wolf

From Dutch wolf, from Middle Dutch wolf, from Old Dutch *wulf, *wolf, from Proto-West Germanic *wulf, from Proto-Germanic *wulfaz, from Proto-Indo-European *wĺ̥kʷos.


beer

From Dutch beer, from Proto-Germanic *berô.


sog

From Dutch zog or zoog, dialectal variants of zeug, from Middle Dutch soge, suege, from Old Dutch *soga, from Proto-West Germanic *sugu.


das

From Dutch das, from Middle Dutch das, from Old Dutch *thas, from Proto-Germanic *þahsuz.


dassie

→ English: dassie

das + -ie.
diminutive of das (“badger; hyrax”).


bok

→ Xhosa: ibhokhwe

From Dutch bok (“buck, male goat”), from Middle Dutch boc, from Old Dutch buc, from Proto-Germanic *bukkaz.


haas

From Dutch haas, from Middle Dutch hāse, from Old Dutch *haso, from Proto-Germanic *hasô.


meerkat

desctree

→ English: meerkat, meercat, mierkat
→ Japanese: ミーアキャット (mīakyatto)
→ Korean: 미어캣 (mieokaet)
→ Thai: เมียร์แคต (miia-kɛ́t)

From Dutch meerkat (“guenon”), from Middle Dutch meercatte.


tier

From a dialectal form or pronunciation of Dutch tijger, from Middle Dutch tiger.


sebra

From Dutch zebra, from Portuguese zebra, from Old Galician-Portuguese enzebro, ezebra, azebra (“wild ass”), from earlier cebrario (882), ezebrario (897), from Vulgar Latin *eciferus, from Latin equiferus (“wild horse”).


klipspringer

→ English: klipspringer

From Dutch klipspringer. By surface analysis, klip (“rock”) + springer (“jumper”).


springbok

→ English: springbok

From Dutch springbok, equivalent to spring + bok.


aap

From Dutch aap, from Middle Dutch āpe, from Old Dutch *apo, from Proto-Germanic *apô.


kat

→ Xhosa: ikati

→ Zulu: ikati


gorilla

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gorilla (plural gorillas, diminutive gorillatjie)

gorillas (plural)
gorillatjie (diminutive)

Borrowed from Dutch gorilla or English gorilla.


olifant

From Dutch olifant, from Middle Dutch olifant, from Old French olifant, from Latin elephantus, from Ancient Greek ἐλέφᾱς (eléphās).


koei

From Dutch koe (back-formed from the plural koeien), from Middle Dutch coe, kuo, from Old Dutch kuo, from Proto-West Germanic *kō.


tollie

From Zulu ithole (“calf”), modified to use the diminutive -ie.


muis

From Dutch muis, from Middle Dutch muus, from Old Dutch *mūs, from Proto-Germanic *mūs.

(computing) A mouse (input device to operate a computer).


walvis

walvis (plural walvisse, diminutive walvissie)

walvisse (plural)
walvissie (diminutive)

From Dutch walvis, from Middle Dutch walvisch, from Old Dutch walvisk, a compound of *wal (“whale”) + fisk (“fish”), presumably to clarify the meaning.


buffel

From Dutch buffel (“buffalo”), from Middle Dutch buffel, from Old French buffle, from Italian bufalo (archaic buffalo), from Latin bubalus, from Ancient Greek βούβαλος (boúbalos).


kameel

From Dutch kameel, from Middle Dutch camêel, from Latin camēlus, from Ancient Greek κάμηλος (kámēlos), from a Semitic language.


agoeti

agoeti (plural agoeti's, diminutive agoeti'tjie)

agoeti's (plural)
agoeti'tjie (diminutive)

From Dutch agoeti, from French agouti or Spanish agutí, both from Old Tupi akuti.


ratel

→ Catalan: ratel

→ English: ratel
→ Italian: ratelo

A shortening of Dutch rateldas, formed (in South Africa) from (dialectal) ratel (“honeycomb”) + das (“badger”).


Maltees

af-adj

Maltees (attributive Maltese, not comparable)

Maltese (of, from, or pertaining to Malta, the Maltese people or the Maltese language)


Maltees

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Maltees (plural Maltese, diminutive Maltesie)

Maltese; Maltese poodle (small breed of dog)

Maltese (person from Malta or of Maltese descent)


takbok

From tak (“branch, twig”) + bok (“buck; antelope”).

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'n Platskietroer vir vlaktes en duine. En lyk dit my, vir die berge in die Alpe waar die takbokke en goed doer in die oneindigheid ver staan.

2007, Pienkes Du Plessis, Die perdekombers en ander stories uit die jagveld, Human & Rousseau, page 114:

Soos ene takbok wat smag na water


bul

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bul (plural bulle, diminutive bulletjie)

From Dutch bul, from Middle Dutch bulle, from Old Dutch *bullo, from Proto-Germanic *bulô. Cognate with English bull.

