different between caracal vs caracol

English

Etymology

From French caracal, from Ottoman Turkish ?????????? (kara-kulak, literally “black ear”), a calque of Persian ????????? (siyâh-guš). Compare modern Turkish karakulak.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?ka??kal/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?kæ??kæl/

Noun

caracal (plural caracals)

1. A type of cat native to Southern Africa, West Asia, and parts of Central and South Asia, Caracal caracal.

Synonyms

• African lynx, Asian lynx, Persian lynx, Indian lynx, desert lynx (varying with location); lynx (improper)

Translations

References

• caracal on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Caracal on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Caracal on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Caracal caracal in Mammal Species of the World^[1] at Bucknell.
• caracal at OneLook Dictionary Search
• caracal in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French caracal, from Ottoman Turkish ?????????? (kara kulak), a calque of Persian ????????? (siyah guš).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ka?.ra??k?l/
• Hyphenation: ca?ra?cal

Noun

caracal m (plural caracals, diminutive caracalletje n)

1. caracal, Caracal caracal

   Synonym: woestijnlynx

Hypernyms

• katachtige

French

Etymology

From Turkish karakulak.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka.?a.kal/
• Hyphenation: ca?ra?cal

Noun

caracal m (plural caracals)

1. caracal

Synonyms

• lynx du désert
• lynx de Perse

Italian

Etymology

From Turkish karakulak.

Noun

caracal m (invariable)

1. caracal

   Synonym: lince persiana

Anagrams

• acclara
• calcara

Portuguese

Etymology

From Turkish karakulak.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ka.?a.?kaw/
• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /k?.??.?ka?/
• Hyphenation: ca?ra?cal

Noun

caracal m (plural caracais)

1. caracal (Caracal caracal)

   Synonym: lince-do-deserto

English

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: ca?ra?col

Noun

caracol (plural caracols)

1. Alternative spelling of caracole

Verb

caracol (third-person singular simple present caracols, present participle caracolling, simple past and past participle caracolled)

1. Alternative spelling of caracole

Anagrams

• Larocca

Asturian

Etymology

Uncertain. Possibly from a derivation of Vulgar Latin *cochle?r, Latin cochlea (“snail”), from Ancient Greek ??????? (kokhlías, “spiral, snail shell”). Confer with cuyar (“spoon”). Alternatively, possibly of pre-Roman Indo-European origin.

Noun

caracol m (plural caracoles)

1. snail (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)

   Synonym: cascoxu

Galician

Etymology

Uncertain. Possibly from a derivation of Vulgar Latin *cochle?r, Latin cochlea (“snail”), from Ancient Greek ??????? (kokhlías, “spiral, snail shell”). Confer with culler (“spoon”). Alternatively, possibly of pre-Roman Indo-European origin.

Noun

caracol m (plural caracois)

1. snail

   Synonyms: cornacho, cornacha, sesillo, cosco

Portuguese

Etymology

Uncertain. Possibly from a derivation of Vulgar Latin *cochle?r, Latin cochlea (“snail”), from Ancient Greek ??????? (kokhlías, “spiral, snail shell”). Confer with colher (“spoon”). Alternatively, possibly of pre-Roman Indo-European origin.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ka.?a.?k?w/
• Rhymes: -?w

Noun

caracol m (plural caracóis)

1. snail (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
2. curl (a lock of curly hair)
3. (anatomy) cochlea (the complex, spirally coiled, tapered cavity of the inner ear)

   Synonym: cóclea

Related terms

• caramujo, lesma, escargô, molusco, gastrópode
• encaracolar, encaracolado

Further reading

• caracol on the Portuguese Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^pt

Spanish

Etymology

Uncertain. Possibly from a derivation of Vulgar Latin *cochleare, from Latin cochlea, from Ancient Greek ??????? (kokhlías, “spiral, snail shell”). See also cuchara. Alternatively, possibly of pre-Roman Indo-European origin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka?a?kol/, [ka.?a?kol]

Noun

caracol m (plural caracoles)

1. snail
2. (anatomy) cochlea

Derived terms

• escalera de caracol

Descendants

• ? Italian: caracollo

Further reading

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