mårhund

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From mår (“marten”) +‎ hund (“dog”).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /²moːrhʊnd/, /²moːrhʉnd/

Noun

mårhund m (definite singular mårhunden, indefinite plural mårhundar, definite plural mårhundane)

  1. a raccoon dog Nyctereutes procyonoides
    • 1990, Lars Amund Vaage (translated from Markus Kappeler) "Hunden":
      I 1928 begynte nemleg fagfolk planmessig å setja ut mårhund i europeisk Russland for å jakta på han.
      Because in 1928, experts started systematically releasing the raccoon dog into the wild in European Russia in order to hunt it.

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