köken: Borrowed from French hippopotame. Omitting several steps, from Ancient Greek ἱπποπόταμος (hippopótamos), from ἵππος (híppos) + ποταμός (potamós).
catfish, sheatfish (freshwater catfish of the genus Silurus) · wels catfish, sheatfish, Silurus glanis · catfish (fish of the order Siluriformes consisting of 37 families, hundreds of genera and some 3,000 species)
köken: Inherited from Prakrit 𑀫𑀕𑁆𑀕𑀼𑀭 (maggura), from Sanskrit मद्गुर (madgúra), an r-extension of मद्गु (madgú, “diver, loon”), from Proto-Indo-European *mesg-ú-s (“diver bird”), from *mesg- (“to plunge, to dip”). Cognate with Assamese মাগুৰ (magur), Odia ମାଗୁର (magur), Magahi 𑂧𑂰𑂏𑂳𑂩 (māgur), Bhojpuri माँगुर (mā̃gur), Hindi मगुरी (magurī), Sinhalese මගුරා (magurā), and distantly, Latin mergō (“to dip,…