skink

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• General-American, Received-Pronunciation: /skɪŋk/
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• rhymes with -ɪŋk
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Possibly from Middle Low German schink, schinke, schenke (“leg; shank; shin bone; ham”), from Old Saxon skinka, from Proto-West Germanic *skinkō (“shank; thigh; that which is bent”), from Proto-Germanic *skinkô, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)keng- (“to limp; to be crooked, slant”). The word is cognate with Danish skinke (“ham”), Middle Dutch schenke, schinke (“shin; hough; ham”), Icelandic skinka (“ham”), Norwegian skinke (“ham”), Old English ġesċincio, ġesċinco (“kidney fat”), Old High German skinka, skinko (“shank; shin bone”) (Middle High German schinke (“shank; shin bone; ham”), modern German Schinken (“ham; pork from the hindquarters”)), Old Saxon skinka (“ham”), Old Swedish skinke (modern Swedish skinka (“ham”)).

From Middle French scinc, from Latin scincus, from Ancient Greek σκίγγος (skíngos), σκίγκος (skínkos).

From Middle English skinken, skynken, skenken, from Middle Dutch scinken, scenken, schenken and/or Old Norse skenkja, both from Proto-Germanic *skankijaną. Cognate with German schenken (“to give as a present”), Dutch schenken (“to pour, give as a present”). See also the inherited doublet shink.

71 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Adnyamathanha: apada — lizard
• Arabic: سَقَنْقُور (saqanqūr) — lizard
• Armenian: սցինկ (scʻink) — lizard
• Assamese: নাইপিয়া (naipia) — lizard
• Azerbaijani: uzunayaq — lizard
• Basque: eskinko — lizard
• Belarusian: сцы́нк (scýnk) — lizard
• Bau Bidayuh: rigu — lizard
• Central Bikol: tabili — lizard
• Bulgarian: сцинк (scink) — lizard
• Catalan: escíncid — lizard
• Cebuano: tabili — lizard
• Chinese Mandarin: 石龍子 /石龙子 (shílóngzi) — lizard
• Czech: scink — lizard
• Dutch: skink — lizard
• Esperanto: skinko — lizard
• Finnish: skinkki — lizard
• Finnish: kaivajalisko — lizard
• French: scinque — lizard
• Galician: escíncido — lizard
• Galician: esgonzo — lizard
• Galician: escáncer — lizard
• Georgian: სცინკი (scinḳi) — lizard
• German: Skink — lizard
• Greek: σκίγκος (skígkos) — lizard
• Ancient Greek: σκίγγος (skíngos) — lizard
• Hebrew: חומט — lizard
• Hebrew: חֹמֶט (khómet) — lizard
• Hindi: बभनी (babhnī) — lizard
• Hindi: साँप की मौसी (sā̃p kī mausī) — lizard
• Hungarian: szkink — lizard
• Indonesian: kadal — lizard
• Irish: scinc — lizard
• Italian: scinco — lizard
• Japanese: スキンク (sukinku) — lizard
• Japanese: 蜥蜴 (tokage) — lizard
• Javanese: kadhal — lizard
• Old Javanese: kadal — lizard
• Kaurna: yuru — lizard
• Kazakh: сцинк (ssink) — lizard
• Khmer: ថ្លែន (thlaen) — lizard
• Korean: 스킨크 (seukinkeu) — lizard
• Limburgish: skink — lizard
• Lithuanian: scinkas — lizard
• Malay: bengkarung — lizard
• Malayalam: അരണ (araṇa) — lizard
• Māori: moko — lizard
• Western Mari: сцинк (scink) — lizard
• Ngarrindjeri: kendi — lizard
• Norwegian Bokmål: skink — lizard
• Norwegian Nynorsk: skink — lizard
• Odia: ଚମ୍ପେଇନେଉଳି (campeineuḷi) — lizard
• Persian: سقنقور — lizard
• Pitjantjatjara: muṭinka — lizard
• Polish: scynk — lizard
• Portuguese: escíncido — lizard
• Russian: сци́нк (scínk) — lizard
• Sicilian: tira-ciatu — lizard
• Spanish: escinco — lizard
• Spanish: eslizón — lizard
• Swahili: mijusi-islamu — lizard
• Swedish: skink — lizard
• Tamil: அரணை (araṇai) — lizard
• Telugu: బిందిపాము (bindipāmu) — lizard
• Thai: จิ้งเหลน (jîng-lěen) — lizard
• Ottoman Turkish: سقنقور (sakankur) — lizard
• Ottoman Turkish: قوم بالغی (kum balığı) — lizard
• Ukrainian: сцинк (scynk) — lizard
• Vietnamese: thằn lằn bóng — lizard
• Vietnamese: rắn mối — lizard
• Welsh: sginc — lizard