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Welcome to the new and improved webpage giving you the word for "rabbit" in different languages.We've had many submissions and updates to the original page, and through the guidance of alocal linguist we've regrouped the way that the languages are displayed. We hopethat you enjoy the new layout that better shows the similarities between languages in variousfamilies.

A note on organization
Languages have now been listed alphabetically according to language family. A language family is a group of languages which derive from a common mother language. For instance, many of the languages of Europe, West Asia, and the Subcontinent (such as German, Russian, Latin, Sanskrit, Persian, Armenian, Greek, etc.) belong to the Indo-European family of languages. Due to the many similarities in pronunciation, grammar, and vocabulary between these languages, linguists believe that there was at one time a single language, called Proto-Indo-European, from which these ultimately derived.

Languages can be further subdivided into branches. For instance, English, German, Dutch, Swedish, Danish, and Norwegian are much more similar to each other than Russian, Polish, Czech, Serbian, and Ukranian. The first set of languages belongs to what is called the Germanic branch, while the second set belongs to the Slavic branch. Yet they are all Indo-European languages. (Compare the words for rabbit in the Germanic and Slavic languages given below.)

Some language families, such as Indo-European, have been exhaustively studied over the past century and are well-established by linguists, while others, such as Amerind and Altaic, are far more controversial. This web site is not attempting to make definitive statements on the classification of languages! More controversial language families have been adopted here merely as a convenience. Remember, it's all for fun!

A note on submissions
If you speak a particular variety of a language (e.g., Swiss German and Bavarian are varieties of German), please be sure to include this informationin your e-mail. This is a great help when sorting out multiple submissions for one language. Please send your words for rabbit . For languages written ina non-Roman script, feel free to include a gif or jpg of the word writtenin the native script.

• Afro-Asiatic
• Altaic
• Amerind
• Austroasiatic
• Austronesian
• Dravidian
• Eskimo-Aleut
• Kadai
• Indo-European
• Niger-Kordofanian
• Nilo-Saharan
• Sino-Tibetan
• Uralic
• Language Isolates
• Artificial Languages

