zebra

See also: Zebra, zébra, zebră, zebrā, and żebra

English

A zebra (species of Equus)

Etymology

1600; from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Italian (deprecated template usage) zebra, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Portuguese (deprecated template usage) zebra, (deprecated template usage) zebro, from Old Portuguese (deprecated template usage) enzebro, (deprecated template usage) ezebra, (deprecated template usage) azebra, from earlier (deprecated template usage) cebrario (882), (deprecated template usage) ezebrario (897), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl]  Template:term/t, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin (deprecated template usage) equiferus (Pliny).

(biracial person): The term zebra, as used in its pejorative sense, was popularized on the television situation comedy The Jeffersons. The term was used by the series protagonist, George Jefferson (Sherman Hemsley), to express disdain for his daughter-in-law, Jenny Willis Jefferson, whose father was white and mother was black.

While the word was traditionally pronounced with a long initial vowel in standard English, during the twentieth century a vowel shift occurred in regions of England, with the adoption of an initial short vowel. This pronunciation is now used throughout the UK and Commonwealth. The long vowel pronunciation remains standard in American English.

Pronunciation

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Noun

zebra (plural zebras)

1. Any of three species of genus Equus: E. grevyi, E. quagga, or E. zebra, all with black and white stripes and native to Africa.
2. (deprecated template usage) (sports, slang) A referee.
3. (deprecated template usage) (medicine, slang) An unlikely diagnosis, especially for symptoms probably caused by a common ailment. (Originates in the advice often given to medical students: "When you hear hoof beats, think of horses, not zebras.")
4. (deprecated template usage) (vulgar, derogatory, slang) A bi-racial person, specifically one born to a member of the Sub-Saharan African race and a Caucasian.

Hyponyms

• (animal of genus Equus): Burchell's zebra, Grevy's zebra, quagga, plains zebra, mountain zebra

Synonyms

• (unusual diagnosis): fascinoma

Derived terms

terms derived from the noun zebra

• Burchell's zebra
• Grevy's zebra
• mountain zebra
• plains zebra
• zebra butterfly
• zebra crossing

• zebra finch
• zebra fish
• zebra mongoose
• zebra mussel
• zebra shark

Translations

African animal

• Afrikaans: sebra
• Amharic: የሜዳ አህያ (yämeda ahya)
• Arabic: حمار وحشي m (ḥimār wáḥšiy), حمار وحشي مخطط m (ḥimār wáḥšiy muxáṭṭaṭ), حمار الزرد m (ḥimār al-zárad)
• Aragonese: zebra
• Armenian: զեբր (zebr), (rare) վագրաձի (vagraji)
• Asturian: cebra f
• Basque: zebra (eu)
• Bengali: জেবরা (zebra)
• Breton: roudenneged (br)
• Bulgarian: зебра (bg) f (zebra)
• Catalan: zebra (ca) f
• Cherokee: ᏐᏈᎵ ᏧᎶᎸᏗ (soquili tsulolvdi), ᏐᏈᎵ ᏧᎵᏍᏆᏓᏃᎯ (soquili tsulisquadanohi)
• Cheyenne: nêškovávo'ha
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 斑馬／斑马 (bānmǎ), 斑马 (zh) (bānmǎ)

• Czech: zebra (cs) f
• Danish: zebra (da)
• Dutch: zebra (nl) m
• Esperanto: zebro (eo)
• Estonian: sebra
• Finnish: seepra (fi)
• French: zèbre (fr) m
• Galician: cebra (gl) f
• German: Zebra (de) n
• Greek: ζέβρος (el) m (zévros), ζέβρα (el) f (zévra), όναγρος (el) m (ónagros)
• Greenlandic: siutituut nimeruaartut
• Haitian Creole: zèb
• Hebrew: זברה (he) f (zébra)
• Hungarian: zebra (hu)
• Icelandic: sebrahestur (is) m
• Ido: zebro (io)
• Indonesian: zebra (id)
• Interlingua: zebra
• Irish: séabra
• Italian: zebra (it)
• Japanese: 縞馬, シマウマ (shimauma), ゼブラ (zebura)
• Jèrriais:
• Khmer: សេះបង្កង់ (seh bɑngkɑng)
• Kongo: mbizi
• Korean: 얼룩말 (ko) (eollukmal)
• Koyraboro Senni Songhai: ganjifarka
• Ladin: zebra f
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• Lao: ມ້າລາຍ (maa-laaj)
• Latin: equus zebra, hippotīgris m or f
• Latvian: zebra f
• Limburgish: zaeber (li)
• Lingala: zébélé
• Luxembourgish: Zebra (lb) m
• Malay: kuda belang
• Nahuatl: cebra
• Nama: ǃgoreb
• Navajo: tééh łį́į́ʼ
• Northern Sotho: pitsi
• Norwegian: sebra (no) m

  Bokmål: sebra (no) m

  Nynorsk: sebra m

• Oromo: zebra
• Papiamentu: zebra
• Persian: گورخر (fa) (gurxar)
• Polish: zebra (pl) f
• Portuguese: zebra (pt) f
• Quechua: siwra
• Romanian: zebră (ro) f
• Russian: зебра (ru) f (zébra)
• Scottish Gaelic: asal-stiallach m or f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: зебра f

  Roman: zebra f

• Shona: mbizi
• Sindhi: زيبرو (sd) m, زيبرِي (sd) f
• Slovak: zebra f
• Slovene: zebra (sl) f
• Spanish: cebra (es) f
• Swahili: punda milia class 9/10
• Swedish: zebra (sv) c, sebra (sv) c
• Turkish: zebra (tr)
• Uzbek: zebralar
• Venetian: xebra
• Veps: zebr
• Volapük: sebrad (♂♀), hisebrad (♂), jisebrad (♀), sebradül (♂♀ offspring, young), hisebradül (♂ offspring), jisebradül (♀ offspring), stripajeval (obsolete)
• Welsh: sebra
• Wolof: fasu àll wi
• Xhosa: iqwarhashe
• Yoruba: kẹ́tẹ́kẹ́tẹ́ abilà
• Zulu: idube (zu)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• (deprecated template usage) Hindi: जेबरा (jebarA)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• (deprecated template usage) Telugu: చారల గుర్రం (cārala gurraṁ), కంచర గాడిద (te) (kañcara gāḍida)
• (deprecated template usage) Welsh: sebra

See also

• quagga
• Equus burchelli, Equus grevyi, Equus quagga, Equus zebra

Anagrams

• braze

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Basque

Noun

zebra ?