(colloquial) a supporter of the Blue Bulls, a South African rugby team


gemsbok

→ English: gemsbok

From Dutch gemsbok, from gems (“chamois”) + bok (“buck”).


perd

perd (plural perde or pêre, diminutive perdjie)

perde (plural)
pêre (plural)
perdjie (diminutive)

→ Phuthi: ipere

→ Sotho: pere

From dialectal Dutch perd, variant of paard, from Middle Dutch peret, *pert.


vark

Backformation from Dutch varken (“pig”), either by reinterpreting the singular as a plural, or from the actual plural varkens by rebracketing it as vark + -ens. From Middle Dutch varken. Ultimately from an old diminutive derived from Proto-Germanic *farhaz.


esel

esel (plural esels, diminutive eseltjie)

→ Sotho: esele

→ Xhosa: i-esile

From Dutch ezel, from Middle Dutch ēsel, from Old Dutch esil, from Proto-West Germanic *asil, from Late Latin asellus.

easel (frame used by artistic painters and draughtspeople)


Malteser

Malteser (plural Maltesers, diminutive Maltesertjie)

Maltesers (plural)
Maltesertjie (diminutive)

Synonym of Maltees (person from Malta or of Maltese descent)


duiker

desctree

→ English: duiker, duyker
→ Irish: dícear

From Dutch duiker, from Middle Dutch dukere. Equivalent to duik + -er.


kwagga

From Dutch quagga, derived from a Khoisan term, probably Haiǁom / Khoekhoe ǁkoaah, apparently of imitative origin.


primaat

From Dutch primaat, from Latin prīmātēs.


njala

From a Bantu language, likely either Tsonga nyala or Zulu inyala.


eekhoring

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eekhoring (plural eekhorings, diminutive eekhorinkie)

eekhorings (plural)
eekhorinkie (diminutive)

From Dutch eekhoorn, from Middle Dutch ecorn, eencoren, from Old Dutch *ēkorno, from Proto-Germanic *aikwernô.


steenbok

→ English: steenbok


honne

Kom hier, honne!

Die honne hier op die plaas skrik vir niks nie.

The dogs here on the farm aren't afraid of anything.


bontebok

→ English: bontebok

→ Italian: bontebok

From Dutch bontebok (literally “motley goat”).


grysbok

→ English: grysbok

From Dutch grijsbok. By surface analysis, grys + bok.


leeu

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leeu (plural leeus, diminutive leeutjie)

From Dutch leeuw, from Middle Dutch leeuwe, from Old Dutch lewo, from Latin leō, from Ancient Greek λέων (léōn).

(colloquial) a supporter of the Lions, a South African rugby team


renoster

renoster (plural renosters, diminutive renostertjie)

renosters (plural)
renostertjie (diminutive)

From Dutch renoster, from Latin rhīnocerōs, from Ancient Greek ῥῑνόκερως (rhīnókerōs).

Die feit dat daar in Kenia al hele renostertroppe uitgewis is in een nag en individuele renosters gekaap en doodgemaak is op pad na natuurreservate, het Anna Merz tot aksie gedwing.

The fact that whole rhino herds have been wiped out in one night in Kenya and individual rhinos have been hijacked and killed on their way to nature reserves, forced Anna Merz to take action.


erdvark

erdvark (plural erdvarke, diminutive erdvarkie)

erdvarke (plural)
erdvarkie (diminutive)


waterbok

Compound of water (“water”) + bok (“buck”).


blesbok

→ English: blesbuck

→ Italian: blesbok


reebok

From Dutch reebok, from Middle Dutch reeboc. Equivalent to ree (“roe”) + bok (“goat, antelope”).


donkie

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donkie (plural donkies, diminutive donkietjie)

donkies (plural)
donkietjie (diminutive)


kameelperd

From Dutch kameelpaard, from Latin camelopardus, possibly reanalyzed as kameel (“camel”) + perd (“horse”) through folk etymology.


wildebees

→ Dutch: wildebeest

→ English: wildebeest

→ Japanese: ウィルドビースト (wirudobīsuto)


luiperd

From Dutch luipaard, from Middle Dutch lupaert, from Old Dutch *liupard, from Old French leopard, from Late Latin leopardus, from Ancient Greek λεόπαρδος (leópardos).


leeuwelp

From the haplology of the now-obsolete spelling and pronunciation of Dutch leeuwewelp (“lion cub”), equivalent to contemporary Dutch leeuwenwelp (“lion cub”).


skaap

→ Zulu: isiklabhu

From Dutch schaap, from Middle Dutch scaep, from Old Dutch skāp, from Proto-Germanic *skēpą.


