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Etymology [edit]
From French giraffe (now girafe), from Arabic زَرَافَة (zarāfa, “giraffe”), apparently ultimately from Persian زرناپا (zurnāpā, “giraffe”), a compound of زرنا (zurnā, “flute, zurna”) and پا (pā, “leg”). (Can we verify(+) this etymology?)
Pronunciation [edit]
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?!
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Derived terms [edit]
Translations [edit]
Mammal
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- Lao: ກວາງຄໍຍາວ (lo) (kwāng khǭ nyāo)
- Latin: camelopardalis (la) f
- Latvian: žirafe (lv)
- Lithuanian: žirafa (lt) f
- Luxembourgish: Giraff (lb) f
- Macedonian: жирафа (mk) (žiráfa) f
- Malay: zirafah (ms)
- Malayalam: ജിറാഫ് (ml) (jiṟāph)
- Mongolian: анааш (mn) (anaaš)
- Nama: ǃnaib
- Navajo: tsin yilátah ayání
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: sjiraff (nb) m
- Nynorsk: sjiraff (nn) m
- Persian: زرّافه (fa) (zarrâfe), شترگاوپلنگ (fa) (šotorgâvpalang), زرناپا (fa) (zornâpâ)
- 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), (obsolete) гираф (ru) (giráf) m
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: жирафа (sh)
- Roman: žirafa (sh) f
- Sinhalese: ජිරාෆ් (si)
- 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) , шутурпаланг (tg) (šuturpalang)
- Tamil: ஒட்டகச்சிவிங்கி (ta) (oṭṭakacciviṅki)
- Telugu: జిరాఫీ (te) (jirāphī)
- Thai: ยีราฟ (th) (yee râaf)
- Turkish: zürafa (tr)
- Turkmen: žiraf (tk)
- Ukrainian: жирафа (uk) (žyráfa) f , жираф (uk) (žyráf) m
- Urdu: جراف (ur) (jirāf) m
- Uzbek: jirafa (uz)
- Vietnamese: hươu cao cổ (vi)
- Volapük: (♂♀) giraf (vo), (♂) higiraf (vo), (♀) jigiraf (vo), (♂♀ offspring, young) girafül (vo), (♂ offspring) higirafül (vo), (♀ offspring) jigirafül (vo), (diminutive ♂♀) girafil (vo), (augmentative ♂♀) legiraf (vo)
- Welsh: jiráff (cy) m
- Wolof: njamala mi (wo)
- Yiddish: דזשיראַף (yi) (dzhiraf) m
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Anagrams [edit]
Italian [edit]
giraffe f
- Plural form of giraffa