tapir

See also: Tapir and tapír

English

A 19th-century watercolour of a Malayan tapir (Tapirus indicus), from the William Farquhar Collection of Natural History Drawings at the National Museum of Singapore

Etymology

French tapir, from Old Tupi tapiira.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈteɪpə/, /ˈteɪpɪə/
• Rhymes: -eɪpə(r)
• Homophone: taper

Noun

tapir (plural tapirs)

1. Any one the species of large odd-toed ungulates of the taxonomic family Tapiridae with a long prehensile upper lip, of which all four surviving species are in genus Tapirus.

Hyponyms

• Baird's tapir, Tapirus bairdii
• Brazilian tapir, Tapirus terrestris
• Malayan tapir, Tapirus indicus
• mountain tapir, Tapirus pinchaque
• Tapirus californicus †
• Tapirus copei †
• Tapirus merriami †
• Tapirus polkensis †
• Tapirus veroensis †
• For others see tapir on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Translations

large odd-toed ungulate with a long prehensile upper lip of the family Tapiridae

• Arabic: تَابِير‏‎ m (tabīr)
• Armenian: գետակինճ (hy) (getakinč)
• Basque: tapir (eu)
• Bulgarian: тапир (tapir)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 貘 (zh) (mò)

• Czech: tapír (cs)
• Danish: tapir
• Dutch: tapir (nl) m
• Esperanto: tapiro
• Finnish: tapiiri (fi)
• French: tapir (fr) m
• German: Tapir (de) m
• Greek: τάπιρος (tápiros)
• Hebrew: טפיר‏‎ (he) (tapír)
• Hungarian: tapír (hu)
• Icelandic: káputapír m
• Ido: tapiro (io)
• Indonesian: tenuk (id), tapir (id), cipan (id)

• Italian: tapiro (it) m
• Japanese: バク (ja) (baku)
• Latvian: tapirs m
• Lithuanian: tapyras
• Malay: tenuk, cipan, kipan, badak tampung, badak murai, badak babi, kuda air, senuk, tapir
• Navajo: bíchį́į́h naatsʼǫǫdí
• Norwegian: tapir (no)
• Polish: tapir (pl) m
• Portuguese: anta (pt) f, tapir (pt) m
• Romanian: tapir (ro) m
• Russian: тапи́р (ru) m (tapír)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: тапир

  Roman: tapir (sh)

• Slovene: tapir (sl)
• Spanish: tapir (es) m, anta (es) f (Bolivia), anteburro m (Mexico), danta f (Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Guatemala, Mexico, Panama, Venezuela), danto m (Honduras, Nicaragua), sachavaca f (Peru)
• Swedish: tapir (sv)
• Tagalog: tapir
• Volapük: tapir

Further reading

• tapir on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Tapirus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Tapirus on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Anagrams

• atrip, parti, patri-

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Pronunciation

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Noun

tapir m (plural tapirs, diminutive tapirtje n)

1. tapir

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tapiʁ/

Etymology 1

From Frankish *tappijan.

Verb

tapir

1. (reflexive) to hide

Conjugation

This is a regular verb of the second conjugation, like finir, choisir, and most other verbs with infinitives ending in -ir. One salient feature of this conjugation is the repeated appearance of the infix -iss-.

  Conjugation of tapir (see also Appendix:French verbs)

		simple			compound
infinitive		tapir			avoir tapi
gerund		en tapissant			en ayant tapi
present participle		tapissant /ta.pi.sɑ̃/
past participle		tapi /ta.pi/
person		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il	nous	vous	ils
simple tenses	present	tapis /ta.pi/	tapis /ta.pi/	tapit /ta.pi/	tapissons /ta.pi.sɔ̃/	tapissez /ta.pi.se/	tapissent /ta.pis/
	imperfect	tapissais /ta.pi.sɛ/	tapissais /ta.pi.sɛ/	tapissait /ta.pi.sɛ/	tapissions /ta.pi.sjɔ̃/	tapissiez /ta.pi.sje/	tapissaient /ta.pi.sɛ/
	past historic1	tapis /ta.pi/	tapis /ta.pi/	tapit /ta.pi/	tapîmes /ta.pim/	tapîtes /ta.pit/	tapirent /ta.piʁ/
	future	tapirai /ta.pi.ʁe/	tapiras /ta.pi.ʁa/	tapira /ta.pi.ʁa/	tapirons /ta.pi.ʁɔ̃/	tapirez /ta.pi.ʁe/	tapiront /ta.pi.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	tapirais /ta.pi.ʁɛ/	tapirais /ta.pi.ʁɛ/	tapirait /ta.pi.ʁɛ/	tapirions /ta.pi.ʁjɔ̃/	tapiriez /ta.pi.ʁje/	tapiraient /ta.pi.ʁɛ/
compound tenses	present perfect	Use the present tense of avoir followed by the past participle
	pluperfect	Use the imperfect tense of avoir followed by the past participle
	past anterior1	Use the past historic tense of avoir followed by the past participle
	future perfect	Use the future tense of avoir followed by the past participle
	conditional perfect	Use the conditional tense of avoir followed by the past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il	que nous	que vous	qu’ils
simple tenses	present	tapisse /ta.pis/	tapisses /ta.pis/	tapisse /ta.pis/	tapissions /ta.pi.sjɔ̃/	tapissiez /ta.pi.sje/	tapissent /ta.pis/
	imperfect1	tapisse /ta.pis/	tapisses /ta.pis/	tapît /ta.pi/	tapissions /ta.pi.sjɔ̃/	tapissiez /ta.pi.sje/	tapissent /ta.pis/
compound tenses	past	Use the present subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle
	pluperfect1	Use the imperfect subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
		—	tapis /ta.pi/	—	tapissons /ta.pi.sɔ̃/	tapissez /ta.pi.se/	—
1literary tenses

Etymology 2

From Tupian tapiira.

Noun

tapir m (plural tapirs)

1. tapir

Anagrams

• parti, pâtir, priât, ripât

Further reading

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

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Polish

Noun

tapir m anim

1. tapir

Declension

declension of tapir

	singular	plural
nominative	tapir	tapiry
genitive	tapira	tapirów
dative	tapirowi	tapirom
accusative	tapira	tapiry
instrumental	tapirem	tapirami
locative	tapirze	tapirach
vocative	tapirze	tapiry

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Portuguese

tapir (Tapirus indicus)

Etymology

Borrowing from Old Tupi tapiira.

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ta.ˈpiɾ/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ta.ˈpi(ʁ)/
• Hyphenation: ta‧pir

Noun

tapir m (plural tapires)

1. tapir

Synonyms

• (tapir): anta

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Spanish

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: ta‧pir

Noun

tapir m (plural tapires)

1. tapir

Synonyms

• (tapir): anta, anteburro, sachavaca, danta, ante

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Tagalog

Etymology

From Spanish tapir (“tapir”), from French tapir, from Old Tupi tapiira.

Noun

tapír

1. tapir