snow leopard

See also: snow-leopard

English

A snow leopard.

geographic range of the snow leopard

Pronunciation

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Noun

snow leopard (plural snow leopards)

A large feline mammal, Panthera uncia (syn. Uncia uncia), native to mountain ranges of central Asia.

Synonyms

ounce, snowmeow (slang, chiefly Internet), snep (slang, chiefly Internet), irbis (uncommon, loanword from Russian)

Related terms

snow leopardess

Translations

a large feline mammal, Panthera uncia

Afrikaans: sneeuluiperd
Arabic: نِمْر اَلثُّلُوج m (nimr aṯ-ṯulūj)
Armenian: ձյունահովազ (jyunahovaz)
Assamese: বৰফৰ বাঘ (borophor bagh)
Azerbaijani: qar bəbiri, irbis
Bashkir: барыс (barıs)
Belarusian: барс m (bars), сне́жны барс m (snjéžny bars), сне́жны леапа́рд m (snjéžny ljeapárd)
Breton: loupard an erc'h
Bulgarian: барс m (bars), сне́жен барс m (snéžen bars), сне́жен леопа́рд m (snéžen leopárd)
Burmese: နှင်းကျားသစ် (hnang:kya:sac)
Catalan: pantera de les neus m
Cherokee: ᎤᎾᏥ ᏢᏓᏥ (unatsi tlvdatsi)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 雪豹 (zh) (xuěbào)
Czech: irbis (cs) m
Danish: sneleopard c
Dutch: sneeuwpanter (nl) m, sneeuwluipaard (nl) m
Dzongkha: གངས་གཟིག (gangs gzig)
Esperanto: uncio, neĝleopardo
Estonian: lumeleopard
Finnish: lumileopardi (fi)
French: léopard des neiges (fr) m, once (fr) f
Georgian: ირბისი (ka) (irbisi), თოვლის ლეოპარდი (tovlis leoṗardi)
German: Schneeleopard (de) m, Irbis m
Greek: ίρβις f (írvis), λευκή λεοπάρδαλη f (lefkí leopárdali), λεοπάρδαλη του χιονιού f (leopárdali tou chionioú)
Hebrew: נמר שלג מצוי m
Hindi: हिम तेन्दुआ (him tenduā)
Hungarian: hópárduc (hu)
Icelandic: snæhlébarði (is) m
Indonesian: macan tutul salju
Irish: liopard sneachta m
Italian: leopardo delle nevi m
Japanese: ユキヒョウ (ja) (yukihyō), 雪豹 (ja) (ゆきひょう, yukihyō)
Kashmiri: چھۆت سٕہہ (chot sụhh)
Kazakh: барыс (barys), ілбіс (ılbıs), таутан (tautan) (female), алан (alan) (cub)
Korean: 설표 (seolpyo), 눈표범 (nunpyobeom)
Kyrgyz: барс (ky) (bars), илбирс (ky) (ilbirs)
Latvian: sniega leopards m
Lithuanian: irbis m
Macedonian: снежен леопа́рд m (snežen leopárd)
Malay: harimau dahan salji
Maltese: leopard tal-borra m
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: ирвэс (mn) (irves)

Mongolian: ᠢᠷᠪᠢᠰ (irbis)
Navajo: náshdóíłgaii łikizhígíí
Nepali: हिम तेंदुए (him tendue)
Nogai: ирбис (irbis)
Norwegian: snøleopard (no)
Old Ruthenian: барсъ (bars)
Pashto: please add this translation if you can
Persian: پلنگ برفی (palang-e barfi)
Polish: pantera śnieżna (pl) f, irbis (pl) m, irbis śnieżny (pl) m
Portuguese: leopardo-das-neves (pt) m
Romanian: irbis (ro) m, leopardul zăpezilor (ro) m
Russian: и́рбис (ru) m (írbis), сне́жный барс (ru) m (snéžnyj bars), сне́жный леопа́рд m (snéžnyj leopárd), барс (ru) m (bars)
Scottish Gaelic: liopard-sneachda m
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: снежни леопард m, сњежни леопард m

Roman: snežni leopard m, snježni leopard m
Slovak: leopard snežný (sk) m
Slovene: snežni leopard m
Spanish: leopardo de las nieves m, gatopardo (es) m, onza (es) f, irbis
Swedish: snöleopard (sv) c
Tajik: паланги барфӣ (palangi barfī)
Thai: เสือดาวหิมะ (th) (sʉ̌ʉa-daao-hì-má)
Tibetan: གསའ (gsa')
Turkish: kar leoparı (tr), kar parsı (tr)
Turkmen: bars (tk)
Ukrainian: барс (uk) m (bars), сні́жний барс m (snížnyj bars), сні́жний леопа́рд m (snížnyj leopárd)
Urdu: برفانی چیتا (barfānī cītā)
Uyghur: يىلپىز (yilpiz)
Uzbek: bars (uz), ilvirs (uz), qoplon (uz)
Vietnamese: báo tuyết
Welsh: llewpard eira m, owns (cy) m

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