"likkewaan" meaning in Afrikaans

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Noun

Forms: likkewane [plural]
Etymology: From Dutch leguaan. In the "monitor lizard" sense, compare the semantic shift with goanna in Australian English. Etymology templates: {{bor|af|nl|leguaan}} Dutch leguaan Head templates: {{head|af|noun|||plural|likkewane|||||||||||||f2accel-form=p|f2request=1|f5accel-form=diminutive|head=}} likkewaan (plural likkewane), {{af-noun|likkewane}} likkewaan (plural likkewane)
  1. monitor lizard Synonyms: varaan
    Sense id: en-likkewaan-af-noun-u~~UrgwS Categories (other): Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Anguimorph lizards, Iguanoid lizards Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 67 33 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 86 14 Disambiguation of Anguimorph lizards: 94 6 Disambiguation of Iguanoid lizards: 64 36
  2. iguana
    Sense id: en-likkewaan-af-noun-OeSPk1~c Categories (other): Afrikaans entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Afrikaans entries with incorrect language header: 38 62

Inflected forms

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Afrikaans dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-06-10 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-06-01 using wiktextract (58c391d and f1c2b61). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

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