manatee

Etymology
Borrowed from, from a -language term meaning ‘breast’, ultimately from ; compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) Any of several plant-eating marine mammals, of family, found in tropical regions.
 * 2) * 1988, Tampa Bay Magazine (Sept–Oct 1988, page 60)
 * The ecological importance of the manatee is clear; scientists have demonstrated the dependancy [sic] of all components of an ecosystem on one another . ..

Translations

 * Afrikaans: lamantyn, manatee
 * Albanian: lopë deti, lamantina
 * Arabic: خَرُوف البَحْر
 * Armenian: լամանտին
 * Asturian:
 * Azerbaijani: lamantinlər
 * Bambara: maa
 * Basque: manati
 * Belarusian: ламанцін
 * Breton:
 * Bulgarian: морска крава
 * Catalan: manatí
 * Cherokee: ᎹᎾᏘ
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 海牛
 * Hokkien: 海牛
 * Mandarin:
 * Classical Nahuatl: tlacamichin
 * Czech:
 * Danish: søko, manat
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto: manato
 * Estonian: lamantiin
 * Faroese: sjókúgv
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * German: Rundschwanzseekuh, Manati; usually simply called
 * Alemannic German: Manati
 * Greek:
 * Hausa: àyū
 * Hawaiian: lākamikini
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: मैनाटी
 * Hungarian:, manátusz, tengeritehén
 * Icelandic: sækýr
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian:
 * Irish: bó mhara
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese:
 * Kari'na: jarawa
 * Kazakh: ламантин
 * Korean: 매너티
 * Koyraboro Senni: ayu
 * Latin:
 * Latvian: lamantīns, manati
 * Limburgish: zieëków
 * Lithuanian: lamantinas
 * Luxembourgish: Ronnschwanzséikou, Manati
 * Macedonian: ламантин
 * Malay: manati, lembu laut
 * Maltese: lamantin
 * Manx: booa varrey
 * Myene: màŋgà
 * Nahuatl:
 * Neapolitan: lamantino
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: manat
 * Nynorsk: manat
 * Old English: sǣcū
 * Pirahã: pigáagi
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:, , manatim
 * Quechua: manati
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:, морска́я коро́ва
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: лама̀нтӣн
 * Roman: lamàntīn
 * Sicilian: lamantinu, manatì
 * Slovak: lamantín
 * Slovene: lamantin
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili: manatii
 * Swedish: sjöko,
 * Tagalog: manati
 * Tamil:
 * Tatar: lamantin
 * Thai: แมนนาที
 * Turkish: denizayısı, manati
 * Ukrainian: ламантин
 * Vietnamese: lợn biển
 * Welsh: morfuwch, manatî
 * West Frisian: lamantinen
 * Wolof: leraw