Animal Definition
animal
English
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Pronunciation
- enPR: ăn'əməl, IPA: /ˈænəməl/, X-SAMPA: /"{n@m@l/
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Etymology 1
From Middle English animal, from Old French animal, from Latin animal, a nominal use of an adjective from animale, neuter of animalis adj, from anima ‘breath, spirit’. Displaced native Middle English deor, der (“animal”) (from Old English dēor (“animal”)), Middle English reother (“animal, neat”) (from Old English hrīþer, hrȳþer (“neat, ox”)).
Noun
animal (plural animals)
- In scientific usage, a multicellular organism that is usually mobile, whose cells are not encased in a rigid cell wall (distinguishing it from plants and fungi) and which derives energy solely from the consumption of other organisms (distinguishing it from plants).
- A cat is an animal, not a plant.
- Humans are also animals, under the scientific definition, as we are not plants.
- In non-scientific usage, any member of the kingdom Animalia other than a human being.
- In non-scientific usage, any land-living vertebrate (i.e. not birds, fishes, insects etc)
- (figuratively) A person who behaves wildly; a bestial, brutal, brutish, cruel, or inhuman person.
- My students are animals.
- (informal) A person of a particular type.
- a political animal
Synonyms
Hyponyms
Related terms
Translations
organism
- Acholi: lee
- Afrikaans: dier
- Aleut: algax
- Amuzgo: kió'
- Arabic: حيوان (ar) (Hayawaan) m.
- Aragonese: animal m.
- Armenian: կենդանի (hy) (kendani)
- Asturian: animal
- Azeri: heyvan (az)
- Bambara: bagan
- Bashkir: хайуан (xaywan)
- Basque: animalia (eu)
- Bavarian: Viech
- Belarusian: жывёла (be) (žyvjóla) f., звер (be) (zver) m.
- Bengali: জানোয়ার (bn) (janoẇar)
- Borôro: barögö
- Bosnian: životinja (bs) f.
- Breton: loen m., loened, aneval m., anevaled
- Bulgarian: животно (bg) (živótno) n.
- Burmese: တိရစ္ဆာန် (my) (tăreikhsan)
- Catalan: animal (ca) m.
- Cherokee: ᎦᎾᏝᎢ (ganatlai)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 動物 (zh), 动物 (zh) (dòngwù)
- Min Nan: 動物, 动物 (tōng-bu̍t)
- Chukchi: gennik, gernik
- Chuvash: чĕрчун (çĕrçun)
- Croatian: živòtinja (hr) f.
- Czech: živočich (cs) m., zvíře (cs) n.
- Danish: dyr (da)
- Dutch: dier (nl) n., beest (nl) n.
- Esperanto: (includes humans) animalo (eo)
- Estonian: loom (et)
- Finnish: eläin (fi)
- French: animal (fr) m., bête (fr) f.
- Georgian: ცხოველი (ka) (c'xoveli)
- German: Tier (de) n.
- Gothic: 𐌳𐌹𐌿𐍃 (dius) n.
- Greek:
- Ancient: ζῷον (zōion) n.
- Modern: ζώο (el) (zóo) n.
- Greenlandic: uumasoq (kl)
- Haitian Creole: animal, zannimo
- Hebrew: בעל חיים (he) (ba`al khayim) m.
- Hindi: पशु (hi) (paśu), जानवर (hi) (jānvar) m.
- Hungarian: állat (hu)
- Icelandic: dýr (is) n.
- Ido: animalo
- Indonesian: hewan (id), binatang (id)
- Interlingua: animal, bestia
- Inuktitut: ᐆᒻᒪᔪᖅ (uummajuq), ᓂᕐᔪᑦ (nirjut)
- Inupiak: nirrun, aŋusalluq m., aġnasalluq f.
- Irish:
- Old: anmandae m.
- Modern: ainmhí (ga) m.
- Italian: animale (it) m., bestia (it) f.
- Itelmen: girnik, tuva
- Japanese: 動物 (ja) (どうぶつ, dōbutsu)
- Kalmyk: адусн (adusn)
- Kannada: prani
- Karachay-Balkar: хайуан (xaywan)
- Karelian: elätti, žiivatta
- Kazakh: жануар (kk) (janwar), хайуан (kk) (xaywan), айуан (kk) (aywan)
- Khakas: аң (añ)
- Korean: 동물 (ko) (dongmul) (動物 (ko))
- Kumyk: гьайван (haywan)
- Kurdish:
- Kurmanji: ajal, candar, heywan, lawir
- Sorani: حهیوان (ku) (HaiwAn), ئاژهڵ (ku) (AjaL)
- Kyrgyz: айбан (ky) (ayban), жаныбар (ky) (canıbar)
- Lao: ສັດ (lo) (sat)
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- Latgalian: dzeivnīks, žeivots
- Latin: animal (la) n., bestia (la) f.
