jackal

Etymology
From, , , , , from , from , borrowed from.

Noun

 * 1) Any of certain wild canids of the genera  and Canis, native to the tropical Old World and smaller than a wolf.
 * 2) A person who performs menial/routine tasks, a dogsbody.
 * 3)  A person who behaves in an opportunistic way; especially a base collaborator.
 * 4)  A jack (the playing card).
 * 5)  A player who steals the ball at the tackle.
 * 1)  A person who behaves in an opportunistic way; especially a base collaborator.
 * 2)  A jack (the playing card).
 * 3)  A player who steals the ball at the tackle.
 * 1)  A player who steals the ball at the tackle.

Hyponyms

 * golden jackal ; ; side-striped jackal

Translations

 * Abkhaz: абга
 * Afar: wákri
 * Afrikaans:
 * Albanian:
 * Arabic: اِبْن آوَى
 * Aramaic:
 * Classical Syriac: ܝܪܘܪܐ, ܫܓܠ
 * Jewish Aramaic: יָרוֹרָא
 * Armenian:
 * Old Armenian: թեպեկ
 * Assamese: শিয়াল
 * Atong (India): sial
 * Azerbaijani:
 * Basque: txakal
 * Belarusian: шака́л
 * Bengali: ,
 * Berber
 * Central Atlas Tamazight: ⵓⵛⵛⵏ, ⵜⵓⵛⵛⵏⵜ
 * Breton:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Burmese: ခွေးအ, ခှေး
 * Catalan:
 * Chechen: чагІалкх
 * Chichewa: nkhandwe
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, ,
 * Coptic: ⲃⲟⲓϣⲓ
 * Crimean Tatar: çaqal
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Demotic: spe
 * Dutch:
 * Egyptian: ,
 * Esperanto: ŝakalo
 * Estonian:
 * Faroese: sjakalur
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: ტურა
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: θώς, λυκοπάνθηρ
 * Gujarati: શિયાળ
 * Hausa: dilā
 * Hawaiian: iākala, ʻīlio hae
 * Hebrew: ,
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian:
 * Irish: seacál
 * Italian:, sciacalla
 * Japanese:
 * Javanese: asu alas
 * Kabyle: ⵓⵞⴻⵏ
 * Kashmiri: شال, شٲج
 * Kazakh: шағал, шақал, қорқау қасқыр
 * Khmer:
 * Korean:, 재칼
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish:
 * Kyrgyz: көркоо,
 * Lak: чакъал
 * Lao: ຫມາຈອກ, ຫມາຈິກຈອກ
 * Latin: canis aureus, thōs, ciacalis
 * Latvian: šakālis
 * Laz: მკჲაფუ
 * Lezgi: чакъал
 * Lithuanian:
 * Macedonian: чакал, шакал
 * Malay:
 * Jawi: جاکل
 * Rumi: jakal
 * Manx: coo conveyrt
 * Mongolian: цөөвөр чоно
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: sjakal
 * Occitan:
 * Oromo: jeedala, waangoo
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Pontic Greek: θώπεκας
 * Portuguese:
 * Punjabi:
 * Gurmukhi: ਗਿੱਦੜ
 * Shahmukhi: گِدَّڑ
 * Rohingya: 𐴇𐴞𐴥𐴘𐴝𐴓 / híiyal
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Sanskrit:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: ша̏кал
 * Roman:
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish: ,
 * Sylheti: ꠢꠤꠀꠟ
 * Tagalog: tsakal
 * Tajik: шағол
 * Tarifit: uššen
 * Tedaga: turki
 * Telugu:
 * Thai: แจ็กคัล
 * Tibetan: འཕར་བ
 * Tocharian B: niśācare
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen: şagal
 * Ubykh: б'агьашә
 * Ukrainian: шака́л
 * Urdu: گِیدَڑ, سیار
 * Uyghur: چىلبۆرە
 * Uzbek: ,
 * Vietnamese:
 * Volapük:
 * Welsh: siacal
 * Wolof:
 * Yiddish: שאַקאַל
 * Zulu:


 * Georgian: შავი სამუშაოს შემსრულებელი
 * Macedonian: аргат


 * Albanian: ,
 * Finnish:
 * Greek:
 * Italian:
 * Russian:
 * Turkish:


 * Dutch:
 * Italian:

Verb

 * 1) To perform menial or routine tasks