babirusa

See also: babi rusa

English

Etymology

From scientific Latin babyroussa (later as specific name), and its source, Malay babi rusa, from babi (“pig”) + rusa (“deer”).

Noun

babirusa (plural babirusas)

Any of several mammals in the genus Babyrousa in the pig family Suidae, in which the upper tusk grows upward.
- 2018, Hanneke Meijer, The Guardian, 17 May:
  And there are wild pigs, babirusas, with wrinkled skin and impressive upper tusks that instead of growing down, grow up and backwards toward the skull.

Hyponyms

Bola Batu babirusa, Buru babirusa, Malenge babirusa, North Sulawesi babirusa

Translations

a member of the genus Babyrousa

Chinese:
Mandarin: 馬魯古鹿豚, 马鲁古鹿豚 (mǎlǔgǔlùtún), 鹿豚 (lùtún), 鹿豬, 鹿猪 (lùzhū), 逐鹿 (zh) (zhúlù)
Dutch: babiroessa
Esperanto: (♂♀) babiruso, (♂) virbabiruso, (♀) babirusino, (♂♀ offspring) babirusido, (♂ offspring) virbabirusido, (♀ offspring) babirusidino,
Finnish: babirussa (fi)
French: babiroussa (fr) m
German: (♂♀) Hirscheber (de) m, (♂♀) Babirusa n, männlicher Hirscheber m, weiblicher Hirscheber m
Greek: μπαμπιρούσα f (bampiroúsa)
Indonesian: babirusa

Irish: babarúsa m
Italian: babirussa m
Japanese: 鹿猪 (しかいのしし, shikainoshishi)
Korean: 바비루사 (babirusa)
Malay: babi rusa
Navajo: bisóodi bideeʼ názhahígíí
Portuguese: babirussa (pt) f
Russian: бабиру́сса (ru) f (babirússa)

Indonesian

Etymology

babi, pig + rusa, deer, from the resemblance of the tusks to antlers

Noun

babirusa

Buru babirusa, Babyrousa babyrussa

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