nagapie

→ English: nagapie

From nag (“night”) + apie (“little monkey”).


vlakvark

Compound of vlak (“plains”) + vark (“pig”).


wildsbok

wildsbok (plural wildsbokke, diminutive wildsbokkie)

wildsbokke (plural)
wildsbokkie (diminutive)


soogdier

From Dutch zoogdier, calque of German Säugetier. Analyzable as soog (“to suckle”) + dier (“animal”).


seekoei

From Dutch zeekoe (“manatee”), from Middle Dutch seecoe. Equivalent to see + koei.


jakkals

Inherited from Dutch jakhals, ultimately from Turkish çakal, from Persian شغال (šağâl), from Sanskrit सृगाल (sṛgālá, “jackal”).


hiëna

From Dutch hyena, from Latin hyaena, from Ancient Greek ὕαινα (húaina).


vlermuis

From Dutch vleermuis, from Middle Dutch vlēdermuus.


witrenoster

Ceratotherium simum
Ceratotherium simum#Translingual


swartrenoster

Diceros bicornis
Diceros bicornis#Translingual


ietermagog

Uncertain. Generally suggested as being composed of "ieter-" and "-magog", where "ieter-" may be related to Swazi finyeti (“pangolin”) and "magog" is likely borrowed from Tswana magôgwê (“honey badger”).


seehond

From Dutch zeehond, from Middle Dutch seehont.


blouaap

green monkey, vervet (a monkey in the genus Chlorocebus)


bobbejaan

From Dutch baviaan, probably from a dialectal form babiaan, from Middle Dutch baubijn, from Middle French babouin, from Old French babouin.


ystervark

ystervark (plural ystervarke, diminutive ystervarkie)

ystervarke (plural)
ystervarkie (diminutive)

From Dutch ijzervarken. Equivalent to yster (“iron”) + vark (“pig”).


krimpvark

krimpvark (plural krimpvarke, diminutive krimpvarkie)

krimpvarke (plural)
krimpvarkie (diminutive)

(chiefly diminutive) hedgehog, mammal of the subfamily Erinaceinae


bastergemsbok

From baster (“bastard”) + gemsbok; compare English bastard gemsbok.


bewer

From Dutch bever, from Middle Dutch bēver, from Old Dutch *bevar, from Proto-Germanic *bebruz.


bakoorjakkals

bakoorjakkals (plural bakoorjakkalse, diminutive bakoorjakkalsie)

bakoorjakkalse (plural)
bakoorjakkalsie (diminutive)

Compound of bakoor (“large protruding ear”) + jakkals (“jackal”).

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Otocyon megalotis
Otocyon megalotis#Translingual


worshond

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worshond (plural worshonde, diminutive worshondjie)

worshonde (plural)
worshondjie (diminutive)

Compound of wors (“sausage”) + hond (“dog”). Compare English wiener dog.

Albei worshonde is swart met bruin merke om die ken, pote en boude.

2007, Emile Joubert, Kouefront. Kortverhale, page 94:

Both dachshunds are black with brown blots around the chin, legs and buttocks.


tierboskat

From tier (“tiger/leopard”) + boskat (“bush cat”).


siwetkat

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siwetkat (plural siwetkatte, diminutive siwetkatjie)

siwetkatte (plural)
siwetkatjie (diminutive)

From Dutch civetkat, from compound of civet + kat. Compound of siwet + kat.


blouwalvis

From blou + walvis, probably a calque of English blue whale.

Balaenoptera musculus
Balaenoptera musculus#Translingual


stiebeuel

stiebeuel (plural stiebeuels, diminutive stiebeueltjie)

stiebeuels (plural)
stiebeueltjie (diminutive)

From Dutch stiebeugel, a spelling variant of stijgbeugel from Flanders.

(equestrianism) stirrup; a footrest for a rider hanging from the saddle


bontkwagga

bont (“pied, black-and-white”) + kwagga (“quagga, zebra”).


neushoring

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neushoring (plural neushorings, diminutive neushorinkie)

neushorings (plural)
neushorinkie (diminutive)

/ˈnɪøsˌɦʊə.rəŋ/

From Dutch neushoorn, equivalent to neus (“nose”) + horing (“horn”), a calque of Ancient Greek ῥινόκερως (rhinókerōs).


bergkwagga

berg (“mountain”) + kwagga (“quagga, zebra”).


sjimpansee

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sjimpansee (plural sjimpansees, diminutive sjimpanseetjie)

sjimpansees (plural)
sjimpanseetjie (diminutive)


muskeljaatkat

muskeljaatkat (plural muskeljaatkatte, diminutive muskeljaatkatjie)

muskeljaatkatte (plural)
muskeljaatkatjie (diminutive)

Compound of obsolete muskeljaat (“musk”) + kat (“kat”); compare English musk cat.