leopard
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
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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 [script needed] (palang), Khwarezmian [script needed] (plyk), Sogdian [script needed] (pwrδnk), Pashto پړانګ (pṛāng). Compare Persian پلنگ (palang) and Sanskrit पृदाकु (pṛdāku, “panther”).
Inflected forms:
form: leopards
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: lybard
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: libbard
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Panthera pardus, a large wild cat with a spotted coat native to Africa and Asia.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
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.
Leopard skins have always been desirable commodities because of their spectacular spotted patterns.
gloss: Panthera pardus, a large wild cat with a spotted coat native to Africa and Asia.
pos: noun
tags: especially
gloss: A similar-looking, large wild cat named after the leopard.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
examples: 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.
gloss: A similar-looking, large wild cat named after the leopard.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
gloss: A similar-looking, large wild cat named after the leopard.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
gloss: A lion passant guardant.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
gloss: Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Phalanta, having black markings on an orange base.
pos: noun
Synonyms: common leopard
pard
pardal
Related words: camelopard
pard
pardal
leopon
Derived words: 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
leopardine
leopardlike
leopard lily
leopardling
leopard lizard
leopard man
leopard moray
leopard moray eel
leopard moth
leopard orchid
leopard print
leopardsbane
leopard seal
Leopards Eating People's Faces Party
leopard shark
leopard's head
leopard siren
leopardskin
leopard slug
leopard snake
leopard-spermophile
leopard squirrel
leopard tortoise
leopard tree
leopardwood
leopon
lipard
Louisiana Catahoula leopard dog
Manchurian leopard
pumapard
sea leopard
serpopard
snow-leopard
snow leopard
wereleopard
Translations:
lang: Afrikaans
word: tier
lang: Afrikaans
word: luiperd
lang: Albanian
word: leopard
lang: Northern Altai
word: пар
roman: par
lang: Southern Altai
word: леопард
roman: leopard
lang: Southern Altai
word: ирбис
roman: irbis
lang: Amharic
word: ግሥላ
roman: gəśla
lang: Guerrero Amuzgo
word: kítziaⁿ tzjá'
lang: Arabic
word: نِمْر
roman: nimr
lang: Arabic
word: نَمِر
roman: namir
lang: Arabic
word: فَهْد
roman: fahd
lang: Arabic
word: فهد
roman: fahd
lang: Aragonese
word: liopardo
lang: Aramaic
word: ܢܡܪܐ
roman: nemrā
lang: Aramaic
word: נִמְרָא
roman: nimrā
lang: Armenian
word: հովազ
roman: hovaz
lang: Armenian
word: ինձ
roman: inj
lang: Armenian
word: ընձառյուծ
roman: ənjaṙyuc
lang: Old Armenian
word: յովազ
roman: yovaz
lang: Assamese
word: নাহৰফুটুকী বাঘ
roman: nahorphutuki bagh
lang: Assamese
word: বাঘ
roman: bagh
lang: Asturian
word: lleopardu
lang: Azerbaijani
word: bəbir
lang: Bangi
word: ngoi
lang: Basque
word: lehoinabar
lang: Bassa
word: ji
lang: Belarusian
word: леапа́рд
roman: ljeapárd
lang: Bengali
word: চিতাবাঘ
roman: citabagh
lang: Bau Bidayuh
word: bisireh
lang: Bulgarian
word: леопа́рд
roman: leopárd
lang: Burmese
word: ကျားသစ်
roman: kya:sac
lang: Catalan
word: lleopard
lang: Cherokee
word: ᏢᏓᏥ ᎤᏅᏣᏗ
roman: tlvdatsi unvtsadi
lang: Chichewa
word: kambuku
lang: Chichewa
word: nyalugwe
lang: Chinese Cantonese
word: 豹
roman: paau³
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 豹
roman: bào
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 豹子
roman: bàozi
lang: Coptic
word: ⲡⲁⲣⲇⲁⲗⲓⲥ
roman: pardalis
lang: Cornish
word: lewpard
lang: Crimean Tatar
word: leopard
lang: Czech
word: levhart
lang: Czech
word: leopard
lang: Danish
word: leopard
lang: Dutch
word: luipaard
lang: Egyptian
word: Ab-b-i-i-F27-Sma
roman: ꜣby-šmꜥ
lang: Esperanto
word: leopardo
lang: Estonian
word: leopard
lang: Finnish
word: leopardi
lang: French
word: léopard
lang: Galician
word: leopardo
lang: Georgian
word: ჯიქი
roman: ǯiki
lang: Georgian
word: ლეოპარდი
roman: leoṗardi
lang: Georgian
word: ავაზა
roman: avaza
lang: German
word: Leopard
