We are trying to keep the wolf from the door.
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Wolf
//wʊlf//
Synonyms for "wolf" (185 found)
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Related words (92)
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Verb(1 words)
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457 translations across 313 languages.
Abaza
1 entries- квыджьма noun (animal)
Abenaki
1 entries- môlsem noun (animal)
Abkhaz
2 entries- абгаду noun (animal)
- ақәыџьма noun (animal)
Adyghe
1 entries- тыгъужъ noun (animal)
Afrikaans
1 entries- wolf noun (animal)
Aghwan
1 entries- 𐕒𐕡𐔾 noun (animal)
Ainu
2 entries- ウォセカムイ noun (animal)
- ホㇿケゥ noun (animal)
Akkadian
1 entries- 𒌨𒁇𒊏 noun (animal)
Albanian
1 entries- ujk noun (animal)
Aleut
1 entries- aliĝngix̂ noun (animal)
Algonquin
2 entries- mahìgan noun (animal)
- mokquishim noun (animal)
Amharic
1 entries- ተኩላ noun (animal)
Ancient Greek
1 entries- λύκος noun (animal)
Andi
1 entries- боцӏо noun (animal)
Arabic
4 entries- ديب noun (animal)
- ديب noun (animal)
- ذيب noun (animal)
- ذيب noun (animal)
Aramaic
3 entries- דֵּיבָא noun (animal)
- ܕܐܒܐ noun (animal)
- ܕܐܒܬܐ noun (animal)
Armenian
1 entries- գայլ noun (animal)
Aromanian
1 entries- lupu noun (animal)
Assamese
1 entries- কুকুৰনেচীয়া বাঘ noun (animal)
Asturian
1 entries- llobu noun (animal)
Atikamekw
1 entries- mahikan noun (animal)
Avar
1 entries- бацӏ noun (animal)
Azerbaijani
2 entries- canavar noun (animal)
- qurd noun (animal)
Balti
1 entries- شانكو noun (animal)
Baluchi
1 entries- گرک noun (animal)
Bashkir
1 entries- бүре noun (animal)
Basque
1 entries- otso noun (animal)
Bats
1 entries- ბჵორწ noun (animal)
Bavarian German
1 entries- Woif noun (animal)
Belarusian
3 entries- ваўчы́ха noun (animal)
- ваўчы́ца noun (animal)
- воўк noun (animal)
Bengali
1 entries- নেকড়ে noun (animal)
Bhojpuri
1 entries- भेड़िया noun (animal)
Blackfoot
1 entries- omahkapi'si noun (animal)
Breton
1 entries- bleiz noun (animal)
Bulgarian
1 entries- вълк noun (animal)
Burmese
1 entries- ဝံပုလွေ noun (animal)
Buryat
1 entries- шоно noun (animal)
Carpathian Rusyn
1 entries- вовк noun (animal)
Catalan
2 entries- faldiller noun (man who makes amorous advances on many women)
- llop noun (animal)
Central Atlas Tamazight
1 entries- ⵓⵛⵛⵏ noun (animal)
Central Kurdish
1 entries- گورگ noun (animal)
Central Sierra Miwok
1 entries- húŋ·u noun (animal)
Chagatai
1 entries- بورى noun (animal)
Chakma
1 entries- 𑄤𑄇𑄴 noun (animal)
Chechen
1 entries- борз noun (animal)
Cherokee
1 entries- ᏩᏯ noun (animal)
Cheyenne
1 entries- hó'nehe noun (animal)
Chinese
4 entries- лон noun (animal)
- лонвазы noun (animal)
- мулон noun (animal)
- 狼 noun (animal)
Chinese Cantonese
1 entries- 狼 noun (animal)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 狼 noun (animal)
Chukchi
2 entries- иʼны noun (animal)
- ээʼгычгын noun (animal)
