MEEMINNA

The word chevrotain is French, and can be translated as "little goat".
The single African species is consistently known as chevrotain. The names chevrotain and mouse-deer have been used interchangeably among the Asian species, though recent authorities typically have preferred chevrotain for the species in the genus Moschiola and mouse-deer for the species in the genus Tragulus.Consequently, all species with pale-spotted or -striped upper parts are known as chevrotains, and all the species without are known as mouse-deer.
The Telugu name for the Indian spotted chevrotain is jarini pandi, which literally means "a deer and a pig".^{[citation needed]} In Kannada, it is called barka (ಬರ್ಕ), in Malayalam, it is called khooran, and the Konkani name for it is barinka.
The Sinhala name meeminna roughly translates to "mouse-like deer". This was used in the scientific name of one of the Sri Lankan species, M. meminna.