# yeti
## English
### Etymology

Borrowed from Tibetan གཡའ་དྲེད (g.ya' dred, “rock bear”), compound of གཡའ (g.ya', “rocky or rocky place”) and དྲེད (dred, “bear”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈjɛ.ti/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* (US) IPA: /ˈjɛ.ti/, [ˈjɛ.ɾi]
* Rhymes: -ɛti

### Noun

yeti (plural yeti or yetis)
* (cryptozoology) An unidentified humanoid animal said to live in the Himalayas.
    Synonym: abominable snowman
    Coordinate terms: bigfoot, sasquatch, yowie, menk
** 1962, Edmund Hillary, Desmond Doig, “Into the Mingbo Valley”, in High in the Thin Cold Air: The Story of the Himalayan Expedition, led by Sir Edmund Hillary, sponsored by World Book Encyclopedia‎, Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 131:There is no doubt that the Sherpas accept the fact that the Yeti really exists. But then they believe just as confidently that their gods live in comfort on the summit of Mount Everest. We found it quite impossible to divorce the Yeti from the supernatural.

#### Derived terms

* yeti boot
* yeti crab

#### Descendants

* → Portuguese: iéti

#### Translations
### Anagrams

* -iety, yite

## Anguthimri
### Noun

yeti
* (Mpakwithi) bird

### References

* Terry Crowley, The Mpakwithi dialect of Anguthimri (1981), page 189

## Czech
### Alternative forms

* yetti

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈjɛtɪ]
* Hyphenation: ye‧ti

### Noun

yeti m anim
* (cryptozoology) yeti
    Synonym: sněžný muž

#### Declension
### Further reading

* “yeti”, in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu (in Czech)

## Dutch
### Etymology

Probably borrowed from English yeti, from Tibetan གཡའ་དྲེད (g.ya' dred, “rock bear”), compound of གཡའ (g.ya', “rocky or rocky place”) and དྲེད (dred, “bear”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈjeː.ti/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: ye‧ti

### Noun

yeti m (plural yeti's, diminutive yetietje n)
* (cryptozoology) yeti
    Synonym: verschrikkelijke sneeuwman

## Indonesian
### Etymology

From Tibetan གཡའ་དྲེད (g.ya' dred, “rock bear”), compound of གཡའ (g.ya', “rocky or rocky place”) and དྲེད (dred, “bear”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈjeti/
* Hyphenation: ye‧ti

### Noun

yeti
* (cryptozoology) yeti (an unidentified humanoid animal said to live in the Himalayas)

### Further reading

* “yeti” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

## Italian
### Noun

yeti m (invariable)
* (cryptozoology) yeti
    Synonym: abominevole uomo delle nevi

## Polish
### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English yeti.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈjɛ.ti/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ɛti
* Syllabification: ye‧ti

### Noun

yeti m animal (indeclinable)
* (cryptozoology) yeti, abominable snowman (unidentified humanoid animal said to live in the Himalayas)
    Synonym: człowiek śniegu

### Further reading

* yeti in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
* yeti in Polish dictionaries at PWN
* yeti in PWN's encyclopedia

## Portuguese
### Noun

yeti m (plural yetis)
* Alternative form of iéti

## Romanian
### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French yéti.

### Noun

yeti m (plural yeti)
* yeti, abominable snowman

#### Declension
## Slovak
### Etymology

Derived from Tibetan གཡའ་དྲེད (g.ya' dred, “rock bear”), compound of གཡའ (g.ya', “rocky or rocky place”) and དྲེད (dred, “bear”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈjeti]

### Noun

yeti m pers
* (cryptozoology) yeti
    Synonyms: snežný človek m, snežný muž m

#### Declension
### Further reading

* “yeti”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2025

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈʝeti/ [ˈɟ͡ʝe.t̪i]
* IPA: (everywhere but Argentina and Uruguay) /ˈʝeti/ [ˈɟ͡ʝe.t̪i]
* IPA: (Buenos Aires and environs) /ˈʃeti/ [ˈʃe.t̪i]
* IPA: (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /ˈʒeti/ [ˈʒe.t̪i]
* Rhymes: -eti
* Syllabification: ye‧ti

### Noun

yeti m (plural yetis)
* (folklore) yeti

### Further reading

* “yeti”, 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

## Swedish
### Noun

yeti c
* (cryptozoology) yeti

## Turkish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [jeti]
* Hyphenation: ye‧ti

### Noun

yeti (definite accusative yetiyi, plural yetiler)
* (cryptozoology) yeti
* (philosophy, psychology) faculty, skill