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English
A common raccoon (Procyon lotor A raccoon raiding a bird feeder at night.
Etymology
From arocoun Powhatan ärähkun ärähkuněm ( “ he scratches with his hands ” ) .
Pronunciation
Noun
raccoon (plural raccoons
An omnivorous , nocturnal mammal native to North America , typically with a mixture of gray, brown, and black fur , a mask-like marking around the eyes and a striped tail; Procyon lotor 1624 Iohn Smith , The Generall Historie of Virginia, New-England, and the Summer Isles: [ … ] [ … ] I[ ohn] D[ awson] and I[ ohn] H[ aviland] for Michael Sparkes, →OCLC (please specify |book=1 to 6) ; reprinted in The Generall Historie of Virginia, [...] (Bibliotheca Americana), Cleveland, Oh.: The World Publishing Company , 1966 , →OCLC Before a fire upon a seat like a bedsted, he sat covered with a great robe, made of Rarowcun skinnes, and all the tayles hanging by.
1634 New Englands Prospect. A True, Lively, and Experimentall Description of that Part of America, Commonly Called New England; [ … ] , London: [ … ] Tho[ mas] Cotes , for Iohn Bellamie , [ … ] →OCLC page 22 :The Rackoone is a deepe furred beaſt, not much unlike a Badger, having a tayle like a Fox, as good meate as a Lambe; there is one of them in the Tovver.
2010 April 3, Charlie Brooker, “Screen Burn”, in The Guardian :Thus we're presented with [ …] a man who has the head of his penis bitten off by a raccoon , then bleeds to death in a forest.
Any mammal of the genus Procyon
Any mammal of the subfamily Procyoninae procyonine .
Any mammal of the family Procyonidae procyonid .
( loosely , proscribed ) mammal superficially resembling a raccoon, such as a raccoon dog .
Synonyms
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Translations
northern raccoon rangenocturnal omnivore living in North America, Procyon lotor
Afrikaans: wasbeer wasbeertjie
Amharic: ሩኖ ( runo )
Apache:
Western Apache: tulį
Arabic: رَاكُون m ( rākūn )
Armenian: ջրարջ (hy) ( ǰrarǰ ) , ջրարջ սովորական ( ǰrarǰ sovorakan )
Aymara: jaguachini
Azerbaijani: yenot (az) , xəz (az)
Basque: mapatxe
Belarusian: яно́т m ( janót )
Bulgarian: ено́т (bg) m ( enót ) , миеща мечка f ( miešta mečka )
Burmese: ရက်ကွန်းဝံ ( rakkwan:wam )
Catalan: os rentador m
Catawba: tcigne
Cayuga: saːnoːʼ
Central Sierra Miwok: pátkajy-
Cherokee: ᎬᎵ ( gvli ) , ᎬᏟ ( gvtli )
Cheyenne: matšėškōme
Chickasaw: shawi
Chinese:
Cantonese: 浣熊 ( wun5 hung4 )
Mandarin: 浣熊 (zh) ( huànxióng )
Choctaw: shaui
Chol: 'ejmech
Cocopa: nymaṣ
Creek: wotko
Czech: mýval (cs) m
Danish: vaskebjørn (da) c
Dutch: wasbeer (nl) m
Esperanto: lav-urso prociono
Estonian: pesukaru (et)
Faroese: tváttarbjørn f
Finnish: pesukarhu (fi) , supi (fi)
French: ( more exactly ) raton laveur commun m ( less exactly ) raton laveur (fr) m chaoui (fr) m ( Louisiana ) , chat sauvage (fr) m ( Quebec ) , chat-chouage (fr) m ( Missouri )
Galician: mapache (gl) m
Georgian: ენოტი ( enoṭi )
German: Waschbär (de) m ( obsolete ) Schupp (de) m Pennsylvania German: Ragguune
Greek: ρακούν (el) ( rakoún )
Hawaiian: lakuna
