dormouse
English dictionary entry
Meanings
noun
- Any of several species of small, mostly European rodents of the family Gliridae.
- Glis glis (edible dormouse).
- Muscardinus avellanarius (hazel dormouse).
- A person who sleeps a great deal, or who falls asleep readily (by analogy with the sound hibernation of the dormouse).
Pronunciation
/ˈdɔɹ.maʊs/
/ˈdɔː.maʊs/
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Word forms
dormouse
dormice
doormouse
Etymology
From Middle English dormowse, of uncertain origin. Possibly from a dialectal *dor-, from Old Norse dár (“benumbed”) + mous (“mouse”). More at doze, mouse.
The word is sometimes conjectured to come from an Anglo-Norman derivative of Old French dormir (“to sleep”) (as *dormouse (“tending to be dormant”), with second element mistaken for mouse), but no such Anglo-Norman term is known to have existed.
Translations
Albanian: gjer
Armenian: քնամուկ
Asturian: llirón
Asturian: llira
Azerbaijani: süleysin
Basque: muxar
Belarusian: соня-палчок
Breton: lir
Breton: hunegan
Bulgarian: сънливец
Catalan: liró
Catalan: rata dormidora
Chinese Mandarin: 睡鼠
Czech: plch
Danish: syvsover
Danish: hasselmus
Dutch: relmuis
Dutch: hazelmuis
Esperanto: gliro
Estonian: kunel
Faroese: heslimús
Finnish: unikeko
French: loir
West-Frisian: sânslieper
Friulian: glîr
Galician: leirón
Galician: lirio
Galician: liranco
German: Bilch
German: Bilchmaus
German: Schläfer
German: Schlafmaus
German: Siebenschläfer
German: Gartenschläfer
German: Haselmaus
German: Haselmuus
Greek: δασομυωξός
Hungarian: pele
Icelandic: heslimús
Irish: luch chodlamáin
Irish: dallóg fhéir
Italian: ghiro
Italian: moscardino
Italian: muscardinide
Japanese: ヤマネ
Korean: 겨울잠쥐
Ladin: ghiro
Latin: glīs
Latin: nītēdula
Latvian: susuris
Lithuanian: miegapelė
Macedonian: полв
Maltese: ġurdien ta’ denbu pjuma
Mongolian: унтаахай
Norwegian: syvsover
Norwegian: sovemus
Occitan: missara
Occitan: greule
Polish: popielica
Polish: pilch
Portuguese: arganaz
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