tapir

See also: Tapir and tapír

English[edit]

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

A tapir (Tapirus indicus)

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from French tapir, from Old Tupi tapiira.

Pronunciation[edit]

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

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Noun[edit]

tapir (plural tapirs)

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.

Synonyms[edit]

(Guyana) bush cow, (Belize) mountain cow

Hyponyms[edit]

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[edit]

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

Arabic: تَابِير‎ m (tabīr)
Armenian: գետակինճ (hy) (getakinč)
Assamese: টাপিৰা (tapira)
Basque: tapir (eu)
Bulgarian: тапир (tapir)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 貘 (zh) (mò)
Czech: tapír (cs)
Danish: tapir
Desano: weku
Dutch: tapir (nl) m, (Surinam) boskoe
Esperanto: tapiro
Finnish: tapiiri (fi)
French: tapir (fr) m, (French Guiana) maïpouri m
German: Tapir (de) m
Greek: τάπιρος (tápiros)
Guaraní: mboreví
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)

Kuna: moli
Latvian: tapirs m
Lithuanian: tapyras
Malay: tenuk, cipan, kipan, badak tampung, badak murai, badak babi, kuda air, senuk, tapir
Murui Huitoto: zuruma
Navajo: bíchį́į́h naatsʼǫǫdí
Norwegian: tapir (no)
Polish: tapir (pl) m
Portuguese: anta (pt) f, tapir (pt) m
Quechua: sach'a waka f
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, Northern Argentina), anteburro m (Southern Mexico), danta f (Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Guatemala, Southern Mexico, Venezuela), danto m (Honduras, Nicaragua), macho de monte m (Panamá, Colombian Pacific Coast), mboreví m (Paraguay), sachavaca f (Peru), vaca de monte f (Ecuador)
Swedish: tapir (sv)
Tagalog: tapir
Uyghur: تاپىر‎ (tapir)
Volapük: tapir
Wapishana: kodoi
Yucatec Maya: tsíimin
Yuracare: wenche

Anagrams[edit]

atrip, parti, patri-

Dutch[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Spanish tapir, from Old Tupi tapiira.

Pronunciation[edit]

IPA^(key): /ˈtaː.pir/, [ˈtaː.pir]
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Hyphenation: ta‧pir

Noun[edit]

tapir m (plural tapirs, diminutive tapirtje n)

tapir
Synonym: boskoe

French[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

IPA^(key): /ta.piʁ/

Etymology 1[edit]

From Frankish *tappijan.

Verb[edit]

tapir

(reflexive) to hide

Conjugation[edit]

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)

infinitive
present participle		tapissant /ta.pi.sɑ̃/
past participle		tapi /ta.pi/
simple		tapir
compound		avoir + past participle
gerund¹
simple		tapissant /ta.pi.sɑ̃/
compound		ayant + past participle
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle	nous	vous	ils, elles
(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 historic²	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	present indicative of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
	past anterior²	past historic of avoir + past participle
	future perfect	future of avoir + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il, qu’elle	que nous	que vous	qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple tenses)	present	tapisse /ta.pis/	tapisses /ta.pis/	tapisse /ta.pis/	tapissions /ta.pi.sjɔ̃/	tapissiez /ta.pi.sje/	tapissent /ta.pis/
(simple tenses)	imperfect²	tapisse /ta.pis/	tapisses /ta.pis/	tapît /ta.pi/	tapissions /ta.pi.sjɔ̃/	tapissiez /ta.pi.sje/	tapissent /ta.pis/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
(compound tenses)	pluperfect²	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	~~nous~~	~~vous~~	–
simple		—	tapis /ta.pi/	—	tapissons /ta.pi.sɔ̃/	tapissez /ta.pi.se/	—
compound		—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—
¹ Only usable with preposition en.
² In less formal writing or speech, the past historic, past anterior, imperfect subjunctive and pluperfect subjunctive tenses may be found to have been replaced with the indicative present perfect, indicative pluperfect, present subjunctive and past subjunctive tenses respectively (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Etymology 2[edit]

From Tupian tapiira.

Noun[edit]

tapir m (plural tapirs)

tapir

Anagrams[edit]

parti, pâtir, priât, ripât

Polish[edit]

Noun[edit]

tapir m anim

tapir

Declension[edit]

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

Portuguese[edit]

Portuguese Wikipedia has an article on:

tapir

Wikipedia ^pt

tapir (Tapirus indicus)

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Old Tupi tapiira.

Pronunciation[edit]

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

Noun[edit]

tapir m (plural tapires)

tapir

Synonyms[edit]

(tapir): anta

Spanish[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Hyphenation: ta‧pir

Noun[edit]

tapir m (plural tapires)

tapir

Synonyms[edit]

(Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Guatemala, Southern Mexico, Venezuela) danta
(Bolivia, Northern Argentina) anta
(Ecuador) vaca de monte
(Honduras, Nicaragua) danto
(Mexico) ante
(Panama, Colombian Pacific Coast) macho de monte
(Paraguay) mboreví
(Peru) sachavaca
(Southern Mexico) anteburro

Tagalog[edit]

Etymology[edit]

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

Noun[edit]

tapír

tapir

tapir

Contents

English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

Synonyms[edit]

Hyponyms[edit]

Translations[edit]

Further reading[edit]

Anagrams[edit]

Dutch[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

French[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

Verb[edit]

Conjugation[edit]

Etymology 2[edit]

Noun[edit]

Anagrams[edit]

Further reading[edit]

Polish[edit]

Noun[edit]

Declension[edit]

Portuguese[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

Synonyms[edit]

Spanish[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

Synonyms[edit]

Tagalog[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Noun[edit]

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