# leopard
## English
### Alternative forms

* lybard (14th–16th centuries)
* libbard (14th–19th centuries)

### Etymology

From Middle English leopard, leopart, lepard, leperd, from Old French leopard (“leopard”), from Late Latin leopardus (“leopon, lipard”) from late Ancient Greek λεόπαρδος (leópardos, “leopon, lipard”), from λέων (léōn, “lion”) + πάρδος (párdos, “pard, male leopard”), from earlier πάρδαλις (párdalis, “leopard”), probably from an unattested Old Persian [Term?] term ancestral to Middle Persian palang, Khwarezmian plyk, Sogdian [script needed] (pwrδnk), Pashto پړانګ (pṛāng). Compare Persian پلنگ (palang) and Sanskrit पृदाकु (pṛdāku, “panther”).

### Pronunciation

* (UK) IPA: /ˈlɛpəd/
* (US) IPA: /ˈlɛpɚd/
* Audio (US):(file)

### Noun

leopard (plural leopards)
* Panthera pardus, a large wild cat with a spotted coat native to Africa and Asia, especially the male of the species (in contrast to leopardess).
** 1990, Dorothy L. Cheney, How Monkeys See the World: Inside the Mind of Another Species, published 1992, page 284:During all such cases when we were present they responded by giving repeated alarm calls, even when the leopard was already feeding on a carcass. We wanted to determine whether vervets knew enough about the behavior of leopards to recognize that, even in the absence of a leopard, a carcass in a tree signaled the same potential danger as did a leopard itself.
** 1998, Oded Borowski, Every Living Thing: Daily Use of Animals in Ancient Israel, page 201:The leopard (Panthera pardus or Felis pardus cf tulliana) is a close relative of the lion, but biblical references mentioning it are very few, suggesting that it was not as common.
** 2005, Richard Ellis, Tiger Bone & Rhino Horn: The Destruction of Wildlife for Traditional Chinese Medicine, page 197:Leopard skins have always been desirable commodities because of their spectacular spotted patterns.
* (inexact) A similar-looking, large wild cat named after the leopard.
** 2005, Eric Dinerstein, Tigerland and Other Unintended Destinations, page 81:There are plenty of beautiful cats among the thirty-nine species in the Felidae family, but the three leopards—clouded, common, and snow—may be the most visually stunning. Cloaked in the most beautiful fur of any cat, the reclusive clouded leopard is the Greta Garbo of the lot; it lives a solitary life in the remote jungles of Asia, from Nepal to Borneo.
** A clouded leopard (either Neofelis nebulosa or Neofelis diardi), a large wild cat native to Asia.
** The snow leopard (Panthera uncia), a large wild cat native to Asia.
* (heraldry) A lion passant guardant.
** 1968, Charles MacKinnon of Dunakin, The Observer's Book of Heraldry, pages 68–69:Sometimes there is confusion over the heraldic leopard, the question being—When is a leopard not a leopard? There is a theory that the lion and leopard were the same thing, and that they were named entirely depending on their attitude—thus if the animal was passant guardant it was a leopard, but when rampant it was a lion. Nowadays a leopard is the genuine spotted article and quite unmistakeable. Some people still speak, wrongly, of the leopards of England, but it does no great harm as it is an ancient expression and everybody knows what it means.
* Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Phalanta, having black markings on an orange base.

#### Synonyms

* (Panthera pardus): common leopard, pard, pardal
* (Neofelis nebulosa/Neofelis diardi): See clouded leopard
* (Panthera uncia): See snow leopard

#### Hypernyms

* See cat and wild cat
* panther

#### Hyponyms

* (female): leopardess
* (young): cub, leopard cub

#### Derived terms

* a leopard cannot change its spots
* a leopard does not change its spots
* Amur leopard
* Arabian leopard
* Atlantic Coast leopard frog
* Bornean clouded leopard
* cameleopard
* Catahoula leopard dog
* clouded leopard
* common leopard
* giant leopard moth
* hunting leopard
* leopard cat
* leopard complex
* leopard crawl
* leopard cub
* leopard eel
* leopardess
* leopard flower
* leopard frog
* leopard gecko
* leopard ground squirrel
* leopard lily
* leopardling
* leopard lizard
* leopard man
* leopard moray
* leopard moray eel
* leopard moth
* leopard print
* leopardsbane
* leopard seal
* leopard shark
* leopard's head
* leopard siren
* leopard slug
* leopard snake
* leopard-spermophile
* leopard tortoise
* leopard tree
* leopon
* lipard
* Louisiana Catahoula leopard dog
* Manchurian leopard
* sea leopard
* snow leopard
* snow-leopard

