How To Say Rabbit In Spanish

The Word for Rabbit in Unlike Languages

Or…A rabbit past any other name is yet a rabbit.

A note on organization

Languages are listed alphabetically co-ordinate to linguistic communication family. A language family is a group of languages which derive from a common female parent linguistic communication. For example, many of the languages of Europe, West Asia, and the Subcontinent (such as High german, Russian, Latin, Sanskrit,Persian, Armenian, Greek, etc.) vest to the Indo-European family of languages. Due to the many similarities in pronunciation, grammar, and vocabulary between these languages, linguists believe that there was at 1 time a single language, called Proto-Indo-European, from which these ultimately derived.

Languages can be further subdivided into branches. For instance, English language, German, Dutch, Swedish, Danish, and Norwegian are much more similar to each other than Russian, Shine, Czech, Serbian, and Ukranian. The first set of languages belongs to what is chosen the Germanic branch, while the second ready belongs to the Slavic branch. Yet they are all Indo-European languages. (Compare the words for rabbit in the Germanic and Slavic languages given below.)

Some language families, such as Indo-European, have been exhaustively studied over the past century and are well-established past linguists, while others, such as Amerind and Altaic, are far more controversial. This web site is not attempting to make definitive statements on the classification of languages! More controversial language families accept been adopted here simply as a convenience. Remember, it's all for fun!

A note on submissions

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Afro-Asiatic (languages spoken in Northern Africa and the Heart East)

	*Cushitic*
	*Somali*	bakayle
	*Arabic*	arneb
		araanib
		arnab
		arnab bari	(wild rabbit)
		arnob	(bunny – baby rabbit)
	*Hebrew*	arnevet (hare)
		arnavon/arnavoni	(little sweet bunny)
		shafan
	*Maltese*	fenek	(rabbit)
		fenek abjad	(white rabbit)
		fenek iswed	(blackness rabbit)
		zermug	(baby rabbit

Altaic (languages spoken in Turkey, Central Asia, Siberia and Eastern asia)

East Asian
	*Japanese*	usagi
	*Korean*	toki
	San Toki ('Mountain Rabbit') is a pop children'southward vocal: 'Mount Rabbit, Rabbit/ where are you lot going?/Equally you lot hop hop hop,/ where are y'all going?


Turkic
	*Kazakh*	kenek
	*Turkish*	oda tava_ani

Amerind (includes most of the indigenous languages of North and South America)

Algonquian
	*Ojibwe*	waabooz
Iroquoian
	*Cherokee*	tsi s du Penutian
	*Chinook*	quetshadee
Siouan
	*Dakota*	mastinca
Aztecan
	*Nahuatl*	ometochtli

Austroasiatic
	*Vietnamese*	tho

Austronesian (languages spoken in Taiwan, Oceania, Madagascar and Hawai'i)

Malayo-Polynesian
	*Bahasa Malaysia*	arnab
	*Hawaiian*	lapaki
	*Indonesian*	kelinci
	*Maori*	raapeti
	*Malagasy*	bitro
	*Malay*	kelintji arnab
	*Tagalog*	kuneho

Dravidian (languages spoken mostly in southern India and Sri Lanka)

	*Tamil*	muyal

Eskimo-Aleut (languages spoken in northern Alaska, Canada and Greenland)

	*Eskimo*	ukalerk
	*Eskimo (Inupiaq)*	ukulaitchiaq olark

Kadai (languages spoken in Southeast Asia)

	*Thai*	gra-dty

Indo-European (languages historically spoken in Europe, West Asia and the Subcontinent)

