marmot

From Middle French marmote, from Old French marmotaine, marmontaine, murmontain, from Old Franco-Provençal marmotan, from Vulgar Latin *mures montani, from Latin mus monti (“mountain rat”), from Classical Latin mus alpini; akin to Engadin Romansch murmont, Old High German muremunto (dialectal German Murmentel, standard Murmeltier).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈmɑː.mət/

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈmɑɹ.mət/
• Rhymes: -ɑɹmət
• Hyphenation: mar‧mot

marmot (plural marmots)

1. Any of several large ground-dwelling rodents of the genera Marmota and Cynomys in the squirrel family.

• → Japanese: マーモット (māmotto)
• → Korean: 마멋 (mameot)
• → Thai: มาร์มอต (maa-mɔ́t)

• groundhog
• woodchuck

• marmot on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Borrowed from French marmotte. Possibly related to Middle Dutch marmotte (“goblin, kobold”).

• IPA^(key): /mɑrˈmɔt/

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• Hyphenation: mar‧mot
• Rhymes: -ɔt

marmot f (plural marmotten)

1. marmot, rodent of the genus Marmota

• alpenmarmot
• bosmarmot
• marmottenslaap

• Afrikaans: marmot
• → Caribbean Javanese: marmut
• → Indonesian: marmot
• → Japanese: モルモット
• → Papiamentu: marmòt

Probably from marmotter.

• IPA^(key): /maʁ.mo/

marmot m (plural marmots, feminine marmotte)

1. (archaic) an architectural grotesque, especially a door knocker
2. (colloquial) kid, brat
   • 2015 [2004], Stéphane Dompierre, Un petit pas pour l'homme [A small step for man], →ISBN, page 171:

     — C’est bon. Et en lui posant des questions sur elle, tu finis par apprendre qu’elle a un marmot. Tu fais quoi ?

     "That's alright. And by asking her questions about her, you end up learning she has a kid. What are you doing?"

• croquer le marmot
• marmaille

• → Italian: marmaglia, marmocchio

• “marmot”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Borrowed from French marmot.

marmot m (plural marmots)

1. (Jersey) brat