#### Related terms

* camelopard
* pard
* pardal

#### Translations

Afrikaans: tier (af), luiperd (af)
Albanian: leopard (sq) m
Amharic: ግሥላ ? (gəśla)
Arabic: نِمْر (ar) m (nimr), فَهْد (ar) m (fahd)
Aragonese: liopardo m
Aramaic:
Classical Syriac: ܢܡܪܐ m (nemrā)
Jewish Aramaic: נִמְרָא m (nimrā)
Armenian: հովազ (hy) (hovaz), ինձ (hy) (inj), ընձառյուծ (hy) (ənjaṙyuc)
Old Armenian: յովազ (yovaz)
Assamese: নাহৰফুটুকী বাঘ (nahorphutuki bagh), বাঘ (bagh) (hypernym)
Asturian: lleopardu (ast) m
Azerbaijani: bəbir (az)
Basque: lehoinabar
Bassa: ji
Bau Bidayuh: bisireh
Belarusian: леапа́рд m (ljeapárd)
Bengali: চিতাবাঘ (bn) (citabagh)
Bulgarian: леопа́рд (bg) m (leopárd)
Burmese: ကျားသစ် (my) (kya:sac)
Catalan: lleopard (ca) m
Central Melanau: rimau biteang
Cherokee: ᏢᏓᏥ ᎤᏅᏣᏗ (tlvdatsi unvtsadi)
Chichewa: kambuku, nyalugwe
Chinese:
Cantonese: 豹 (paau$^3$)
Mandarin: 豹 (zh) (bào), 豹子 (zh) (bàozi)
Coptic: ⲡⲁⲣⲇⲁⲗⲓⲥ m (pardalis)
Cornish: lewpard m
Crimean Tatar: leopard
Czech: levhart (cs) m, leopard (cs) m
Danish: leopard c
Dutch: luipaard (nl) m
Egyptian: (ꜣby-šmꜥ m)
Esperanto: leopardo (eo)
Estonian: leopard (et)
Finnish: leopardi (fi)
French: léopard (fr) m
Galician: leopardo m
Georgian: ჯიქი (ka) (ǯiki), ლეოპარდი (ka) (leoṗardi), ავაზა (avaza)
German: Leopard (de) m; (archaic) Pard (de) m, Pardel (de) m, Parder (de) m
Greek: λεοπάρδαλη (el) f (leopárdali)
Ancient: πάρδαλις f (párdalis)
Guerrero Amuzgo: kítziaⁿ tzjá'
Gujarati: દીપડો m (dīpḍo)
Hausa: damisa
Hebrew: נָמֵר (he) m (namér)
Hindi: तेंदुआ m (tenduā), तेंदुई f (tenduī), तेँदुआ (hi) m (tẽduā)
Hungarian: leopárd (hu)
Icelandic: hlébarði (is) m
Ido: leopardo (io)
Igala: ẹ́kọ̀, ọ́mátāīna
Igbo: ágụ
Indonesian: macan tutul (id)
Irish: liopard m
Italian: leopardo (it) m
Japanese: ヒョウ (ja) (hyō), 豹 (ja) (ひょう, hyō)
Kashubian: lampart m, leopard m
Kazakh: леопард (leopard)
Khmer: ល្មុង (km) (lmung)
Khoekhoe: ǀdarub
Kongo: yingo ?
Korean: 표범 (ko) (pyobeom)
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: پِڵِنگ (pilling)
Kyrgyz: кабылан (ky) (kabılan)
Lao: ເສືອດາວ (lo) (sư̄a dāo)
Latin: pardus (la) m, (Late) leopardus m
Latvian: leopards m
Lingala: nkɔi class 9/10
Lithuanian: leopardas (lt) m
Luhya: ingwe ?
Macedonian: леопард m (leopard)
Malay: harimau bintang, macan tutul
Maltese: leopard m
Manchu: ᠶᠠᡵᡥᠠ (yarha)
Mandinka: soloo
Manipuri: ꯀꯕꯣꯀꯩ (mni) (kabokei)
Maori: rēparo, rēpara
Marathi: बिबट्या ? (bibaṭyā)
Middle Korean: 바독〮범〯 (pàtwókpĕm)
Mon: ကၠ ဗြန် (klaˀ pròn)
Mongolian: цоохор ирвэс (cooxor irves)
Namuyi: ză
Navajo: Naakaii Łizhiní Bikéyahdę́ę́ʼ náshdóítsoh łikizhígíí
Norwegian:
Bokmål: leopard (no) m
Nynorsk: leopard m
Nupe: nàm̀pà
Occitan: leopard (oc)
Ossetian: фыранк (fyrank)
Ottoman Turkish: قپلان (kaplan), پلنك (peleng), ببر (bebr, bebir)
Pali: dīpin m
Pashto: يوز m (yúz)
Persian: پلنگ (fa) (palang)
Polish: lampart (pl) m, lampart plamisty (pl) m, leopard (pl) m, pantera (pl) f, rysiec m
Portuguese: leopardo (pt) m
Romanian: leopard (ro) m
Russian: леопа́рд (ru) m (leopárd), барс (ru) m (bars)
Rwanda-Rundi: ingwe ?
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: ле̏опа̄рд m
Roman: lȅopārd (sh) m
Shona: ingwe ? (Korekore, Manyika, Zezuru), ngwe ? (Karanga)
Sinhalese: කොටි ගණය ? (koṭi gaṇaya), කොටියා (si) ? (koṭiyā)
Slovak: leopard (sk) m
Slovene: leopard (sl) m
Sotho: nkwe (st) class 9/10
Northern Sotho: nkwe ?
Southern Ndebele: íngwe class 9/10
Spanish: leopardo (es) m
Swahili: chui (sw) class 9/10
Swazi: íngwe (ss) class 9/10
Swedish: leopard (sv) c
Tagalog: leyopardo
Tajik: паланг (tg) (palang)
Tamil: சிறுத்தைப்புலி (ta) (ciṟuttaippuli)
Tatar: каплан (tt) (qaplan)
Telugu: చిరుతపులి (te) (cirutapuli)
Thai: เสือดาว (th) (sʉ̌ʉa-daao)
Tibetan: གཟིག (gzig)
Tiv: anyam
Tsonga: yingwe class 9/10
Tumbuka: nyalubwe
Turkish: leopar (tr), pars (tr)
Turkmen: alajagaplaň
Ukrainian: леопа́рд (uk) m (leopárd)
Uyghur: قاپلان (qaplan)
Uzbek: qoplon (uz)
Venda: nngwe ?
Vietnamese: báo (vi), beo (vi), cọp gấm, báo hoa mai (vi), báo hoa
Volapük: leopar (vo)
Welsh: llewpard m
Wolof: segg mi (wo)
Xhosa: íngwe class 9/10
Yoruba: ẹkùn
Zhuang: duzbeuq, beuq
Zulu: íngwe (zu) class 9/10 :

