hyena

Etymology
From, variant of , from , from , from , from. Displaced native.

Noun

 * 1) Any of the medium-sized to large feliform carnivores of the subfamily, native to Africa and Asia and noted for the sound similar to laughter which they can make if excited.
 * 2)  A man that performs ritualized sex acts with recently widowed women and menarchal girls.
 * 3) * see Citations:hyena
 * 1)  A man that performs ritualized sex acts with recently widowed women and menarchal girls.
 * 2) * see Citations:hyena
 * 1) * see Citations:hyena

Usage notes

 * The hyena family,, also includes the smaller insectivorous aardwolf, the sole survivor of a lineage regarded as more dog-like.

Translations

 * Afrikaans:
 * Albanian:
 * Amharic: ዥብ
 * Arabic: ضَبُع, ضِبْعَان, ذِيخ
 * Chadian Arabic: مرفعين
 * Egyptian Arabic: ضَبْع
 * Hijazi Arabic: ضَبْع
 * Moroccan Arabic: ضبع
 * Armenian:
 * Asturian:
 * Azerbaijani:
 * Barein: búlmí
 * Bari: gworong
 * Bashkir: һыртлан
 * Basque:
 * Belarusian: гіе́на
 * Bengali:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Burmese: ဟိုင်းအီနာ
 * Catalan:
 * Cerma: maamuŋo
 * Chichewa: fisi
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ; 海乙那
 * Czech:
 * Dagbani: kunduŋ
 * Danish:
 * Dime: nayi
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: hieno
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Friulian: jene
 * Galician:
 * Ge'ez: ዝእብ
 * Georgian:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: γλάνος, ὕαινα
 * Gwere: mpiti
 * Hausa:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi:, तरच्छ
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: híena, hýena
 * Igbo: nkịta ọhịa
 * Indonesian:
 * Irish: hiéana
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: ,
 * Kannada:
 * Karang: mgburum
 * Kazakh: қорқау
 * Khmer:
 * Kikuyu: hiti
 * Korean:
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish: کەمتیار
 * Northern Kurdish:
 * Kyrgyz: гиена, көкжал
 * Lao: ຫມາໃນ,, ສຸນັກໄນ
 * Latin:
 * Latvian: hiēna
 * Lithuanian: hiena
 * Maasai: olng'ojine
 * Macedonian: хие́на
 * Magahi: 𑂍𑂳𑂞𑂪𑂰𑂍𑂰𑂚
 * Malay: dubuk, hiena
 * Malayalam:
 * Maltese: jena
 * Mandinka: suluwo
 * Marathi: तरस
 * Middle English: hiene
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic: цөөвөр чоно
 * Moroccan Amazigh: ⵉⴼⵉⵙ
 * Nandi: kimaket
 * Njyem: bʉʉ
 * Nkonya: ɔkpataku
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: hyene
 * Nuer: yak
 * Nupe: màkundunnu
 * Old English: nihtgenġe
 * Oromo: waraabessa
 * Ottoman Turkish: صرتلان
 * Pashto: اښوپړانګ, کوږ, کوږبل
 * Persian:
 * Piedmontese: jen-a
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Rendille: waraba
 * Romanian:, hiene
 * Russian:
 * Sanskrit:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: хије́на
 * Roman:
 * Sidamo: goto
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Somali:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: yena
 * Tajik: кафтор
 * Tamil:
 * Tashelhit: ⵉⴼⵉⵙ
 * Tatar:
 * Tedaga: zoor
 * Telugu:
 * Thai:, ไฮยีน่า
 * Tooro: empisi
 * Tswana: phiri
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen: syrtlan
 * Uduk: nyùrúny
 * Ukrainian: гіє́на
 * Urdu: لکر بگھا
 * Uyghur: سىرتلان, سرتلان
 * Uzbek:
 * Vietnamese: linh cẩu
 * Volapük:
 * Walloon:
 * Welsh: udfil, hiena
 * Wolof:
 * Yiddish: היענע, צָבוֹעַ
 * Yoruba: ìkòrikò, ìkookò, kòrikò
 * Zazaki: keftal
 * Zulu:

Noun

 * 1)  large carnivore

Etymology
Borrowed from, from.

Noun

 * 1)  hyena, any member of the family

Noun

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