# lizard
## English
### Etymology

From Middle English lesarde, lisarde, from Anglo-Norman lusard, from Old French lesard (compare French lézard), from Latin lacertus, which is of obscure origin. Displaced native Middle English aske, from Old English āþexe (> modern English ask, askard).

### Pronunciation

* (UK) IPA: /ˈlɪz.əd/
* (US) IPA: /ˈlɪz.ɚd/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɪzə(ɹ)d

### Noun

lizard (plural lizards)
* Any reptile of the order Squamata that is not a snake, mosasauroid, and to a lesser extent, an amphisbaenian, usually having four legs, external ear openings, movable eyelids and a long slender body and tail.
** a. 1823 (date written), Percy Bysshe Shelley, “Hymn of Pan”, in Mary W[ollstonecraft] Shelley, editor, Posthumous Poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley, London: […] [C. H. Reynell] for John and Henry L[eigh] Hunt, […], published 1824, →OCLC, page 169:The cicale above in the lime, / And the lizards below in the grass, / Were as silent as ever old Tmolus was, / Listening to my sweet pipings.
** 1851, John Ruskin, chapter XX, in The Stones of Venice, volume I (The Foundations), London: Smith, Elder, and Co., […], →OCLC, § XXX, pages 223–224:The forms of the serpent and lizard exhibit almost every element of beauty and horror in strange combination; […]
** 1895, J[ohn] W[esley] Powell, chapter I, in Canyons of the Colorado, Meadville, PA: Flood & Vincent; republished as The Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons, New York: Dover, 1961, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 22:Hooded rattlesnakes, horned toads, and lizards crawl in the dust and among the rocks.
* (chiefly in attributive use) Lizard skin, the skin of these reptiles.
** 1990 October 28, Paul Simon, “Proof”, in The Rhythm of the Saints, Warner Bros.:Silver bells jingling from your black lizard boots, my baby / Silver foil to trim your wedding gown
* (colloquial) An unctuous person.
* (colloquial) A coward.
* (rock paper scissors) A hand forming a "D" shape with the tips of the thumb and index finger touching (a handshape resembling a lizard), that beats paper and Spock and loses to rock and scissors in rock-paper-scissors-lizard-Spock.
* (in compounds) A person who idly spends time in a specified place, especially a promiscuous female.
    lounge lizard; lot lizard; beach lizard; truck stop lizard

#### Derived terms

* alderman lizard
* alligator lizard
* alpine meadow lizard
* basilisk lizard
* beaded lizard
* bearded lizard
* bleed the lizard
* blue-tongued lizard
* blue-tongue lizard
* bobtail lizard
* bunk lizard
* caiman lizard
* canteen lizard
* changeable lizard
* Chinese crocodile lizard
* collared lizard
* crib lizard
* dabb lizard
* draco lizard
* dragon lizard
* drain the lizard
* Eastwood's whip lizard
* fence lizard (Sceloporus undulatus)
* flying lizard (Draco spp.)
* frilled lizard
* frilled-neck lizard
* frilled neck lizard
* frill-necked lizard
* frilly lizard
* fringe-toed lizard
* fuck-you lizard
* glass lizard
* Goldman's bunchgrass lizard
* horned lizard
* house lizard
* Jesus lizard, Jesus Christ lizard
* Jew lizard (Pogona barbata)
* La Gomera giant lizard
* legless lizard (Pygopodidae spp.)
* leopard lizard
* lesbian lizard
* lion lizard
* lizard beetle
* lizard brain
* lizard brained, lizard-brained
* lizard catshark (Schroederichthys saurisqualus)
* lizard fish (Synodontidae spp.)
* lizard-folk
* lizard hawk (Kaupifalco monogrammicus)
* lizard man
* lizard orchid (Himantoglossum hircinum)
* lizard plant (Tetrastigma voinierianum)
* lizard-skin
* lizard snake (Thamnophis spp.)
* lizard-stone
* lizard tail (Saururus spp., Piper spp.)
* lot lizard
* lounge lizard, lounge-lizard
* mimic glass lizard
* monitor lizard
* Monte Cristo arboreal alligator lizard
* night lizard
* ocellated lizard
* pinecone lizard (Tiliqua rugosa)
* pine lizard (Sceloporus undulatus)
* pit lizard
* plated lizard
* regal horned lizard
* rock lizard
* sailfin lizard
* Saint Croix ground lizard
* sand lizard
* side-blotched lizard
* sleepy lizard (Tiliqua rugosa)
* snake lizard
* spectacled lizard
* spiny-tailed lizard
* star lizard
* stump-tailed lizard (Trachysaurus rugosus)
* Tenerife giant lizard
* Texas spiny lizard
* thunder lizard
* tree lizard (Urosaurus spp)
* viviparous lizard
* wall lizard
* Wegner's glass lizard
* western fence lizard
* woodlizard
* worm lizard (Amphisbaenia spp.)
* zebra-tailed lizard

