ondatra

== English == === Etymology === From Huron / Wyandot ondatra or ondathra, attested in Gabriel Sagard's 1632 French Dictionnaire de la langue huronne and found in the Huron dialects of the Hochelaga region of Canada. === Noun === ondatra (plural ondatras) (chiefly US, Canada) The muskrat. 1852, The Swiss Family Robinson, a translation of Johann David Wyss' German Der Schweizerische Robinson, chapter 39: The first was the musk-beaver, not much different from the ondatra, excepting in the formation of his snout. === References === === Anagrams === adorant == Czech == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): [ˈondatra] === Noun === ondatra f muskrat ==== Declension ==== ==== Derived terms ==== === Further reading === “ondatra”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957 “ondatra”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989 == French == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ɔ̃.da.tʁa/ === Noun === ondatra m (plural ondatras) ondatra === Further reading === “ondatra”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012 == Portuguese == === Etymology === Borrowed from French ondatra, ultimately from a Wyandot term. === Pronunciation === Rhymes: -atɾɐ Hyphenation: on‧da‧tra === Noun === ondatra m (plural ondatras) ondatra === Further reading === “ondatra”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026 “ondatra” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913 “ondatra”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026