different between armadillo vs charango

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish armadillo, diminutive of armado (“armored”), in reference to its protective plates.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /??m??d?lo?/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??m??d?l??/
• Rhymes: -?l??
• Hyphenation: ar?ma?dil?lo

Noun

armadillo (plural armadillos or armadilloes)

1. Any of the burrowing mammals covered with bony, jointed, protective plates, order Cingulata, found in the Americas, especially in South America.

Synonyms

• quirquincho (archaic)

Derived terms

• (order Cingulata): Andean hairy armadillo (Chaetophractus nationi), beautiful armadillo (†Dasypus bellus), big hairy armadillo (Chaetophractus villosus), Chacoan naked-tailed armadillo (Cabassous chacoensis), dwarf armadillo (Zaedyus pichiy), giant armadillo (Priodontes maximus), great long-nosed armadillo (Dasypus kappleri), greater fairy armadillo, greater naked-tailed armadillo, hairy armadillo (Chaetophractus spp.), hairy long-nosed armadillo (Dasypus pilosus), horned armadillo (†Peltephilus), Llanos long-nosed armadillo, long-nosed armadillo (Dasypus spp.), naked-tailed armadillo (Cabassous spp.), nine-banded armadillo (Dasypus novemcinctus), northern horned armadillo, northern three-banded armadillo, pink fairy armadillo (Chlamyphorus truncatus), pygmy armadillo (Zaedyus pichiy), screaming hairy armadillo (Chaetophractus vellerosus), seven-banded armadillo (Dasypus septemcinctus), six-banded armadillo (Euphractus sexcinctus), southern long-nosed armadillo, southern naked-tailed armadillo (Dasypus hybridus), southern three-banded armadillo, Texas armadillo (Dasypus novemcinctus), three-banded armadillo (Tolypeutes matacus or Tolypeutes tricinctus), six-banded armadillo (Euphractus sexcinctus)

• armadillo bug (in order Oniscidea)
• armadillo egg

Related terms

• armor

Translations

See also

• scutes
• Xenarthra

Further reading

• armadillo on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish armadillo.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /??.m??di.?o/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /?r.m??di.?u/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /a?.ma?di.?o/

Noun

armadillo m (plural armadillos)

1. armadillo

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish armadillo.

Noun

armadillo m (plural armadilli)

1. armadillo

Malay

Etymology

Borrowed from English armadillo, from Spanish armadillo, diminutive of armado (“armored”), in reference to its protective plates.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a(r)madilo/
• Rhymes: -ilo, -lo, -o

Noun

armadillo

1. armadillo

Spanish

Etymology

From armado (“armored”) +? -illo (“diminutive”), i.e. "little armored one".

Pronunciation

Noun

armadillo m (plural armadillos)

1. armadillo

   Synonym: (Mexican Indian) ayotoste

Derived terms

Further reading

• “armadillo” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

English

Etymology

Spanish charango, onomatopoeic, or perhaps a corruption of charanga. (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?????æ????/

Noun

charango (plural charangos)

1. A small guitar-like stringed instrument with five courses of eighteen to fifteen strings, originating in traditional Andean folk music.

Derived terms

• charanguista, charangoist
• charangon

Translations

See also

• Appendix:Glossary of chordophones

References

• 1998. The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music. Edited by Bruno Nettl, Terry E. Miller, Ruth M. Stone, Sean Williams. Pg. 213.

Further reading

• charango on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Italian

Noun

charango m (plural charanghi)

1. (music) charango

Spanish

Etymology

Onomatopoeic

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t??a??an?o/, [t??a??ã?.?o]

Noun

charango m (plural charangos)

1. (music) charango

Further reading

• “charango” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.