tapir

See also Tapir, and tapír

English

A 19th-century watercolour of a Malayan tapir (Tapirus indicus), from the William Farquhar Collection of Natural History Drawings at the National Museum of Singapore

Wikipedia

Etymology

French tapir, from Tupian [[tapira#Template:tup|tapira]].

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈteɪpə/, /ˈteɪpɪə/
• Rhymes: -eɪpə(r)
• Homophone: taper

Noun

tapir (plural tapirs)

1. Any one 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.

Hyponyms

• Baird's tapir, Tapirus bairdii
• Brazilian tapir, Tapirus terrestris
• Malayan tapir, Tapirus indicus
• mountain tapir, Tapirus pinchaque
• Tapirus californicus †
• Tapirus copei †
• Tapirus merriami †
• Tapirus polkensis †
• Tapirus veroensis †

Translations

large odd-toed ungulate with a long prehensile upper lip of the family Tapiridae.

• Arabic: تابیر (ar) (tabiir) m
• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Basque: tapir (eu)
• Bulgarian: тапир (bg) (tapir) 
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 貘 (cmn) (mò)

• Czech: tapírovití
• Danish: tapir (da)
• Dutch: tapir (nl) m
• Esperanto: (♂♀) tapiro (eo), (♂) virtapiro (eo), (neologism ♂) tapiriĉo (eo), (♀) tapirino (eo), (♂♀ offspring, young) tapirido (eo), (♂ offspring) virtapirido (eo), (neologism ♂ offspring) tapiridiĉo (eo), (♀ offspring) tapiridino (eo)
• Finnish: tapiiri (fi)
• French: tapir (fr) m
• German: Tapir (de) m
• Greek: τάπιρος (el) (tápiros) 
• Hebrew: טפיר (he) (tapír)
• Hungarian: tapír (hu)
• Icelandic: káputapír (is) m
• Ido: (♂♀) tapiro (io), (♂) tapirulo (io), (♀) tapirino (io), (♂♀ offspring, young) tapiryuno (io), (♂ offspring) tapiryunulo (io), (♀ offspring) tapiryunino (io)

• Italian: tapiro (it) m
• Japanese: バク (ja) (baku)
• Lithuanian: tapyras (lt)
• Malay: tenuk (ms), cipan (ms), kipan (ms), badak tampung (ms), badak murai (ms), badak babi (ms), kuda air (ms), senuk (ms), tapir (ms)
• Navajo: bíchį́į́h naatsʼǫǫdí
• Norwegian: tapir (no)
• Polish: tapir (pl)
• Portuguese: anta (pt) f
• Russian: тапир (ru) (tapír) m 
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: тапири (sh)

  Roman: tapiri (sh)

• Slovene: tapir (sl)
• Spanish: tapir (es) m, anta (es) f (Bolivia), anteburro (es) m (Mexico), danta (es) f (Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Guatemala, Mexico, Panama, Venezuela), danto (es) m (Honduras, Nicaragua), sachavaca (es) f (Peru)
• Swedish: tapir (sv)
• Volapük: (♂♀) tapir (vo), (♂) hitapir (vo), (♀) jitapir (vo), (♂♀ offspring, young) tapirül (vo), (♂ offspring) hitapirül (vo), (♀ offspring) jitapirül (vo)

See also

• Tapir on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• parti

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Dutch

Noun

tapir m (plural tapirs, diminutive tapirtje)

1. tapir

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA: /tapiʁ/

Etymology 1

From Frankish *tappjan.

Verb

tapir

1. (reflexive) to hide

Conjugation

• 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-.

   Conjugation of tapir (see also Appendix:French verbs)

		simple			compound
infinitive		tapir			avoir tapi
gerund		en tapissant			en ayant tapi
present participle		tapissant
past participle		tapi
person		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il	nous	vous	ils
simple tenses	present	tapis	tapis	tapit	tapissons	tapissez	tapissent
	imperfect	tapissais	tapissais	tapissait	tapissions	tapissiez	tapissaient
	past historic1	tapis	tapis	tapit	tapîmes	tapîtes	tapirent
	future	tapirai	tapiras	tapira	tapirons	tapirez	tapiront
	conditional	tapirais	tapirais	tapirait	tapirions	tapiriez	tapiraient
compound tenses	present perfect	Use the present tense of avoir followed by the past participle
	pluperfect	Use the imperfect tense of avoir followed by the past participle
	past anterior1	Use the past historic tense of avoir followed by the past participle
	future perfect	Use the future tense of avoir followed by the past participle
	conditional perfect	Use the conditional tense of avoir followed by the past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il	que nous	que vous	qu’ils
simple tenses	present	tapisse	tapisses	tapisse	tapissions	tapissiez	tapissent
	imperfect1	tapisse	tapisses	tapît	tapissions	tapissiez	tapissent
compound tenses	past	Use the present subjunctive of avoir followed by the past participle
	pluperfect1	Use the imperfect subjunctive of avoir followed by the past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
		—	tapis	—	tapissons	tapissez	—
1literary tenses

Etymology 2

From Tupian [[tapira#Template:tup|tapira]].

Noun

tapir m (plural tapirs)

1. tapir

Anagrams

• parti, pâtir, priât, ripât

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Polish

Noun

tapir m

1. tapir

Declension

    declension of tapir

	singular	plural
nominative	tapir	tapiry
genitive	tapira	tapirów
dative	tapirowi	tapirom
accusative	tapira	tapiry
instrumental	tapirem	tapirami
locative	tapirze	tapirach
vocative	tapirze	tapiry