monitor lizard

Etymology
From the obsolete taxa and  now displaced by  within the single-species family. The word Monitor is a calque of German, which is a loanword from. The conflation of the two words was encouraged by the lizards' habit of standing on their hind legs and appearing to monitor their surroundings.

Noun

 * 1) Any of various large carnivorous lizards of the family, all of whose extant species are of genus , native to Africa, Asia and Australia.

Translations

 * Afrikaans: varaan,
 * Arabic: وَرَل
 * Assamese: গুঁই, গুঁই সাপ
 * Bau Bidayuh: biowak
 * Belarusian: вара́н
 * Bengali:, ,
 * Bikol Central: guto
 * Bulgarian:
 * Burmese:
 * Catalan:
 * Central Melanau: kelibui, alou
 * Chichewa: gondwa
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech: varan
 * Danish: varan
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: varano
 * Estonian: varaan
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * German:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: ,
 * Hungarian:
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian:
 * Irish: laghairt mhonatóra
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:, 大蜥蜴
 * Kalmyk: мигүл
 * Kapampangan: timbabalak, tarebalak
 * Kazakh: кесел
 * Korean:
 * Latvian: varāns
 * Lithuanian: varanas
 * Luo: ng'ech
 * Macedonian: варан
 * Malay:
 * Malayalam:
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: varano, lagarto-monitor,
 * Punjabi: ਗੋਹ
 * Romanian: varan
 * Russian:
 * Sanskrit:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: варан
 * Roman:
 * Shor: қомдат
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene: varan
 * Spanish: varano
 * Sundanese:
 * Swahili: kenge
 * Swedish:
 * Tagal Murut: andaatan
 * Tagalog: bayawak
 * Tausug: bibang
 * Thai:
 * Ukrainian:
 * Vietnamese: kì đà
 * West Coast Bajau: paang
 * Wolof: mbag