javelina

• jabalina, javeli

From Spanish javalina, jabalina, feminine form of jabalí (“wild boar”), from Andalusian Arabic جَبَلِي (jabalī) (in خِنْزِير جَبَلِيّ (ḵinzīr jabaliyy, “mountain pig”)[1]), from Arabic جَبَل (jabal, “mountain”). Cognate with Portuguese javalina, and similar in other Iberian languages.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /havəˈliːnə/

javelina (plural javelinas)

1. (Canada, US) The peccary, especially the collared peccary. [from 19th c.]
   • 1831, Benjamin Lundy, editor, The Genius of Universal Emancipation‎, page 117:

     The Javelina (Peccari) is an animal peculiar so far as I know to Spanish America.

   • 1903 February, O. Henry [pseudonym; William Sydney Porter], “Hygeia at the Solito”, in Everybody’s Magazine, volume VIII, number 2, New York, N.Y.: John Wanamaker, →ISSN, page 174, column 2:

     Some well-mounted heads of deer and one of an enormous black javeli projected from the walls.

   • 2013, Philipp Meyer, The Son, Simon & Schuster, published 2014, page 264:

     We […] were ready to send some prickly pears to the next world when the most unfortunate group of javelina on earth walked into view.

Borrowed from French javeline.

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ʒə.βəˈli.nə]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [ʒə.vəˈli.nə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [d͡ʒa.veˈli.na]

javelina f (plural javelines)

1. javelin

• “javelina” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.