Norwegian/Vocabulary/Animals
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Dyr (animals)
[edit | edit source]Fisker (fishes)
[edit | edit source]- abbor: perch
- gjedde: pike
- hai: shark
- lake: burbot
- laks: salmon
- makrell: mackerel
- sei: pollock
- sild: herring
- torsk: cod
- tunfisk: tuna
- ørret: trout
- ål: eel
Fugler (birds)
[edit | edit source]- and: duck
- crow: kråke
- due: dove, pigeon
- erle: wagtail
- falk: falcon
- gås: goose
- hauk: hawk
- jerpe: hazel grouse
- lunde: puffin
- papegøye: parrot
- pingvin: penguin
- ravn: raven
- rype: ptarmigan
- skjære: magpie
- stork: stork
- struts: ostrich
- svale: swallow
- trane: crane
- trost: thrush
- undulat: parakeet, budgie
- ørn: eagle
Gnagere (rodents)
[edit | edit source]- bever: beaver
- flodsvin: capybara
- hare: hare
- lemen: lemming
- mus: mouse
- rotte: rat
Husdyr (farm animals)
[edit | edit source]- esel: donkey
- geit: goat
- bukk: male goat
- killing: kid
- gris, svin: pig
- grisunge: piglet
- purke: female pig
- råne: male pig
- hane: rooster
- hest: horse
- høne: hen
- kveg, storfe: cattle
- kalv: calf
- ku: cow
- okse: bull
- kylling: chicken
- sau: sheep
- lam: lamb
Insekter (insects)
[edit | edit source]- bie: bee
- flue: fly
- humle: bumblebee
- maur: ant
- mygg: mosquito
- skolopender: centipede
- sommerfugl: butterfly
- tusenbein: millipede
- øyenstikker: dragonfly
Kjæledyr (pets)
[edit | edit source]- gullfisk: goldfish
- hund: dog
- valp: puppy
- kanin: rabbit
- katt: cat
- marsvin: guinea pig
Klovdyr (ungulates)
[edit | edit source]- elg: moose
- flodhest: hippo
- hjort: red deer
- moskus: muskox
- neshorn: rhinoceros
- rein, reinsdyr: reindeer
- rådyr: roe deer
- sjiraff: giraffe
- villsvin: boar
Reptiler (reptiles)
[edit | edit source]- firfisle: lizard
- hoggorm: adder
- orm, slange: snake
Rovdyr (carnivores)
[edit | edit source]- bjørn: bear
- bamse: male bear
- binne: female bear
- brunbjørn: brown bear
- isbjørn: polar bear
- gaupe: lynx
- gepard: cheetah
- grevling: badger
- jaguar: jaguar
- jerv: wolverine
- krokodille: crocodile
- leopard: leopard
- løve: lion
- mår: pine marten
- rev: fox
- fjellrev: arctic fox
- korsrev: cross fox
- rødrev: red fox
- tiger: tiger
- ulv: wolf
- vaskebjørn: raccoon
Sjøpattedyr (marine mammals)
[edit | edit source]- delfin: dolphin
- hval: whale
- blåhval: blue whale
- knølhval: humpback whale
- hvalross: walrus
- nise: porpoise
- sel: seal
- spekkhogger: orca, killer whale
- tumler: common bottlenose dolphin