porcupine

Etymology
From, from , from + , hence also. Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) Any of several rodents of either of the taxonomic families  (Old World porcupines) or  (New World porcupines), both from the infraorder, noted for their sharp spines or quills, which are raised when the animal is attacked or surprised.

Hyponyms

 * baby porcupine

Translations

 * Abenaki: kôgw
 * Acholi: coo
 * Afrikaans:
 * Apache:
 * Western Apache: dahszíné
 * Arabic: نَيْص, دُلْدُل
 * Hijazi Arabic: نيص
 * Armenian: ,
 * Assamese: কেঁটেলা পহু
 * Asturian: escurpín, gochuspín,
 * Azerbaijani: oxlu kirpi
 * Basque: arantzurde
 * Bau Bidayuh: bidiek
 * Belarusian: дзікабра́з
 * Bulgarian: бодливо прасе
 * Burmese:, ဖြူကောင်
 * Catalan: porc espí
 * Central Melanau: tejaan, tetuong
 * Cherokee: ᏧᏥ, ᎣᎦᎾᎢᏳᏍᏗ ᏧᏥᏲᏍᏗ
 * Cheyenne: heškovėstse
 * Chichewa: nungu
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Cree: ᑳᑿ
 * Czech:
 * Dakota: pahiŋ
 * Danish: hulepindsvin, træpindsvin
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: histriko
 * Estonian: okassiga
 * Finnish:
 * Fox: akâkwa
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: მაჩვზღარბა
 * German:, Baumstachler, Baumstachelschwein, , Quastenstachler
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: ὕστριξ
 * Gujarati: શાહુડી
 * Haryanvi: सेह, सेही
 * Hawaiian: kipoka
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi:
 * Hopi: muungyaw
 * Hungarian:
 * Hunsrik: Stacheldier
 * Iban: landak
 * Indonesian:
 * Inuktitut: ᐃᓛᖁᑦᓯᖅ
 * Irish: torcán
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese: ,
 * Jingpho: dumsi
 * Kalasha: šu
 * Kazakh: жайра
 * Khmer: ,
 * Kikuyu: njege
 * Kimaragang: wutun, lisis
 * Korean: 호저, 산미치광이
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish: سیخوڕ, سووچەڕ
 * Northern Kurdish:
 * Southern Kurdish:, سۊچەڕ, سێخچووڵی
 * Kyrgyz: ,
 * Lao:
 * Latin: hystrix
 * Latvian: dzeloņcūka
 * Lithuanian: dygliatriušis, ursonas
 * Luhya: enjekeche
 * Malay: landak, cewe duri
 * Marathi: साळू
 * Mi'kmaq: matues
 * Mohegan-Pequot: kôq
 * Mon:
 * Montagnais: kakᵘ
 * Navajo: dahsání
 * Norwegian: hulepinnsvin
 * Bokmål: hulepiggsvin, hulepinnsvin, trepiggsvin, trepinnsvin
 * Nynorsk: holepiggsvin, trepiggsvin
 * Ojibwe: gaag
 * Ottoman Turkish: كرپی
 * Pali: salla, sallaka
 * Pashto: ششګی
 * Pawnee: cuururaruus
 * Persian:, , سگرنه
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:, cuandu
 * Punjabi:
 * Romanian: porc spinos,
 * Russian:
 * Sebop: larak
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: дикобраз
 * Roman:
 * Shan:
 * Slovene:
 * Sorbian:
 * Lower Sorbian: štapata swinja
 * Sotho: noko
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:, , trädpiggsvin
 * Tagal Murut: buuron, karuui
 * Tagalog: landak, pwerkospin
 * Tajik: ҷайра, дугпушт
 * Tamil:
 * Thai:
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: дикобра́з
 * Unami: kawiya
 * Urdu: سیہہ
 * Uyghur: جەيرە
 * Uzbek:
 * Vietnamese:
 * Welsh: ballasg
 * West Frisian:
 * Wolof:
 * Yiddish: שטעכל־חזיר, יאָזש
 * Yup'ik: ilaanquciq