Hebrew: דְּבִיבוֹן (he) m ( dvivón ) , רָקוּן (he) m ( raqún )
Hindi: रैकून m ( raikūn )
Hungarian: mosómedve (hu)
Icelandic: þvottabjörn (is) m
Ido: ratono (io)
Indonesian: rakun
Irish: racún m
Italian: procione (it) m orsetto lavatore m
Japanese: アライグマ (ja) ( araiguma ) , 洗熊 (ja) ( araiguma )
K'iche': kʼas
Kansa: mikká
Kazakh: жанат ( janat )
Klamath-Modoc: wacgin'a
Koasati: sawi
Korean: 아메리카너구리 ( Amerikaneoguri ) , 미국너구리 (ko) ( Migungneoguri )
Kumyk: хас ( xas )
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: ڕاکوون ( rakûn )
Kyrgyz: жанат (ky) ( janat )
Lakota: wičhítegleǧa wičhá
Lao: ໜູລ້າງນ້ຳ ( nū lāng nam ) , ໝີລ້າງນ້ຳ ( mī lāng nam ) , ແລກຄູນ ( lǣk khūn )
Latvian: jenots
Lithuanian: meškėnas
Louisiana Creole French: shawi
Lutshootseed: bəlúps
Luxembourgish: Wäschbier (lb) m
Macedonian: раку́н m ( rakún )
Malay: rakun
Mi'kmaq: amaljugwej anim amaljigwej anim
Miskito: suksuk
Mohawk: atí:ron
Montana Salish: mhuyeʔ
Munsee: é·span
Navajo: tábąąh mąʼii
Nez Perce: k'ayk'áyoc
Norwegian: vaskebjørn m
Occitan: raton lavaire (oc) m
Ojibwe: ᐁᐦᓯᐸᓐ anim ( esiban )
Osage: mį́hkaa
Pawnee: icat
Persian: راکون (fa) ( râkon )
Polish: szop (pl) m anim
Portuguese: guaxinim m
Powhatan: ärähkun
Quechua: chincha mayuatu
Romanian: raton (ro) m ursuleț spălător (ro) m
Russian: ено́т (ru) m ( jenót )
Scottish Gaelic: mathan-nighe m
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: ракун m
Roman: rakun (sh) m
Slovak: mýval m
Slovene: rakun (sl) m
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: šup m
Upper Sorbian: šup m
Southern Ohlone: SaSran
Spanish: mapache (es) m oso lavador (es) m zorra manglera f gato manglatero m mapachín (es) m
Squamish: mélalus
Swedish: tvättbjörn (sv) c
Tagalog: mapatse
Thai: แร็กคูน ( rɛ́k-kuun )
Turkish: rakun (tr)
Turkmen: ýanot
Ukrainian: єно́т m ( jenót )
Unami: nahënëm
Uzbek: rakun
Vietnamese: gấu mèo (vi) , gấu trúc Mỹ
Volapük: räkun
Welsh: racŵn m
Wintu: qarilit
Yiddish: שאָפּ m ( shop ) , יענאָט m ( yenot )
Yucatec Maya: kʼuluʼ
any mammal of the genus Procyon
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Armenian: ջրարջ (hy) ( ǰrarǰ )
Chinese:
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Esperanto: ( member of genus ) prociono
Finnish: pesukarhu (fi)
Russian: please add this translation if you can
Swedish: tvättbjörn (sv) c
any mammal of the subfamily Procyoninae
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Chinese:
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Esperanto: ( member of subfamily ) procioneno
Finnish: supimainen
French: ( member of subfamily ) procyoniné m
Russian: please add this translation if you can
Swedish: halvbjörn (sv) c
any mammal of the family Procyonidae
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Chinese:
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Esperanto: ( member of family ) procionedo (eo)
Finnish: puolikarhu
French: ( member of family ) procyonidé (fr) m
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Swedish: halvbjörn (sv)
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