The small island looked like a tortoise from a distance.
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Tortoise
//ˈtɔɹ.təs//
Synonyms for "tortoise" (38 found)
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Closest matches (8)
Strong matches (11)
Related words (19)
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More general
1 entriesRelated terms
2 entriescapable of
1 entriesderived
41 entriesAfrican spurred tortoiseAldabra giant tortoiseBolson tortoiseBurmese star tortoiseGalapagos giant tortoiseGalapagos tortoiseGalápagos giant tortoiseGalápagos tortoiseHermann's tortoiseHorsfield's tortoiseIndian star tortoiseMadagascar tortoiseSanta Fe Island tortoiseangonoka tortoiseboofhead tortoisedesert tortoise
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5 entriesrelated to
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Translations
187 translations across 130 languages.
Afrikaans
1 entries- skilpad noun (land-dwelling reptile)
Akan
1 entries- akyekyedeɛ noun (land-dwelling reptile)
Akkadian
1 entries- 𒃻𒅮𒈾 noun (land-dwelling reptile)
Albanian
1 entries- breshkë noun (land-dwelling reptile)
Ancient Greek
2 entries- κλεμμύς noun (land-dwelling reptile)
- χελώνη noun (land-dwelling reptile)
Arabic
4 entries- زِلْحفِة noun (land-dwelling reptile)
- سلحفة noun (land-dwelling reptile)
- سلحفة noun (land-dwelling reptile)
- سلحفة noun (land-dwelling reptile)
Aramaic
1 entries- סלופּי noun (land-dwelling reptile)
Armenian
1 entries- կրիա noun (land-dwelling reptile)
Aromanian
2 entries- broascã noun (land-dwelling reptile)
- broascã tsãstoasã noun (land-dwelling reptile)
Asturian
1 entries- tortuga noun (land-dwelling reptile)
Atayal
1 entries- ksipa noun (land-dwelling reptile)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- tısbağa noun (land-dwelling reptile)
Bashkir
2 entries- гөбөргәйел noun (land-dwelling reptile)
- ташбаҡа noun (land-dwelling reptile)
Bau Bidayuh
1 entries- diya noun (land-dwelling reptile)
Belarusian
1 entries- чарапа́ха noun (land-dwelling reptile)
Bengali
1 entries- কাছিম noun (land-dwelling reptile)
Breton
3 entries- baot noun (land-dwelling reptile)
- baot douar noun (land-dwelling reptile)
- baoted noun (land-dwelling reptile)
Bulgarian
1 entries- костену́рка noun (land-dwelling reptile)
Burmese
1 entries- လိပ် noun (land-dwelling reptile)
Catalan
1 entries- tortuga noun (land-dwelling reptile)
Central Dusun
1 entries- buu noun (land-dwelling reptile)
Central Melanau
1 entries- kejaa noun (land-dwelling reptile)
Chinese Mandarin
4 entries- 烏龜 /乌龟 noun (land-dwelling reptile)
- 草龜 /草龟 noun (land-dwelling reptile)
- 陸龜 /陆龟 noun (land-dwelling reptile)
- 龜 /龟 noun (land-dwelling reptile)
Church Slavic
1 entries- желꙑ noun (land-dwelling reptile)
Cornish
3 entries- kroban noun (land-dwelling reptile)
- kronek ervys noun (land-dwelling reptile)
- melhwioges noun (land-dwelling reptile)
Czech
1 entries- želva noun (land-dwelling reptile)
Danish
1 entries- skildpadde noun (land-dwelling reptile)
Dhivehi
1 entries- ކަހަނބު noun (land-dwelling reptile)
Dutch
1 entries- schildpad noun (land-dwelling reptile)
Esperanto
1 entries- testudo noun (land-dwelling reptile)
Estonian
1 entries- kilpkonn noun (land-dwelling reptile)
Finnish
2 entries- kilpikonna noun (land-dwelling reptile)
- maakilpikonna noun (land-dwelling reptile)
French
1 entries- tortue noun (land-dwelling reptile)
Galician
2 entries- sapoconcho noun (land-dwelling reptile)
- tartaruga noun (land-dwelling reptile)
Georgian
1 entries- კუ noun (land-dwelling reptile)
German
2 entries- Landschildkröte noun (land-dwelling reptile)