#### Translations

Abenaki: kakadôlôgw
Adyghe: щыдырхъуае (śədərꭓʷaje), хьамплъыжь (ḥamplˢəź)
Afrikaans: akkedis (af)
Akan: ɔketew
Akkadian: 𒅴 𒋃 (ṣurārû)
Albanian: hardhucë (sq) f, hardhje (sq) f, hardhël m
Amharic: እንሽላሊት (ʾənšəlalit)
Arabic: سِحْلِيَّة f (siḥliyya), ضَبّ m (ḍabb), عَظَاءَة f (ʕaẓāʔa), بُرْص m (burṣ)
Egyptian Arabic: سِحْلِيَّة f (siḥliyya)
Hijazi Arabic: سَحْلِيَّة f (saḥliyya)
Iraqi Arabic: بريعصي f (bṛīʕṣi)
Lebanese Arabic: حردون f (ḥardown)
Moroccan Arabic: بوبريص m (būbrīṣ)
South Levantine Arabic: سَحْلِيَّة f (saḥliyye), حردون f (ḥardōn)
Aragonese: sargantana
Armenian: մողես (hy) (moġes)
Assamese: জেঠি (zethi)
Asturian: llagartesa (ast) f
Aymara: jararankha
Azerbaijani: kərtənkələ (az)
Bashkir: кеҫәртке (keśərtke)
Basque: musker
Bavarian: Adachsl (bar) n,adaxl (bar)(speeling variety),Eidachsl (bar)(West Central Bavarian)
Belarusian: я́шчарка (be) f (jáščarka)
Bengali: টিকটিকি (bn) (ṭikṭiki)
Bhojpuri: छिपकली (chipakᵊlī)
Breton: kazh-raden
Brunei Malay: cacak
Buginese: cica
Bulgarian: гу́щер (bg) m (gúšter)
Burmese: အိမ်မြှောင် (my) (imhmraung)
Buryat: гүрбэл (gürbel)
Catalan: llangardaix (ca) m, sargantana (ca) f
Catawba: wapiri
Chechen: моьлкъа (mölqʼa)
Cherokee: ᏙᏲᎯᎳ (doyohila), ᏘᏲᎭᎵ (tiyohali)
Chinese:
Cantonese: 蜥蜴 (sik$^1$ jik$^6$), 四腳蛇 / 四脚蛇 (sei$^3$ goek$^3$ se$^4$)
Dungan: шәчунзы (šəčunzɨ), шәмачунзы (šəmačunzɨ)
Eastern Min: 杜墊 / 杜垫 (dô-dâing)
Hakka: 狗嫲蛇 (kiéu-mà-sà), 山狗太 (sân-kiéu-thai), 蜥蜴 (sit-thit)
Hokkien: 蜥蜴 (sek-e̍k), 杜定 (zh-min-nan) (tō͘-tēng)
Mandarin: 蜥蜴 (zh) (xīyì)
Northern Min: 四跤蛇 (si̿-káu-ṳê)
Wu: 四腳蛇 / 四脚蛇
Xiang: 四腳蛇 / 四脚蛇 (si$^4$ jio$^6$ sha$^2$)
Chiricahua: ma’ishǫ́í
Chuvash: калта (kalt̬a)
Cornish: peswarpaw m, pajarpaw m, pedrevan f
Crimean Tatar: kesertki (northern dialect kesquyruq)
Czech: ještěrka (cs) f, ještěr (cs) m
Dalmatian: lačar f
Danish: firben (da) n, øgle (da) c
Daur: isel
Dutch: hagedis (nl) m
Dzongkha: ཙི་ཙི་དམརམོ (tsi tsi dmrmo)
Egyptian: (ꜥšꜣ m)
Elfdalian: ella f
Emilian: (Reggio Emilia) arzintèla f, (Bologna) lusért f, (Modena) luśèrta f
Erzya: метьказ (meťkaz)
Esperanto: lacerto (eo)
Estonian: sisalik (et)
Even: исэл (isəl)
Faroese: edla f, ødla f
Finnish: lisko (fi)
French: lézard (fr) m
Friulian: lisierte f
Gagauz: guşter
Galician: lagarto (gl) m, lagartixa f
Georgian: ხვლიკი (ka) (xvliḳi)
German: Eidechse (de) f (small), Echse (de) f
Alemannic German: Heidenëchsli n, Heidëchsli n, Aaideggs n
Greek: σαύρα (el) f (sávra)
Ancient: σαύρα f (saúra)
Greenlandic: sisamavilik
Guaraní: teju
Haitian Creole: leza
Hausa: ƙadangare
Hawaiian: moʻo
Hebrew: לְטָאָה (he) f (leta'á), חַרדוֹן (he) f (khardón)
Hiligaynon: tiki