### See also

* (hybrid formed by a leopard and a lioness): leopon
* (hybrid formed by a lion and a leopardess): lipard

### References

* ↑ “leopard”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
* ↑ “pard, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
* ↑ “†pardal, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

### Anagrams

* paroled, preload

## Crimean Tatar
### Etymology

Borrowed from Russian леопард (leopard), from Latin leopardus (“leopard”).

### Noun

leopard
* leopard

#### Declension
### References

* Mirjejev, V. A., Usejinov, S. M. (2002) Ukrajinsʹko-krymsʹkotatarsʹkyj slovnyk [Ukrainian – Crimean Tatar Dictionary]‎, Simferopol: Dolya, →ISBN
* “leopard”, in Luğatçıq (in Russian)

## Czech
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈlɛopart]

### Noun

leopard m anim (female equivalent leopardice)
* leopard
    Synonym: levhart

#### Derived terms

* leopardice

### Further reading

* “leopard”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
* “leopard”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989

## Danish
### Pronunciation

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### Noun

leopard c (singular definite leoparden, plural indefinite leoparder)
* leopard

#### Declension
### Further reading

* “leopard” in Den Danske Ordbog
* “leopard” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog

## Kashubian
### Etymology

Borrowed from German Leopard.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /lɛˈɔ.part/
* Rhymes: -ɔpart
* Syllabification: le‧o‧pard

### Noun

leopard m animal (female equivalent leopardzëca)
* Synonym of lampart

### References

* Eùgeniusz Gòłąbk (2011) “leopard”, in Słownik Polsko-Kaszubski / Słowôrz Pòlskò-Kaszëbsczi‎

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Noun

leopard m (definite singular leoparden, indefinite plural leoparder, definite plural leopardene)
* a leopard (big cat, Panthera pardus)

#### Derived terms

* snøleopard

### See also

* panter

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Noun

leopard m (definite singular leoparden, indefinite plural leopardar, definite plural leopardane)
* a leopard (as above)

#### Derived terms

* snøleopard

### See also

* panter

## Polish
### Etymology

Internationalism; compare English leopard, French léopard, German Leopard, ultimately from Late Latin leopardus, from Ancient Greek λεόπαρδος (leópardos). Doublet of lampart.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /lɛˈɔ.part/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ɔpart
* Syllabification: le‧o‧pard
* Homophone: Leopard

### Noun

leopard m animal
* leopard (Panthera pardus)
    Synonyms: lampart, lampart plamisty, pantera, rysiec
* (military) Leopard tank

#### Declension
### Further reading

* leopard in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
* leopard in Polish dictionaries at PWN

## Romanian
### Etymology

Borrowed from French léopard, from Latin leopardus.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˌle.oˈpard/
* Hyphenation: le‧o‧pard

### Noun

leopard m (plural leoparzi)
* leopard

#### Declension
### Further reading

* leopard in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)

## Serbo-Croatian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /lêopaːrd/
* Hyphenation: le‧o‧pard

### Noun

lȅopārd m (Cyrillic spelling ле̏опа̄рд)
* leopard

#### Declension
### Further reading

* “leopard”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025

## Swedish
### Noun

leopard c
* leopard
    Synonym: panter
    en leopardmönstrad tröjaa leopard print sweater

#### Descendants

* → Finnish: leopardi

#### See also

* gepard (“cheetah”)

### References

* leopard in Svensk ordbok (SO)
* leopard in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
* leopard in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

### Anagrams

* polerad