From Modern Latin Mammalia , coined 1758 by Linnaeus for the class of mammals, from neuter plural of Late Latin mammalis ( “ of the breast ” ) , from Latin mamma ( “ breast ” ) , perhaps cognate with mamma (mother).
mammal (plural mammals )
An animal of the class Mammalia , characterized by being warm-blooded, having hair and producing milk with which to feed its young.
( paleontology ) A vertebrate with three bones in the inner ear and one in the jaw .
animal of the class Mammalia
Afrikaans: soogdier (af)
Albanian: gjitar (sq) m
Arabic: ثَدْيِيّ m ( ṯadyiyy )
Armenian: կաթնասուն (hy) ( katʻnasun )
Assamese: স্তন্যপায়ী ( stoinnopayi ) , স্তন্যপায়ী প্ৰাণী ( stoinnopayi prani )
Asturian: mamíferu (ast) m
Azerbaijani: məməli
Basque: ugaztun (eu)
Belarusian: млекако́рмячае n ( mljekakórmjačaje ) , сысу́н m ( sysún ) , звер m ( zvjer )
Bengali: স্তন্যপায়ী (bn) ( stonnopaẏi )
Bulgarian: боза́йник (bg) m ( bozájnik )
Burmese: နို့တိုက်သတ္တဝါ (my) ( nui.tuiksatta.wa )
Catalan: mamífer (ca) m
Chechen: декха дийнат ( deqa diı̇nat )
Chinese:
Mandarin: 哺乳類 ほにゅうるい / 哺乳 ほにゅう 类 (zh) ( bǔrǔlèi ) , 哺乳 ほにゅう 動物 どうぶつ / 哺乳 ほにゅう 动物 (zh) ( bǔrǔ dòngwù )
Czech: savec (cs) m
Danish: pattedyr (da) n
Dutch: zoogdier (nl) n
Esperanto: mamulo (eo)
Estonian: imetaja
Faroese: súgdjór (fo) n
Finnish: nisäkäs (fi)
French: mammifère (fr) m
Galician: mamífero (gl) m
Georgian: ძუძუმწოვარი (ka) ( ʒuʒumc̣ovari )
German: Säugetier (de) n
Greek: θηλαστικό (el) n ( thilastikó )
Guaraní: okambúva (gn)
Hebrew: יוֹנֵק (he) ( yonék )
Hindi: स्तनपायी (hi) m ( stanpāyī ) , स्तनधारी (hi) m ( standhārī )
Hungarian: emlős (hu)
Icelandic: spendýr (is) n
Ido: mamifero (io)
Indonesian: mamalia (id) , hewan menyusui
Interlingua: mammifero , mammal
Inuktitut: ᒪᒻᒪᓛᑎᒃ ( mammalaatik )
Irish: mamach (ga) m
Italian: mammifero (it) m
Japanese: 哺乳類 ほにゅうるい (ja) ( ほにゅうるい, honyūrui )
Kannada: ಸಸ್ತನಿ ( sastani )
Kazakh: сүтқоректі ( sütqorektı )
Khmer: ថនិកសត្វ ( thaʼnikaʼ sat )
Korean: 포유류(哺乳類 ほにゅうるい ) (ko) ( poyuryu )
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: şîrdar (ku) , guhandar (ku)
Kyrgyz: сүт эмүүчүл ( süt emüücül )
Lao: ສັດລ້ຽງລູກດ້ວຍນົມ ( sat līang lūk duāi nom )
Latin: mammalis , mammalia
Latvian: zīdītājs m
Lithuanian: žinduolis (lt) m
Low German:
German Low German: Söögdeert n
Luxembourgish: Mamendéier (lb) n
Macedonian: цицач m ( cicač )
Malay: mamalia (ms)
Malayalam: സസ്തനി ( sastani )
Maori: kararehe whāngote
Mongolian: хөхтөн (mn) ( xöxtön )
Northwestern Ojibwa: abaagamizan-miskwianimal awesiinh
Norwegian:
Bokmål: pattedyr (no) n
Nynorsk: pattedyr n
Occitan: mamifèr (oc) m
Persian: پستاندار (fa) ( pestândâr )
Plautdietsch: Sutia n
Polish: ssak (pl) m anim
Portuguese: mamífero (pt) m
Punjabi: ਥਣਧਾਰੀ m ( thaṇdhārī )
Romanian: mamifer (ro) n
Russian: млекопита́ющее (ru) n ( mlekopitájuščeje ) , зверь (ru) m ( zverʹ )
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: сисар m , сисавац m
Roman: sisar (sh) m , sisavac (sh) m
Silesian: cyckocz m
Sinhalese: ක්ෂීරපායීන් ( kṣīrapāyīn )
Slovak: cicavec (sk) m
Slovene: sesalec (sl) m
Spanish: mamífero (es) m
Swedish: däggdjur (sv) n
Tagalog: wilik , mamipero , mamalya (tl)
Tajik: ширхӯр (tg) ( širxür )
Tatar: имезүче (tt) ( imezüçe )
Telugu: క్షీరదం (te) ( kṣīradaṁ )
Thai: สัตว์เลี้ยงลูกด้วยน้ำนม (th) ( sàt-líiang-lûuk-dûai-náam-nom ) , สัตว์กินนม ( sàt-gin-nom )
Tupinambá: okambúba'e
Turkish: memeli (tr) , memeli hayvan (tr)
Turkmen: süýdemdiriji
Ukrainian: ссаве́ць m ( ssavécʹ ) , звір (uk) m ( zvir )
Urdu: ستنپایی ( satnapāyī )
Uzbek: sut emizuvchil
Vietnamese: động vật có vú , (informal) thú (vi) (獸 しし )
Volapük: ( ♂♀ ) sügaf (vo) , ( ♂♀ ) süganim (vo)
Welsh: mamal (cy) m
West Frisian: sûchdier n
Yiddish: זויגער m ( zoyger )
paleontology: vertebrate with three bones in the inner ear and one in the jaw