- Latvian: dzīvnieks (lv)
- Lithuanian: gyvūnas (lt) m.
- Low Saxon: beest n.
- Luxembourgish: Déier (lb) n.
- Malay: binatang (ms), haiwan (ms)
- Malayalam: മൃഗം (mrugam)
- Marathi: जनावर
- Mongolian: амьтан (mn) (am'tan)
- Nahuatl: yolkatl
- Navajo: naaldeehii
- Nepali: जनावर (janaawer)
- Norwegian: dyr (no)
- Novial: animale
- Occitan: animal
- Old Church Slavonic: животъ (životъ) m., звѣрь (zvěrь) m.
- Old English: dēor (ang) n.
- Old High German: tior n.
- Old Norse: dýr n.
- Pali: jīvī
- Persian: جانور (fa) (jânvar), حیوان (fa) (heyvân)
- Polish: zwierzę (pl) n.
- Portuguese: animal (pt) m., besta (pt) f.
- Punjabi: ਹੈਵਾਨ (haivāna)
- Rohingya: focú, januar
- Romani: hǝyvǝ́y (var: ḳayvayá)
- Romanian: animal (ro) n., fiară (ro) f., animale n. pl.
- Romansch: animal (rm) m., biestg (rm)
- Russian: животное (ru) (živótnoje) n., зверь (ru) (zver’) m., тварь (ru) (tvar') f., скотина (ru) (skotína) f.
- Sanskrit: पशु (hi) (paśu), मृग (hi) (mṛga), प्राणी (sa) (prāṇī)
- Scots: ainimal
- Scottish Gaelic: beathach m., ainmhidh m.
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: животиња (sh) f., звер (sh) f., скот (sh) m.
- Roman: životinja (sh) f., zver (sh) f., skot (sh) m.
- Sicilian: armali
- Sinhalese: සත්තු (si) (sattu)
- Slovak: živočích (sk) m., zviera (sk) n.
- Slovene: žival (sl) f., zver (sl) f.
- Southern Altai: амыт (amıt)
- Spanish: animal (es) m., bestia (es) f.
- Sumerian: 𒁕𒁕𒀯 (DADAMUL)
- Swahili: mnyama, wanyama pl (noun 1/2)
- Swedish: djur (sv) n.
- Tajik: ҳайвон (tg) (hayvon), ҷонвар (tg) (jonvar)
- Tamil: விலங்கு (ta)
- Tatar: xaywan (tt)
- Telugu: జంతువు (te)
- Thai: สัตว์ (th) (sàt)
- Tongan: manu (to)
- Tswana: sebatana (tn), phologolo (tn)
- Turkish: hayvan (tr)
- Turkmen: haýwan (tk)
- Tuvan: амытан (amıtan)
- Ukrainian: тваринa (uk) (tvarýna) f., звір (uk) (zvir) m.
- Urdu: حیوان (ur) (haivān) m., جانور (ur) (jānvar) m.
- Uyghur: ھايۋان (ug)
- Uzbek: hayvon (uz)
- Veps: živat
- Vietnamese: thú vật (vi) (動物 (vi))
- Volapük: nim
- Võro: elläi
- Walloon: biesse (wa) f.
- Welsh: anifail (cy) m.; mil (cy) m.
- West Frisian: dier n., bist (fy) n.
- Xhosa: burhalarhume (xh), isilo (xh), isilwanyana (xh)
- Yakut: харамай (xaramay), кыыл (kııl)
- Yup'ik: ungungssit
- Zulu: isilwane (zu)
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organism other than man
person who behaves wildly
- Basque: animalia (eu)
- Bosnian: zvijer (bs) f., hajvan (bs) m.
- Breton: aneval m., anevaled pl.
- Bulgarian: хайванин (bg) (haivanin) m.
- Catalan: bèstia (ca) f., animal (ca) m.
- Chinese: 野獸, 野兽 (yěshòu)
- Croatian: živòtinja (hr) f., zvijȇr (hr) f.
- Czech: zvíře (cs) n.
- Dutch: beest (nl) n.
- Finnish: eläin (fi), elukka (fi)
- French: bête (fr) f.
- German: Bestie (de) f., Unmensch (de) m., Monster (de) n., Scheusal (de) n.
- Greek: ζώο (el) (zóo) n., κτήνος (el) (ktínos) n., θηρίο (el) (thirío) n.
