# crocodile
## English
### Pronunciation

* (General American) IPA: /ˈkɹɑkədaɪl/, [ˈkʰɹɑkədaɪɫ]
* (UK) IPA: /ˈkɹɒkədaɪl/
** Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Hyphenation: croc‧o‧dile

### Etymology 1

From Middle English cocodrill, cokadrill, cokedril, from Old French cocodril (modern French crocodile), from Medieval Latin cocodrillus, from Latin crocodilus, from Ancient Greek κροκόδειλος (krokódeilos). The word was later refashioned after the Latin and Greek forms. Doublet of krokodil and sugar.

#### Noun

crocodile (plural crocodiles)
* Any of the predatory amphibious reptiles of the family Crocodylidae; (loosely) a crocodilian, any species of the order Crocodilia, which also includes the alligators, caimans and gavials.
** 2005, Mwelwa Musambachime, Basic Facts on Zambia, page 97:Industrial and rural expansion is shrinking and destroying the Nile crocodile's natural habitat. The Nile crocodiles, in particular, have been a source of highly durable leather for a variety of products which can be crafted and manufactured.
** 2008, Walkter B. Wood, “Chapter 16: Forensic Identification in Fatal Crocodile Attacks”, in Marc Oxenham, editor, Forensic Approaches to Death, Disaster and Abuse, page 244:Two species of crocodile inhabit Australian waterways: (a) the saltwater Crocodile — Crocodylus porosus, and (b) the freshwater crocodile — Crocodylus johnstoni.
** 2011, Sam Thaker, The Crocodile's Teeth, page 31:One contained some brightly-coloured tropical birds, one a python and the other a large and very lively crocodile. I told the customer that the boxes containing the crocodile and the python were not packed to my satisfaction, as there were not enough nails securing them.
* A long line or procession of people (especially children) walking together.
** 1939, George Orwell, Coming Up for Air, part 2, chapter 8:Sometimes the kids from the slap-up boys' schools in Eastbourne used to be led round in crocodiles to hand out fags and peppermint creams to the 'wounded Tommies', as they called us.
* (logic) A fallacious dilemma, mythically supposed to have been first used by a crocodile.
** 1798, Maria Edgeworth, Practical Education:We have seen syllogisms, crocodiles, enthymemas, sorites, &c. explained and tried upon a boy of nine or ten years old in playful conversation […]

##### Synonyms

* (predatory amphibious reptile): croc (informal)

##### Derived terms

* after a while, crocodile
* American crocodile (Crocodylus acutus)
* Australian freshwater crocodile (Crocodylus johnstoni)
* black crocodile (Crocodylus niloticus madagascariensis)
* Chinese crocodile lizard (Shinisaurus crocodilurus)
* crocodile bird (Pluvianus aegyptius)
* crocodile clip
* crocodiledom
* crocodilelike
* crocodile shear
* crocodile tears
* crocodility
* crocoduck
* Cuban crocodile (Crocodylus rhombifer)
* dwarf crocodile (Osteolaemus tetraspis)
* estuarine crocodile (Crocodylus porosus)
* freshwater crocodile (Crocodylus johnstoni)
* in a while, crocodile
* Indo-Pacific crocodile (Crocodylus porosus)
* Johnston's crocodile (Crocodylus johnstoni)
* marsh crocodile (Crocodylus palustris)
* Mindoro crocodile (Crocodylus mindorensis)
* Morelet's crocodile (Crocodylus moreletii)
* mugger crocodile (Crocodylus palustris)
* New Guinea crocodile (Crocodylus novaeguineae)
* Nile crocodile (Crocodylus niloticus)
* Orinoco crocodile (Crocodylus intermedius)
* Philippine crocodile, Philippine freshwater crocodile (Crocodylus mindorensis)
* saltwater crocodile (Crocodylus porosus)
* Siamese crocodile (Crocodylus siamensis)
* slender-snouted crocodile (Mecistops spp.)
* swamp crocodile (Crocodylus palustris)
* werecrocodile

##### Related terms

* crocodilian

##### Descendants

* → Maori: kokorotaera, karakotaera
* → Niuean: kirokotaili
* → Tokelauan: kolokotaila
* → Tongan: kalokataile
* → Welsh: crocodeil

