different between jackal vs dingo

English

Etymology

From French chacal, chacale, checale, schakal, ciacale, from Turkish çakal, from Persian ????? (ša?âl).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?d?æk?l/
• Rhymes: -æk?l

Noun

jackal (plural jackals)

1. Any of certain wild canids of the genus Canis, native to the tropical Old World and smaller than a wolf.
   • 1987, Brenda E. F. Beck, Peter J. Claus, Praphulladatta Goswami, Jawaharlal Handoo (editors), Folktales of India, page 289,

     In passing, it also mentions how the jackal and the tiger acquired their reddish spots. All of the animals referred to, except the deer, have tricksterlike personalities, both in this tale and in other story contexts. But the jackal is the most renowned of all for roguishness.
2. A person who performs menial/routine tasks, a dogsbody.
3. (derogatory) A person who behaves in an opportunistic way; especially a base collaborator.
4. (slang, rare) A jack (the playing card).

Hypernyms

• (any of certain wild canids of genus Canis): canid, dog

Hyponyms

• (any of certain wild canids of genus Canis): golden jackal (Canis aureus); black-backed jackal (Canis mesomelas, Cape jackal, East African jackal); side-striped jackal (Canis adustus)

Derived terms

• American jackal (coyote)
• Simien jackal (Ethiopian wolf)

Descendants

• ? Japanese: ????? (jakkaru)
• ? Korean: ?? (jakal)
• ? Malay: jakal
  • Indonesian: jakal
• ? Thai: ??????? (j??k-kal)

Translations

See also

• (canids) canid; coyote, dog, fox, jackal, wolf ^{(Category: en:Canids)}

References

• Weisenberg, Michael (2000) The Official Dictionary of Poker. MGI/Mike Caro University. ?ISBN

Verb

jackal (third-person singular simple present jackals, present participle jackalling, simple past and past participle jackalled)

1. To perform menial or routine tasks
   • 1800, Pamphlets on British Taxation^[3]:

     They have jackalled for the great beast, to pick in turns the bones of each other; they have subserved those above, to oppress and defraud those below; and they are suffering, and, so far as classes can, justly suffering their purgation.

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Dharug dingu (“tame dingo”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?d?????/
• Rhymes: -?????

Noun

dingo (plural dingos or dingoes)

1. A wild dog native to Australia (Canis familiaris, Canis familiaris dingo, Canis dingo, or Canis lupus dingo).

Hypernyms

• dog

Derived terms

• dry as a dead dingo’s donger

Translations

References

R. M. W. Dixon, Australian Aboriginal Words in English, Oxford University Press, 1990, ?ISBN, pages 65 and 226.

Anagrams

• Godin, Gondi, OD'ing, digon, doing, doïng

Chamorro

Verb

dingo

1. to abandon

Czech

Noun

dingo m

1. dingo (wild dog native to Australia)

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English dingo, from Dharug dingu.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?d??.?o?/
• Hyphenation: din?go

Noun

dingo m (plural dingo's)

1. dingo, Canis lupus dingo (Australian wild dog)

Esperanto

Etymology

From English dingo, French dingo, German Dingo, Polish dingo, Hungarian dingo and/or Russian ????? (dingo), all ultimately from Dharug dingu (“tame dingo”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?din.?o/
• Hyphenation: din?go

Noun

dingo (accusative singular dingon, plural dingoj, accusative plural dingojn)

1. a dingo

Hypernyms

• kanisedo (“canid”)

Hyponyms

• virdingo (idiomatic) (a male dingo)
• dingido (“a young dingo, a dingo pup”)
• dingino (“a female dingo”)

Finnish

Etymology

From English dingo, from Dharug dingu (“tame dingo”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?di??o/, [?di??o?]
• Rhymes: -i??o
• Syllabification: din?go

Noun

dingo

1. dingo

Declension

French

Adjective

dingo (plural dingos)

1. (slang) mad, crazy, nuts
2. obsessed, infatuated with

Italian

Noun

dingo m (plural dinghi) (alternative plural dingo)

1. dingo

Japanese

Romanization

dingo

1. R?maji transcription of ????

Lithuanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?d????o?/

Verb

diñgo

1. third-person singular past of dingti
2. third-person plural past of dingti

Malay

Etymology

From English dingo, from Dharug dingu (“tame dingo”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [di?o], [di??o]
• Rhymes: -?o, -o

Noun

dingo (Jawi spelling ?????, plural dingo-dingo, informal 1st possessive dingoku, impolite 2nd possessive dingomu, 3rd possessive dingonya)

1. dingo (wild dog native to Australia)

Polish

Etymology

From English dingo, from Dharug dingu.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?din.??/

Noun

dingo m anim (indeclinable)

1. dingo

Further reading

• dingo in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• dingo in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Noun

dingo m (plural dingos)

1. dingo (wild dog native to Australia)

Romanian

Etymology

From French dingo

Noun

dingo m (uncountable)

1. dingo

Declension

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?din?o/, [?d???.?o]

Noun

dingo m (plural dingos)

1. dingo

Swedish

Noun

dingo c

1. a dingo

Declension

References

• dingo in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)