zebra

See also Zebra, zébra, zebră, zebrā, and żebra

English

Wikipedia

Zebra [1].

Etymology

1600; from Italian zebra, from Portuguese zebra, zebro ‘zebra’, from Old Portuguese enzebro, ezebra, azebra ‘wild ass’, from earlier cebrario (882), ezebrario (897), from Vulgar Latin *eciferus, from Latin equiferus (Pliny) ‘wild horse’.

Pronunciation

• (UK, Commonwealth) IPA: /ˈzɛbɹə/, /ˈziːbɹə/

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• (US and trad. English) IPA: /ˈziːbɹə/

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Noun

zebra (plural zebras)

1. An African animal, closely related to a horse, with black and white stripes.
2. (sports, slang) A referee.
3. (medicine, slang) An unlikely diagnosis, especially for symptoms probably caused by a common ailment. (Originates in the advice often given to medical students: "When you hear hoof beats, think of horses, not zebras.")
4. (vulgar, pejorative, slang) A bi-racial person, specifically one born to a member of the Sub-Saharan African race and a Caucasian.

The term "zebra," as used in its pejorative sense, was popularized on the television situation comedy "The Jeffersons." The term was used by the series protagonist, George Jefferson (Sherman Hemsley), to express disdain for his daughter-in-law, Jenny Willis Jefferson (whose father was white and mother was black).

Synonyms

• (unusual diagnosis): fascinoma

Hyponyms

• (horse-like animal): Equus burchelli, Equus grevyi, Equus quagga, Equus zebra

Derived terms

Grevy's Zebra mountain zebra plains zebra zebra butterfly zebra crossing

zebra finch zebra fish zebra mongoose zebra mussel zebra shark

Translations

African animal

• Afrikaans: kwagga (af)
• Amharic: የሜዳ አህያ (am) (yämeda ahya)
• Arabic: حمار وحشي (ar) (ḥimār wáḥšiy) m, حمار وحشي مخطط (ar) (ḥimār wáḥšiy muxáṭṭaṭ) m, حمار الزرد (ar) (ḥimār al-zárad) m
• Armenian: զեբր (hy) (zebr) , (rare) վագրաձի (hy) (vagraji) 
• Asturian: cebra (ast) f
• Basque: zebra (eu)
• Bengali: জেবরা (bn) (zebra)
• Bulgarian: зебра (bg) (zebra) f 
• Catalan: zebra (ca) f
• Cherokee: ᏐᏈᎵ ᏧᎶᎸᏗ (chr) (soquili tsulolvdi), ᏐᏈᎵ ᏧᎵᏍᏆᏓᏃᎯ (chr) (soquili tsulisquadanohi)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 斑馬 (cmn), 斑马 (cmn) (bānmǎ)

• Czech: zebra (cs) f
• Danish: zebra (da)
• Dutch: zebra (nl) m
• Esperanto: zebro (eo)
• Estonian: sebra (et)
• Finnish: seepra (fi)
• French: zèbre (fr) m
• Galician: cebra (gl) f
• German: Zebra (de) n
• Greek: ζέβρος (el) (zévros) m , ζέβρα (el) (zévra) f , όναγρος (el) (ónagros) m 
• Hebrew: זברה (he) (zébra) f
• Hungarian: zebra (hu)
• Icelandic: sebrahestur (is) m
• Ido: zebro (io)
• Indonesian: zebra (id)
• Interlingua: zebra (ia)
• Italian: zebra (it)
• Japanese: 縞馬 (ja), シマウマ (ja) (shimauma), ゼブラ (ja) (zebura)
• Jèrriais: zèbre m

• Khmer: សេះបង្កង់ (km) (seh bɑngkɑng)
• Kongo: please add this translation if you can
• Korean: 얼룩말 (ko) (eollukmal)
• Lao: ມ້າລາຍ (lo) (maa-laaj)
• Latin: equus zebra
• Latvian: zebra (lv) f
• Luxembourgish: Zebra (lb) m
• Malay: kuda belang (ms)
• Nama: ǃgoreb
• Navajo: tééh łį́į́ʼ
• Norwegian: sebra (no) m
• Persian: گورخر (fa) (gurxar)
• Polish: zebra (pl) f
• Portuguese: zebra (pt) f
• Romanian: zebră (ro) f
• Russian: зебра (ru) (zébra) f 
• Scottish Gaelic: asal-stiallach (gd) m and f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: зебра (sh) f

  Roman: zebra (sh) f

• Sindhi: زيبرو (sd) m, زيبرِي (sd) f
• Slovak: zebra (sk) f
• Slovene: zebra (sl) f
• Spanish: cebra (es) f
• Swahili: punda milia (sw) 9/10
• Swedish: zebra (sv) c, sebra (sv) c
• Turkish: zebra (tr)
• Volapük: (♂♀) sebrad (vo), (♂) hisebrad (vo), (♀) jisebrad (vo), (♂♀ offspring, young) sebradül (vo), (♂ offspring) hisebradül (vo), (♀ offspring) jisebradül (vo), (obsolete, jeval > jevod "horse" >) stripajeval (vo)
• Wolof: fasu àll wi (wo)
• Yoruba: kẹ́tẹ́kẹ́tẹ́ abilà (yo)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Help:How to check translations.