##### Translations

Acehnese: buya
Afrikaans: krokodil (af)
Akan: ɔdɛnkyɛm
Aklanon: boaya
Albanian: krokodil (sq) m
Amharic: አዞ (ʾäzo)
Arabic: تِمْسَاح (ar) m (timsāḥ)
Chadian Arabic: تمساح m (tumsāh)
Egyptian Arabic: تمساح m (temsāḥ)
Juba Arabic: timsaa
Aragonese: crocodilo m
Armenian: կոկորդիլոս (hy) (kokordilos)
Old Armenian: նհանգ (nhang), կոկորդիղոս (kokordiłos)
Assamese: ঘঁৰিয়াল (ghõrial), মগৰ (mogor)
Asturian: cocodrilu (ast) m
Azerbaijani: timsah (az)
Barein: màrà
Basque: krokodilo (eu)
Bau Bidayuh: buai
Belarusian: кракадзі́л m (krakadzíl)
Bemba: íñ-ñandú
Bengali: কুমীর (bn) (kumir)
Bhojpuri: मगरमच्छ (magarᵊmacch)
Biatah Bidayuh: bu'ai
Breton: krokodil m
Brunei Malay: buaya
Bulgarian: крокоди́л (bg) m (krokodíl)
Burmese: မိကျောင်း (my) (mi.kyaung:)
Catalan: crocodil (ca) m cocodril (ca) m (hispanism)
Cebuano: buaya
Central Dusun: buayo
Central Melanau: baya, atip
Chechen: вок (vok)
Chichewa: ng'ona
Chinese:
Cantonese: 鱷魚 / 鳄鱼 (ngok$^6$ jyu$^4$)
Dungan: фищя (fixi͡a), щя (xi͡a)
Mandarin: 鱷魚 / 鳄鱼 (zh) (èyú), 鰐 / 鳄 (zh) (è)
Coptic: ⲉⲙⲥⲁϩ (emsah)
Cornish: krokodil m
Corsican: cuccudrillu
Crimean Tatar: timsah
Czech: krokodýl (cs) m
Dangaleat: maara
Danish: krokodille (da) c
Defaka: sako
Dutch: krokodil (nl)
Ega: ɔ̀wà, ɛkpakɛ́
Egyptian: (dpy m), (mzḥ m), (ꜣdw m), (kꜣpw m)
Ekpeye: ọnụbà
Esperanto: krokodilo (eo)
Estonian: krokodill (et)
Farefare: ẽbga
Faroese: krokodilla f
Fataluku: lavei
Finnish: krokotiili (fi), krokodiili (old)
French: crocodile (fr) m
Old French: cocodril m
Friulian: crocodîl m
Galician: crocodilo (gl) m
Georgian: ნიანგი (niangi)
German: Krokodil (de) n
Greek: κροκόδειλος (el) m (krokódeilos)
Ancient: κροκόδειλος m (krokódeilos)
Greenlandic: kuukkooriarsuaq
Guaraní: jakare
Gujarati: મગર (gu) (magar)
Gwere: ngoona
Haitian Creole: kwokodil
Hausa: kada (ha)
Hebrew: תַּנִּין (he) m (tanín)
Higaonon: bu-aya
Hindi: मगर (hi) m (magar), घड़ियाल (hi) m (ghaṛiyāl), मगरमच्छ (hi) m (magarmacch)
Hungarian: krokodil (hu)
Hunsrik: Krokodill m
Ibani: siki
Icelandic: krókódíll (is) m
Ido: krokodilo (io)
Igbo: agụ iyi (ig)
Indonesian: buaya (id)
Ingrian: krokodila
Interlingua: crocodilo
Iranun: buaya
Irish: crogall (ga) m
Irula: மொஜலெ (mojale)
Italian: coccodrillo (it) m
Japanese: 鰐 (ja) (ワニ, wani)
Javanese: baya (jv)
Kabiyé: kazayaɣ
Kalmyk: матр (matr)
Kannada: ಮೊಸಳೆ (kn) (mosaḷe)
Kanuri: káram
Kapampangan: dapu
Karachay-Balkar: (Karachay) сарыубек (sarıubek), (Balkar) сарыуек (sarıuyek)
Karekare: kàràm
Kashmiri: مَگَر مَژھ (magar maċh)
Kazakh: қолтырауын (qoltyrauyn)
Khmer: ក្រពើ (km) (krɑpəə)
Kikuyu: kĩng'ang'i class 7
Kimaragang: buayo
Kirike: sekií
Kongo: ngandu
Korean: 악어(鱷魚) (ko) (ageo)
Kuna: tain
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: neheng (ku)
Kyrgyz: крокодил (krokodil)
Lagwan: mɨdɨge
Lao: ແຂ້ (lo) (khǣ), ຈໍຣະເຂ້ (chǭ ra khē), ຈະເຂ້ (cha khē), ຈີ່ແຂ້ (chī khǣ), ກຸມພີ (kum phī)
Latin: crocodilus (la) m, corcodillus m
Latvian: krokodils m
Lingala: ngando class 1a/2
Lithuanian: krokodilas m
Luba-Kasai: ngandù class 1/4
Luo: nyang'
Luxembourgish: Krokodil n
Macedonian: крокодил m (krokodil)
Makasae: lawahae
Malagasy: voay (mg), mamba (mg)
Malay: buaya (ms)
Malayalam: മുതല (ml) (mutala)
Maltese: kukkudrill m
Manx: croggyl m
Maori: kokorotaera, karakotaera (mi), kumi ihuroa
Marathi: मगर f (magar)
Meru: king'ang'i
Minangkabau: buayo (min)
Miriwung: joowinyin
Mon: ကျာံ (mnw)
Mongolian: матар (mn) (matar)
Moore: yẽbga
Mopan Maya: ʼayin
Motu: uala
Muyang: kurmba
Navajo: táłkááʼ tsʼin
Nawdm: kaseegu
Niuean: kirokotaili
Njyem: nkɛn
Nogai: алаван (alavan)
Northern Sami: please add this translation if you can
Norwegian:
Bokmål: krokodille (no) m or f
Nynorsk: krokodille m or f
Occitan: crocodil (oc) m
Odia: ମଗର (or) (magara)
Okordia: igẽrẽ
Old High German: nihhus
Oromo: naacha
Ottoman Turkish: تمساح (timsah), نهنگ (neheng)
Pali: suṃsumāra m
Mon: ကုမ္ဘိလ m (kumbhila)
Pashto: تمساح (ps) m (tamsãh), غروی m (ǧárway), سنګساره f (sagsārá) (alligator or crocodile)
Persian: تمساح (fa) (temsâh), کروکودیل (fa) (krokodil), نهنگ (fa) (nahang) (archaic), کرتن کله (kartankalle)
Plautdietsch: Kruckedell m
Polish: krokodyl (pl) m
Portuguese: crocodilo (pt) m
Punjabi: ਮਗਰ m (magar), ਮਗਰਮੱਛ m (magramaccha), ਘੜਿਆਲ m (ghaṛiāla)
Romanian: crocodil (ro)
Russian: крокоди́л (ru) m (krokodíl)
Samoan: kolokotaila
Scottish Gaelic: crogall m
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: крокодил m
Roman: krokodil (sh) m
Sinhalese: කිඹුල් (kiᵐbul)
Slovak: krokodíl (sk) m
Slovene: krokodil (sl) m
Somali: yaxaas (so)
Spanish: cocodrilo (es) m, crocodilo (es) m
Sundanese: ᮘᮥᮠᮚ (buhaya)
Swahili: mamba (sw), ngwena (sw) class 9/10
Swazi: íngwenya (ss)
Swedish: krokodil (sv) c
Tagalog: buwaya
Tajik: тимсоҳ (timsoh), крокодил (krokodil)
Tal: ƙut
Tamil: முதலை (ta) (mutalai)
Tatar: крокодил (kroqodil), тимсах (tt) (timsax)
Tausug: buaya
Telugu: మొసలి (te) (mosali)
Ternate: sama
Tetum: lafaek
Thai: จระเข้ (th) (jɔɔ-rá-kêe)
Tibetan: ཀུམ་བི་ར (kum bi ra)
Tigrinya: ሓርገጽ (ḥargäṣ)
Tok Pisin: pukpuk
Tokelauan: kolokotaila
Tswana: kwena (tn) class 9/10
Tumbuka: ng'wina
Turkish: timsah (tr)
Turkmen: krokodil
Ukrainian: крокоди́л (uk) m (krokodýl)
Urdu: مَگَرْمَچھ m (magarmach)
Uyghur: تىمساھ (timsah)
Uzbek: timsoh (uz), krokodil
Vietnamese: sấu (vi), cá sấu (vi)
Volapük: krokod (vo)
Walloon: crocodile (wa) m
Welsh: crocodeil m
West Coast Bajau: beliou, buoyo
West Frisian: krokodil c
White Hmong: khej
Wolof: jasig ji
Xhosa: ingwenya
Yakut: луобуйа (luobuya)
Yiddish: קראָקאָדיל m (krokodil)
Yoruba: ọ̀nì, ẹlẹ́gungùn
Zazaki: timsah c
Zulu: íngwenya (zu) :

