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Etymology [ edit ] From French giraffe girafe Arabic زَرَافَة zarāfa , “ giraffe ” ).
Pronunciation [ edit ] giraffe (plural giraffes or giraffe
A ruminant , of the genus Giraffa savannah with long legs and highly elongated neck, which make it the tallest living animal; yellow fur patterned with dark spots, often in the form of a network ; and two or more short, skin-covered horns.
A giraffe unicycle .
( Cockney rhyming slang ) A laugh .
Are you having a giraffe ?!
Synonyms [ edit ] Derived terms [ edit ] Translations [ edit ]
mammal
Afrikaans: kameelperd (af)
Albanian: gjirafë (sq)
Amharic: ቀጭኔ ḳäč̣ne )
Amuzgo: kió' xtyo' tkò
Arabic: زَرَافَة f zarāfa )
Aramaic:
Classical Syriac: ܙܪܢܦܐ m zarnāp̄āʾ ), ܓܡܠ ܢܡܪܐ m gəmal nemrāʾ )
Armenian: ընձուղտ (hy) (ənjułt )
Asturian: xirafa f
Azeri: zürafə (az)
Basque: jirafa (eu)
Belarusian: жыра́фа f žyráfa )
Bengali: জরৈফ jôroiph )
Bulgarian: жира́ф (bg) m žiráf ), жира́фа (bg) f žiráfa )
Burmese: သစ်ကုလားအုတ် (my) (sacku.la:ut )
Catalan: girafa f
Central Melanau: jirapah
Cherokee: ᏗᎦᎵᏍᏚᎩᏍᎩ digalisdugisgi )
Chinese:
Cantonese: 長頸鹿 长颈鹿 coeng4 geng2 luk6 , coeng4 geng2 luk6 ⁻2 )
Hakka: 長頸鹿 长颈鹿 chhòng-kiáng-lu̍k )
Mandarin: 長頸鹿 (zh) , 长颈鹿 (zh) (chángjǐnglù )
Min Nan: 長頷鹿 (zh-min-nan) , 长颔鹿 tn̂g-ām-lo̍k ), 長頭鹿仔 长头鹿仔 tn̂g-thâu-lo̍k-á ), 麒麟鹿 kî-lîn-lo̍k )
Czech: žirafa (cs) f
Danish: giraf (da) c
Daur: чилин čilin )
Dutch: giraf (nl) f
Erzya: дуебабри dujebabri )
Esperanto: ĝirafo
Estonian: kaelkirjak (et)
Faroese: giraffur m
Finnish: kirahvi (fi)
French: girafe (fr) f
Galician: xirafa (gl) f
Georgian: ჟირაფი žirapi )
German: Giraffe (de) f
Greek: καμηλοπάρδαλη (el) f kamilopárdali )
Ancient: καμηλοπάρδαλις f kamēlopárdalis )
Gujarati: જિરાફ jirāph )
Haitian Creole: jiraf
Hebrew: גִ׳ירָף jiraf )
Hindi: जिराफ़ m jirāf )
Hungarian: zsiráf (hu)
Icelandic: gíraffi (is) f
Ido: jirafo (io)
Indonesian: jerapah (id) , zarafah (id)
Irish: sioráf
Italian: giraffa (it) f
Japanese: 麒麟 (ja) (きりん, kirin ), キリン (ja) (kirin ), ジラフ jirafu )
Kalmyk: анаш anaş )
Kannada: ಜಿರಾಫೆ jirāphe )
Kazakh: жираф jïraf ), керік kerik )
Khmer: សត្វហ្សីរ៉ាហ្វ sat jəyraaf )
Korean: 지라프 jirapeu ), 기린 (ko) (girin ) (麒麟 )
Kyrgyz: жираф ciraf )
Lao: ກວາງຄໍຍາວ (lo) (kuāng khǭ nyāo )
Latin: camelopardalis (la) f
Latvian: žirafe
Lithuanian: žirafa (lt) f
Luxembourgish: Giraff (lb) f
Macedonian: жира́фа f žiráfa )
Malay: zirafah
Malayalam: ജിറാഫ് (ml) (jiṟāph )
Mongolian: анааш (mn) (anaaš )
Nama: ǃnaib
Navajo: tsin yilátah ayání
Norman: girafe f
Norwegian:
Bokmål: sjiraff (no) m
Nynorsk: sjiraff m
Pashto: زرافه (ps)
Persian: زرّافه (fa) (zarrâfe ), شترگاوپلنگ (fa) (šotorgâvpalang ), زرناپا zornâpâ )
Polish: żyrafa (pl) f
Portuguese: girafa (pt) f
Romanian: girafă (ro) f
Romansch: giraffa f
Russian: жира́ф (ru) m žiráf ), жира́фа (ru) f žiráfa ) ( obsolete ) гира́ф m giráf ) ( obsolete )
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: жирафа
Roman: žirafa (sh) f
Sinhalese: ජිරාෆ් jirāf )
Slovak: žirafa f
Slovene: žirafa (sl) f
Somali: geri
Sotho: thuhlo
Spanish: jirafa (es) f
Swahili: twiga (sw)
Swedish: giraff (sv) c
Tagalog: hirapa
Tajik: заррофа (tg) (zarrofa ), шутурпаланг šuturpalang )
Tamil: ஒட்டகச்சிவிங்கி (ta) (oṭṭakacciviṅki )
Telugu: జిరాఫీ (te) (jirāphī )
Thai: ยีราฟ (th) (yii-ráap )
Turkish: zürafa (tr)
Turkmen: žiraf
Ukrainian: жира́фа f žyráfa ), жира́ф m žyráf )
Urdu: جراف m jirāf ), زرافہ zarrāfe )
Uzbek: jirafa (uz)
Vietnamese: hươu cao cổ (vi)
Volapük: ( ♂♀ ) giraf (vo) , ( ♂ ) higiraf ( ♀ ) jigiraf ( ♂♀ offspring, young ) girafül ( ♂ offspring ) higirafül ( ♀ offspring ) jigirafül ( diminutive ♂♀ ) girafil ( augmentative ♂♀ ) legiraf
Welsh: jiráff m
Wolof: njamala mi
Yiddish: דזשיראַף m dzhiraf )
Anagrams [ edit ] Italian [ edit ] giraffe f
plural of giraffa
