Mirkat: Béda antara owahan

| image_caption = Mirkat telu ing [[Cagar Alam Tswalu Kalahari]] ing [[AfrikahAfrika Kidul]].

'''Mirkat''' utawa '''surikat''' (''Suricata suricatta'') ya iku karnivor cilik sing kalebu ing famili ''Herpestidae''. Kéwan iki siji-sijiné anggota génus '''''Suricata'''''.<ref name="msw3genus">{{MSW3 Carnivora|id=14000677|heading=Genus ''Suricata''|page=571}}</ref> Mirkat uripé ing saindhenging Segara wedhi Kalahari ing [[Botswana]]h uga ing pérangan gedhéné Segara wedhi Namib ing [[Namibia]]h lan [[Angola]]h iring kidul-kulon, lan ing [[Afrika Kidul|Afrikah Kidul]]. Grombolan mirkat ingaran "komplotan". Sakomplotan mirkat adaté dumadi saka watara 20 anggota, nanging uga ana sing akèhé anggota nganti 50 utawa punjul. Ing panangkaran, mirkat umuré rata-rata antarané 12-14 taun, déné ing alam bébas umuré rata-rata mung saparoné.

"Mirkat" iku tembung silihan saka [[basa Afrikaans]] ({{IPA-af|ˈmɪərkat|pron}}).<ref name="Durkin2014">{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4W6JAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA359|title=Borrowed Words: A History of Loanwords in English|last=Durkin|first=Philip|date=2014|publisher=OUP Oxford|isbn=978-0-19-166707-7|page=359}}</ref> Jenengé asalé saka basa [[Basa Walanda|Walanda]], nanging béda tegesé. Ing basa Walanda, ''meerkat'' tegesé kethèk saka génus ''Cercopithecus''.<ref name="AertsenJeffers1993">{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nepBAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA315|title=Historical Linguistics 1989: Papers from the 9th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, New Brunswick, 14–18 August 1989|last=Aertsen|first=Henk|last2=Jeffers|first2=Robert J.|date=1993|publisher=John Benjamins Publishing Company|isbn=978-90-272-7705-3|page=315}}</ref> Tembung ''meerkat'' ing basa Walanda werdiné literal iku "kucing tlaga", nanging sanadyan surikat wujudé kaya kucing, kéwané ora kalebu ing kulawarga [[Felidae|kucing]].<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nwIoAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA348|title=New International Encyclopedia|publisher=Dodd, Mead|year=1916|page=348}}</ref> Ing basa Walanda, tembung iki bokmanawa dijupuk saka tembung andhahan ing [[Basa Sangsekerta|basa Sansekerta]] ''markaṭa'' (मर्कट) sing tegesé "benthung"<ref>{{OEtymD|meerkat}}</ref> nalika wong VOC dedagangan karo sudagar Indhi ing AfrikahAfrika.<ref name="Mitrani2014">{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=x6GCBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA192|title=Psychoanalytic Technique and Theory: Taking the Transference|last=Mitrani|first=Judith L.|date=2014|publisher=Karnac Books|isbn=978-1-78220-162-5|page=192}}</ref>