### Etymology 2

Derived from the noun as a calque of Esperanto krokodili.

#### Verb

crocodile (third-person singular simple present crocodiles, present participle crocodiling, simple past and past participle crocodiled)
* (intransitive, slang) To speak another language than Esperanto at an Esperanto-language gathering.

##### Translations
### See also

* alligator
* caiman, cayman
* croc
* freshie, freshy
* gator
* gavial, gharial
* mugger
* saltie

### References

* crocodile on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
* Crocodylidae on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
* Category:Crocodylidae on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
* ↑ Hyphenation exception log, Barbara Beeton, 2015, online at

## French
### Etymology

From Old French cocodril, inherited from Latin crocodīlus with metathesis, later respelled to match the Latin form. Compare English crocodile, itself respelled from Middle English cocodrill.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kʁɔ.kɔ.dil/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

crocodile m (plural crocodiles)
* crocodile

#### Derived terms

* crocodile à double crête
* crocodile de mer
* crocodile marin
* larmes de crocodile

#### Related terms

* crocodilée
* crocodilien

#### Descendants

* Antillean Creole: krokodil
* Mauritian Creole: krokodil
* Seychellois Creole: krokodil
* → Romanian: crocodil
* → Persian: کروکودیل (krokodil)

### Further reading

* “crocodile”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
* “crocodile” in Émile Littré, Dictionnaire de la langue française, 1872–1877.

## Norman
### Etymology

From Old French cocodril, from Medieval Latin cocodrillus, from Classical Latin crocodilus, from Ancient Greek κροκόδειλος (krokódeilos).

### Noun

crocodile f (plural crocodiles)
* (Jersey) crocodile