupinovec — mammal
  • Slovene: luskavec — mammal
  • Sotho: kgaha — mammal
  • Spanish: pangolín — mammal
  • Swahili: kakakuona — mammal
  • Swedish: myrkott — mammal
  • Sylheti: ꠛꠘ-ꠞꠃ (bono-rou) — mammal
  • Tagalog: panggolin — mammal
  • Tamil: அழுங்கு (aḻuṅku) — mammal
  • Tamil: எறும்புத்தின்னி (eṟumputtiṉṉi) — mammal
  • Taroko: arung — mammal
  • Thai: นิ่ม (nîm) — mammal
  • Thai: ลิ่น (lîn) — mammal
  • Thao: qalhum — mammal
  • Tsou: hiaemoza — mammal
  • Turkish: pangolin — mammal
  • Ukrainian: панголі́н (panholín) — mammal
  • Vietnamese: tê tê — mammal
  • Vietnamese: trút — mammal
  • Volapük: manit — mammal
  • Welsh: pangolin — mammal
  • Zhuang: linh — mammal
  • Zulu: imfinyezi — mammal
  • ǃXóõ: ǁɡū'm — mammal