different between lizard vs pangolin

English

Etymology

From Middle English lesarde, lisarde, from Anglo-Norman lusard, from Old French lesard (compare French lézard), from Latin lacertus. Displaced native Middle English aske (“newt, lizard”); see ask.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?l?z.?d/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?l?z.?d/

Noun

lizard (plural lizards)

1. Any reptile of the order Squamata that is not a snake, usually having four legs, external ear openings, movable eyelids and a long slender body and tail.
2. (chiefly in attributive use) Lizard skin, the skin of these reptiles.
   • 1990 October 28, Paul Simon, “Proof”, The Rhythm of the Saints, Warner Bros.

     Silver bells jingling from your black lizard boots, my baby / Silver foil to trim your wedding gown

3. (colloquial) An unctuous person.
4. (colloquial) A coward.
5. (rock paper scissors) A hand forming a "D" shape with the tips of the thumb and index finger touching (a handshape resembling a lizard), that beats paper and Spock and loses to rock and scissors in rock-paper-scissors-lizard-Spock.
6. (in compounds) A person who idly spends time in a specified place, especially a promiscuous female.

   lounge lizard; lot lizard; beach lizard; truck stop lizard

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Translations

Middle English

Noun

lizard

1. Alternative form of lesarde

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Malay pengguling, from peng- (“denominative prefix”) +? guling (“to roll”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pæ???l?n/, /pæ???o?l?n/

Noun

pangolin (plural pangolins)

1. The scaly anteater; any of several long-tailed, scale-covered mammals of the order Pholidota of tropical Africa and Asia, the sole extant genus of which is Manis.

   Synonyms: trenggiling, scaly anteater

Derived terms

Translations

Further reading

• pangolin on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Pholidota on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Malay pengguling.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p??.??.l??/

Noun

pangolin m (plural pangolins)

1. pangolin

Further reading

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

Romanian

Etymology

From French pangolin.

Noun

pangolin m (plural pangolini)

1. pangolin

Declension