Albanian
	*Albanian*	lepur (hare)
		lepurush (bunny)
Armenian
	*Armenian (Western)*	nabastak
	*Armenian (Classical)*	napastak
Baltic
	*Latvian*	trusis zakis (hare)
	*Lithuanian*	kralikas zuikutis	(small bunny rabbit)
Celtic
	*Irish gaelic*	coinân giorria (hare)
	*Cornish*	conyn conynas	(plural)
	*Manx*	coneeyn conning	(bunny)
	*Gaelic*	coineanach coineagan coineanach an taighe
			(house rabbit)
	*Welsh*	cwningen
Germanic
	*Afrikaans*	haas (hare)
		konyn
	*Bavarian*	kinihÔs
	*Danish*	kanin
	*Dutch*	haas (hare)
		konijn (bunny)
		konijntje (bunny)
		nijntje	(used as an affectionate term.)
		Also a famous drawing rabbit in Kingdom of the netherlands.
	*English language (Archaic)*	coney
	*Flanders*	keun
	*Flemish*	konijn keun
	*Frisian (Wester Lauwer)*	knyn hazze (hare)
	*German*	Kaninchen (rabbit)
		Hase (hare)
	*Icelandic*	kanina
	*Norwegian (BokmÔl)*	kanin
	*Swedish*	kanin
	*Swiss German*	Hassli (pocket-sized hare)
		Chungel
	*Swiss German language (Basel region)*	ChÉngel
	*Yiddish*	krolik
Hellenic
	*Greek (Mod)*	kouneli
	*Greek (Classical)*	lagos
Indic
	*Bengali*	chorgosh
	*Gujarati*	saslu
	*Hindi*	khargosh
	*Classical Sanskrit*	shashaka
	*Vedic Sanskrit*	shasha
	*Sinhalese*	haava haapetiya	(infant rabbit)
	*Urdu*	kargosh
Iranian
	*Kurdish*	karwesh	(literally, 'donkey ears')
	*Persian (Farsi)*	khargoosh
			(literally, 'donkey ears')
Italic
	*Aragonese*	coniello
	*Catalan*	conill
	*French*	lapin lapereau	(immature rabbit)
		lapin de clapier	(tame rabbit)
	*Italian*	coniglio
		coniglietto	(bunny)
	*Latin*	cuniculus
		Was also used for soldiers who dug tunnels
		cuniculosus	(total of rabbits)
		lepus	(hare)
	Portuguese*	coelho
		coelha	(female rabbit)
		coelhinho	(piffling rabbit)
		lebre	(female hare)
		lebrÉo	(male person hare)
	*Note: several of our documents are available in Portuguese.
	*Romanian*	iepure iepura	(bunny)
		iepurime	(warren of rabbits)
		iepuroaica	(female rabbit)
		iepuroi	(male rabbit)
	*Spanish*	conejo conejito	(little rabbit)
Slavic
	*Bulgarian*	zayek	(rabbit, hare)
	*Czech*	králík (kra:li:yard)	rabbit
		králíček (kra:li:czech)	little rabbit
	*Croatian*	kunic zets
	*Macedonian*	zajak zajache zajko
	*Montenegrian*	zec
	*Polish*	królik
		króliczek	(bunny)
	*Russian*	krolik zayets zaychek	(endearing form for bunny)
	*Serbian*	kunit
	*Slovak*	králik
	*Slovenian*	kunec zajec	(hare)
	*Notation: the discussion zajec or diminuitive zajcek is more generally used for both species. It can as well be a person's beginning name.

	*Ukranian*	kril' kri-lyk	(domesticated)
		kri-lyky	(domesticated, plural)
		zaichyk	(endearment)
		za-yats'

Niger-Kordofanian (languages spoken in West and Central Africa)

Bantu
	*Lozi*	shakame
	*Swahili*	sungura
	*Swati*	umgwaja
	*Xhosa*	umvundia
	*Zulu*	unogwaja

Nilo-Saharan (languages spoken in the Sahara and Central Africa)

	*Lwo*	apwoyo

Sino-Tibetan (languages spoken in Mainland China, Taiwan and Southeast Asia)

Burmic
	*Burmese*	youn
Sinitic
	*Cantonese*	pak toi	(white rabbit)
		yah toi	(wild rabbit)
		toi bao bao	(infant rabbit)
	*Chinese (Mandarin)*	tu zi (rabbit)
		baitu (white rabbit)
		xiao baitu (little white rabbit)
	*Taiwanese*	to-ah
Tibeto-Karen
	*Tibetan*	reepong

Uralic (languages spoken in northern Scandanavia, Finland, Republic of estonia, Hungary and Siberia)

Finno-Ugric
	*Estonian*	kodu-janes	(tame hare)
	*Finnish*	jÉnis kani
	*Hungarian*	házinyúl

Language Isolates (languages that have no clear connections with whatsoever other language. They are plant throughout the earth.)

	*Basque*	untxi	erbi (hare)

Artificial Languages
	*Esperanto*	kuniklo