Editing Pangolin (section)

== Etymology ==
The name of order Pholidota comes from [[Ancient Greek]] {{lang|el|Φολιδωτός}} – "clad in scales"<ref name="RWB">{{cite book |last1=Brown |first1=Roland Wilbur |title=The Composition of Scientific Words |date=1956 |publisher=Smithsonian Institution Press |location=Washington, D.C. |page=604}}</ref> from {{lang|el|φολίς}} ''pholís'' "[[scale (anatomy)|scale]]".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.04.0057:entry=foli/s |title=φολίς |last1=Liddell |first1=Henry George |last2=Scott|first2=Robert |work=A Greek-English Lexicon |publisher=Perseus Digital Library |date= 1940 }}</ref>

The name "pangolin" comes from the [[Malay language|Malay]] word ''pengguling'' meaning "one who rolls up"<ref name=COED>{{cite book |editor-last=Pearsall |editor-first=Judy |year=2002 |title=Concise Oxford English Dictionary |edition=10th |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] |location=Oxfordshire, England |isbn=978-0-19-860572-0 |page=1030}}</ref> from ''guling'' or ''giling'' "to roll"; it was used for the [[Sunda pangolin]] (''Manis javanica'').<ref name="Wilkinson">{{Cite encyclopedia|url=https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-60272783/view?partId=nla.obj-436318167#page/n572/|title=tĕnggiling<!-- "pĕngguling" in page 243 directs to this word --> |dictionary=A Malay-English dictionary (romanised) |last=Wilkinson |first=Richard James |publisher=Salavopoulos & Kinderlis |location=Mytilene, Greece |date=1932 |volume=II |page=567 |via=[[Trove|TROVE]], [[National Library of Australia]]}}</ref> However, the modern name is ''tenggiling''. In [[Javanese language|Javanese]], <!--Please add Javanese script spelling here --> it is ''terenggiling'';<ref name="Wilkinson"/> and in the [[Philippine languages]], it is ''goling'', ''tanggiling'', or ''balintong'' (with the same meaning).<ref name="Vergara">{{cite book |last1=Vergara |first1=Benito S. |last2=Idowu |first2=Panna Melizah H. |last3=Sumangil |first3=Julia H. |last4=Gonzales |first4=Juan Carlos |last5=Dans |first5=Andres |title=Interesting Philippine Animals |publisher=Island Publishing House, Inc. |location=Washington, D.C. |isbn=9718538550 |url=http://scinet.dost.gov.ph/union/UploadFiles/download.php?b=nast_Vergara%20BS%202000%20Interesting%20Philippine%20Animals_423.pdf&f=../Downloads/nast_Vergara%20BS%202000%20Interesting%20Philippine%20Animals_423.pdf&t=application/pdf |access-date=14 December 2019 |archive-date=27 March 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200327210150/http://scinet.dost.gov.ph/union/UploadFiles/download.php?b=nast_Vergara%20BS%202000%20Interesting%20Philippine%20Animals_423.pdf&f=..%2FDownloads%2Fnast_Vergara%20BS%202000%20Interesting%20Philippine%20Animals_423.pdf&t=application%2Fpdf |url-status=dead }}</ref>

In ancient India, according to [[Claudius Aelianus|Aelian]], it was known as the ''phattáges'' (φαττάγης).<ref>[[Claudius Aelianus|Aelian]], ''On Animals'', 16:6 [[Loeb Classical Library]], translated A. F. Scholfield 1959 vol. 3, pp. 266-268.</ref>