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

A tapir (Tapirus indicus)

Etymology

Borrowed from French tapir, from Old Tupi tapi'ira.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈteɪpiːə(ɹ)/, /ˈteɪpɪə(ɹ)/, /ˈteɪpə(ɹ)/

• Audio (UK)

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• Rhymes: -eɪpə(r)
• Homophone: taper

Noun

tapir (plural tapirs)

1. Any one of 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.
   • 1912, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World‎^[1]:

     Once a dark, clumsy tapir stared at us from a gap in the bushes, and then lumbered away through the forest; once, too, the yellow, sinuous form of a great puma whisked amid the brushwood, and its green, baleful eyes glared hatred at us over its tawny shoulder.

Synonyms

• (Guyana) bush cow, (Belize) mountain cow

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

• Afrikaans: tapir
• Arabic: تَابِير‎ m (tabīr)
• Armenian: գետակինճ (hy) (getakinč)
• Assamese: টাপিৰা (tapira)
• Basque: tapir (eu)
• Belarusian: please add this translation if you can
• Bulgarian: тапир (tapir)
• Canela: cukryt
• Catalan: tapir m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 貘 (zh) (mò)

• Czech: tapír (cs)
• Danish: tapir
• Desano: weku
• Dutch: tapir (nl) m, (Surinam) boskoe
• Esperanto: tapiro
• Estonian: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: tapiiri (fi)
• French: tapir (fr) m, (French Guiana) maïpouri m
• German: Tapir (de) m
• Greek: τάπιρος (tápiros)
• Guaraní: mboreví
• Hebrew: טפיר‎ (he) (tapír)
• Hindi: टपीर m (ṭapīr)
• 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)

• Kazakh: салпыерін (salpıerin)
• 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)
• Old Tupi: tapi'ira
• 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
• Thai: สมเสร็จ (sǒm-sèt)
• Uyghur: تاپىر‎ (tapir)
• Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can
• Volapük: tapir
• Wapishana: kodoi
• Yucatec Maya: tsíimin
• Yuracare: wenche

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• atrip, parti, patri-

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Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish tapir, from Old Tupi tapi'ira.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtaː.pir/, [ˈtaː.pir]

• Audio

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• Hyphenation: ta‧pir

Noun

tapir m (plural tapirs, diminutive tapirtje n)

1. tapir

   Synonym: boskoe

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ta.piʁ/

Etymology 1

From Middle French tapir, from Old French tapir, borrowed from Frankish *tappijan (“to close, shut in, lock up”), from Frankish *tappō, from Proto-Germanic *tappô.

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)

infinitive	simple	tapir
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	tapissant /ta.pi.sɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		tapi /ta.pi/
		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/
	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
	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 The French gerund is only usable with the 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

From Old Tupi tapi'ira.

Noun

tapir m (plural tapirs)

1. tapir

Anagrams

• parti, pâtir, priât, ripât

Further reading

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

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Middle English

Noun

tapir

1. Alternative form of taper

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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

Borrowed from Old Tupi tapi'ira.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

tapir m (plural tapires)

1. tapir

   Synonym: anta

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Spanish

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: ta‧pir

Noun

tapir m (plural tapires)

1. tapir

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

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Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from French tapir, from Old Tupi tapi'ira.

Noun

tapir c

1. tapir

Declension

Declension of tapir
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	tapir	tapiren	tapirer	tapirerna
Genitive	tapirs	tapirens	tapirers	tapirernas

References

• tapir in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• tapir in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

Anagrams

• parti, pirat

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Tagalog

Etymology

From Spanish tapir (“tapir”), from French tapir, from Old Tupi tapi'ira.

Noun

tapír

1. tapir