Want to say “fox” in a different language? Foxes can be found just about everywhere and everyone seems to have a different word for them! Here’s a list compiled from various sources around the ‘net, most notably the Oz Foxes Foxweb and Mike Micucci’s fox page, and also from several folks who were kind enough to write me with additions:

Abenaki Tribe Wokwses Gaelic Sionnach
Arabic Shu'Al German Fuchs/ Fuchslein
Assiniboin Tribe Toka no (grey fox) Hindi Memri
Bahasa Indonesia Rubah Hungarian Roacuteka
Irish Gaelic Mauda Rua
Bengali Sheyal Italian Volpe
Breton Louarn
Cherokee Tribe I na li (black fox) Japanese Kitsune
Chinese Hu Latin Vulpes
Malay Musang
Choctaw Tribe Chu la Meneomi Tribe Wa ko
Creek Tribe Tso la Nez Perce Ti li pe
Norwegian Rev
Croatian Lisica Pawne Tribe Kiwaku (white fox)
Czech Lishka
a.k.a. Liska :) Polish
Lis

Dakota Tribe Toka la luta Portuguese Raposa
Quechua Atoq
Dutch Vos Russian Lisha
English Fox / Vixen Spanish Zorro
Finnish Kettu,
Repo Shawnee Waakoce'thi
French Renard Swedish Räv
Farsi Rubah Turkish Tilki
Welsh (fox/vixen)
Cadno/Cadnawes
Llwynog/Llwynoges
Madyn