jaguar

See also: Jaguar, jaguár, jagúar, and jagùar

English

Etymology

From Portuguese jaguar, from Old Tupi iaguara.

a jaguar

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒæɡ.jʊə/, /ˈd͡ʒæɡ.ju.ɑː/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒæɡ.wɑɹ/, /ˈd͡ʒæɡ.(j)u.ɑɹ/, /ˈd͡ʒæɡ.waɪɚ/

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Noun

jaguar (plural jaguars)

1. A carnivorous spotted large cat native to South and Central America, Panthera onca.

Translations

Panthera onca

• Afrikaans: jaguar (af)
• Arabic: يغور‎ m (yağwar)
• Araona: iba
• Armenian: յագուար (hy) (yaguar)
• Azerbaijani: yaquar (az)
• Borôro: adügo
• Catalan: jaguar (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 美洲豹 (zh) (měizhōubào)

• Czech: jaguár (cs) m
• Danish: jaguar c
• Dutch: jaguar (nl) m
• Esperanto: jaguaro
• Estonian: jaaguar (et)
• Faroese: jaguarur m
• Finnish: jaguaari (fi)
• French: jaguar (fr) m
• Galician: xaguar (gl) m
• Georgian: იაგუარი (iaguari)
• German: Jaguar (de) m
• Greek: ιαγουάρος (el) m (iagouáros), τζάγκουαρ (el) m (tzágkouar)
• Hebrew: יגואר‎ (he)
• Hindi: जैगुआर (jaiguār)
• Huaorani: mẽnẽ
• Hungarian: jaguár (hu)
• Indonesian: jaguar (id)
• Irish: iaguar m
• Isthmus Zapotec: beedxeʼ
• Italian: giaguaro (it)
• Japanese: ジャガー (ja) (jagā), アメリカ豹 (amerikahyō)
• Kaqchikel: b’alam
• Korean: 재규어 (ko) (jaegyueo)
• Latvian: jaguārs m

• Macedonian: јагуар m (jaguar)
• Malay: jaguar
• Mamaindé: jañan
• Mayan: B'alam
• Mayo: yóoko
• Nahuatl:

  Central: ocelotl

  Central Huasteca: oselotl

  Classical: ocelotl

  Western Huasteca: tekuajketl

• Navajo: Shádiʼááhdę́ę́ʼ náshdóítsoh łikizhígíí
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: jaguar (no) m

  Nynorsk: jaguar m

• Old Tupi: îagûara
• Paumarí: jomahi hiihiha f
• Polish: jaguar (pl) m
• Portuguese: jaguar (pt) m, onça (pt) f
• Quechua: uturunku (qu), uthurunku
• Romanian: jaguar (ro) m
• Russian: ягуа́р (ru) m (jaguár)
• Saliba (Colombia): ũpu
• Serbo-Croatian: Jaguar
• Spanish: jaguar (es) m, tigre (es) m (Bolivia, Colombia, Venezuela, especially rural usage), yaguareté (es) m (Argentina, Paraguay)
• Swahili: jagwa
• Swedish: jaguar (sv) c
• Tagalog: haguwar
• Tariana: yawi
• Thai: เสือจากัวร์ (th) (suea cha kua)
• Turkish: jaguar (tr)
• Vietnamese: báo đốm, báo đốm châu Mỹ
• Warao: tobe
• Yucatec Maya: báalam

See also

• jaguarundi
• jaguar on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Panthera onca on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

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Catalan

Etymology

From Portuguese jaguar, from Old Tupi iaguara.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /ʒəˈɡwa/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /d͡ʒaˈɡwaɾ/

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• Hyphenation: ja‧guar

Noun

jaguar m (plural jaguars)

1. jaguar

Further reading

• “jaguar” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “jaguar”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2022
• “jaguar” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “jaguar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

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Dutch

Etymology

Apparently borrowed from French jaguar, from Portuguese jaguar, from Old Tupi iaguara. The contemporary pronunciation derives from English jaguar.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdʒɛ.ɡuˌɑr/, /ˈdʒɛ.ɡuˌər/
• (dated in the Netherlands) IPA^(key): /ˈjaː.ɣyˌɑr/

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• Hyphenation: ja‧gu‧ar

Noun

jaguar m (plural jaguars, diminutive jaguartje n)

1. jaguar [from late 18th c.]
   • 1777, De Buffon, De algemeene en byzondere natuurlyke historie, vol. 5, part 1, tr. from French, J. H. Schneider (publ.), page 5.

