Kangaroo
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English
Pronunciation
[,kæŋgə'ru:]
Etymology
From Guugu Yimidhirr (Aboriginal language) gangurru meaning a large grey or black kangaroo.
In a widely circulating myth Captain Cook is supposed to have asked a native "What is that?" to which the reply "kangaroo", meaning "I don't understand" was given. This story, although amusing, is completely untrue.
Noun
kangaroo (kangaroos)
- Member of a family of large marsupials, mainly found in Australia.
Related terms
- roo
- kangaroo court
- tree kangaroo
Translations
- Albanian: kangur
- Basque: kanguru
- Bosnian: kengur m
- Catalan: cangur m
- Chinese: 袋鼠 (dàishǔ)
- Dutch: kangoeroe m
- Estonian: känguru
- Finnish: kenguru
- French: kangourou m
- Frisian: kangoeroe m
- German: Känguruh m
- Greek: καγκουρό n (kangouro)
- Indonesian: kangguru
- Interlingua: kanguru
- Italian: canguro
- Japanese: カンガルー (kangarū)
- Korean: 캥거루 (kaenggeoru)
- Lithuanian: kengūra f
- Polish: kangur m, kangurzyca f
- Portuguese: canguru m
- Romanian: cangur
- Russian: кенгуру m (kenguru)
- Slovak: klokan m (1)
- Slovene: kenguru m, klokan m
- Spanish: canguro
- Swedish: känguru c (1)
- Turkish: kanguru
See also
