mamut
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See also: mamùt
Catalan
Etymology
Borrowed from French mammouth, from Russian ма́монт (mámont), from a Uralic language.
Pronunciation
Noun
mamut m (plural mamuts)
Derived terms
Further reading
& “mamut” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
Czech
Pronunciation
Noun
mamut m anim
Declension
Declension of mamut (hard masculine animate)
Derived terms
Further reading
Finnish
Noun
mamut
- nominative plural of mamu
Anagrams
Galician
Noun
mamut m (plural mamuts)
Further reading
- “mamut”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025
Hungarian
Alternative forms
Etymology
From German Mammut, from French mammouth, from an Uralic language, such as Proto-Mansi *mē̮ŋ-ońt (“earth-horn”) (compare Northern Mansi ма̄ (mā, “earth”), а̄ньт (ānʹt, “horn”), see modern Northern Mansi ма̄хар (māhar)) or Khanty. Compare Proto-Uralic *mëxe (“earth”) (when the first remains were found, the local residents believed that it was an underground animal). Until 1984, it was spelled mammut.
Pronunciation
Noun
mamut (plural mamutok)
- mammoth (Mammuthus)
Declension
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | mamut | mamutok |
| accusative | mamutot | mamutokat |
| dative | mamutnak | mamutoknak |
| instrumental | mamuttal | mamutokkal |
| causal-final | mamutért | mamutokért |
| translative | mamuttá | mamutokká |
| terminative | mamutig | mamutokig |
| essive-formal | mamutként | mamutokként |
| essive-modal | — | — |
| inessive | mamutban | mamutokban |
| superessive | mamuton | mamutokon |
| adessive | mamutnál | mamutoknál |
| illative | mamutba | mamutokba |
| sublative | mamutra | mamutokra |
| allative | mamuthoz | mamutokhoz |
| elative | mamutból | mamutokból |
| delative | mamutról | mamutokról |
| ablative | mamuttól | mamutoktól |
| non-attributive possessive – singular |
mamuté | mamutoké |
| non-attributive possessive – plural |
mamutéi | mamutokéi |
| possessor | single possession | multiple possessions |
|---|---|---|
| 1st person sing. | mamutom | mamutjaim |
| 2nd person sing. | mamutod | mamutjaid |
| 3rd person sing. | mamutja | mamutjai |
| 1st person plural | mamutunk | mamutjaink |
| 2nd person plural | mamutotok | mamutjaitok |
| 3rd person plural | mamutjuk | mamutjaik |
Derived terms
Expressions
Further reading
- (superseded spelling) mammut in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
Polish
Etymology
Internationalism; compare English mammoth, French mammouth, German Mammut, ultimately from Russian ма́монт (mámont).
Pronunciation
Noun
mamut m animal (related adjective mamuci or mamutowy)
- (paleontology) mammoth (any elephant-like mammal of the genus Mammuthus)
- (figurative) mammoth (something very large of its kind)
- Synonym: olbrzym
- variety of the yellow mung bean with wide pods
- (colloquial) ski flying ski jumping hill
- Synonym: skocznia mamucia
- (figurative, humorous) dinosaur (person who has been active longer than their peers, especially an artist)
- (figurative, derogatory) dinosaur (old-fashioned person)
Declension
Declension of mamut
Derived terms
nouns
- mamutak
- mamutowiec
Descendants
- → Kashubian: mamùt
Further reading
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from French mammouth, from Russian ма́монт (mámont, “mammoth”), from Uralic.
Pronunciation
Noun
mamut m (plural mamuți)
Declension
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
màmut m (Cyrillic spelling ма̀мут)
- mammoth (elephant-like mammal)
Declension
Declension of mamut
Slovene
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
mȃmut m anim
Inflection
 |
The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks. |
| Masculine anim., hard o-stem | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nom. sing. | mámut | ||
| gen. sing. | mámuta | ||
| singular | dual | plural | |
| nominative (imenovȃlnik) |
mámut | mámuta | mámuti |
| genitive (rodȋlnik) |
mámuta | mámutov | mámutov |
| dative (dajȃlnik) |
mámutu | mámutoma | mámutom |
| accusative (tožȋlnik) |
mámuta | mámuta | mámute |
| locative (mẹ̑stnik) |
mámutu | mámutih | mámutih |
| instrumental (orọ̑dnik) |
mámutom | mámutoma | mámuti |
Further reading
- “mamut”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU (in Slovene), 2014–2025
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from French mammouth, from Russian ма́монт (mámont, “mammoth”). More at mammoth.
Pronunciation
Noun
mamut m (plural mamuts)
- mammoth (animal)
Derived terms
Further reading
- “mamut”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10
Turkish
Etymology
From Ottoman Turkish ماموت (mamut), from French mammouth, from Russian ма́монт (mámont, “mammoth”), probably from a Uralic language.
Pronunciation
Noun
mamut (definite accusative mamutu, plural mamutlar)
- mammoth (animal)
Declension
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