bandicoot

Etymology
Ultimately from, from ; first used of the Asian murids, thence applied to the Australian marsupials which bear some resemblance.

Noun

 * 1) Any of various small Australian marsupials with distinctive long snouts, of the family  (with the exception of genus, called bilbies).
 * 2) Any of several rat-like rodents of the genera  and  of southeast Asia.

Translations

 * Abinomn: aine
 * Arabic: بَنْدَقُوط
 * Bandjalang: yaguy
 * Bulgarian: бандикут
 * Catalan: bàndicut
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 袋狸
 * Czech: bandikut
 * Danish: punggrævling
 * Dhuwal: waṉʼkurra
 * Dutch: neusbuideldas
 * Esperanto: bandikoto
 * Estonian: bilbi
 * Finnish: pusseli
 * French:, péramélidé
 * Galician: peramélido
 * Georgian: ჩანთოსანი მაჩვისებრნი
 * German: Nasenbeutler
 * Greek: μπάντικουτ
 * Hebrew: בַנדִיקוּט
 * Hungarian: bandikut
 * Irish: bandacút
 * Italian: peramelide, bandicoot
 * Japanese: バンディクート
 * Kannada:, ,
 * Kazakh: бандикут, қалталы борсық
 * Korean: 큰쥐, 반디쿠트
 * Kriol: brudbrud, bendigut
 * Kyrgyz: бандикут
 * Lithuanian: bandikutas
 * Malayalam: ,
 * Navajo: naʼastsʼǫǫsíʼniiʼí
 * Persian: باندیکوت
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: bandicoot
 * Romanian: peramelidă, bursuc marsupial
 * Russian:, су́мчатый барсу́к
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Latin: bandikut, jazavičar
 * Spanish: bandicut, peramélido
 * Swedish: punggrävling
 * Tamil:
 * Telugu:, ,
 * Turkish: keseli porsuk
 * Ukrainian: бандику́т
 * Vietnamese: chuột gộc


 * Finnish: intianrotta

Verb

 * 1)  To steal growing root vegetables from a garden by digging the vegetable out but leaving the tops undisturbed.

Etymology
, in turn borrowed from.

Noun

 * 1)  small Australian marsupial of the family