Etymologies
- From Latin pardalis, from Ancient Greek πάρδαλις, from an unattested Old Iranisn word (compare Persian پلنگ (palang), Pashto پړانګ (pṙâng). (Wiktionary)
Examples
“4 The pardal swift, and the tiger cruel; pardal > panther; leopard”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘pardal’.
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Gene Wolfe
Please contribute your favorite words from any of Gene Wolfe’s books to this prize-winning list.
In case you come across words in this list which are too commonplace to fit in, please ...gallipot, roost, badelaire, oblesque, execration, dhole, amschaspand, arctother, chalcedony, penitence, asimi, autarch and 839 more...
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cats
alleycat, baudrons, bobcat, caracal, catamount, catamountain, cathood, catlike, cattish, cattishly, cheetah, chetah and 118 more...
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Ships
All of which are mentioned in O'Brian's Aubrey/Maturin novels, someplace or other. Most are British navy ships, some are French navy, and others aren't either one.
See also the list Sh...franklin, surprise, agamemnon, vanguard, truelove, minerva, diane, victory, sophie, cacafuego, euryalus, alastor and 382 more...
Tweets
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chained_bear "From north to south they ran, first the Gloire, a very fast ship-rigged Toulon privateer with twelve eight-pounders, chartered by a wealthy Barcelona merchant named Jaume Mateu to protect his two settees, the Pardal and the Xaloc, of six guns apiece... then, almost abreast of the Pardal but to windward and only four or five hundred yards from the Sophie, the Santa Lucia, a Neopolitan sic snow, a prize belonging to the Gloire..."
--Patrick O'Brian, Master and Commander, 206 Mar 29, 2008