Serval
German, noun[sɛʁˈval]
Serval is spelled S-E-R-V-A-L (6 letters) and appears about once in every 14 million words in written German, the 211,221st most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Serval is a German masculine noun meaning “serval (Leptailurus serval)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “in Afrika lebende Kleinkatze”.
What does Serval mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineserval (Leptailurus serval)
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. in Afrika lebende Kleinkatze
The definition in the German Wiktionary, in German.
Source: German Wiktionary, dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of Serval
- Servals genitive
- Servale plural
- Servalen dative definite plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce Serval?
- [sɛʁˈval]
- [ˈzɛʁval]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to Serval
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Serval in German?
Serval appears about once in every 14 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).