Hyena

Noun

 * 1) Large, ‐resembling  belonging to the family Hyaenidae, native to Africa and Asia, often notable for the sound similar to  which it can make if excited.

Thesaurus
African hunting dog, Cape hunting dog, animal, anthropophagite, barbarian, beast, brush wolf, brute, cannibal, coyote, cur, destroyer, dingo, dog, fox, hound, insect, jackal, lobo, man-eater, medicine wolf, mongrel, nihilist, pig, polecat, prairie wolf, reptile, reynard, savage, serpent, shark, skunk, snake, swine, tiger, timber wolf, vandal, varmint, vermin, viper, whelp, wild man, wolf, worm, wrecker

Etymology
hiene:, from hyaena:, from  ὕαινα:, from ὗς: and -αινα:, from.



Translations

 * Afrikaans: hiëna
 * Arabic: (Dáb3)
 * Armenian:
 * Azeri: kaftar
 * Basque: hiena
 * Bosnian:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: hiena
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, 鬣狗
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian: hüään
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * Georgian:
 * German:
 * Greek:


 * Hebrew: צָבוֹעַ (tzavoa)
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: ハイエナ (haiéna)
 * Kurdish: کمتیار
 * Lithuanian:
 * Macedonian: хиена
 * Navajo:
 * Norwegian: hyene
 * Persian:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: hienă, hiene
 * Russian:
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili: fisi sg & pl (noun 9/10)
 * Swedish:
 * Telugu: దుమ్ములగొండి (dummulagoMDi)
 * Thai: (hmā-nay)
 * Tswana: (9/10)
 * Turkish:

Noun

 * 1) hyena large carnivore

Related terms

 * hyenismus

Noun
hyena (plural hyena's)


 * 1) hyena

Noun

 * 1) a hyena