fox (both the "true foxes" of the Old World and North America, and the "false foxes" of Latin America) · vixen (female fox) · opossum (any American marsupial of the family Didelphidae)
çekim: çoğul raposas
eş: gambá
köken: Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese raposa, from Old Spanish raposa.
aile: casamento de raposa, raposa no galinheiro, raposa-cinzenta, raposa-do-ártico, raposa-do-cabo, raposa-vermelha, raposada, raposo
– Os homens, disse a raposa, têm fuzis e caçam. É bem incômodo!
fox (mammal) · an experienced (often as "gammal räv") and/or cunning person
çekim: çoğul rävar · tamlayan rävs
köken: From Old Norse refr, from Proto-Norse *rebaʀ, ultimately borrowed from Proto-Indo-Iranian *Hrawpāćás (“fox, jackal”), through some intermediaries.
aile: fjällräv, ha en räv bakom örat, katträv, rävaktig, rävaktighet, rävboa, rävfarm, rävgift, rävgryt, rävhona
fox, Vulpes, genus within the family Canidae · vixen, female fox · fox (fur)
çekim: çoğul lišky · tamlayan lišky
eş: lišák
köken: Inherited from Old Czech liška, from Proto-Slavic *lišьka, from *lisъ. Nowadays form of the expression liška was probably also influenced by Proto-Slavic *lixъ (“bad”), maybe because the original word was taboo. Etymology of the expression *lisъ is not clear. It is often connected with Lithuanian lãpė, Latvian lapsa, Irish lois, Latin vulpes, Ancient Greek ἀλώπηξ (alṓpēx), Old Armenian աղուէս…
Zrovna tak to dělávala doma matka liška, když otec lišák přicházíval až pozdě k večeru domů s potrhanou kůží […]
[…] dlouhosrsté výraznější kožešiny jako nutrie či modrá liška se používaly na zdobení kapes, na límce apod.
köken: From Old Georgian მელი (meli), the -ა (-a) is a petrified diminutive suffix. Ultimately from Proto-Georgian-Zan *mal- (“fox”). Cognate with Mingrelian მალი (mali).
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂wl̥p-i-s Proto-Italic *wolpis Latin volpēs Latin vulpēsbor. Esperanto vulpo Proto-Germanic *-inī Proto-West Germanic *-ini Old High German -in Middle High German -in German -inder. Esperanto -ino Esperanto vulpino From vulpo (“fox”) + -ino (“female”).
Etimoloji
Compound of 牝(め) (me, “female”) + 狐(きつね) (kitsune, “fox”). The kitsune reading for 狐 changes to gitsune as an instance of rendaku (連濁).