porpoise; dolphin · guinea pig
çekim: çoğul Meerschweine · tamlayan Meerschweines
köken: From Middle High German merswīn, from Old High German meriswīn, from Proto-West Germanic *mariswīn, from Proto-Germanic *mariswīną; equivalent to Meer + Schwein. Compare archaic English mereswine.
guinea pig
çekim: çoğul cobayes
eş: cochon d’Inde
köken: Borrowed from Portuguese cobaia.
guinea pig (rodent)
çekim: çoğul acures
eş: cavia, cobayo, cobaya, conejillo de Indias, corí, cuí
guinea pig (rodent) · guinea pig (experimental subject)
çekim: çoğul cavie
köken: From New Latin Cavia, from Old Galician-Portuguese çavia (“the spiny rat”), from Old Tupi saujá. Compare Portuguese sauiá.
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guinea pig (Cavia porcellus)
çekim: çoğul cavia's
eş: guinees-biggetje
köken: Borrowed from Portuguese cávia or New Latin cavia.
aile: caviapolitie, huiscavia
synonym of porquinho-da-índia · guinea pig (volunteer for an experiment)
çekim: çoğul cobaias
köken: From Old Tupi çobaîa (foreign), from a clipping of Old Tupi saûîasobaîa (guinea pig, literally “foreign tree rat”). The change of ⟨ç⟩ (pronounced /s/) to ⟨c⟩ (pronounced /k/) is irregular and likely stems from a misreading or misprint. Compare Spanish cobaya. The figurative sense is likely a semantic loan from English guinea pig.
experimental animal · guinea pig (ie experimental animals)
çekim: çoğul πειραματόζωα · tamlayan πειραματόζωου
köken: From πειραματ- (“stem of πείραμα, experiment”) + -ο- (“infix”) + ζώο (“animal”).
a guinea pig
köken: Borrowed from English guinea pig.
guinea pig
köken: Borrowed from English guinea pig.
a guinea pig, a lab rat (living test subject – often more or less figuratively of humans like in English)
çekim: çoğul försökskaniner · tamlayan försökskanins
köken: From försök + -s- + kanin, cf. German Versuchskaninchen.
guinea pig
çekim: çoğul kawie domowe · tamlayan kawii domowej
eş: świnka morska
köken: Literally, “domestic cavia”.
guinea pig, lab rat (living experimental subject)
çekim: çoğul koekaniinit · tamlayan koekaniinin
köken: koe- (“experiment, test”) + kaniini (“rabbit”)
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guinea pig
çekim: çoğul morčata · tamlayan morčete
köken: Clipping of mořské prasě.
lab rat, guinea pig (experimental subject)
çekim: çoğul kísérleti nyulak
köken: kísérleti (“experimental”) + nyúl (“rabbit”)
guinea pig · porpoise
çekim: çoğul marsvinene · tamlayan marsvins
eş: tumler
köken: From German Meerschwein (“porpoise, guinea pig”).
a rabbit used as guinea pig · guinea pig, a living experimental subject
eş: mangsa percobaan
köken: Compound of kelinci (“rabbit”) + percobaan (“experiment”), calque of Dutch proefkonijn (literally “experimental rabbit”).
insect; bug · maggot · guinea pig
köken: From a Sino-Tibetan language. Compare Proto-Loloish *bi/bo² (“insect”) (whence Yao'an Lolopo bber).
aile: bọ cánh cứng, bọ cạp, bọ chét, bọ dừa, bọ đa, bọ gạo, bọ hà, bọ hung, bọ mát, bọ nẹt