Noun: meerkat
Gender: Feminine
Hyphenation:
Sample Sentences
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De groene meerkat of vervet monkey (Cercopithecus aethiops) is de meest voorkomende aap in zuidelijk Afrika. (The African green monkey or vervet monkey (Cercopithecus aethiops) is the most common monkey in southern Africa.) [2013, Bas Vlugt, Namibië, Botswana en Zimbabwe:]
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2016, Sterre Leufkens, Taal, in Elementaire deeltjes, vol. 40, Amsterdam University Press (publ.), page 32.
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Het bijzondere aan meerkatten is dat ze hun waarschuwingssignalen betekenisvol kunnen combineren met andere woordjes. (The special thing about guenons is that they can meaningfully combine their warning signals with other short words.)
Nouns inflected like meerkat
servet,
sjalot,
sonnet,
kasticket,
skelet,
aalbessennat,
beerput,
bergkat,
morsealfabet,
koffiepot,
bevrijdingszet,
pretsigaret,
boomhut,
drietrapsraket,
bouwput,
krijgswet,
woelrat,
bajonet,
lapjeskat,
grondwet, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle Dutch meercatte (“monkey, ape”), from Old Dutch *merikatta. Equivalent to meer + kat. Cognate with Old High German merikazza (German Meerkatze). See: German Nouns '
Meerkatze'.
Verbs referencing "meerkat"
English Nouns
meerkat, Norwegian Bokmål Nouns
apekatt, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns
apekatt, Swedish Nouns
markatta.
Translations