"abominable snowman" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

IPA: /əˈbɑm.ə.nə.bl̩ ˈsnoʊ.mæn/ [US], /əˈbɑm.nə.bl̩ ˈsnoʊ.mæn/ [US] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Persent101-abominable snowman.wav [US] Forms: abominable snowmen [plural]
Etymology: First attested in 1921. Calque of Tibetan མི་སྡུག་གངས་མི (mi sdug gangs mi), from མི་སྡུག (mi sdug, “repulsive, unlovely, ugly, hideous”) and གངས་མི (gangs mi, “snowman”). Etymology templates: {{calque|en|bo|མི་སྡུག་གངས་མི}} Calque of Tibetan མི་སྡུག་གངས་མི (mi sdug gangs mi), {{m|bo|མི་སྡུག||repulsive, unlovely, ugly, hideous}} མི་སྡུག (mi sdug, “repulsive, unlovely, ugly, hideous”), {{m|bo|གངས་མི||snowman}} གངས་མི (gangs mi, “snowman”) Head templates: {{en-noun|abominable snowmen}} abominable snowman (plural abominable snowmen)
  1. (cryptozoology, often capitalized) A humanoid or apelike animal said to exist in the Himalayas. Wikipedia link: abominable snowman Tags: capitalized, often Categories (topical): Cryptozoology Synonyms: yeti Related terms: Bigfoot, menk, sasquatch, yeti, yowie Translations (humanoid or apelike animal said to exist in the Himalayas): йети (jeti) [masculine] (Bulgarian), 雪人 (xuěrén) (Chinese Mandarin), verschrikkelijke sneeuwman [masculine] (Dutch), yeti [masculine] (Dutch), jetio (Esperanto), lumimies (Finnish), abominable homme des neiges [masculine] (French), yéti [masculine] (French), Yeti [masculine] (German), Schneemensch [masculine] (German), jeti (Hungarian), snjómaður [masculine] (Icelandic), abominevole uomo delle nevi [masculine] (Italian), 雪男 (yukiotoko) (alt: ゆきおとこ) (Japanese), イエティ (ieti) (Japanese), człowiek śniegu [masculine] (Polish), abominável homem das neves [masculine] (Portuguese), omul zăpezilor [masculine] (Romanian), сне́жный челове́к (snéžnyj čelovék) [masculine] (Russian), йе́ти (jjéti) [masculine] (Russian), strašni snježni čovjek (Serbo-Croatian), jeti [masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), abominable hombre de las nieves [masculine] (Spanish), чучунаа (cucunaa) (Yakut)

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      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "humanoid or apelike animal said to exist in the Himalayas",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "abominable hombre de las nieves"
    },
    {
      "code": "sah",
      "lang": "Yakut",
      "roman": "cucunaa",
      "sense": "humanoid or apelike animal said to exist in the Himalayas",
      "word": "чучунаа"
    }
  ],
  "word": "abominable snowman"
}

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