Definitions For Noctule

Noun

NOCTULE (plural NOCTULEs) A bat, of the genus Nyctalus, that lives in tree hollows. : {{hypo, en, Azores noctule, birdlike noctule, Chinese noctule, common noctule, greater noctule bat, Japanese noctule, lesser noctule, mountain noctule}}

Translations

Albanian: noktulë, f Armenian: իրիկնաչղջիկ Azerbaijani: axşam yarasası Basque: gau-saguzar Belarusian: вячэ́рніца, f Breton: nozigell, f Bulgarian: вечерник, m Catalan: nòctul, m Chinese: : Cantonese: 山蝠 (saan1 fuk1), 夜蝠 (je6 fuk1) : Mandarin: 山蝠, tr=shānfú, 夜蝠 (yèfú) Dutch: vroegvlieger, m Estonian: videvlane Finnish: isolepakko French: noctule, f Georgian: მეღამურა German: Abendsegler, m Hungarian: koraidenevér Italian: nottola, f Japanese: 山蝙蝠 (やまこうもり, yamakōmori), ヤマコウモリ (yamakōmori) Korean: 멧박쥐 Lithuanian: nakviša, f Norwegian: : Bokmål: storflaggermus, m, f : Nynorsk: storflaggermus, f Persian: خفاش جنگلی (xoffâš jangali) Polish: borowiec, m Portuguese: morcego-arborícola, m, morcego arborícola, m Russian: вече́рница, f Serbo-Croatian: : Cyrillic: но̏ћнӣк, m : Roman: nȍćnīk, m Slovak: raniak, m Slovene: mračnik, m Spanish: nóctulo, m Swedish: brunfladdermus, c Thai: ค้างคาวกินแมลง (káang-kaao gin má-lɛɛng) Ukrainian: вечі́рниця, f Venetian: nòtoła, f Western Panjabi: نائکٹالس, m (nāykṭālas)

Etymology

Late 18th century: via {{der, en, fr, -}}, from {{der, en, NL., noctula}}, from {{suffix, la, noctua, t1=small owl, pos1=from nox, nox, noctis, “night”, ula, pos2=diminutive suffix, nocat=1}}. Ultimately from {{der, en, ine-pro, *nókʷts, , night}}.