- Schildkröte noun (land-dwelling reptile)
Greek
1 entries- χελώνα noun (land-dwelling reptile)
Greenlandic
1 entries- saaniluk noun (land-dwelling reptile)
Hebrew
2 entries- צָב noun (land-dwelling reptile)
- שַׁלְחוּפָה noun (land-dwelling reptile)
Hindi
1 entries- कछुआ noun (land-dwelling reptile)
Hungarian
2 entries- teknős noun (land-dwelling reptile)
- teknősbéka noun (land-dwelling reptile)
Icelandic
2 entries- landskjaldbaka noun (land-dwelling reptile)
- skjaldbaka noun (land-dwelling reptile)
Ido
1 entries- tortugo noun (land-dwelling reptile)
Igbo
1 entries- mbeku noun (land-dwelling reptile)
Indonesian
2 entries- kura-kura noun (land-dwelling reptile)
- penyu noun (land-dwelling reptile)
Ingrian
1 entries- cerepaha noun (land-dwelling reptile)
Irish
1 entries- toirtís noun (land-dwelling reptile)
Isthmus Zapotec
1 entries- bigu noun (land-dwelling reptile)
Italian
2 entries- tartaruga noun (land-dwelling reptile)
- testuggine noun (land-dwelling reptile)
Japanese
3 entries- カメ noun (land-dwelling reptile)
- 亀 noun (land-dwelling reptile)
- 陸亀 noun (land-dwelling reptile)
Kannada
2 entries- ಆಮೆ noun (land-dwelling reptile)
- ಕೂರ್ಮ noun (land-dwelling reptile)
Kashmiri
1 entries- کٔچھوٕ noun (land-dwelling reptile)
Kazakh
1 entries- тасбақа noun (land-dwelling reptile)
Khmer
1 entries- អណ្ដើក noun (land-dwelling reptile)
Kimaragang
1 entries- landang noun (land-dwelling reptile)
Korean
3 entries- 거북 noun (land-dwelling reptile)
- 거북이 noun (land-dwelling reptile)
- 땅거북 noun (land-dwelling reptile)
Kui
1 entries- ସେମ୍ବି noun (land-dwelling reptile)
Kuvi
1 entries- ତାମ୍ବେଲି noun (land-dwelling reptile)
Kyrgyz
1 entries- ташбака noun (land-dwelling reptile)
Lao
1 entries- ເຕົ່າ noun (land-dwelling reptile)
Latin
1 entries- testūdō noun (land-dwelling reptile)
Latvian
1 entries- bruņurupucis noun (land-dwelling reptile)
Lithuanian
1 entries- vėžlys noun (land-dwelling reptile)
Lower Sorbian
2 entries- nopawa noun (land-dwelling reptile)
- žołw noun (land-dwelling reptile)
Luxembourgish
1 entries- Landdeckelsmouk noun (land-dwelling reptile)
Macedonian
1 entries- желка noun (land-dwelling reptile)
Malay
1 entries- kura-kura noun (land-dwelling reptile)
Malayalam
1 entries- ആമ noun (land-dwelling reptile)
Maltese
2 entries- fekruna noun (land-dwelling reptile)
- fkieren noun (land-dwelling reptile)
Manx
1 entries- shligganagh noun (land-dwelling reptile)
Marathi
1 entries- कासव noun (land-dwelling reptile)
Mi'kmaq
1 entries- migjigj noun (land-dwelling reptile)
Mongolian
1 entries- яст мэлхий noun (land-dwelling reptile)
Māori
1 entries- honuwhenua noun (land-dwelling reptile)
Nahuatl
1 entries- āyotl noun (land-dwelling reptile)
Navajo
1 entries- chʼééh digháhii noun (land-dwelling reptile)
Norman
1 entries- tortue noun (land-dwelling reptile)
Norwegian Bokmål
2 entries- landskilpadde noun (land-dwelling reptile)
- skilpadde noun (land-dwelling reptile)
Norwegian Nynorsk
2 entries- landskjelpadde noun (land-dwelling reptile)
- skjelpadde noun (land-dwelling reptile)
Occitan
1 entries- tartuga noun (land-dwelling reptile)
Old East Slavic
1 entries- желꙑ noun (land-dwelling reptile)
Old English
2 entries- byrdling noun (land-dwelling reptile)
- landbyrdling noun (land-dwelling reptile)
Old French
1 entries- wecle noun (land-dwelling reptile)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- كشف noun (land-dwelling reptile)
Pali
1 entries- kacchapa noun (land-dwelling reptile)
Pannonian Rusyn
1 entries- коритнявка noun (land-dwelling reptile)
Pashto
1 entries- کيشپ noun (land-dwelling reptile)