Translations to be checked

• Afrikaans: quagga
• Hindi: जेबरा (jebarA)

• Telugu: చారల గుర్రం (chaarala gurraM), కంచర గాడిద (kamchara gaaDida)
• Welsh: sebra

See also

• quagga

Anagrams

• braze

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Basque

Noun

zebra

1. zebra

Declension

"zebra" (animate noun) declension indefinite singular plural absolutive zebra zebra zebrak ergative zebrak zebrak zebrek dative zebrari zebrari zebrei genitive zebraren zebraren zebren comitative zebrarekin zebrarekin zebrekin causative zebrarengatik zebrarengatik zebrengatik benefactive zebrarentzat zebrarentzat zebrentzat instrumental zebraz zebraz zebrez innessive zebrarengan zebrarengan zebrengan allative zebrarengana zebrarengana zebrengana terminative zebrarenganaino zebrarenganaino zebrenganaino directive zebrarenganantz zebrarenganantz zebrenganantz destinative zebrarenganako zebrarenganako zebrenganako ablative zebrarengandik zebrarengandik zebrengandik partitive zebrarik - - prolative zebratzat - -

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Catalan

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Noun

zebra f (plural zebres)

1. zebra

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Czech

Noun

zebra f

1. zebra

Declension

    declension of zebra

	singular	plural
nominative	zebra	zebry
genitive	zebry	zebr
dative	zebře	zebrám
accusative	zebru	zebry
vocative	zebro	zebry
locative	zebře	zebrách
instrumental	zebrou	zebrami

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Danish

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Noun

zebra c (singular definite zebraen, plural indefinite zebraer)

1. zebra

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Esperanto

Adjective

zebra (plural zebraj, accusative singular zebran, accusative plural zebrajn)

1. zebrine, hippotigrine

Hypernyms

• ekveda (“equid”)

Related terms

• zebro (“zebra”)

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Hungarian

Zebra [1].

Zebra [2].

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈzɛbrɒ/
• Hyphenation: zeb‧ra

Noun

zebra (plural zebrák)

1. zebra (animal)
2. pedestrian crossing, crosswalk, zebra crossing

Declension

declension of zebra singular plural nominative zebra zebrák accusative zebrát zebrákat dative zebrának zebráknak instrumental zebrával zebrákkal causal-final zebráért zebrákért translative zebrává zebrákká terminative zebráig zebrákig essive-formal zebraként zebrákként essive-modal - - inessive zebrában zebrákban superessive zebrán zebrákon adessive zebránál zebráknál illative zebrába zebrákba sublative zebrára zebrákra allative zebrához zebrákhoz elative zebrából zebrákból delative zebráról zebrákról ablative zebrától zebráktól

possessives of zebra possessor singular possession plural possession 1st person sing. zebrám zebráim 2nd person sing. zebrád zebráid 3rd person sing. zebrája zebrái 1st person plural zebránk zebráink 2nd person plural zebrátok zebráitok 3rd person plural zebrájuk zebráik

Synonyms

• (crosswalk): gyalogátkelőhely

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Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈdzɛːbra/

Noun

zebra f (plural zebre)

1. zebra
2. (in the plural, informal) zebra crossing

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Latin

Noun

zebra (genitive zebrae); f, first declension

1. zebra (Equus zebra)

Inflection

Number	Singular	Plural
nominative	zebra	zebrae
genitive	zebrae	zebrārum
dative	zebrae	zebrīs
accusative	zebram	zebrās
ablative	zebrā	zebrīs
vocative	zebra	zebrae

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Latvian

Wikipedia ^lv

Zebra

Etymology

Possibly ultimately from a Congolese name for the animal, via Portuguese, via some other European language. Possibly also ultimately from Latin equiferus (“wild horse”), via Portuguese and/or Italian.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈzɛbra/

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Noun

zebra f, 4th declension

1. zebra (esp. Equus zebra)

Declension

declension of zebra

	singular (vienskaitlis)	plural (daudzskaitlis)
nominative (nominatīvs)	zebra	zebras
accusative (akuzatīvs)	zebru	zebras
genitive (ģenitīvs)	zebras	zebru
dative (datīvs)	zebrai	zebrām
instrumental (instrumentālis)	zebru	zebrām
locative (lokatīvs)	zebrā	zebrās
vocative (vokatīvs)	zebra	zebras

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Polish

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Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈzɛbra/

• zebra

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Noun

zebra f

1. zebra (animal)
2. (colloquial) zebra crossing

Declension

    declension of zebra

	singular	plural
nominative	zebra	zebry
genitive	zebry	zebr
dative	zebrze	zebrom
accusative	zebrę	zebry
instrumental	zebrą	zebrami
locative	zebrze	zebrach
vocative	zebro	zebry

Synonyms

• (crossing) przejście dla pieszych, pasy

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Portuguese

Noun

zebra f (plural zebras)

1. zebra

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Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA: /zêbra/

Noun

zȅbra f (Cyrillic spelling зе̏бра)

1. zebra

Declension

    declension of zebra

	singular	plural
nominative	zebra	zebre
genitive	zebre	zebra
dative	zebri	zebrama
accusative	zebru	zebre
vocative	zebro	zebre
locative	zebri	zebrama
instrumental	zebrom	zebrama

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Slovene

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈzeːbra/

Noun

zébra f (dual zebri, plural zebre)

1. zebra

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Spanish

Noun

zebra f (plural zebras)

1. (obsolete) Alternative spelling of cebra.

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Swedish

Alternative forms

• sebra

Noun

zebra c

1. zebra

Declension

Declension of zebra

	singular		plural
common	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	zebra	zebran	zebror	zebrorna
genitive	zebras	zebrans	zebrors	zebrornas

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Turkish

Noun

zebra (definite accusative zebrayı, plural zebralar)

1. zebra

Declension

declension of zebra

	singular (tekil)	plural (çoğul)
nominative (yalın)	zebra	zebralar
definite accusative (belirtme)	zebrayı	zebraları
dative (yönelme)	zebraya	zebralara
locative (bulunma)	zebrada	zebralarda
ablative (çıkma)	zebradan	zebralardan
genitive (tamlayan)	zebranın	zebraların