jaguar

See also Jaguar

English

Wikipedia

Pronunciation

• (RP) IPA: /ˈdʒæɡjuːə/
• (US) IPA: /ˈdʒæɡwɑr/, X-SAMPA: /"dZ{%gwAr\/, /"dZ{gju%Ar\/

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a jaguar

Etymology

Via Portuguese, either from Guaraní jaguarete or from Old Tupi jaguara.

Noun

jaguar (plural jaguars)

1. A carnivorous spotted large cat native to South and Central America. Scientific name: Panthera onca.

Translations

Panthera onca

• Armenian: յագուար (hy) (yaguar)
• Azeri: yaquar (az)
• Borôro: adügo
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 美洲豹 (cmn) (měizhōubào)

• Classical Nahuatl: ocelotl
• Czech: jaguár (cs) m
• Dutch: jaguar (nl) m
• Esperanto: jaguaro (eo)
• Estonian: jaaguar (et)
• Finnish: jaguaari (fi)
• French: jaguar (fr) m
• German: Jaguar (de) m
• Greek: ιαγουάρος (el) (iagouáros) m
• Hebrew: יגואר (he)
• Indonesian: jaguar (id)
• Irish: iaguar (ga) m
• Isthmus Zapotec: beedxeʼ

• Italian: giaguaro (it)
• Latvian: jaguārs (lv) m
• Macedonian: јагуар (mk) (jaguar) m
• Malay: jaguar (ms)
• Mayan: B'alam
• Navajo: Shádiʼááhdę́ę́ʼ náshdóítsoh łikizhígíí
• Paumarí: jomahi hiihiha f
• Polish: jaguar (pl) m
• Portuguese: jaguar (pt) m, onça (pt) f
• Quechua: otorongo (qu)
• Romanian: jaguar (ro) m
• Russian: ягуар (ru) (jaguár) m
• Serbo-Croatian: Jaguar (sh)
• Spanish: jaguar (es) m, tigre (es) m (Bolivia, Colombia, Venezuela, especially rural usage), yaguareté (es) m (Argentina, Paraguay)
• Swahili: jagwa (sw)
• Turkish: jaguar (tr)

See also

• jaguarundi

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Pronunciation

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Noun

jaguar m (plural jaguars, diminutive jaguartje)

1. jaguar

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ʒa.ɡwaʁ/

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Noun

jaguar m and f (plural jaguars)

1. (masculine) Jaguar (cat)
2. (masculine) Jaguar (Mac OS 10.2)
3. (feminine) Jaguar (car)
4. (feminine) Jaguar (British car manufacturer)

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Malay

Etymology

From English jaguar, from Portuguese, from Old Tupi jaguara.

Alternative forms

• جاݢوار

Pronunciation

• IPA: /d͡ʒagua(r)/
• Rhymes: -ua(r), -wa(r), -a(r)

Noun

jaguar (Jawi spelling جاݢوار)

1. jaguar (Panthera onca)

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Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA: [jaˈɡuar]

Noun

jaguar m

1. jaguar (Panthera onca)
2. Jaguar car

Declension

    declension of jaguar

	singular	plural
nominative	jaguar	jaguary
genitive	jaguara	jaguarów
dative	jaguarowi	jaguarom
accusative	jaguara	jaguary
instrumental	jaguarem	jaguarami
locative	jaguarze	jaguarach
vocative	jaguarze	jaguary

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Portuguese

Etymology

From Tupian.

Pronunciation

• (Paulista) IPA: /ʒa.ˈgwaɹ/
• (South Brazil) IPA: /ʒa.ˈgwaɻ/
• (Carioca) IPA: /ʒa.ˈgwaχ/

Noun

jaguar m (plural jaguares)

1. jaguar

Synonyms

• onça, onça-pintada

Related terms

• jaguara, jaguaraíva, jaguaré, jaguaretê, jaguatirica

Descendants

• English: jaguar

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Romanian

Noun

jaguar m

1. jaguar

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Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA: /jâɡuaːr/
• Hyphenation: ja‧gu‧ar

Noun

jȁguār m (Cyrillic spelling ја̏гуа̄р)

1. jaguar

Declension

    declension of jaguar

	singular	plural
nominative	jaguar	jaguari
genitive	jaguara	jaguara
dative	jaguaru	jaguarima
accusative	jaguara	jaguare
vocative	jaguaru	jaguari
locative	jaguaru	jaguarima
instrumental	jaguarom	jaguarima

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Spanish

Noun

jaguar m (plural jaguares)

1. jaguar (Panthera onca)

Synonyms

• yaguareté

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Turkish

Pronunciation

• IPA: [ʒɑ.ɡʊ.ɑɾ]

Noun

jaguar (definite accusative jaguarı, plural jaguarlar)

1. jaguar

Declension

declension of jaguar

	singular (tekil)	plural (çoğul)
nominative (yalın)	jaguar	jaguarlar
definite accusative (belirtme)	jaguarı	jaguarları
dative (yönelme)	jaguara	jaguarlara
locative (bulunma)	jaguarda	jaguarlarda
ablative (çıkma)	jaguardan	jaguarlardan
genitive (tamlayan)	jaguarın	jaguarların