elefanta

Esperanto

Etymology

Etymology tree

Esperanto elefanto

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂

Proto-Italic *-ā

Latin -ader.

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Latin -a

Italian -ader.

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Latin -a

Old Spanish -a

Spanish -ader.

Esperanto -a

Esperanto elefanta

From elefanto + -a.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /eleˈfanta/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -anta
• Syllabification: e‧le‧fan‧ta

Adjective

elefanta (accusative singular elefantan, plural elefantaj, accusative plural elefantajn)

1. elephantine

Lower Sorbian

Noun

elefanta

1. genitive singular of elefant
2. accusative singular of elefant
3. nominative dual of elefant

Malagasy

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /eleˈfaⁿta/, [eleˈfaⁿtḁ]

Noun

elefanta

1. elephant

   Synonym: trepo

Further reading

• elefanta in Malagasy dictionaries at malagasyword.org

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /e.leˈfɐ̃.tɐ/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /e.leˈfɐ̃.tɐ/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /e.leˈfɐ̃.ta/

• Audio (Brazil (Caipira)):

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• Rhymes: -ɐ̃tɐ

Noun

elefanta f (plural elefantas)

1. female equivalent of elefante (“elephant”)

   Synonyms: (Brazil) elefoa, (rare) aliá, aleá

Further reading

• “elefanta”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “elefanta”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /eleˈfanta/ [e.leˈfãn̪.t̪a]
• Rhymes: -anta
• Syllabification: e‧le‧fan‧ta

Noun

elefanta f (plural elefantas)

1. female equivalent of elefante (“elephant”)

Further reading

• “elefante”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025

Swedish

Etymology

From elefant +‎ -a.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛlɛˈfanˌta/

Verb

elefanta (present elefantar, preterite elefantade, supine elefantat, imperative elefanta)

1. (also reflexive) to trudge, plod (walk, step move heavily in a way that reminds the movement of an elephant)

   Jag kommer att elefanta iväg till jobbet.

   I will trudge to work.

   Eftersom jag kommer att elefanta iväg mig till jobbet...

   Because I will walk heavily to the work...

Usage notes

Mostly used with iväg (“away, off to”).

Conjugation

Conjugation of elefanta (weak)

	active		passive
infinitive	elefanta		elefantas
supine	elefantat		elefantats
imperative	elefanta		—
imper. plural1	elefanten		—
	present	past	present	past
indicative	elefantar	elefantade	elefantas	elefantades
ind. plural1	elefanta	elefantade	elefantas	elefantades
subjunctive2	elefante	elefantade	elefantes	elefantades
present participle		elefantande
past participle		elefantad

¹ Archaic. ² Dated. See the appendix on Swedish verbs.

References

• Borin, Lars; Forsberg, Markus; Olsson, Leif-Jöran; Uppström, Jonatan (2012), “The open lexical infrastructure of Språkbanken”, in Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation‎^[1], Istanbul: ELRA