Church Slavic
3 entries- влькъ noun (animal)
- вльчица noun (animal)
- ⰲⰾⱐⰽⱏ noun (animal)
Chuvash
1 entries- кашкӑр noun (animal)
Coptic
1 entries- ⲟⲩⲱⲛϣ noun (animal)
Cornish
1 entries- bleydh noun (animal)
Corsican
1 entries- lupu noun (animal)
Cree
1 entries- ᒪᐦᐃᑲᐣ noun (animal)
Crimean Tatar
1 entries- börü noun (animal)
Czech
4 entries- vlk noun (animal)
- hltat verb (to devour)
- slupnout verb (to devour)
- zhltnout verb (to devour)
Danish
2 entries- don juan noun (man who makes amorous advances on many women)
- ulv noun (animal)
Dari
1 entries- گُرْگ noun (animal)
Dogrib
1 entries- dìga noun (animal)
Dolgan
1 entries- бөрө noun (animal)
Dutch
1 entries- wolf noun (animal)
Eastern Cham
2 entries- ꨀꨧꨭꩃ ꨔꨪꩂ noun (animal)
- ꨔꨪꩂ noun (animal)
Eastern Khanty
1 entries- ө̆вәр кӱрәп ө̆т noun (animal)
Eastern Mari
1 entries- пире noun (animal)
Eastern Min Chinese
1 entries- 狼 noun (animal)
Elfdalian
1 entries- warg noun (animal)
Emilian
1 entries- låuv noun (animal)
Erzya
1 entries- верьгиз noun (animal)
Esperanto
1 entries- lupo noun (animal)
Estado de México Otomi
1 entries- lobo noun (animal)
Estonian
2 entries- hunt noun (animal)
- susi noun (animal)
Evenki
1 entries- иргичи noun (animal)
Ewe
1 entries- amegãxi noun (animal)
Falam Chin
1 entries- cinghnia noun (animal)
Faroese
3 entries- konufólkarevur noun (man who makes amorous advances on many women)
- revur noun (man who makes amorous advances on many women)
- úlvur noun (animal)
Finnish
4 entries- hukka noun (animal)
- häntäheikki noun (man who makes amorous advances on many women)
- naistenmies noun (man who makes amorous advances on many women)
- susi noun (animal)
Franco-Provençal
1 entries- lop noun (animal)
French
4 entries- loup noun (animal)
- loup noun (unpleasant musical tone)
- tombeur noun (man who makes amorous advances on many women)
- dévorer verb (to devour)
Friulian
2 entries- lôf noun (animal)
- lôv noun (animal)
Gabrielino-Fernandeño
1 entries- 'iisawut noun (animal)
Galician
4 entries- lobo noun (animal)
- devorar verb (to devour)
- engulir verb (to devour)
- galdrumar verb (to devour)
Gaulish
1 entries- drucocu noun (animal)
Georgian
1 entries- მგელი noun (animal)
German
3 entries- Meister Graubein noun (animal)
- Wolf noun (animal)
- herunterschlingen verb (to devour)
Gilaki
1 entries- ورگ noun (animal)
Gondi
1 entries- तोडेल्ली noun (animal)
Gothic
1 entries- 𐍅𐌿𐌻𐍆𐍃 noun (animal)
Greek
3 entries- λύκος noun (animal)
- καταβροχθίζω verb (to devour)
- χλαπακιάζω verb (to devour)
Greenlandic
1 entries- amaroq noun (animal)
Gujarati
1 entries- ભેડીયો noun (animal)
Haida
1 entries- g̱úuj noun (animal)
Haitian Creole
1 entries- lou noun (animal)
Hakka Chinese
1 entries- 狼 noun (animal)
Hawaiian
1 entries- ʻīlio hae noun (animal)
Hawaiian Creole
1 entries- wolf noun (animal)
Hebrew
2 entries- זְאֵב noun (animal)
- זלל verb (to devour)