- Hebrew: חיה (he) (khaya) f.
- Icelandic: dýr (is) n., óargadýr (is) n.
- Italian: animale (it) m., bestia (it) f.
- Kurdish:
- Sorani: حهیوان (ku) (HaiwAn)
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- Inuktitut: ᐆᒻᒪᔪᖅ (uummajuq), ᓂᕐᔪᑦ (nirjut)
- Inupiak: nirrun, aŋusalluq m., aġnasalluq f.
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Etymology 2
From Latin animalis, from either anima ‘breath, spirit’ or animus. Originally distinct from the noun, it became associated with attributive use of the noun and is now indistinguishable from it.
Adjective
animal (not comparable)
- Of or relating to animals.
- animal instincts
- Raw, base, unhindered by social codes.
- animal passions
- Pertaining to the spirit or soul; relating to sensation or innervation.
- 2003, To explain what activated the flesh, ‘animal spirits’ were posited, superfine fluids which shuttled between the mind and the vitals, conveying messages and motion. — Roy Porter, Flesh in the Age of Reason (Penguin 2004, p. 47)
- (slang, Ireland) Excellent.
Synonyms
Translations
of animals
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- Italian: animale (it)
- Kurdish: حهیوانی
- Latin: animalis (la)
- Malay: binatang (ms), haiwan (ms)
- Norwegian: animalisk (no), dyrisk (no)
- Persian: حیوانی (heyvâni)
- Polish: zwierzęcy (pl)
- Portuguese: animal (pt) m. and f.
- Romanian: animal (ro), animalice (ro)
- Russian: звериный (ru) (zverínyj) m.
- Slovak: zvierací m.
- Slovene: živálski (sl)
- Spanish: animal (es)
- Swahili: kinyama (sw), mifugo (sw)
- Swedish: djurisk (sv)
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unhindered by social codes
of soul
Derived terms
See also
Anagrams
Asturian
Noun
animal m. (plural animales)
- animal
Catalan
Pronunciation
Noun
animal m. (plural animals)
- animal
Adjective
animal m. and f. (plural animals)
- animal
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin animal, animalis.
Pronunciation
Noun
animal m. (plural animaux)
- animal
Synonyms
Derived terms
Adjective
animal m. (f. animale, m. plural animaux, f. plural animales)
- animal
Synonyms
Antonyms
Anagrams
Galician
Noun
animal m. (plural animais)
- animal
Haitian Creole
Etymology
From French animal, from Latin animal.
Noun
animal
- animal
Synonyms
Interlingua
Pronunciation
Noun
animal (plural animales)
- animal
Latin
Etymology
From anima (“breath, life”)
Noun
animal (genitive animālis); n, third declension
- animal
- living creature
Inflection
Synonyms
Related terms
Descendants
Middle French
Noun
animal m. (plural animaux or animaulx)
- animal
Synonyms
Portuguese
Etymology
From Latin animal, animalis.
Pronunciation
Noun
animal m. (plural animais)
- animal
Adjective
animal m. and f. (plural animais; comparable)
- Or or relating to animals; animal.
- (slang) cool; nice
Inflection
Inflection of the Portuguese adjective animal
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singular |
plural |
| masculine |
feminine |
masculine |
feminine |
| positive |
animal |
animais |
| comparative |
mais animal |
mais animais |
| superlative |
o mais animal
animalíssimo |
a mais animal
animalíssima |
os mais animais
animalíssimos |
as mais animais
animalíssimas |
Romanian
Etymology
From Latin animalis through French animal.
Adjective
animal 4 nom/acc forms
- animal, animalistic
- brutal
Declension
declension of
animal
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singular |
plural |
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masculine |
neuter |
feminine |
masculine |
neuter |
feminine |
| nominative/
accusative |
indefinite |
animal |
animală |
animali |
animale |
| definite |
animalul |
animala |
animalii |
animalele |
| genitive/
dative |
indefinite |
animal |
animale |
animali |
animale |
| definite |
animalului |
animalei |
animalilor |
animalelor |
Adverb
animal
- brutally
Noun
animal n. (plural animale)
- animal
Declension
declension of animal
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singular |
plural |
| gender n. |
indefinite articulation |
definite articulation |
indefinite articulation |
definite articulation |
| nominative/accusative |
un animal |
animalul |
niște animale |
animalele |
| genitive/dative |
unui animal |
animalului |
unor animale |
animalelor |
Romansch
Etymology
From Latin animal.
Noun
animal m. (plural animals)
- (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Surmiran, Vallader) animal
Synonyms
Spanish
Etymology
From Latin animal, animalis.
Noun
animal m. (plural animales)
- animal
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