Wikispecies
From the obsolete taxa Monitor Lacerta monitor Varanus Varanidae Monitor is a calque of German Warner Arabic وَرَن ( waran ) . The conflation of the two words was encouraged by the lizards' habit of standing on their hind legs and appearing to monitor their surroundings.
monitor lizard plural monitor lizards
Any of various large carnivorous lizards of the family Varanidae extant species are of genus Varanus Africa , Asia and Australia .
Synonym: safeguard lizard of the genus Varanus
Afrikaans: varaan likkewaan (af)
Arabic: وَرَل m ( waral )
Assamese: গুঁই ( gũi ) , গুঁই সাপ ( gũi xap )
Bau Bidayuh: biowak
Belarusian: вара́н m ( varán )
Bengali: গুই সাপ (bn) ( gui śap ) , গুইসাপ (bn) ( guiśap ) , গোসাপ (bn) ( gōśap )
Bhojpuri: गोह ( gōh )
Bikol Central: guto
Bulgarian: вара́н (bg) m ( varán )
Burmese: ဖွတ် (my) ( hpwat )
Catalan: varà (ca) m
Central Melanau: kelibui alou
Chichewa: gondwa
Chinese:
Mandarin: 巨蜥 (zh) ( jùxī )
Czech: varan m
Danish: varan c
Dutch: varaan (nl) m
Esperanto: varano
Estonian: varaan
Finnish: varaani (fi)
French: varan (fr) m goanna (fr) f
German: Waran (de) m
Hebrew: כּוֹחַ (he) m ( kóaẖ )
Hindi: गोह (hi) f ( goh ) , गोधा (hi) f ( godhā )
Hungarian: varánusz (hu)
Ido: varano (io)
Indonesian: biawak (id)
Irish: laghairt mhonatóra f
Italian: varano (it)
Japanese: 大蜥蜴 ( おおとかげ, ōtokage )
Kalmyk: мигүл ( migül )
Kapampangan: timbabalak tarebalak
Kazakh: кесел ( kesel )
Korean: 왕도마뱀 (ko) ( wangdomabaem )
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: بزنمژ ( bizinmij )
Latvian: varāns m
Lithuanian: varanas m
Luo: ng'ech
Macedonian: варан m ( varan )
Malay: biawak (ms)
Malayalam: ഉടുമ്പ് (ml) ( uṭumpŭ )
Persian: بزمجه (fa) ( bozmajje, bozmaje )
Polish: waran (pl) m
Portuguese: varano m lagarto-monitor m monitor (pt) m
Punjabi: ਗੋਹ m ( goh )
Romanian: varan m
Russian: вара́н (ru) m ( varán )
Sanskrit: गोधा (sa) f ( godhā )
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: варан m
Roman: varan (sh) m
Shor: қомдат
Slovak: varan (sk) m
Slovene: varan m
Spanish: varano
Sundanese: bayawak (su)
Swahili: kenge
Swedish: varan (sv)
Tagal Murut: andaatan
Tagalog: bayawak
Tausug: bibang
Thai: เหี้ย (th) ( hîia )
Ukrainian: вара́н (uk) m ( varán )
Vietnamese: kì đà
West Coast Bajau: paang
Wolof: mbag mi
Zimmern, Heinrich (1915 ) Akkadische Fremdwörter als Beweis für babylonischen Kultureinfluss (in German), Leipzig: A. Edelmann, page 52 
