tapir

 

 

Borrowed from French tapir, from Old Tupi tapi'ira.

• IPA^(key): /ˈteɪpiːə(ɹ)/, /ˈteɪpɪə(ɹ)/, /ˈteɪpə(ɹ)/

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• Rhymes: -eɪpə(ɹ)
• Homophone: taper

tapir (plural tapirs)

1. Any one of the species of large odd-toed ungulates of the taxonomic family Tapiridae with a long prehensile upper lip, of which all four surviving species are in genus Tapirus.
   • 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:

     Once a dark, clumsy tapir stared at us from a gap in the bushes, and then lumbered away through the forest; once, too, the yellow, sinuous form of a great puma whisked amid the brushwood, and its green, baleful eyes glared hatred at us over its tawny shoulder.

• (Guyana) bush cow, (Belize) mountain cow

• Baird's tapir (Tapirus bairdii)
• Brazilian tapir (Tapirus terrestris)
• hog tapir
• Malayan tapir (Tapirus indicus)
• mountain tapir (Tapirus pinchaque)

•   tapir on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
•   Tapirus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
•   Tapirus on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

• atrip, parti, patri-

Borrowed from Old Tupi tapi'ira.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [təˈpir]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [taˈpir]

tapir m (plural tapirs)

1. tapir

• “tapir” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Borrowed from Spanish tapir, from Old Tupi tapi'ira.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtaː.pir/, [ˈtaː.pir]

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• Hyphenation: ta‧pir

tapir m (plural tapirs, diminutive tapirtje n)

1. tapir

   Synonym: boskoe

• IPA^(key): /ta.piʁ/

Inherited from Middle French tapir, from Old French tapir, borrowed from Frankish *tappijan (“to close, shut in, lock up”), from Proto-Germanic *tappijaną, from Proto-Germanic *tappô (“tap”).

tapir

1. (reflexive) to hide

This is a regular verb of the second conjugation, like finir, choisir, and most other verbs with infinitives ending in -ir. One salient feature of this conjugation is the repeated appearance of the infix -iss-.

Borrowed from Old Tupi tapi'ira.

tapir m (plural tapirs)

1. tapir

• “tapir”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• parti, pâtir, priât, ripât

 

Borrowed from Polish tapir.

• IPA^(key): /ˈta.pir/
• Rhymes: -apir
• Syllabification: ta‧pir

tapir m animal

1. tapir (ungulate of the family Tapiridae)

• Eùgeniusz Gòłąbk (2011) “tapir”, in Słownik Polsko-Kaszubski / Słowôrz Pòlskò-Kaszëbsczi‎^[1]

tapir

1. Alternative form of taper

 

Polish Wikipedia has an article on:

tapir

Wikipedia ^pl

 

Borrowed from French tapir.

• IPA^(key): /ˈta.pir/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -apir
• Syllabification: ta‧pir

tapir m animal

1. tapir (any large odd-toed ungulate with a long prehensile upper lip of the family Tapiridae)

• → Kashubian: tapir

• tapir in Polish dictionaries at PWN

 

Portuguese Wikipedia has an article on:

tapir

Wikipedia ^pt

 

Ultimately from Old Tupi tapi'ira.

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

• Hyphenation: ta‧pir

tapir m (plural tapires)

1. tapir

   Synonym: anta

Borrowed from French tapir.

tapir m (plural tapiri)

1. tapir

• IPA^(key): /taˈpiɾ/ [t̪aˈpiɾ]

• Audio (Venezuela):

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• Rhymes: -iɾ
• Syllabification: ta‧pir

tapir m (plural tapires)

1. tapir

   Synonyms: (Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Guatemala, Southern Mexico, Venezuela) danta, (Bolivia, Northern Argentina) anta, (Ecuador) vaca de monte, (Honduras, Nicaragua) danto, (Mexico) ante, (Panama, Colombian Pacific Coast) macho de monte, (Paraguay) mboreví, (Peru) sachavaca, (Southern Mexico) anteburro

• → Catalan: tapir
• → Dutch: tapir
• → Tagalog: tapir

• “tapir”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28

Borrowed from French tapir, from Old Tupi tapi'ira.

• Rhymes: -iːr

tapir c

1. tapir

• tapir in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• tapir in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

• parti, pirat

Borrowed from Spanish tapir (“tapir”), from French tapir, from Old Tupi tapi'ira.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /taˈpiɾ/ [t̪ɐˈpiɾ]
• Rhymes: -iɾ
• Syllabification: ta‧pir

tapír (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜉᜒᜇ᜔)

1. tapir

From Ottoman Turkish طاپر (tapir), from French tapir, from Old Tupi tapi'ira.

• IPA^(key): [tɑ.piɾ]

tapir (definite accusative tapiri, plural tapirler)

1. tapir