brown rat

English

Rattus norvegicus

Noun

brown rat (plural brown rats)

1. A rat of species Rattus norvegicus, common worldwide.

Synonyms

• common rat, Norway rat, Norwegian rat, wharf rat

Translations

Rattus norvegicus

• Arabic: جُرْذ أَسْمَر m (jurḏ ʔasmar)
• Armenian: շիկամուկ (hy) (šikamuk)
• Basque: arratoi arrunt
• Catalan: rata comuna, rata de claveguera
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 褐鼠 (zh) (hèshǔ)

• Czech: potkan (cs) m
• Dutch: bruine rat (nl) m or f
• Estonian: rändrott
• Finnish: harmaarotta, isorotta (fi)
• French: surmulot (fr) m
• German: Wanderratte (de) f
• Indonesian: tikus got
• Irish: francach donn m
• Italian: surmolotto m
• Japanese: ドブネズミ (ja) (dobunezumi), 溝鼠 (どぶねずみ, dobunezumi)
• Korean: 집쥐 (ko) (jipjwi)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: brunrotte m or f

  Nynorsk: brunrotte f

• Polish: szczur wędrowny m
• Portuguese: ratazana (pt) f
• Russian: се́рая кры́са f (séraja krýsa) (grey rat), пасю́к (ru) m (pasjúk), ры́жая кры́са f (rýžaja krýsa)
• Spanish: rata común f
• Swedish: brunråtta (sv) c
• Vietnamese: chuột nâu
• Welsh: llygoden ffyrnig f

References

• brown rat on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Rattus norvegicus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Rattus norvegicus on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons