guinea pig

Etymology
The origin of "guinea" in "guinea pig" is uncertain. One theory is that the animals, which are originally from South America, were brought to Europe by way of Guinea, leading people to think they had originated there. "Guinea" was also frequently used in English to refer generally to any far-off, unknown country, and so the name may simply be a colorful reference to the animal's foreignness. Others believe "guinea" may be an alteration of the word ; guinea pigs were referred to as "pig coneys" in Edward Topsell's 1607 treatise on quadrupeds.

Noun

 * 1) A tailless rodent of the family  and the genus, with short ears and larger than a hamster; the species  is often kept as a pet.
 * 2) A rodent of any of several species within the family Caviidae.
 * 3)  A living experimental subject.
 * He became a human guinea pig and was paid by the company.
 * 1)  A professional company director, without time or real qualifications for the duties.
 * 2)  A midshipman in the East India service;  a low-skilled or non-proficient seaman.
 * 3) * 1779, Macintosh, Travels, quoted in Carey, Old Days, i. 73
 * I promise you, to me it was no slight penance to be exposed during the whole voyage to the half sneering, satirical looks of the mates and guinea-pigs.
 * 1)  A professional company director, without time or real qualifications for the duties.
 * 2)  A midshipman in the East India service;  a low-skilled or non-proficient seaman.
 * 3) * 1779, Macintosh, Travels, quoted in Carey, Old Days, i. 73
 * I promise you, to me it was no slight penance to be exposed during the whole voyage to the half sneering, satirical looks of the mates and guinea-pigs.
 * I promise you, to me it was no slight penance to be exposed during the whole voyage to the half sneering, satirical looks of the mates and guinea-pigs.

Translations

 * Abkhaz:
 * Afrikaans: marmotjie
 * Albanian: kavie, gini thi
 * Arabic: خِنْزِير غِينِيَّا
 * Egyptian Arabic: فار جبلي
 * Armenian:
 * Asturian: cobaya
 * Azerbaijani: dəniz donuzcuğu
 * Basque: akuri
 * Belarusian: марска́я сві́нка
 * Breton: razh-indez
 * Bulgarian:
 * Burmese:
 * Catalan: cobai, conillet d'índia
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Cornish: hogh Gyni
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: guinees biggetje,
 * Esperanto: kobajo
 * Estonian: merisiga
 * Faroese: marsvín
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * Friulian: cavie
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: ზღვის გოჭი
 * German: ,
 * Greek: ινδικό χοιρίδιο
 * Hebrew:, שרקן, חזיר ים
 * Hindi: गिनी पिग
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian:
 * Irish: muc ghuine
 * Italian:, porcellino d'India,
 * Japanese:, , ギニアピッグ
 * Khmer: កណ្ដុរសំពៅ
 * Korean:
 * Ladin: porcel de mar
 * Latin: Cavia porcellus
 * Latvian: jūras cūciņa
 * Laz:
 * Lithuanian: jūrų kiaulytė
 * Lower Sorbian: morska swinka
 * Luxembourgish: Mierschwéngchen
 * Macedonian: морско прасе, заморец
 * Malay: marmut, tikus belanda, argus, arkus
 * Maltese: fenek tal-Indja
 * Maori: kinikini
 * Mongolian: усан гахай
 * Norman: couochon d'la Dginnée
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: marsvin
 * Nynorsk: marsvin
 * Occitan: cobai
 * Persian: خوکچه هندی
 * Polish: kawia domowa,
 * Portuguese:, , preá-da-índia
 * Quechua:, quwi, gowi, haka
 * Romani: balo-koro, bali-kori
 * Romanian:
 * Romansch: portg da mar
 * Russian:
 * Sami: mársa
 * Sardinian: càvia
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: заморче, заморац, морско прасе
 * Roman:, ,
 * Shan:
 * Sicilian: ciuḍḍu, purciḍḍuzzu d'Innia
 * Slovak:, morské prasiatko
 * Slovene: budra,
 * Spanish:,  ,  ,  curí,  curiel,
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: dagang-puti
 * Thai: หนูตะเภา
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: морська́ сви́нка
 * Upper Sorbian: wujk
 * Uyghur: دېڭىز چوشقىسى
 * Vietnamese: ,
 * Volapük: kavead
 * Welsh: mochyn cwta
 * West Frisian: bargemot
 * Yiddish: ים־חזירל


 * Albanian: gini thi
 * Bulgarian: опитно зайче
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 白老鼠
 * Mandarin: 白老鼠, 實驗品
 * Czech: pokusný králík
 * Danish: forsøgskanin
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * German:, , ,
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew: שפן נסיונות
 * Hungarian:
 * Indonesian:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 実験材料
 * Khmer:
 * Korean: 모르모트
 * Macedonian: заморче
 * Norwegian: prøvekanin,
 * Polish: królik doświadczalny
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Slovak: pokusný králik
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: піддослідний кролик