Animal

Noun

 * 1) In scientific usage, a multicellular organism that is usually mobile, whose cells are not encased in a rigid cell wall (distinguishing it from plants and fungi) and which derives energy solely from the consumption of other organisms (distinguishing it from plants).
 * 2) In non-scientific usage, any member of the kingdom Animalia other than a human being.
 * 3) In non-scientific usage, any land-living vertebrate (i.e. not birds, fishes, insects etc)
 * 4)  A person who behaves wildly; a bestial, brutal, brutish, cruel, or inhuman person.
 * 5)  A person of a particular type.

Synonyms

 * beast, creature
 * beast
 * brute, monster, savage

Related terms

 * anima
 * animus
 * animate
 * Animalia

Pronunciation

 * ,, {{SAMPA|/"{n@m@l/}}

Etymology 1
From animal from  animal from  animal, a nominal use of an adjective from animale, neuter of animalis adj, from anima ‘breath, spirit’. Displaced native Middle English deor, der "animal" (from Old English dēor "animal"), Middle English reother "animal, neat" (from Old English hrīþer, hrȳþer "neat, ox").

Translations

 * Acholi: lee
 * Afrikaans: dier
 * Aleut: algax
 * Amuzgo: kió'
 * Arabic:
 * Aragonese: animal
 * Armenian:
 * Asturian: animal
 * Azeri:
 * Bambara: bagan
 * Bashkir:
 * Basque:
 * Bavarian:
 * Belarusian: жывёла, звер
 * Bengali: জানোয়ার
 * Bosnian:
 * Breton: loen, loened, aneval , anevaled
 * Bulgarian:
 * Burmese: တိရစ္ဆာန်
 * Catalan:
 * Cherokee: ᎦᎾᏝᎢ (ganatlai)
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 動物, 动物
 * Min Nan: ,
 * Chukchi: gennik, gernik
 * Chuvash:
 * Croatian:
 * Czech: ,
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto: animalo
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * Georgian:
 * German:
 * Gothic: 𐌳𐌹𐌿𐍃 (dius)
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: ζῷον (zōion)
 * Modern: ζώο
 * Greenlandic:
 * Haitian Creole: ,
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi:, , जानवर
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido: animalo
 * Indonesian: ,
 * Interlingua: animal, bestia
 * Inuktitut: ᐆᒻᒪᔪᖅ (uummajuq), ᓂᕐᔪᑦ (nirjut)
 * Inupiak: nirrun, aŋusalluq, aġnasalluq
 * Irish:
 * Old: anmandae
 * Modern:
 * Italian: ,
 * Itelmen: girnik, tuva
 * Japanese: 動物
 * Kalaallisut: uummasoq, nirsut
 * Kalmyk:
 * Kannada: prani
 * Karachay-Balkar:
 * Karelian: elätti, žiivatta
 * Kazakh: жануар,, айуан
 * Khakas:
 * Korean: 동물 (動物)
 * Kumyk:


 * Kurdish:
 * Kurmanji: ajal, candar, heywan, lawir
 * Sorani: حه‌یوان, ئاژه‌ڵ
 * Kyrgyz: ,
 * Lao:
 * Latin: ,
 * Latvian:
 * Lithuanian:
 * Low Saxon: beest
 * Malay: ,
 * Malayalam: മൃഗം (mrugam)
 * Marathi: जनावर
 * Mongolian: амьтан
 * Nahuatl: yolkatl
 * Navajo:
 * Nepali: जनावर (janaawer)
 * Norwegian:
 * Novial: animale
 * Occitan: animal
 * Old Church Slavonic: животъ (životъ), звѣрь (zvěrь)
 * Old English:
 * Old High German: tior
 * Old Norse: dýr
 * Pali: jīvī
 * Persian: جانور, حیوان
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Punjabi: ਹੈਵਾਨ (haivāna)
 * Rohingya: focú, januar
 * Romani: hǝyvǝ́y (var: ḳayvayá)
 * Romanian:, , animale
 * Romansch: animal, biestg
 * Russian:, , тварь, скотина
 * Sanskrit: पशु (paśu), मृग (mṛga)
 * Scots: ainimal
 * Scottish Gaelic: beathach, ainmhidh
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: животиња, звер, скот
 * Roman: životinja, zver, skot
 * Sicilian: armali
 * Slovak: živočích, zviera
 * Slovene: ,
 * Southern Altai:
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swahili: mnyama, wanyama pl (noun 1/2)
 * Swedish:
 * Tajik: ,
 * Tamil:
 * Tatar: xaywan
 * Telugu:
 * Thai: สัตว์
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen:
 * Tuvan:
 * Ukrainian: тваринa, звір
 * Urdu: حیوان, جانور
 * Uyghur: ھايۋان
 * Uzbek:
 * Veps: živat
 * Vietnamese: thú vật (動物)
 * Volapük: nim
 * Võro: elläi
 * Welsh: ;
 * West Frisian: dier ,
 * Yakut: ,
 * Yup'ik: ungungssit