Afro-Asiatic
(languages spoken in Northern Africa and the Middle East)	Cushitic		Somali			bakayle	Semitic		Arabic			arneb  					araanib  					arnab					arnab bari (wild rabbit)					arnob (bunny - baby rabbit)		Hebrew			arnevet (hare)  					
arnavon/arnavoni (little sweet bunny)							Maltese			fenek					fenek abjad (white rabbit)					fenek iswed (black rabbit)					zermug (baby rabbit)
Altaic
(languages spoken in Turkey, Central Asia, Siberia and East Asia)		Korean-Japanese		Japanese		usagi  		Korean			toki*  					*San Toki ('Mountain Rabbit') is a popular children's					song: 'Mountain Rabbit, Rabbit/ where are you going?/  					As you hop hop hop,/ where are you going?'		Turkic		Kazakh			kenek		Turkish	tavsan
Amerind
(includes most of the indigenous languages of North and South America)	Algonquian		Ojibwe			waabooz	Iroquoian		Cherokee		tsi s du	Penutian		Chinook		quetshadee	Siouan		Dakota			mastinca	Aztecan		Nahuatl			ometochtli
Austroasiatic
(languages spoken in Southeast Asia)			Vietnamese		tho				 
Austronesian
(languages spoken in Taiwan, Oceania, Madagascar and Hawai'i)	Malayo-Polynesian		Bahasa Malaysia	arnab		Hawaiian		lapaki		Indonesian		kelinci		Maori			raapeti		Malagasy		bitro		Malay			kelintji					arnab 		Tagalog			kuneho
Dravidian
(languages spoken mostly in southern India and Sri Lanka)			Tamil			muyal		
Eskimo-Aleut
(languages spoken in northern Alaska, Canada and Greenland)		Eskimo			ukalerk		Eskimo (Inupiaq)	ukulaitchiaq					olark
Kadai
(languages spoken in Southeast Asia)		Thai			gra-dty
Indo-European
(languages historically spoken in Europe, West Asia and the Subcontinent)	Albanian		Albanian		lepur (hare)					lepurush (bunny)	Armenian		Armenian (Western)	nabastak		Armenian (Classical)	napastak						Baltic		Latvian			trusis					zakis (hare)		Lithuanian		kralikas					zuikutis (small bunny rabbit)	Celtic		Irish			coinân					giorria (hare)		Cornish			conyn					conynas (plural)		Manx			coneeyn					conning (bunny)		Gaelic			coineanach					coineagan					coineanach an taighe (house rabbit)		Welsh			cwningen	Germanic		Afrikanns		haas (hare) or konyn		Bavarian		kinihÔs		Danish			kanin 		Dutch			haas (hare)					konijn or konijntje (bunny)					nijntje* - used as an affectionate term.					*Also a famous cartoon rabbit in Holland.		English (Archaic)	coney		Flanders		keun		Flemish			konijn					keun		Frisian (Wester Lauwer)	knyn					hazze (hare)		German			Kaninchen (rabbit)					Hase (hare)		Icelandic		kanina		Norwegian (BokmÔl)	kanin		Swedish		kanin		Swiss German		Hassli (small hare)					Chungel		Swiss German 			(Basel region)	ChÉngel		Yiddish			krolik	Hellenic		Greek (Modern)		kouneli		Greek (Classical)	lagos	Indic		Bengali			chorgosh		Gujarati			saslu		Hindi			khargosh		Classical Sanskrit	shashaka		Vedic Sanskrit		shasha			Sinhalese		haava					haapetiya (baby rabbit)		Urdu			kargosh	Iranian		Kurdish			karwesh (literally, 'donkey ears')		Persian (Farsi)		khargoosh (literally, 'donkey ears')    						Italic		Aragonese		coniello		Catalan			conill		French			lapin					lapereau (young rabbit)					lapin de clapier (tame rabbit)		Italian			coniglio					coniglietto (bunny)		Latin			cuniculus*					cuniculosus (full of rabbits)					lepus (hare)					*Was also used for soldiers who dug tunnels		Portuguese		coelho*					coelha (female rabbit)					coelhinho (little rabbit)					lebre (female hare)					lebrÉo (male hare)					*Note:  several of our documents are available					in Portugese.			Romanian		iepure					iepura[. (bunny)					iepurime (warren of rabbits)					iepuroaica (female rabbit)					iepuroi (male rabbit)		Spanish			conejo					conejito (little rabbit)	Slavic		Bulgarian		zayek (rabbit, hare)		Czech			kralik					kralicek* (little rabbit)					*also used for 'young king'		Croatian		kunic					zets		Macedonian		zajak					zajache					zajko		Montenegrian		zec		Polish			kr÷lik					kr÷liczek (bunny)		Russian			krolik					zayets					zaychek (endearing form for bunny)		Serbian			kunit 		Slovak			kr½lik		Slovene			kunec					zajec* (hare)					*Note:  the word zajec or diminuitive zajcek					is more generally used for both species.  It					can also be a person's first name.		Ukranian		kril'					kri-lyk (domesticated)					kri-lyky (domesticated, plural)					zaichyk (endearment)					za-yats'
Niger-Kordofanian
(languages spoken in West and Central Africa)	Bantu		Lozi			shakame		Swahili			sungura		Swati			umgwaja		Xhosa			umvundia		Zulu			unogwaja
Nilo-Saharan
(languages spoken in the Sahara and Central Africa)			Lwo			apwoyo			
Sino-Tibetan
(languages spoken in Mainland China, Taiwan ans Southeast Asia)	Burmic		Burmese		youn 	Sinitic		Cantonese		pak toi (white rabbit)					yah toi (wild rabbit)					toi bao bao (baby rabbit)		Chinese (Mandarin)	tu zi (rabbit)  					baitu (white rabbit)					xiao baitu (little white rabbit)		Taiwanese		to-ah	Tibeto-Karen		Tibetan			reepong	
Uralic
(languages spoken in northern Scandanavia, Finland, Estonia, Hungary and Siberia)	Finno-Ugric		Estonian		kodu-janes (tame hare)		Finnish			jÉnis					kani		Hungarian		h½zinyþl					nyþl*					nyuszi					*Also a verb meaning 'to reach'.  Nyþlok a					nyþlÚrt = I reach for the rabbit
Language Isolates
(Language isolates are languages which have no clear connections with any other language.  They are found throughout the world.)		Basque			konejoak			
Artificial Languages
				Esperanto		    kuniklo	              Toki Pona - soweli  Lojban-ractu