Hindi
2 entries- भेड़िया noun (animal)
- वृक noun (animal)
Holikachuk
1 entries- nikʼighun noun (animal)
Hopi
1 entries- kwewu noun (animal)
Hungarian
1 entries- farkas noun (animal)
Hunsrik
1 entries- Wollef noun (animal)
Icelandic
1 entries- úlfur noun (animal)
Ido
1 entries- volfo noun (animal)
Indonesian
1 entries- serigala noun (animal)
Ingrian
3 entries- huntti noun (animal)
- susi noun (animal)
- suto noun (animal)
Ingush
1 entries- борз noun (animal)
Interlingua
1 entries- lupo noun (animal)
Inuktitut
1 entries- ᐊᒪᕈᖅ noun (animal)
Inupiaq
1 entries- amaġuq noun (animal)
Iranian Persian
1 entries- گُرْگ noun (animal)
Irish
4 entries- faolchú noun (animal)
- mac tíre noun (animal)
- madra alla noun (animal)
- madra allta noun (animal)
Istro-Romanian
1 entries- lup noun (animal)
Italian
3 entries- donnaiolo noun (man who makes amorous advances on many women)
- lupo noun (animal)
- divorare verb (to devour)
Itelmen
1 entries- хивнэ noun (animal)
Japanese
3 entries- ウルフ noun (animal)
- オオカミ noun (animal)
- 狼 noun (animal)
Javanese
1 entries- mbaung noun (animal)
Jicarilla
1 entries- ba’iitso noun (animal)
Kabardian
1 entries- дыгъужь noun (animal)
Kaki Ae
1 entries- weldok noun (animal)
Kalasha
1 entries- grast noun (animal)
Kalmyk
1 entries- чон noun (animal)
Kannada
1 entries- ತೋಳ noun (animal)
Karachay-Balkar
1 entries- бёрю noun (animal)
Karakalpak
2 entries- bo'ri noun (animal)
- qasqır noun (animal)
Karelian
1 entries- hukka noun (animal)
Kashmiri
1 entries- رامہٕ ہوٗن noun (animal)
Kashubian
1 entries- wilk noun (animal)
Kazakh
2 entries- бөрі noun (animal)
- қасқыр noun (animal)
Ket
1 entries- ӄыт noun (animal)
Khakas
1 entries- пӱӱр noun (animal)
Khmer
1 entries- ចចក noun (animal)
Khvarshi
1 entries- боцӏа noun (animal)
Kildin Sami
2 entries- пальтэсь noun (animal)
- скуммьп noun (animal)
Komi-Zyrian
1 entries- кӧин noun (animal)
Korean
3 entries- 늑대 noun (animal)
- 이리 noun (animal)
- 게걸스레 먹다 verb (to devour)
Koryak
1 entries- гʼэгылӈын noun (animal)
Koyraboro-Senni
1 entries- ganjihanŝi noun (animal)
Kumyk
1 entries- бёрю noun (animal)
Kyrgyz
2 entries- бөрү noun (animal)
- карышкыр noun (animal)
Ladin
1 entries- louf noun (animal)
Ladino
2 entries- lovo noun (animal)
- לוב׳ו noun (animal)
Lak
1 entries- барцӏ noun (animal)
Laki
1 entries- گوِرگ noun (animal)
Lakota
1 entries- šuŋgmánitu tȟáŋka noun (animal)
Lao
3 entries- ສິຄາລະ noun (animal)
- ໝາປ່າ noun (animal)
- ໝາໄນ noun (animal)
Latgalian
1 entries- vylks noun (animal)
Latin
2 entries- lupus noun (animal)
- devorare verb (to devour)
Latvian
1 entries- vilks noun (animal)
Lezgi
1 entries- жанавур noun (animal)
Ligurian
1 entries- lô noun (animal)
Lithuanian
1 entries- vilkas noun (animal)
Livvi
1 entries- hukku noun (animal)
Lolopo
1 entries- veimar noun (animal)
Lombard
2 entries- loff noun (animal)
- lov noun (animal)
Low German