 * Anglo-Norman:
 * Arabic:
 * Armenian:
 * Basque:
 * Burmese: အကောင်
 * Catalan: ,
 * Croatian:
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French: ,
 * Greek: ζώο, κτήνος, θηρίο
 * Greenlandic:
 * Haitian Creole:, ,
 * Hebrew:


 * Icelandic:
 * Italian: ,
 * Kurdish:
 * Sorani: حه‌یوان, ئاژه‌ڵ
 * Malay: binatang
 * Middle French:
 * Navajo:
 * Old French:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: animal, jivină
 * Russian: ,
 * Scots: ainimal
 * Swahili:
 * Yucatec Maya:


 * Basque:
 * Bosnian: ,
 * Breton: aneval, anevaled
 * Bulgarian: хайванин
 * Catalan: ,
 * Chinese: 野獸, 野兽 (yěshòu)
 * Croatian: ,
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * German: Bestie, Unmensch, Monster, Scheusal
 * Greek: ζώο, κτήνος, θηρίο
 * Hebrew:
 * Icelandic: ,


 * Italian: ,
 * Kurdish:
 * Sorani: حه‌یوان
 * Lithuanian: žvėris, gyvulys
 * Norwegian:
 * Persian:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: fiară
 * Russian:, , скотина
 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic: звер, хајван
 * Roman: zver, hajvan
 * Slovak:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:

Etymology 2
From Latin animalis, from either anima ‘breath, spirit’ or animus. Originally distinct from the noun, it became associated with attributive use of the noun and is now indistinguishable from it.

Adjective

 * 1) Of or relating to animals.
 * animal instincts
 * 1) Raw, base, unhindered by social codes.
 * animal passions
 * 1) Pertaining to the spirit or soul; relating to sensation or innervation.
 * 2) * 2003, To explain what activated the flesh, ‘animal spirits’ were posited, superfine fluids which shuttled between the mind and the vitals, conveying messages and motion. — Roy Porter, Flesh in the Age of Reason (Penguin 2004, p. 47)
 * 3)  Excellent.

Synonyms

 * beastly, bestial
 * animalistic, beastly, bestial, untamed, wild

Translations

 * Breton: loenel
 * Bulgarian: животински (životinski) &, необуздан (neobuzdan)
 * Catalan:
 * Croatian: ,
 * Czech:
 * Danish: dyrisk
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish: eläin-
 * French: ,
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew: חייתי
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:, ,
 * Interlingua: animal


 * Italian:
 * Kurdish:
 * Latin: ,
 * Norwegian: animalisk, dyrisk
 * Persian: (heyvâni)
 * Polish:, ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:, animalice
 * Russian:
 * Slovak: zvierací
 * Slovene: živalski
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili: kinyama, mifugo
 * Swedish:


 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Croatian: ,
 * Finnish:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew: פרוע


 * Icelandic:, ,
 * Italian:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Swahili: kinyama, mifugo


 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:, ,


 * Italian:

Derived terms

 * animalistic
 * animal magnetism
 * manimal

Anagrams

 * Almain
 * aminal
 * lamina
 * maalin
 * Malian
 * manila, Manila

Noun

 * 1) animal

Noun

 * 1) animal

Adjective

 * 1) animal

Noun

 * 1) animal

Synonyms

 * bête
 * bestiole

Derived terms

 * animal de compagnie

Adjective

 * 1) animal

Synonyms

 * bestial

Antonyms

 * végétal

Anagrams

 * lamina

Noun

 * 1) animal

Etymology
From animal:, from  animal:.

Noun

 * 1) animal

Noun

 * 1) animal

Etymology
From anima:

Noun

 * 1) animal
 * 2) living creature

Synonyms

 * animalis, bestia

Related terms

 * anima
 * animalis
 * animare
 * animus

Descendants

 * English:
 * French:, aumaille
 * Italian:


 * Portuguese:, alimanha, alimária
 * Romanian:, nămaie
 * Spanish: alimaña, almaje,

Noun

 * 1) animal

Adjective

 * 1) Or or relating to animals;.
 * 2)  cool; nice

Etymology
From animalis through  animal.

Adjective

 * 1) animal, animalistic
 * 2) brutal

Adverb

 * 1) brutally

Noun

 * 1) animal

Noun

 * 1) animal