jackal
English
/ˈdʒækəl/
noun
Definitions
- Any of certain wild canids of the genus Canis, native to the tropical Old World and smaller than a wolf.
- A person who performs menial/routine tasks, a dogsbody.
- (pejorative) A person who behaves in an opportunistic way; especially a base collaborator.
- (slang) A jack (the playing card).
Etymology
Borrowed from French chacal derived from Turkish çakal derived from Persian شغال (jackal).
Origin
Persian
شغال
Gloss
jackal
Concept
Semantic Field
Animals
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- berry English
- buzzard English
- jackal buzzard English
- jackalberry English
- werejackal English
- Schakal German
- sciacallo Italian
- jakhals Dutch, Flemish
- chacal French
- chacal Spanish, Castilian
- sjakal Norwegian Bokmål
- chacal Portuguese
- ジャッカル Japanese
- sjakal Norwegian Nynorsk
- शृगाल Sanskrit
- सृगाल Sanskrit
- xacal Catalan, Valencian
- شغال Persian
- شغال باران Persian
- شغال Persian
- แจ็กคัล Thai
- çakal Turkish
- chó sa-can Vietnamese
- jakal Malay
- çaqqal Azerbaijani
- چقال Ottoman Turkish
- 𐬱𐬖𐬀𐬮 Middle Persian
- iākala Hawaiian
- şagal Turkmen