How to Say Rabbit in Many Different Languages Folks from all over the globe have written to help us broaden our list of translations. Afrikaans haas (hare) or konyn Albanian Lepur Lepurush (for little one, or for a bunny) Arabic arneb araanib Armenian Nabastak Bangali chorgosh Bahasa Malaysia arnab Basque konejoak Bavarian kinihås Bulgarian zayek (rabbit, hare) Burmese Youn Catalan conill Chinook Quetshadee Czech kralik (long "a" and "i") kralicek (little rabbit) It's also the word for 'young king' Cantonese pak toi (white rabbit) yah toi (wild rabbit) toi bao bao (baby rabbit) Cheyenne vohkoohe Chinese (Madarin) tuzi: rabbit baitu: white rabbit xiao baitu: little white bunny Columbian bunnylingus Rabbit is regarded as a sacred creature in Columbia. Croatian kunic zets Danish kanin (pronounced khaneen) Dutch konijn or konijntje (Bunny) "nijntje" (say: naintche),is used when you really love your bunny. "nijntje" is also THE most famous cartoon rabbit in Holland, very popular with kids and made by Dick Bruna. English (Old) coney Eskimo ukalerk Esperanto kuniklo Estonian kodu-janes ("tame hare") Finnish jänis "kani" is the tame rabbit that doesn't survive in Finland outdoors during winter as it does in England. Then we have also "rusakko" that is larger than "jänis" and stays greyish-brown through the winter ("jänis" turns to white with black eartips). And last but not least we have "pupu", Finnish equivalent to bunny. "vemmelsääri" and "ristihuuli" are more "poetic" names for rabbits. Flemish konijn keun French le lapin or la lapine a tame rabbit is lapin de clapier a young rabbit is le lapereau German das kaninchen Greek (Modern) kouneli Greek (Classical) lagos Hawaiian lapaki Hebrew Arnevet arnavon/arnavoni (little sweet bunny) Hindi khargosh Hungarian nyúl or házinyúl bunny: nyuszi (no accent) Note: nyúl is also a verb meaning 'to reach', so "Nyúlok a nyúlért" means "I reach for the rabbit"! Icelandic kanina Indian (tamil) muyal (pronuonced "moo yell") Indonesian kelinci Irish coinin Italian il coniglio bunny is il coniglietto Japanese usagi Kazakhstan Republic (former USSR ) Kenek Kernewek/Cornish conyn, conynas (plural) Kenyan In Kiswahili (the national language of Kenya): sungura In Luo (the tribal language of people around Lake Victoria): apuoyo Korean toki (pronounced Toe Key) There's a popular Korean children's song that everyone learns when they're little called San Toki (Mountain Rabbit). Translated it goes something like this: Mountain Rabbit, Rabbit, where are you going? As you hop hop hop, where are you going? Latin cuniculus ('lepus' for hare). It was also used for soldiers who dug tunnels. There is a wonderful word in Latin, 'cuniculosus', which means 'full of rabbits'. Latvian trusis zakis (hare) Lithuanian kralikas (pronouced "kraa-lick-us" like "bus") a small bunny rabbit: zuikutis (pronouced "zook-utt-tiss") Lwoo apwoyo Malagasy bitro Malay kelintji Maltese fenek Manx Gaelic conneeyn or conning (bunny) Maori (New Zealand) raapeti ("i" said like long "e" and "r" is rolled) Montenegrian zec Nahuatl (a mexican dialect) ometochtli Navajo (American Indian) guah Norwegian kanin Ojibwe waabooz Persian Khargoosh Polish królik bunny: króliczek Portugese coelho Romanian iepure Russian krolik or zayets "zaychek" is a more endearing way to say bunny. Sanskrit Shashaka Scottish Gaelic coineanach or coineagan house rabbit: coineanach an taighe Serbian kunit SiLozi shakame (sha-ka-may) Slovak králik Slovene kunec (pronounced like "kunets") hare:zajec (pronounced like "zaiets") Note: the word Zajec or diminuative, Zajcek, is more generally used for both species. It can also be a person's first name. Spanish conejo (co-neh'-ho) little rabbit = conejito (co-neh-hee'-to) Swahili sungura Sweedish kanin Swiss German Haasli (bunny) Swiss (Basel region) Chüngel Tagalog (a Philippine dialect) kuneho (koo-neh-ho) Taiwanese To-Ah Thai gra-dty Tibetan pronounced: ree-pong Turkish oda tavsani (little , below s) Ukrainian kril' Vietnamese tho Welsh cwningen (pronounced "kooningen") Westerlauwer Frisian knyn hazze (hare) Xhosa umvundla Yiddish krolik Yugoslav zec Kopie von House Rabbit Organisation.