tarsier

Translingual

Etymology

New Latin, from French tarsier, from Latin tarsus, from Ancient Greek ταρσός (tarsos, “wickerwork mat"; "broad, flat surface"”)

Noun

tarsier

1. Used attributively as a species epithet

Derived terms

• Tarsius tarsier

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English

Wikipedia

Noun

tarsier (plural tarsiers)

Philippine Tarsier Tarsius syrichta

1. An insectivorous primate of the Tarsiidae family, having very large eyes and long feet, native mainly to several islands of Southeast Asia.

Translations

insectivorous primate

• Arabic: تارسير (ar) (tarsiir) m
• Bulgarian: дългопети (bg) (dǎlgopeti)
• Catalan: tarser (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 眼鏡猴 (cmn), 眼镜猴 (cmn) (yǎnjìng-hóu)

• Czech: nártoun (cs)
• Danish: spøgelsesabe (da)
• Dutch: spookdiertjes (nl)
• Finnish: kummituseläin (fi)
• French: tarsier (fr) m
• German: Koboldmaki (de) m
• Hebrew: קופיף (he)
• Hungarian: koboldmaki-alkatúak (hu)
• Italian: tarsio (it)
• Japanese: メガネザル (ja) (megane-zaru)
• Korean: 안경원숭이 (ko) (angyeong-wonsung-i)

• Lithuanian: ilgakulnis m
• Malay: kera hantu (ms)
• Navajo: mágí binááʼtsohígíí
• Norman: tarsyi
• Norwegian: spøkelsesaper (no)
• Occitan: tarsièr (oc)
• Polish: wyrakowate (pl)
• Russian: долгопят (ru) (dolgopját) m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: аветњаци (sh), тарзијери (sh)

  Roman: avetnjaci (sh), tarzijeri (sh)

• Spanish: tarsero (es) m, tarsio (es) m
• Swedish: spökdjur (sv), vristdjur (sv)
• Tagalog: mamag (tl)
• Waray-Waray: magô

See also

• Tarsius on Wikispecies. Wikispecies: Tarsius

Anagrams

• artsier, tarries

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Latin

Noun

tarsier

1. (New Latin) type species name of tarsier

Derived terms

• Tarsius tarsier