Dictionary Definition
hippopotamus n : massive thick-skinned
herbivorous animal living in or around rivers of tropical Africa
[syn: hippo, river horse,
Hippopotamus
amphibius] [also: hippopotami (pl)]
User Contributed Dictionary
see Hippopotamus
English
Etymology
and hippopotamus < ἱπποπόταμος < ἵππος + ποταμός.Pronunciation
Hip*po-po*-ta-mus- /ˌhɪpəˈpɒtəməs/
- /%hIp@"pQt@m@s/
Noun
- A large, herbivorous (plant-eating) African mammal that spends most of the day living in water. (Hippopotamus amphibius)
Translations
large African mammal
- Afrikaans: seekoei
- Arabic: السيد قشطة
- Bosnian: nilski konj
- Chinese: (hémǎ)
- Czech: hroch
- Danish: flodhest
- Dutch: nijlpaard
- Estonian: jõehobu
- Finnish: virtahepo
- French: hippopotame
- German: Flusspferd, Nilpferd
- Greek: ιπποπόταμος (hippopotamos, ippopotamos)
- Hebrew: היפופוטם
- Hungarian: víziló
- Icelandic: flóðhestur
- Italian: ippopotamo
- Japanese: 河馬 (カバ, kaba)
- Korean: 하마 (河馬, hama)
- Latin: hippopotamus
- Lithuanian: hipopotamas , also begemotas
- Macedonian: нилски коњ
- Norwegian: flodhest
- Polish: hipopotam
- Portuguese: hipopótamo
- Russian: гиппопотам, бегемот
- KiSwahili: kiboko
- Serbian: povodni konj , nilski konj
- Slovene: povodni konj , nilski konj
- Somali: jeer
- Spanish: hipopótamo
- Swedish: flodhäst
- Tamil நீரானை (nIrAnai)
- Turkish: su aygırı
- Welsh: afonfarch, hipopotamws