1 entries- Wulf noun (animal)
Lower Sorbian
1 entries- wjelk noun (animal)
Luxembourgish
1 entries- Wollef noun (animal)
Macedonian
1 entries- волк noun (animal)
Malagasy
1 entries- amboadia noun (animal)
Malay
4 entries- serigala noun (animal)
- zib noun (animal)
- ذيب noun (animal)
- سريݢالا noun (animal)
Malayalam
1 entries- ചെന്നായ് noun (animal)
Maltese
2 entries- dib noun (animal)
- lupu noun (animal)
Manchu
1 entries- ᠨᡳᠣᡥᡝ noun (animal)
Manx
1 entries- moddey oaldey noun (animal)
Mara Chin
1 entries- changie noun (animal)
Marathi
2 entries- लांडगा noun (animal)
- वृक noun (animal)
Mazanderani
1 entries- ورگ noun (animal)
Mi'kmaq
3 entries- paqt'sm noun (animal)
- paqte'smug noun (animal)
- paqtesm noun (animal)
Middle Irish
3 entries- fáel noun (animal)
- fáelchú noun (animal)
- sídach noun (animal)
Mingo
1 entries- utháyôni noun (animal)
Mingrelian
1 entries- გერი noun (animal)
Mirandese
1 entries- lhobo noun (animal)
Mizo
1 entries- chinghnia noun (animal)
Moksha
1 entries- врьгаз noun (animal)
Mongolian
1 entries- чоно noun (animal)
Montagnais
1 entries- maikan noun (animal)
Muong
1 entries- khỏl noun (animal)
Mòcheno
1 entries- bolf noun (animal)
Māori
4 entries- wuruhi noun (animal)
- wuruwhi noun (animal)
- apu verb (to devour)
- whāō verb (to devour)
Nahuatl
1 entries- cuetlāchtli noun (animal)
Nanai
1 entries- енгур noun (animal)
Navajo
1 entries- mąʼiitsoh noun (animal)
Naxi
2 entries- paqkee noun (animal)
- xulkee noun (animal)
Nepali
1 entries- ब्वाँसो noun (animal)
Nganasan
1 entries- ӈӱлиаӡә noun (animal)
Ngazidja Comorian
1 entries- dhiiɓu noun (animal)
Nivkh
1 entries- лиғс noun (animal)
Nogai
1 entries- боьри noun (animal)
Nootka
1 entries- qʷayac̕iik noun (animal)
North Frisian
2 entries- Ulv noun (animal)
- ulf noun (animal)
Northern Khanty
4 entries- вўԓы пурты вой noun (animal)
- пурвой noun (animal)
- пурты вой noun (animal)
- пӑсты вой noun (animal)
Northern Kurdish
2 entries- gur noun (animal)
- gurg noun (animal)
Northern Mansi
3 entries- са̄лы пурнэ ӯй noun (animal)
- са̄лыуй noun (animal)
- ха̄йтнут noun (animal)
Northern Sami
1 entries- gumpe noun (animal)
Northern Tutchone
1 entries- agay noun (animal)
Norwegian Bokmål
3 entries- gråbein noun (animal)
- ulv noun (animal)
- varg noun (animal)
Norwegian Nynorsk
3 entries- gråbein noun (animal)
- ulv noun (animal)
- varg noun (animal)
Nuosu
2 entries- ꆿꆚ noun (animal)
- ꆿꍫ noun (animal)
Occitan
1 entries- lop noun (animal)
Odia
1 entries- ଗଧିଆ noun (animal)
Ojibwe
1 entries- ma'iingan noun (animal)
Old Armenian
1 entries- գայլ noun (animal)
Old East Slavic
1 entries- вълкъ noun (animal)
Old English
1 entries- wulf noun (animal)
Old Irish
3 entries- cú noun (animal)
- cú allaid noun (animal)
- macc tíre noun (animal)
Old Norse
1 entries- úlfr noun (animal)
Old Prussian
1 entries- wilkis noun (animal)
Oromo
1 entries- yeeyyii noun (animal)
Oroqen
