wolverine

See also: Wolverine

English

A wolverine.

Alternative forms

• wolverene
• wolvering (obsolete)

Etymology

1619; alteration of earlier wolvering (1574), diminutive of wolver (“ravenous or savage animal; person who behaves like a wolf”) (1593), ultimately from wolf.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈwʊlvəˌɹiːn/, /ˈwɒlvəˌɹiːn/

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• (US, also) IPA^(key): /ˌwʊlvəˈɹiːn/

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Noun

wolverine (plural wolverines)

1. A solitary, fierce mammal of the Mustelidae family, Gulo gulo^ws.
   • 1920, Peter B. Kyne, chapter IV, in The Understanding Heart:

     “Wish I'd been more polite to that girl,” the sheriff remarked regretfully. “ I ain't had a bite to eat since four o'clock this morning, and I'm hungry as a wolverine. … I know she'd have give me another drink of that old moonshine she has.”

Synonyms

• carcajou, skunk bear, glutton, quickhatch, beaver eater

Translations

Gulo gulo

• Arabic: شَرِه m (šarih), وُلْفِيرِين m (wulfīrīn)
• Armenian: կուղխ (hy) (kuġx), շատակերիկ (hy) (šatakerik)
• Bashkir: ҡоно (qono)
• Belarusian: расама́ха f (rasamáxa)
• Bulgarian: росома́ха (bg) f (rosomáha), ла́комец (bg) m (lákomec)
• Buryat: зээгэн (zeegen)
• Catalan: golut m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 狼獾 (zh) (lánghuān), 貂熊 (zh) (diāoxióng)

• Chukchi: ӄэпэр (qėpėr)
• Cree: ᑮᐦᑿᐦᐋᐦᑫᐤ (kiihkwahaahkew)
• Czech: rosomák (cs) m
• Danish: jærv (da) c
• Dutch: veelvraat (nl)
• Esperanto: gulo
• Estonian: ahm, kaljukass
• Faroese: jarvur m
• Finnish: ahma (fi)
• French: glouton (fr) m, carcajou (fr) m
• Gagauz: obur
• Galician: glutón m
• Georgian: სამურავი (samuravi)
• German: Vielfraß (de) m, Bärenmarder m
• Greek: γούλβεριν m (goúlverin)
• Hawaiian: woleweline
• Hebrew: גַּרְגְּרָן (he) m (garg'rán)
• Hungarian: rozsomák (hu)
• Icelandic: jarfi m
• Ido: glutemo (io)
• Inuktitut: ᖃᕝᕕᒃ (qavfik)
• Irish: glutan m
• Italian: ghiottone (it) m, volverina, ossifraga
• Japanese: クズリ (ja) (kuzuri), 貂熊, 屈狸
• Kalmyk: зеегн (zeegn)
• Kazakh: құну (qūnu)
• Ket: кун (kùn)
• Khakas: хуну (xunu)
• Korean: 울버린 (ulbeorin)
• Lakota: škečátȟaŋka
• Latgalian: kņauss
• Latvian: āmrija f, tīnis m
• Lithuanian: ernis m
• Low German:

  German Low German: Veelfraat m

• Macedonian: лакомец m (lakomec)
• Malay: wolverin
• Mongolian: нохой зээх (noxoj zeex)
• Navajo: niłchiis
• Nivkh: кʼузр̌ (kʼuzř)
• Northern Sami: geatki
• Norwegian: jerv (no) m
• Ojibwe: gwiingwa'aage
• Old English: eorf m
• Old Norse: jerfr m, jarfr m
• Persian: ولورین (volverin)
• Polish: rosomak (pl) m
• Portuguese: carcaju (pt) m, glutão (pt) m
• Proto-Norse: ᛖᚱᚨᚠᚨᛉ m (erafaʀ)
• Romanian: polifag american m, gluton (ro) m
• Russian: росома́ха (ru) f (rosomáxa)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Roman: gorska kuna f, rosomah m, žderonja (sh) m, žderavac m

• Shor: қунучақ (qunučaq)
• Slovak: rosomák m
• Slovene: rosomáh m
• Southern Altai: јеекен (ǰeeken), куну (kunu)
• Southern Sami: gierhkie
• Spanish: glotón (es) m, carcayú m
• Swahili: fisi-milima, wolverini
• Swedish: järv (sv) c
• Tatar: комагай (qomağay)
• Thai: วุลเวอรีน (wunwer-reen)
• Turkish: kutup porsuğu, ayı sansarı
• Tuvan: чекпе (çekpe)
• Udmurt: лакша (lakša)
• Ukrainian: росома́ха f (rosomáxa)
• Uyghur: بۆرە بورسۇق (böre borsuq)
• Vietnamese: chồn Gulo
• Yakut: сиэгэн (siegen)

See also

• wolverine on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Gulo gulo on Wikispecies.Wikispecies