ermine

Etymology
From, , , from , ,.

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Noun

 * 1) A weasel found in northern latitudes ( in Eurasia, Alaska, and the Arctic,  in Haida Gwaii,  in the rest of North America); its dark brown fur turns white in winter, apart from the black tip of the tail.
 * 2) The white fur of this animal, traditionally seen as a symbol of purity and used for judges' robes.
 * 3)  The office of a judge.
 * 4)  The fur of this animal, used as a heraldic tincture: a white field with a repeating pattern of stylized black spots.
 * 5) Any of various moths, especially in the family

Related terms

 * erminee

Translations

 * Albanian: ermelina, nuselalë e borës, nuselalë bishtzezë
 * Arabic: قَاقِم
 * Armenian:, սպիտակ աքիս,
 * Asturian: ,
 * Azerbaijani: qaqum
 * Bashkir: аҫ
 * Basque: erbinude zuri
 * Belarusian: гарнаста́й
 * Breton:
 * Bulgarian: хермелин
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Chukchi: эмчьачокаԓгын
 * Czech: hranostaj
 * Danish: ,
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: ermeno
 * Estonian:, lahits, hermeliin
 * Faroese: roysikøttur
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Friulian: armelin
 * Galician: armiño
 * Georgian: ყარყუმი
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Greenlandic: ukaliatsiaq
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Icelandic:
 * Interlingua: armenio
 * Irish: easóg, cailín bán, bláthnaid
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Kazakh: ақкіс
 * Kipchak: ախ աս
 * Korean: 북방족제비
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish: قاقِم, قاقوم
 * Northern Kurdish: fisos, ququme
 * Ladin: armelin
 * Latin: Mustela erminea
 * Latvian: sermulis
 * Lithuanian: šermuonėlis
 * Macedonian: хермели́н, ермели́н
 * Maltese: ermellin
 * Maori: toriura
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic:
 * Mongolian: ᠦᠶᠡᠩ
 * Navajo: dlǫ́ʼiiłgaii
 * Norman: b'lette
 * Northern Sami: buoidda
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: røyskatt, røysekatt
 * Occitan:
 * Old English: hearma
 * Ottoman Turkish: قاقم
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romani: ermina
 * Romanian: ,
 * Romansch: ermelin
 * Russian:
 * Sardinian: ermellinu
 * Scottish Gaelic: neas, neas mhòr
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: хермѐлӣн, зѐрда̄в
 * Roman: ,
 * Shor: ас
 * Skolt Sami: puõiddi
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Sorbian:
 * Lower Sorbian: hermelin
 * Upper Sorbian: hermelin, hronostaj
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: ,
 * Tagalog: arminyo
 * Turkish:, ,
 * Ukrainian:
 * Volapük:
 * Welsh: carlwm
 * West Frisian: harmeling


 * Armenian:
 * Old Armenian: կնգմենի
 * Bulgarian: хермелин
 * Czech: hermelín
 * Finnish: kärpännahka, hermeliini
 * French:
 * Georgian: ყარყუმი
 * German:
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: hermelin
 * Polish: gronostaje
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:
 * Volapük: härminaskin, härminapläd, visafot


 * Spanish:


 * Czech: hermelín
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: kärpännahka
 * French:
 * German:
 * Italian:
 * Macedonian: хермели́н
 * Polish:
 * Romanian:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:


 * Finnish: kehrääjäkoi

Adjective



 * 1)  In blazon, of the colour ermine (white with black spots).

Translations

 * Czech: hermelínový
 * Danish:
 * Swedish:

Verb

 * 1)  To clothe with ermine.

Etymology
Either from *  (see ) or  (from ).

Noun

 * 1)  (fabric)