lang: German
word: Pard
lang: German
word: Pardel
lang: German
word: Parder
lang: Greek
word: λεοπάρδαλη
roman: leopárdali
lang: Ancient Greek
word: πάρδαλις
roman: párdalis
lang: Gujarati
word: દીપડો
roman: dīpḍo
lang: Hausa
word: damisa
lang: Hebrew
word: נָמֵר
roman: namér
lang: Hindi
word: तेंदुआ
roman: tenduā
lang: Hindi
word: तेंदुई
roman: tenduī
lang: Hindi
word: तेँदुआ
roman: tẽduā
lang: Hungarian
word: leopárd
lang: Icelandic
word: hlébarði
lang: Ido
word: leopardo
lang: Igala
word: ẹ́kọ̀
lang: Igala
word: ọ́mátāīna
lang: Igbo
word: ágụ
lang: Indonesian
word: macan tutul
lang: Irish
word: liopard
lang: Italian
word: leopardo
lang: Japanese
word: ヒョウ
roman: hyō
lang: Japanese
word: 豹
roman: hyō
lang: Kaitag
word: цӏерхъ
roman: c̣erq
lang: Kashubian
word: lampart
lang: Kashubian
word: leopard
lang: Kazakh
word: леопард
roman: leopard
lang: Khmer
word: ល្មុង
roman: lmung
lang: Khoekhoe
word: ǀdarub
lang: Kituba
word: yingo
lang: Kongo
word: ngo
lang: Kongo
word: yingo
lang: Korean
word: 표범
roman: pyobeom
lang: Middle Korean
word: 바독〮범〯
roman: pàtwókpĕm
lang: Central Kurdish
word: پِڵِنگ
roman: pilling
lang: Kyrgyz
word: кабылан
roman: kabılan
lang: Lao
word: ເສືອດາວ
roman: sư̄a dāo
lang: Latin
word: pardus
lang: Latin
word: leopardus
lang: Latvian
word: leopards
lang: Lingala
word: nkɔi
lang: Lingala
word: nkoi
lang: Lingala
word: ngoi
lang: Lithuanian
word: leopardas
lang: Luhya
word: ingwe
lang: Lutuv
word: kyiching
lang: Macedonian
word: леопард
roman: leopard
lang: Malay
word: harimau bintang
lang: Malay
word: macan tutul
lang: Maltese
word: leopard
lang: Manchu
word: ᠶᠠᡵᡥᠠ
roman: yarha
lang: Mandinka
word: soloo
lang: Manipuri
word: ꯀꯕꯣꯀꯩ
roman: kabokei
lang: Māori
word: rēparo
lang: Māori
word: rēpara
lang: Marathi
word: बिबट्या
roman: bibaṭyā
lang: Central Melanau
word: rimau biteang
lang: Mon
word: ကၠ ဗြန်
roman: klaˀ pròn
lang: Mongo
word: nkoi
lang: Mongolian
word: цоохор ирвэс
roman: cooxor irves
lang: Namuyi
word: ză
lang: Southern Ndebele
word: íngwe
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: leopard
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: leopard
lang: Nuer
word: kuac
lang: Nupe
word: nàm̀pà
lang: Occitan
word: leopard
lang: Ossetian
word: фыранк
roman: fyrank
lang: Pali
word: dīpin
lang: Pashto
word: يوز
roman: yúz
lang: Persian
word: پلنگ
roman: palang
lang: Polish
word: lampart
lang: Polish
word: lampart plamisty
lang: Polish
word: leopard
lang: Polish
word: pantera
lang: Polish
word: rysiec
lang: Portuguese
word: leopardo
lang: Romanian
word: leopard
lang: Russian
word: леопа́рд
roman: leopárd
lang: Russian
word: барс
roman: bars
lang: Rwanda-Rundi
word: ingwe
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: ле̏опа̄рд
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: lȅopārd
lang: Shona
word: ingwe (Korekore)
lang: Shona
word: ngwe
lang: Sinhalese
word: කොටි ගණය
roman: koṭi gaṇaya
lang: Sinhalese
word: කොටියා
roman: koṭiyā
lang: Slovak
word: leopard
lang: Slovene
word: leopard
lang: Sotho
word: nkwe
lang: Northern Sotho
word: nkwe
lang: Spanish
word: leopardo
lang: Swahili
word: chui
lang: Swazi
word: íngwe
lang: Swedish
word: leopard
lang: Tagalog
word: leyopardo
lang: Tajik
word: паланг
roman: palang
lang: Tamil
word: சிறுத்தைப்புலி
roman: ciṟuttaippuli
lang: Tatar
word: каплан
roman: qaplan
lang: Teke-Tege
word: ngo
lang: Telugu
word: చిరుతపులి
roman: cirutapuli
lang: Thai
word: เสือดาว
roman: sʉ̌ʉa-daao
lang: Tibetan
word: གཟིག
roman: gzig
lang: Tsonga
word: yingwe
lang: Tumbuka
word: nyalubwe
lang: Turkish
word: leopar
lang: Turkish
word: pars
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: قپلان
roman: kaplan
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: پلنك
roman: peleng
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: ببر
roman: bebr, bebir
lang: Turkmen
word: alajagaplaň
lang: Ukrainian
word: леопа́рд
roman: leopárd
lang: Uyghur
word: قاپلان
roman: qaplan
lang: Uzbek
word: qoplon
lang: Venda
word: nngwe
lang: Vietnamese
word: báo
lang: Vietnamese
word: beo
lang: Vietnamese
word: cọp gấm
lang: Vietnamese
word: báo hoa mai
lang: Vietnamese
word: báo hoa
lang: Volapük
word: leopar
lang: Welsh
word: llewpard
lang: Wolof
word: segg mi
lang: Xhosa
word: íngwe
lang: Yoruba
word: ẹkùn
lang: Zhuang
word: duzbeuq
lang: Zhuang
word: beuq
lang: Zulu
word: íngwe