1 entries- guykə noun (animal)
Ossetian
1 entries- бирӕгъ noun (animal)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- قورت noun (animal)
Pali
1 entries- vaka noun (animal)
Pannonian Rusyn
1 entries- вовк noun (animal)
Pashto
2 entries- شرمښ noun (animal)
- لېوه noun (animal)
Pawnee
1 entries- ckírihki noun (animal)
Piedmontese
1 entries- luv noun (animal)
Plains Apache
1 entries- ba’ noun (animal)
Plautdietsch
1 entries- Wulf (nds) noun (animal)
Polabian
1 entries- våuk noun (animal)
Polish
4 entries- basior noun (animal)
- wadera noun (animal)
- wilk noun (animal)
- pochłonąć verb (to devour)
Portuguese
3 entries- lobo noun (animal)
- mulherengo noun (man who makes amorous advances on many women)
- devorar verb (to devour)
Powhatan
1 entries- naantam noun (animal)
Punjabi
2 entries- بَگِھیاڑ noun (animal)
- ਬਘਿਆੜ noun (animal)
Quechua
1 entries- atawka noun (animal)
Rohingya
1 entries- rañgkuñir noun (animal)
Romani
1 entries- ruv noun (animal)
Romanian
1 entries- lup noun (animal)
Romansch
2 entries- louf noun (animal)
- luf noun (animal)
Russian
4 entries- волк noun (animal)
- волчи́ца noun (animal)
- пожира́ть verb (to devour)
- пожра́ть verb (to devour)
Sabine
1 entries- hirpus noun (animal)
Salar
1 entries- bori noun (animal)
Samogitian
1 entries- vėlks noun (animal)
Sanskrit
2 entries- वृक noun (animal)
- श्वक noun (animal)
Saterland Frisian
1 entries- Wulf noun (animal)
Scots
1 entries- wouf noun (animal)
Scottish Gaelic
2 entries- faol noun (animal)
- madadh-allaidh noun (animal)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- vȗk noun (animal)
- žènskār noun (man who makes amorous advances on many women)
- ву̑к noun (animal)
- жѐнска̄р noun (man who makes amorous advances on many women)
Seri
2 entries- xeecoj noun (animal)
- ziix yaacö caaixaj noun (animal)
Sherpa
1 entries- སྤྱང་ཀུ noun (animal)
Shor
1 entries- пӧрӱ noun (animal)
Sicilian
1 entries- lupu noun (animal)
Sinhalese
1 entries- වෘකයා noun (animal)
Skolt Sami
1 entries- čõrmm noun (animal)
Slovak
1 entries- vlk noun (animal)
Slovene
1 entries- volk noun (animal)
Somali
1 entries- yey noun (animal)
Southern Altai
1 entries- бӧрӱ noun (animal)
Southern Kurdish
1 entries- گوِرگ noun (animal)
Southern Tutchone
1 entries- ägay (Aishihik) noun (animal)
Southern Valley Yokuts
1 entries- yawlicʼ noun (animal)
Spanish
4 entries- lobo noun (animal)
- mujeriego noun (man who makes amorous advances on many women)
- devorar verb (to devour)
- engullir verb (to devour)
Sumerian
1 entries- 𒌨𒁇𒊏 noun (animal)
Svan
1 entries- თხე̄რე noun (animal)
Swahili
4 entries- mbwa mwitu noun (animal)
- akia verb (to devour)
- la verb (to devour)
- sakata verb (to devour)
Swedish
2 entries- ulv noun (animal)
- varg noun (animal)
T'en
1 entries- laput noun (animal)
Tabasaran
1 entries- жанавар noun (animal)
Tagalog
1 entries- lobo noun (animal)
Tahltan