Persian
2 entries- باخه noun (land-dwelling reptile)
- لاکپشت noun (land-dwelling reptile)
Plautdietsch
1 entries- Schiltkjrät noun (land-dwelling reptile)
Polish
2 entries- żółw noun (land-dwelling reptile)
- żółw lądowy noun (land-dwelling reptile)
Portuguese
3 entries- cágado noun (land-dwelling reptile)
- jabuti noun (land-dwelling reptile)
- tartaruga noun (land-dwelling reptile)
Romanian
2 entries- broască țestoasă noun (land-dwelling reptile)
- țestoasă noun (land-dwelling reptile)
Russian
2 entries- желвь noun (land-dwelling reptile)
- черепа́ха noun (land-dwelling reptile)
Sanskrit
2 entries- कच्छप noun (land-dwelling reptile)
- कमठ noun (land-dwelling reptile)
Scottish Gaelic
2 entries- crùban-coille noun (land-dwelling reptile)
- sligeanach noun (land-dwelling reptile)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- kornjača noun (land-dwelling reptile)
- корњача noun (land-dwelling reptile)
Sicilian
1 entries- scurzària noun (land-dwelling reptile)
Slovak
1 entries- korytnačka noun (land-dwelling reptile)
Slovene
2 entries- kopenska želva noun (land-dwelling reptile)
- želva noun (land-dwelling reptile)
Somali
1 entries- diindiin noun (land-dwelling reptile)
Spanish
4 entries- galápago noun (land-dwelling reptile)
- morrocota noun (land-dwelling reptile)
- morrocoy noun (land-dwelling reptile)
- morrocoyo noun (land-dwelling reptile)
Sranan Tongo
1 entries- sekrepatu noun (land-dwelling reptile)
Swahili
1 entries- kobe noun (land-dwelling reptile)
Swedish
2 entries- landsköldpadda noun (land-dwelling reptile)
- sköldpadda noun (land-dwelling reptile)
Tagal Murut
2 entries- babag noun (land-dwelling reptile)
- buu noun (land-dwelling reptile)
Tagalog
1 entries- pagong noun (land-dwelling reptile)
Tajik
1 entries- сангпушт noun (land-dwelling reptile)
Tamil
2 entries- ஆமை noun (land-dwelling reptile)
- ஓடன் noun (land-dwelling reptile)
Tarantino
1 entries- celóne noun (land-dwelling reptile)
Telugu
1 entries- తాబేలు noun (land-dwelling reptile)
Thai
1 entries- เต่า noun (land-dwelling reptile)
Tibetan
1 entries- རུས་སྦལ noun (land-dwelling reptile)
Tocharian B
1 entries- kaccāp noun (land-dwelling reptile)
Tswana
1 entries- khudu noun (land-dwelling reptile)
Tumbuka
1 entries- fulu noun (land-dwelling reptile)
Turkish
2 entries- kaplumbağa noun (land-dwelling reptile)
- tosbağa noun (land-dwelling reptile)
Turkmen
1 entries- pyşbaga noun (land-dwelling reptile)
Ukrainian
1 entries- черепа́ха noun (land-dwelling reptile)
Upper Sorbian
2 entries- nopawa noun (land-dwelling reptile)
- želwja noun (land-dwelling reptile)
Urdu
1 entries- کچھوا noun (land-dwelling reptile)
Uyghur
2 entries- ташпақа noun (land-dwelling reptile)
- تاشپاقا noun (land-dwelling reptile)
Uzbek
1 entries- toshbaqa noun (land-dwelling reptile)
Vietnamese
1 entries- rùa noun (land-dwelling reptile)
Volapük
1 entries- tortug noun (land-dwelling reptile)
Welsh
1 entries- crwban noun (land-dwelling reptile)
West Coast Bajau
1 entries- kekuro noun (land-dwelling reptile)
West-Frisian
1 entries- skyldpod noun (land-dwelling reptile)
Woiwurrung
1 entries- bundaban noun (land-dwelling reptile)
Yiddish
2 entries- טשערעפּאַכע noun (land-dwelling reptile)
- שילדקרויט noun (land-dwelling reptile)
Zazaki
1 entries- kesa (diq) noun (land-dwelling reptile)
Sample sentences
11 total sentences available.
The hare was outdistanced by the tortoise.
Source: tatoeba (65633)
A hare raced with a tortoise.
Source: tatoeba (65636)
The hare was overtaken by the tortoise.
Source: tatoeba (537039)
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