javelina

• 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.

   • c. 1900, O. Henry, Hygeia at the Solito:

     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.

javelina f (plural javelines)

1. javelin