# guanaco
## English

Wikispecies

### Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish guanaco, from Quechua wanaku.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɡwəˈnɑːkəʊ/
** Audio (Southern England):(file)

### Noun

guanaco (plural guanacos or guanacoes)
* A South American ruminant (Lama guanicoe), closely related to the other lamoids, the alpaca, llama, and vicuña in the family Camelidae.

#### Synonyms

* (obsolete) Auchenia huanaco

#### Hypernyms

* camelid

#### Hyponyms

* chulengo (a young guanaco)

#### Coordinate terms

* (Camelids) camelid; camel (dromedary, Bactrian camel), llama, guanaco, alpaca, vicuna/vicuña

#### Descendants

* → Irish: guanacó

#### Translations
## Danish
### Alternative forms

* guanako

### Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish guanaco, from Quechua wanaku.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ɡuaˈnɑɡo]

### Noun

guanaco c (singular definite guanacoen, plural indefinite guanacoer)
* guanaco (a South American ruminant (Lama guanicoe), closely related to the other lamoids, the alpaca, llama, and vicuña in the family Camelidae)

#### Inflection
### Further reading

* “guanaco” in Den Danske Ordbog

## Dutch
### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Noun

guanaco m (plural guanaco's, diminutive guanacootje n)
* guanaco (a South American ruminant (Lama guanicoe), closely related to the other lamoids, the alpaca, llama, and vicuña in the family Camelidae)

## French
### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Noun

guanaco m (plural guanacos)
* guanaco (a South American ruminant (Lama guanicoe), closely related to the other lamoids, the alpaca, llama, and vicuña in the family Camelidae)

### Further reading

* “guanaco”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

## Italian
### Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish guanaco, from Quechua wanaku.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɡwaˈna.ko/
* Rhymes: -ako
* Hyphenation: gua‧nà‧co

### Noun

guanaco m (plural guanachi)
* guanaco (a South American ruminant (Lama guanicoe), closely related to the other lamoids, the alpaca, llama, and vicuña in the family Camelidae)
    Hypernym: camelide

### Further reading

* guanaco on the Italian Wikipedia.Wikipedia $^{it}$
* guanaco in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
* guanaco in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication

## Portuguese
### Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish guanaco, from Quechua wanaku.

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ɡwaˈna.ku/
* (Brazil) IPA: /ɡwaˈna.ku/
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /ɡwaˈna.ko/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ɡwɐˈna.ku/
* Hyphenation: gua‧na‧co

### Noun

guanaco m (plural guanacos)
* guanaco (a South American ruminant (Lama guanicoe), closely related to the other lamoids, the alpaca, llama, and vicuña in the family Camelidae)

#### Coordinate terms

* alpaca
* camelo
* dromedário
* guanaco
* lhama / lama
* vicunha

### References

* ↑ “guanaco”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
* ↑ “guanaco”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

## Spanish
### Alternative forms

* huanaco

### Etymology

Borrowed from Quechua wanaku.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɡwaˈnako/ [ɡwaˈna.ko]
* Audio (Peru):(file)
* Rhymes: -ako
* Syllabification: gua‧na‧co

### Noun

guanaco m (plural guanacos)
* guanaco (a South American ruminant (Lama guanicoe), closely related to the other lamoids, the alpaca, llama, and vicuña in the family Camelidae)
* (colloquial, Chile) water cannon used for riot control
* (colloquial, El Salvador) Salvadoran

#### Hyponyms

* chulengo (young guanaco)

#### Coordinate terms

* (Camelids) camélido; camello (dromedario, camello bactriano), llama, guanaco, alpaca, vicuña

#### Descendants

* → Dutch: guanaco
* → English: guanaco
** → Irish: guanacó
* → French: guanaco
* → Italian: guanaco
* → Portuguese: guanaco
* → Danish: guanaco

### Adjective

guanaco (feminine guanaca, masculine plural guanacos, feminine plural guanacas)
* (colloquial, Central America) Salvadoran, pertaining to El Salvador
    Synonyms: salvadoreño, cuscatleco

### Further reading

* “guanaco”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10