1 entries- ch’iyōne noun (animal)
Tajik
1 entries- гург noun (animal)
Tamil
1 entries- ஓநாய் noun (animal)
Taos
1 entries- kòléna noun (animal)
Tarifit
1 entries- uššen noun (animal)
Tat
1 entries- gürg noun (animal)
Tatar
1 entries- бүре noun (animal)
Tedim Chin
1 entries- ngia noun (animal)
Telugu
1 entries- తోడేలు noun (animal)
Thai
4 entries- สุนัขป่า noun (animal)
- หมาป่า noun (animal)
- ขม้ำ verb (to devour)
- สวาปาม verb (to devour)
Tibetan
2 entries- སྤྱང་ཀི noun (animal)
- སྦྱང་ཀུ noun (animal)
Tigrinya
1 entries- ተዅላ noun (animal)
Tlingit
1 entries- g̱ooch noun (animal)
Tocharian B
1 entries- walkwe noun (animal)
Tok Pisin
1 entries- weldok noun (animal)
Tundra Nenets
2 entries- сармик noun (animal)
- ӈылека noun (animal)
Turkish
2 entries- börü noun (animal)
- kurt noun (animal)
Turkmen
3 entries- böri noun (animal)
- gurt noun (animal)
- möjek noun (animal)
Tuvan
1 entries- бөрү noun (animal)
Tày
1 entries- ma nuầy noun (animal)
Udi
1 entries- ул noun (animal)
Udmurt
1 entries- кион noun (animal)
Ukrainian
3 entries- вовк noun (animal)
- вовчи́ха noun (animal)
- вовчи́ця noun (animal)
Unami
1 entries- tëme noun (animal)
Upper Sorbian
1 entries- wjelk noun (animal)
Urak Lawoi'
1 entries- อาซู ฮูตัด noun (animal)
Urdu
2 entries- بھیڑِیا noun (animal)
- گُرْگ noun (animal)
Urum
1 entries- джанавар noun (animal)
Uyghur
4 entries- بۆرە noun (animal)
- قاراشقاۇ noun (animal)
- قارىشقۇ noun (animal)
- قۇرت noun (animal)
Uzbek
2 entries- boʻri noun (animal)
- qashqir noun (animal)
Venetan
2 entries- lovo noun (animal)
- łovo noun (animal)
Veps
1 entries- händikaz noun (animal)
Vietnamese
2 entries- chó sói noun (animal)
- sói noun (animal)
Vilamovian
1 entries- wūf noun (animal)
Volapük
2 entries- ludog noun (animal)
- lup noun (animal)
Votic
1 entries- susi noun (animal)
Võro
1 entries- susi noun (animal)
Walloon
1 entries- leu noun (animal)
Welsh
1 entries- blaidd noun (animal)
West-Frisian
1 entries- wolf noun (animal)
Western Apache
4 entries- ba'cho noun (animal)
- ba’choh noun (animal)
- ma’choh noun (animal)
- mbaaʼtsu noun (animal)
Western Mari
1 entries- пирӹ noun (animal)
Winnebago
1 entries- šųųkjąk noun (animal)
Wu Chinese
1 entries- 狼 noun (animal)
Yaghnobi
1 entries- урк noun (animal)
Yakut
1 entries- бөрө noun (animal)
Yiddish
1 entries- וואָלף noun (animal)
Yup'ik
1 entries- kegluneq noun (animal)
Zazaki
1 entries- verg (diq) noun (animal)
Zhuang
1 entries- manaez noun (animal)
Zulu
1 entries- inja yasendle noun (animal)
Zuni
1 entries- yuna:wik'o noun (animal)
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Thousands of Americans have a hard time keeping the wolf from the door.
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The boy said a wolf would come.
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John is as lean as a wolf.
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