A wolverine . Etymology
1619; alteration of earlier wolvering wolver ( “ ravenous or savage animal; person who behaves like a wolf ” ) (1593),[1] wolf
Pronunciation
IPA (key ) : /ˈwʊlvəˌɹiːn/ , /ˈwɒlvəˌɹiːn/ ( US , also) IPA (key ) : /ˌwʊlvəˈɹiːn/ Noun
wolverine (plural wolverines
A solitary, fierce mammal of the Mustelidae Gulo gulo ws 1920 Peter B. Kyne , chapter IV, in The Understanding Heart :“Wish I'd been more polite to that girl,” the sheriff remarked regretfully. “ I ain't had a bite to eat since four o'clock this morning, and I'm hungry as a wolverine . … I know she'd have give me another drink of that old moonshine she has.”
Translations
Gulo gulo
Arabic: شَرِه m ( šarih ) , وُلْفِيرِين m ( wulfīrīn )
Armenian: կուղխ (hy) ( kuġx ) , շատակերիկ (hy) ( šatakerik )
Bashkir: ҡоно ( qono )
Belarusian: расама́ха f ( rasamáxa )
Bulgarian: росома́ха (bg) f ( rosomáha ) , ла́комец (bg) m ( lákomec )
Buryat: зээгэн ( zeegen )
Catalan: golut m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 狼獾 (zh) ( lánghuān ) , 貂熊 (zh) ( diāoxióng )
Chukchi: ӄэпэр ( qėpėr )
Cree: ᑮᐦᑿᐦᐋᐦᑫᐤ ( kiihkwahaahkew )
Czech: rosomák (cs) m
Danish: jærv (da) c
Dutch: veelvraat (nl)
Esperanto: gulo
Estonian: ahm kaljukass
Faroese: jarvur m
Finnish: ahma (fi)
French: glouton (fr) m carcajou (fr) m
Gagauz: obur
Galician: glutón m
Georgian: სამურავი ( samuravi )
German: Vielfraß (de) m Bärenmarder m
Greek: γούλβεριν m ( goúlverin )
Hawaiian: woleweline
Hebrew: גַּרְגְּרָן (he) m ( garg'rán )
Hungarian: rozsomák (hu)
Icelandic: jarfi m
Ido: glutemo (io)
Inuktitut: ᖃᕝᕕᒃ ( qavfik )
Irish: glutan m
Italian: ghiottone (it) m volverina ossifraga
Japanese: クズリ (ja) ( kuzuri ) , 貂熊 屈狸
Kalmyk: зеегн ( zeegn )
Kazakh: құну ( qūnu )
Ket: кун ( kùn )
Khakas: хуну ( xunu )
Korean: 울버린 ( ulbeorin )
Lakota: škečátȟaŋka
Latgalian: kņauss
Latvian: āmrija f tīnis m
Lithuanian: ernis m
Low German:
German Low German: Veelfraat m
Macedonian: лакомец m ( lakomec )
Malay: wolverin
Mongolian: нохой зээх ( noxoj zeex )
Navajo: niłchiis
Nivkh: кʼузр̌ ( kʼuzř )
Northern Sami: geatki
Norwegian: jerv (no) m
Ojibwe: gwiingwa'aage
Old English: eorf m
Old Norse: jerfr m jarfr m
Persian: ولورین ( volverin )
Polish: rosomak (pl) m
Portuguese: carcaju (pt) m glutão (pt) m
Proto-Norse: ᛖᚱᚨᚠᚨᛉ m ( erafaʀ )
Romanian: polifag american m gluton (ro) m
Russian: росома́ха (ru) f ( rosomáxa )
Serbo-Croatian:
Roman: gorska kuna f rosomah m žderonja (sh) m žderavac m
Shor: қунучақ ( qunučaq )
Slovak: rosomák m
Slovene: rosomáh m
Southern Altai: јеекен ( ǰeeken ) , куну ( kunu )
Southern Sami: gierhkie
Spanish: glotón (es) m carcayú m
Swahili: fisi-milima wolverini
Swedish: järv (sv) c
Tatar: комагай ( qomağay )
Thai: วุลเวอรีน ( wunwer-reen )
Turkish: kutup porsuğu ayı sansarı
Tuvan: чекпе ( çekpe )
Udmurt: лакша ( lakša )
Ukrainian: росома́ха f ( rosomáxa )
Uyghur: بۆرە بورسۇق ( böre borsuq )
Vietnamese: chồn Gulo
Yakut: сиэгэн ( siegen )
References
Robert K. Barnhart, ed., Chambers Dictionary of Etymology (Edinburgh: Chambers, 2008), 1242.
wolverine on Wikipedia.Wikipedia 
Gulo gulo on Wikispecies.Wikispecies 
