different between dugong vs manatee

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Cebuano dugong.

Pronunciation

• (General American) enPR: doo??g?ng, IPA^(key): /?du???/
• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: dyoo??g?ng, IPA^(key): /?dju????/

Noun

dugong (plural dugongs)

1. A plant-eating aquatic marine mammal, of the genus Dugong, found in tropical regions.

   Synonyms: sea cow, sea pig

Descendants

• ? Finnish: dugongi
• ? French: dugong
• ? Indonesian: dugong
• ? Italian: dugongo
• ? Malay: dugong
• ? Portuguese: dugongo
• Torres Strait Creole: dugong

Translations

See also

• manatee

Anagrams

• gun dog, gundog

Cebuano

Alternative forms

• dugung

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: du?gong

Noun

dugong

1. a dugong

Descendants

• ? English: dugong
  • ? Finnish: dugongi
  • ? French: dugong
  • ? Indonesian: dugong
  • ? Italian: dugongo
  • ? Malay: dugong
  • ? Portuguese: dugongo
  • Torres Strait Creole: dugong

French

Etymology

From English dugong, from Cebuano dugong.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dy.????/, /dy.???/

Noun

dugong m (plural dugongs)

1. dugong

Further reading

• “dugong” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Indonesian

Alternative forms

• duyung

Etymology

From English dugong, from Cebuano dugong.

Noun

dugong (first-person possessive dugongku, second-person possessive dugongmu, third-person possessive dugongnya)

1. dugong (Dugong dugon)

Synonyms

• babi duyung
• ikan duyung

Malay

Alternative forms

• duyung / ??????

Etymology

From English dugong, from Cebuano dugong.

Pronunciation

• (Johor-Selangor) IPA^(key): /du?o?/
• (Riau-Lingga) IPA^(key): /du???/
• Rhymes: -u?o?, -?o?, -o?

Noun

dugong (Jawi spelling ??????, plural dugong-dugong, informal 1st possessive dugongku, impolite 2nd possessive dugongmu, 3rd possessive dugongnya)

1. dugong (Dugong dugon)

Synonyms

• babi duyung / ???? ??????
• ikan duyung / ???? ??????

Further reading

• “dugong” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From English dugong, from Cebuano dugong.

Noun

dugong m (definite singular dugongen, indefinite plural dugonger, definite plural dugongene)

1. a dugong

References

• “dugong” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From English dugong, from Cebuano dugong.

Noun

dugong m (definite singular dugongen, indefinite plural dugongar, definite plural dugongane)

1. a dugong

Tagalog

Noun

dugong

1. dugong

Torres Strait Creole

Etymology

From English dugong, from Cebuano dugong.

Noun

dugong

1. dugong, Dugong dugon

Synonyms

• dhangal (western dialect)

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish manatí, from a Cariban language.

Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: m?n??-t??, IPA^(key): /?mæn.??ti?/
• Rhymes: -æn?ti

Noun

manatee (plural manatees or manatee)

1. Any of several plant-eating marine mammals, of family Trichechidae, found in tropical regions.
   • 1988, Tampa Bay Magazine (Sept–Oct 1988, page 60)

     The ecological importance of the manatee is clear: scientists have demonstrated the dependancy of all components of an ecosystem on one another.

Synonyms

• lamantin, sea cow

Derived terms

• Manatee County

Descendants

• ? Japanese: ????? (manat?)
• ? Korean: ??? (maeneoti)

Translations

See also

• manatee on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• dugong
• mermaid
• sea cow
• siren

Anagrams

• emanate, enemata