tengu

English

Elephant catching a flying tengu

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese 天狗

Noun

tengu (plural tengus or tengu)

(mythology) A mythical Japanese creature, typically birdlike and having a long nose.

Translations

mythical Japanese creature

Chinese: 天狗
Finnish: tengu
Japanese: 天狗 (ja) (tengu)
Korean: 텐구 (ten-gu)

Russian: тэ́нгу (ru) (tɛ́ngu)
Thai: การาสุเทนกุ

References

Merriam-Webster Online, MSN Encarta Dictionary, and Webster’s Third New International Dictionary all have no entry.

Anagrams

unget

Japanese

Romanization

tengu

Rōmaji transcription of てんぐ

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