jaguar

See also: Jaguar, jaguár, and jagúar

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈdʒæɡjuːə/, IPA^(key): /ˈdʒæɡjuːɑː/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈdʒæɡwɑr/, /ˈdʒæɡu.ɑr/

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  a jaguar

Etymology

Via Portuguese, from Old Tupi îaûára.

Noun

jaguar ‎(plural jaguars)

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

Translations

Panthera onca

• Arabic: يغور m
• Armenian: յագուար (hy) ‎(yaguar)
• Azeri: yaquar (az)
• Borôro: adügo
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 美洲豹 (zh) ‎(měizhōubào)

• Classical Nahuatl: ocelotl
• Czech: jaguár (cs) m
• Danish: jaguar c
• Dutch: jaguar (nl) m
• Esperanto: jaguaro
• Estonian: jaaguar
• Faroese: jaguarur m
• Finnish: jaguaari (fi)
• French: jaguar (fr) m
• Georgian: იაგუარი ‎(iaguari)
• German: Jaguar (de) m
• Greek: ιαγουάρος (el) m ‎(iagouáros)
• Hebrew: יגואר (he)
• 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)
• Latvian: jaguārs m
• Macedonian: јагуар m ‎(jaguar)
• Malay: jaguar
• Mayan: B'alam
• Navajo: Shádiʼááhdę́ę́ʼ náshdóítsoh łikizhígíí
• Paumarí: jomahi hiihiha f
• Polish: jaguar (pl) m
• Portuguese: jaguar (pt) m, onça (pt) f
• Quechua: uturunku (qu)
• Romanian: jaguar (ro) m
• Russian: ягуа́р (ru) m ‎(jaguár)
• 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 c
• Tagalog: haguwar
• Thai: เสือจากัวร์ (th) ‎(suea cha kua)
• Turkish: jaguar (tr)

See also

• jaguarundi
• Jaguar on Wikipedia.en.Wikipedia
• Panthera onca on Wikispecies. Wikispecies: Panthera onca

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Dutch

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Pronunciation

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• Hyphenation: ja‧gu‧ar

Etymology

From Portuguese jaguar, from Old Tupi jaguara.

Noun

jaguar m ‎(plural jaguars, diminutive jaguartje n)

1. jaguar

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʒa.ɡwaʁ/

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Noun

jaguar m, f ‎(plural jaguars)

1. (masculine) jaguar (cat)
2. (masculine) Jaguar (Mac OS 10.2)
3. (feminine) jaguar (car)
4. (feminine) Jaguar (British car manufacturer)

External links

• “jaguar” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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Malay

Etymology

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

Alternative forms

• جاݢوار

Pronunciation

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

Noun

jaguar ‎(Jawi spelling جاݢوار)

1. jaguar (Panthera onca)

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Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [jaˈɡuar]

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

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Portuguese

Etymology

From Tupian.

Pronunciation

• (Paulista) IPA^(key): /ʒa.ˈɡwaɹ/
• (South Brazil) IPA^(key): /ʒa.ˈɡwaɻ/
• (Carioca) IPA^(key): /ʒa.ˈɡwaχ/

Noun

jaguar m (plural jaguares)

1. jaguar

Synonyms

• onça, onça-pintada

Related terms

• jaguara, jaguaraíva, jaguaré, jaguaretê, jaguatirica

Descendants

• English: jaguar

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Romanian

Etymology

Borrowing 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

Noun

jaguar m ‎(plural jaguares)

1. jaguar (Panthera onca)

Synonyms

• yaguareté

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Turkish

Etymology

Borrowing from French jaguar.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ʒɑ.ɡʊ.ɑɾ]

Noun

jaguar ‎(definite accusative jaguarı, plural jaguarlar)

1. jaguar

Declension

declension of jaguar

	singular (tekil)	plural (çoğul)
nominative (yalın)	jaguar	jaguarlar
definite accusative (belirtme)	jaguarı	jaguarları
dative (yönelme)	jaguara	jaguarlara
locative (bulunma)	jaguarda	jaguarlarda
ablative (çıkma)	jaguardan	jaguarlardan
genitive (tamlayan)	jaguarın	jaguarların