     Wat den puma en den jaguar betreft, het blykt duidelyk uit de beſchryvingen van hun, die deze dieren gezien hebben, dat de puma geen leeuw is, en de jaguar geen tyger; […]

     As for the puma and the jaguar, it clearly appears from the descriptions by them, who have seen these animals, that the cougar is not a lion, and [that] the jaguar is not a tiger; […]

Derived terms

• weerjaguar

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʒa.ɡwaʁ/

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Noun

jaguar m (plural jaguars)

1. jaguar (cat)
2. Jaguar (Mac OS 10.2)

Noun

jaguar f (plural jaguars)

1. jaguar (car)
2. Jaguar (British car manufacturer)

Further reading

• “jaguar”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Malay

Etymology

From English jaguar, from Portuguese, from Old Tupi jaguara.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d͡ʒaɡua(r)/
• Rhymes: -ua(r), -wa(r), -a(r)

Noun

jaguar (Jawi spelling جاݢوار‎, plural jaguar-jaguar, informal 1st possessive jaguarku, 2nd possessive jaguarmu, 3rd possessive jaguarnya)

1. jaguar (Panthera onca)

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Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Portuguese jaguar, from Old Tupi iaguara

Noun

jaguar m (definite singular jaguaren, indefinite plural jaguarer, definite plural jaguarene)

1. a jaguar, Panthera onca.

References

• “jaguar” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “jaguar” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Portuguese jaguar, from Old Tupi iaguara

Noun

jaguar m (definite singular jaguaren, indefinite plural jaguarar, definite plural jaguarane)

1. a jaguar, Panthera onca

References

• “jaguar” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /jaˈɡu.ar/

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• Rhymes: -uar
• Syllabification: ja‧gu‧ar

Noun

jaguar m anim

1. jaguar (Panthera onca)
2. Jaguar car

Declension

Declension of jaguar

	singular	plural
nominative	jaguar	jaguary
genitive	jaguara	jaguarów
dative	jaguarowi	jaguarom
accusative	jaguara	jaguary
instrumental	jaguarem	jaguarami
locative	jaguarze	jaguarach
vocative	jaguarze	jaguary

Further reading

• jaguar in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• jaguar in Polish dictionaries at PWN

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Portuguese

Um jaguar

Etymology

From Old Tupi iaguara.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): (Brazil) /ʒaˈɡwa(ʁ)/, [ʒaˈɡwa(h)]

• IPA^(key): (Brazil) /ʒaˈɡwa(ʁ)/, [ʒaˈɡwa(h)]
  • IPA^(key): (São Paulo) /ʒaˈɡwa(ɾ)/, [ʒaˈɡwa(ɾ)]
  • IPA^(key): (Rio de Janeiro) /ʒaˈɡwa(ʁ)/, [ʒaˈɡwa(χ)]

• IPA^(key): (Portugal) /ˌʒaˈɡwaɾ/, [ˌʒaˈɣwaɾ]

Noun

jaguar m (plural jaguares)

1. jaguar (Panthera onca, a feline of Latin America)

   Synonyms: onça, onça-pintada

Usage notes

In Brazil, jaguars are more commonly called onça or onça-pintada, and jaguar is mainly used in literature.

Related terms

• jaguara, jaguaraíva, jaguaré, jaguaretê, jaguatirica

Descendants

• → Catalan: jaguar
• → English: jaguar

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Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French jaguar.

Noun

jaguar m (plural jaguari)

1. jaguar

Declension

Declension of jaguar

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) jaguar	jaguarul	(niște) jaguari	jaguarii
genitive/dative	(unui) jaguar	jaguarului	(unor) jaguari	jaguarilor
vocative	jaguarule		jaguarilor

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Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /jâɡuaːr/
• Hyphenation: ja‧gu‧ar

Noun

jȁguār m (Cyrillic spelling ја̏гуа̄р)

1. jaguar

Declension

Declension of jaguar

	singular	plural
nominative	jaguar	jaguari
genitive	jaguara	jaguara
dative	jaguaru	jaguarima
accusative	jaguara	jaguare
vocative	jaguaru	jaguari
locative	jaguaru	jaguarima
instrumental	jaguarom	jaguarima

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Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /xaˈɡwaɾ/, [xaˈɣ̞waɾ]

Noun

jaguar m (plural jaguares)

1. jaguar (Panthera onca)

   Synonym: yaguareté

Further reading

• “jaguar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

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Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from French jaguar.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ʒɑ.ɡʊ.ɑɾ]

Noun

jaguar (definite accusative jaguarı, plural jaguarlar)

1. jaguar

Declension

Inflection
Nominative	jaguar
Definite accusative	jaguarı
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	jaguar	jaguarlar
Definite accusative	jaguarı	jaguarları
Dative	jaguara	jaguarlara
Locative	jaguarda	jaguarlarda
Ablative	jaguardan	jaguarlardan
Genitive	jaguarın	jaguarların