1. zebra

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Catalan

Noun

zebra f (plural zebres)

1. zebra

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Czech

Noun

zebra f

1. zebra

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Danish

Noun

zebra c (singular definite zebraen, plural indefinite zebraer)

1. zebra

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Esperanto

Adjective

zebra (accusative singular zebran, plural zebraj, accusative plural zebrajn)

1. zebrine, hippotigrine

Hypernyms

• ekveda (“equid”)

Related terms

• zebro (“zebra”)

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Hungarian

Zebra [1].

Zebra [2].

Pronunciation

• (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) IPA^(key): /ˈzɛbrɒ/

Noun

zebra (plural zebrák)

1. zebra (animal)
2. pedestrian crossing, crosswalk, zebra crossing

Declension

Inflection of zebra
	singular	plural
nominative	zebra	zebrák
accusative	zebrát	zebrákat
dative	zebrának	zebráknak
instrumental	zebrával	zebrákkal
causal-final	zebráért	zebrákért
translative	zebrává	zebrákká
terminative	zebráig	zebrákig
essive-formal	zebraként	zebrákként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	zebrában	zebrákban
superessive	zebrán	zebrákon
adessive	zebránál	zebráknál
illative	zebrába	zebrákba
sublative	zebrára	zebrákra
allative	zebrához	zebrákhoz
elative	zebrából	zebrákból
delative	zebráról	zebrákról
ablative	zebrától	zebráktól
non-attributive possessive - singular	zebráé	zebráké
non-attributive possessive - plural	zebráéi	zebrákéi

Possessive forms of zebra
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	zebrám	zebráim
2nd person sing.	zebrád	zebráid
3rd person sing.	zebrája	zebrái
1st person plural	zebránk	zebráink
2nd person plural	zebrátok	zebráitok
3rd person plural	zebrájuk	zebráik

Synonyms

• (crosswalk): gyalogátkelőhely

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Italian

Pronunciation

• (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) IPA^(key): /ˈdzɛːbra/

Noun

zebra f (plural zebre)

1. zebra
2. (deprecated template usage) (in the plural, informal) zebra crossing

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Ladin

Noun

zebra f (plural zebres)

1. zebra

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Latin

Noun

1. zebra (Equus zebra)

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Latvian

Zebra

Etymology

Possibly ultimately from a Congolese name for the animal, via (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Portuguese, via some other European language. Possibly also ultimately from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin (deprecated template usage) equiferus, via Portuguese and/or Italian.

Pronunciation

• (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) IPA^(key): /ˈzɛbra/

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Noun

zebra f (4th declension)

1. zebra (esp. Equus zebra)

Declension

Declension of zebra (4th declension)

	singular (vienskaitlis)	plural (daudzskaitlis)
nominative (nominatīvs)	zebra	zebras
accusative (akuzatīvs)	zebru	zebras
genitive (ģenitīvs)	zebras	zebru
dative (datīvs)	zebrai	zebrām
instrumental (instrumentālis)	zebru	zebrām
locative (lokatīvs)	zebrā	zebrās
vocative (vokatīvs)	zebra	zebras

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Polish

Pronunciation

• (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) IPA^(key): /ˈzɛbra/

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Noun

zebra f

1. zebra (animal)
2. (deprecated template usage) (colloquial) zebra crossing

Declension

Declension of zebra

	singular	plural
nominative	zebra	zebry
genitive	zebry	zebr
dative	zebrze	zebrom
accusative	zebrę	zebry
instrumental	zebrą	zebrami
locative	zebrze	zebrach
vocative	zebro	zebry

Synonyms

• (crossing) przejście dla pieszych, pasy

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Portuguese

Noun

zebra f (plural s)

1. zebra

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Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) IPA^(key): /zêbra/

Noun

1. zebra

Declension

Declension of zebra

	singular	plural
nominative	zebra	zebre
genitive	zebre	zebra
dative	zebri	zebrama
accusative	zebru	zebre
vocative	zebro	zebre
locative	zebri	zebrama
instrumental	zebrom	zebrama

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Slovene

Pronunciation

• (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) IPA^(key): /ˈzèːbra/, /ˈzéːbra/
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Noun

1. zebra

Declension

The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks.

Feminine, a-stem
nom. sing.	zéba
gen. sing.	zébe
	singular	dual	plural
nominative (imenovȃlnik)	zéba	zébi	zébe
genitive (rodȋlnik)	zébe	zéb	zéb
dative (dajȃlnik)	zébi	zébama	zébam
accusative (tožȋlnik)	zébo	zébi	zébe
locative (mẹ̑stnik)	zébi	zébah	zébah
instrumental (orọ̑dnik)	zébo	zébama	zébami

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Spanish

Noun

zebra f (plural zebras)

1. (deprecated template usage) (obsolete) (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) Alternative spelling of cebra

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Swedish

Alternative forms

• sebra

Noun

zebra c

1. zebra

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Turkish

Noun

zebra (definite accusative zebrayı, plural zebralar)

1. zebra