monitor lizard

English

Etymology

Perhaps from their habit of standing on their hind legs and appearing to study (i.e. monitor) their surroundings.

Noun

monitor lizard (plural monitor lizards)

Any of various large lizards of the family Varanidae, all of whose extant species are of genus Varanus, native to Africa, Asia and Australia, that are carnivorous.

Translations

lizard of the genus Varanus

Arabic: وَرَل‎ m (waral)
Assamese: গুঁই (gũi), গুঁই সাপ (gũi xap)
Bau Bidayuh: biowak
Belarusian: вара́н m (varán)
Bengali: গুই সাপ (gui sap), গুইসাপ (guisap), গোসাপ (gosap)
Bulgarian: вара́н (bg) m (varán)
Catalan: varà (ca) m
Central Melanau: kelibui, alou
Chichewa: gondwa
Chinese:
Mandarin: 巨蜥 (zh) (jùxī)
Czech: varan m
Danish: varan c
Dutch: varaan (nl) m
Esperanto: varano
Estonian: varaan
Finnish: varaani (fi)
French: varan (fr) m, goanna (fr) f
German: Waran (de) m
Hebrew: כּוֹחַ‎ (he) m (kóaẖ)
Hindi: गोह (hi) m (goh)
Hungarian: varánusz (hu)
Ido: varano (io)
Indonesian: biawak (id)
Irish: laghairt mhonatóra f
Italian: varano (it)
Japanese: オオトカゲ (ja) (ōtokage), 大蜥蜴 (おおとかげ, ōtokage)
Kalmyk: мигүл (migül)
Kazakh: кесел (kesel)

Korean: 왕도마뱀 (ko) (wangdomabaem)
Latvian: varāns m
Lithuanian: varanas m
Luo: ng'ech
Macedonian: варан m (varan)
Malay: biawak
Persian: بزمجه‎ (fa) (bozmajje, bozmaje)
Polish: waran (pl) m
Portuguese: varano m, lagarto-monitor m, monitor (pt) m
Punjabi: ਗੋਹ m (goh)
Russian: вара́н (ru) m (varán)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: варан m

Roman: varan (sh) m
Shor: қомдат
Slovak: varan (sk) m
Slovene: varan m
Spanish: varano
Sundanese: bayawak (su)
Swahili: kenge
Swedish: varan (sv)
Tagal Murut: andaatan
Tagalog: bayawak
Thai: เหี้ย (th) (hîia)
Ukrainian: вара́н (uk) m (varán)
Vietnamese: kì đà
West Coast Bajau: paang
Wolof: mbag mi

See also

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