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Wikipedia
[edit] Etymology
From French giraffe (now girafe), from Arabic زرافة (zarāfah), from Classical Syriac ܙܵܪܝܼܦܵܐ (zarāfa).
[edit] Pronunciation
giraffe (plural giraffes)
- A ruminant, of the genus Giraffa, of the African savannah with long legs and highly elongated neck, which make it the tallest living animal; yellow fur patterned with dark spots, often in the form of a network; and two or more short, skin-covered horns.
- (Cockney rhyming slang) A laugh.
- Are you having a giraffe?!
[edit] Synonyms
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[edit] Translations
Mammal
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- Lithuanian: žirafa (lt) f.
- Luxembourgish: Giraff (lb) f.
- Macedonian: жирафа (mk) (žiráfa) f.
- Malay: zirafah (ms)
- Navajo: tsin yilátah ayání
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: sjiraff (nb) m.
- Nynorsk: sjiraff (nn) m.
- Persian: زرّافه (fa) (zarrafe), شترگاوپلنگ (fa) (šotorgâvpalang)
- Polish: żyrafa (pl) f.
- Portuguese: girafa (pt) f.
- Romanian: girafă (ro) f.
- Romansch: giraffa f.
- Russian: жираф (ru) (žiráf) m., жирафа (ru) (žiráfa) f. (obsolete)
- Serbian: жирафа (sr)
- Slovak: žirafa (sk) f.
- Slovene: žirafa (sl) f.
- Somali: geri (so)
- Sotho: thuhlo (st)
- Spanish: jirafa (es) f.
- Swahili: twiga (sw)
- Swedish: giraff (sv) c.
- Tagalog: dyirap (tl)
- Tajik: заррофа (tg) (zarrofa)
- Telugu: జిరాఫీ (jiraaphI)
- Thai: ยีราฟ (th)
- Turkish: zürafa (tr)
- Turkmen: žiraf (tk)
- Ukrainian: жирафа (uk) (žyráfa) f., жираф (uk) (žyráf) m.
- Urdu: جراف (ur)
- Vietnamese: hươu cao cổ (vi)
- Volapük: (male or female) giraf (vo), (male) higiraf (vo), (female) jigiraf (vo), (male or female offspring, baby) girafül (vo), (male offspring, baby) higirafül (vo), (female offspring, baby) jigirafül (vo)
- Welsh: jiráff (cy) m.
- Wolof: njamala mi (wo)
- Yiddish: דזשעראַף (yi) (dzheraf)
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[edit] Italian
giraffe f.
- Plural form of giraffa.