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Anonymous04/01/26, 18:36No.5113073
share some animal names that sound funny when translated from your own language
in danish a bat is called flagermus
translated that would be a flappy mouse
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Anon04/01/26, 19:08No.5113080
pic unrelated?
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Anon04/01/26, 20:13No.5113099
For the umpteenth time I've mentioned this on this board, "owl" in Mandarin is maotouying: cat head eagle.
Another fun one is penguin: chi e. Literally "tiptoe goose".
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Anon04/01/26, 22:46No.5113145
in polish there are many funny scientific names for different insects and spiders. First you give them a cute-sounding first name followed by stupid epithet - like "psotnik zakamarnik" which literally means "troublemaker corner dude"
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Anon04/02/26, 10:12No.5113246
here we call tarantulas literal bird-spiders
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Anon04/02/26, 12:01No.5113268
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Anon04/05/26, 10:54No.5114130
Spider is 蜘蛛
It comes from the character 蜘 meaning spider and the character 蛛 meaning spider.
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Anon04/05/26, 14:00No.5114154
In Norwegian a bat is called a 'flaggermus', translated that would- Oh.I recently learned that the Norwegian word "dyr" (animal) and the English word "deer" both come from the same etymological roots dating back to prehistory. It was one of the first sounds our ancestors made, and it means "animal". Which means that the sound Northern Europeans used when they saw an animal that was not the same kind of animal they said they'd say [d:yr]! Which is cute to imagine. But furthermore it means the word 'regnsdyr' (reindeer) is composed of the words 'horned' and 'animal'. Which is also a very old word and thus reasonably means that ancient cavepeople saw "an animal" and thought that was worth pointing out, but then also some animals with horns, and thought that was worth pointing out as well.However like much fun trivia this is probably not true, but I will still state is fact because the world needs more fun stories about animal names.
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Anon04/05/26, 14:16No.5114156
Microscopic coal
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Anon04/05/26, 14:21No.5114158
Tits lol
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Anon04/05/26, 19:24No.5114225
Florida, Connecticut, Maryland, and... Minnesota? With Norway as her big sis? What is this image. what is the relevance
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Anon04/07/26, 20:00No.5114832
In Sweden we call this the DOOM LORD.
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Anon04/07/26, 20:15No.5114837
the french word for bat is "bald-mouse"
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Anon04/07/26, 22:46No.5114884
Slipper animal, except english doesn't have a diminuitive form for 'animal'. Slipper animal-chan would be the weeb form, I suppose.
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Anon04/09/26, 11:12No.5115247
obligatory
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Anon04/09/26, 12:49No.5115266
In English we call anteaters "anteaters" which just means guy who eats ants
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Anon04/09/26, 15:18No.5115285
The word for bat in French is chauve-souris, which means bald mouse, and it pisses me off because I can't imagine seeing a flying rat for the first time and thinking its most novel feature is being kind of baldish and not the fact that it fucking flies.Also honorable mention to the french word for bird, oiseau, and while it's a perfectly fine word it's just written in a silly "cram as much silent letters in there as possible" way. It's pronounced like wazoo and you'd never guess its spelling.
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Anon04/09/26, 16:57No.5115296
In english, we call flying mice “bats” which makes no sense out of context. But in context, it’s clearly a reference to the old sport of hitting bats with clubs (that is, with a bat), a direct ancestor to cricket, itself so named because crickets were dangled from strings to lure in the batters next victim.
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Anon04/09/26, 17:50No.5115310
It's not my native lang but I think Croatian for shark is "morski pas" which means "sea dog". I noticed it when watching Jaws in Croatia, was funny as fuck.
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Anon04/13/26, 20:31No.5116255
When the Giraffe was first brought to China it was believed to be a mythical qilin, resulting in most asian languages naming Giraffes after qilins or some derivative.
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Anon04/14/26, 00:22No.5116283
I met an old man in Texas who referred to pocket gophers as "salamanders". It confused the hell out of me, and I came to learn that it's supposedly a bastardization of "sand mounder"
pic unrelated.
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Anon04/16/26, 01:32No.5116617
>dog
"dog"! lmao
can you im-fucking-agine?
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Anon04/18/26, 13:55No.5117239
What I can surmise from this thread is that english is the only language that actually thinks bats are novel enough to have a distinct name instead of just naming them after something else
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Anon04/19/26, 00:34No.5117360
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Anon04/19/26, 14:12No.5117468
In ebonics we call crows little niggas
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Anon04/25/26, 17:55No.5119135
My uncle once told me Polynesians say "shouting pig" for dog
Puakāoa
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Anon04/25/26, 17:56No.5119136
Also in Lakota "horse" translates to "holy dog"
Šuŋkawakaŋ
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Anon05/09/26, 20:28No.5123393
Here's some Romanian onesTurtle = Broască țestoasă = Shelled frog
Porcupine = Porc-spinos = Thorny pig
Ladybug = Buburuză = Little bump
Dragonfly = Calul dracului = The devil's horse
Bat = Liliac = Lilac
Cockroach = Gândacul de bucătărie = Kitchen beetle
Lynx = Râs = Laugh