tapir
English
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Etymology
Borrowed from French tapir, from Old Tupi tapi'ira.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈteɪpiːə(ɹ)/, /ˈteɪpɪə(ɹ)/, /ˈteɪpə(ɹ)/
Audio (UK): (file) - Rhymes: -eɪpə(r)
- Homophone: taper
Noun
tapir (plural tapirs)
- 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 Lua error in Module:parameters at line 797: Parameter "noshow" is not used by this template..
Synonyms
- (Guyana) bush cow(Please check if this is already defined at target. Replace
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Hyponyms
- Baird's tapir, Lua error in Module:parameters at line 797: Parameter "noshow" is not used by this template.
- Brazilian tapir, Lua error in Module:parameters at line 797: Parameter "noshow" is not used by this template.
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- For others see
tapir on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Translations
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Further reading
tapir on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Tapirus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
Tapirus on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
Anagrams
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish tapir, from Old Tupi tapi'ira.
Pronunciation
Noun
tapir m (plural tapirs, diminutive tapirtje n)
French
Pronunciation
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
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-.
infinitive | simple | tapir | |||||
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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, on | 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 | – | – | – | ||||
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 usable only with the preposition en. | |||||||
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). |
Etymology 2
Noun
tapir m (plural tapirs)
Anagrams
Further reading
- “tapir”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Polish
Noun
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Declension
Portuguese
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/be/Schabrackentapir_fg01.jpg/250px-Schabrackentapir_fg01.jpg)
Etymology
Borrowed from Old Tupi tapi'ira.
Pronunciation
- Lua error in Module:parameters at line 331: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "Portugal" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E. IPA(key): /ta.ˈpiɾ/
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- Hyphenation: ta‧pir
Noun
tapir m (plural es)
Synonyms
- (tapir): anta
Spanish
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: ta‧pir
Noun
tapir m (plural tapires)
Synonyms
- (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
Etymology
From Spanish tapir (“tapir”), from French tapir, from Old Tupi tapi'ira.
Noun
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