Hindi: छिपकली (hi) f (chipkalī)
Hungarian: gyík (hu)
Icelandic: eðla (is) f
Ido: lacerto (io) m
Igbo: ugwere
Ilocano: alutiit
Indonesian: kadal (id)
Ingrian: suenliika, sysälikko
Ingush: шолкъ (šolqʼ)
Interlingua: lacerta
Irish: earc m, laghairt f
Italian: lucertola (it) f
Japanese: 蜥蜴 (ja) (とかげ, tokage), トカゲ (ja) (tokage)
Javanese: kadhal (jv)
Kalmyk: гүрвлдә (gürvldä)
Kanakanabu: tavincangai
Kannada: ಹಲ್ಲಿ (kn) (halli)
Kapampangan: lupisak
Karachay-Balkar: гургун (gurgun) (Balkar), кеселекке (keselekke) (Karachay)
Karakalpak: kesirtke
Kashmiri: کینٛکہٕ لٔٹ (kēnkụ lạṭ), کرٛینٛکہٕ لٔٹ (krēnkụ lạṭ)
Kayapó: êtuwa
Kazakh: кесіртке (kesırtke)
Ket: тульн
Khakas: килескі (kileskì)
Khiamniungan Naga: tshò
Khmer: ជីងចក់ (ciing cɑk)
Kikuyu: njagathi class 9
Klamath-Modoc: qiiɁa
Korean: 도마뱀 (ko) (domabaem)
Kumyk: гесертки (gesertki), гьалкъа (halqa)
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: مارمێلکە (ckb) (marmêlke)
Kyrgyz: кескелдирик (ky) (keskeldirik)
Lao: ກະປອມ (ka pǭm), ຈີ່ໂປ່ມ (chī pōm), ປອມຂາງ (pǭm khāng)
Latgalian: škierzlots
Latin: lacerta (la) f
Latvian: ķirzaka f
Laz: მთხოლარი (mtxolari)
Lezgi: чурчул (čurčul)
Ligurian: grîgoa
Limburgish: aektes (li) m
Lithuanian: dríežas m
Low German:
Dutch Low Saxon: evertaske (Gronings, Stellingwerfs), eveltasse (Drents, Twents)
German Low German: Adderditsch, Eerdditsch (Holstein), Eevtask, Evertasch
Luxembourgish: Eidechs f, Omes f
Macedonian: гуштер m (gušter)
Malagasy: androngo (mg)
Malay: cicak (ms)
Malayalam: പല്ലി (ml) (palli)
Maltese: wiżgħa f, gremxula f
Manx: jialgheer m
Maori: ngārara, ngaha, moko, kumukumu
Marathi: सरडा (sarḍā)
Mari:
Western Mari: шӓкшӓльӹ (šäkšäĺÿ)
Mauritian Creole: lezar
Mingrelian: ხვილარი (xvilari)
Mokilese: kiele, kijesik
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: гүрвэл (mn) (gürvel)
Muong: bang bổl
Nahuatl:
Central: cuetzpalin
Central Huasteca: ketspali
Classical: cuetzpalin
Nanai: исэлэн (iselen)
Nanticoke: oh!kaush-kiss
Navajo: naʼashǫ́ʼii
Neapolitan: lacierto m
Nepali: छेपारो (chepāro)
Newar: माय्‌बिलि (mæbili)
Norman: lêzarde f (Jersey)
Northern Sami: deaččalakkis
Northern Yukaghir: валудул (waludul)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: øgle m or f, firfisle m or f
Nynorsk: øgle f, firfisle f
Occitan: cernalha (oc) f, angròla (oc) f
Odia: ଝିଟିପିଟି (or) (jhiṭipiṭi)
Old Church Slavonic: ащеръ f (ašterŭ)
Old English: āþexe f
Old Saxon: egithassa f
Orok: эсилэ (əsilə)
Ossetian: гӕгкуыри (gægk°yri), гӕккуыритӕ (gækk°yritæ)
Pannonian Rusyn: ящурка f (jaščurka)
Papiamentu: lagadishi
Pashto: لټکه f (laṭᶕka)
Persian:
Dari: چَلْپَاسَه (čalpāsa)
Iranian Persian: مارْمولَک (mârmulak), سوسْمار (susmâr)
Piedmontese: lazerta f
Plautdietsch: Äajdakjs f, Äajdakjsel m
Polish: jaszczurka (pl) f
Portuguese: lagarto (pt) m
Punjabi: ਕਿਰਲੀ (pa) f (kirlī), کِرلی f (kirlī)
Q'eqchi: tolokok
Quechua: qaraywa, ararankha
Rapa Nui: moko
Romanian: șopârlă (ro) f
Romansch: lischerna f, luschard m
Russian: я́щерица (ru) f (jáščerica), я́щерка (ru) f (jáščerka) я́щер (ru) m (jáščer) (large one, including dinosaurs)
Samoan: mo'o
Samogitian: drėižā m
Sanskrit: मुषली (sa) (muṣalī)
Sardinian: tiligherta f, tilicherta f, tilicheta f, tziligherta f, lugesti, lucesti, lugestra, luxeta, atalighelte, atalighelta f, atiligherta f, cabixeta f, calaxerta f, calixerta f, caluxerta f
Scots: lizard
Scottish Gaelic: laghairt m or f, dearc-luachrach f
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: гу̏штер m
Roman: gȕšter (sh) m
Seychellois Creole: lezar
Shona: dzvinyu
Shor: келескин (keleskin)
Sicilian: gièrdula (scn) f, lucerta (scn) f, lucèrtula (scn) f
Silesian: jaszczurki f
Sinhalese: කටුස්සා (kaṭussā)
Slovak: jašter (sk) m, jašterica (sk) f
Slovene: kuščar (sl) m
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: jašćeŕ m, jašćerica f
Upper Sorbian: ješćelca f
Southern Altai: келескен (kelesken)
Spanish: lagarto (es) m, lagartija (es) f (small), chenca f (tailless)
Sranan Tongo: lagadisa
Svan: ჰა̈შდა̈კუ̂ (häšdäḳû)
Swahili: mjusi
Swedish: ödla (sv) c
Tagalog: butiki
Tajik: калтакалос (kaltakalos), калпеса (kalpesa)
Tamil: பல்லி (ta) (palli)
Taos: kʼùołàxenloʼóna
Tarifit: azermummu m, tazermummešt f, aḥarmšar m
Tatar: кәлтә (tt) (kältä)
Telugu: బల్లి (te) (balli)
Thai: กิ้งก่า (th) (gîng-gàa)
Tibetan: རྩངས་པ། (rtsangs pa)
Tigrinya: ጠበቕ (ṭäbäx̣)
Tongan: moko
Tsakhur: баӏнек (baˤnʲek), калез (kalʲez)
Tswana: kgatlampane
Turkish: kertenkele (tr)
Turkmen: kelpeze, suwulgan, hažžyk, paşlak (پاشلق، پاشلاق) (Yomut, Iran), as (tk) (small)
Tuvan: селеске (seleske)
Ukrainian: я́щірка (uk) f (jáščirka)
Urdu: چِھپْکَلی f (chipkalī)
Uyghur: كەسلەنچۈك (keslenchük)
Uzbek: kaltakesak (uz)
Venetan: luxèrta f, łuxèrtoła f, luxèrtola f, uxèrta f, oxèrtola f, lisarda f, ixèrdola f, risàrdoła f, ruxèrtola f, bisèrgoła f, tarantèla f, marisangola f
Vietnamese: thằn lằn (vi)
Vilamovian: edikjys n
Volapük: lasär (vo)
Walloon: cwarpece (wa) f, cwate-peces (wa) f
Welsh: madfall (cy) f
West Flemish: aketissn m
West Frisian: hagedis c
Western Apache: na’ishǫ́’
White Hmong: ntses qa
Yakut: күлгэри (külgeri), тыймыыт (tıymııt)
Yiddish: יאַשטשערקע f (yashtsherke)
Yoruba: aláǹgbá
Zazaki: marmalok c pl
Zhuang: duzcoengmax :
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## Middle English
### Noun

lizard
* Alternative form of lesarde