tarsier

Translingual

Etymology

New Latin, from French tarsier, from Latin tarsus, from Ancient Greek ταρσός (tarsós, “wickerwork mat"; "broad, flat surface"”)

Noun

tarsier

1. Used attributively as a specific epithet

Derived terms

• Tarsius tarsier

English

Etymology

From French tarsier, from Latin tarsus, from Ancient Greek ταρσός (tarsós, “wickerwork mat"; "broad, flat surface"”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɑ(ɹ)si.ə(ɹ)/
• IPA^(key): /ˈtaɹʃi.əɹ/ (chiefly Philippine)

Noun

tarsier (plural tarsiers)

Philippine tarsier Tarsius syrichta

1. An insectivorous primate of the family Tarsiidae, having very large eyes and long feet, native mainly to several islands of Southeast Asia.

Translations

insectivorous primate

• Arabic: تَارْسِير‎ m (tarsīr)
• Belarusian: даўгапя́т m (daŭhapját)
• Bulgarian: дългопе́т m (dǎlgopét)
• Burmese: please add this translation if you can
• Catalan: tarser
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 眼鏡猴／眼镜猴 (zh) (yǎnjìnghóu)

• Czech: nártoun
• Danish: spøgelsesabe
• Dutch: spookdiertje (nl) n
• Finnish: kummituseläin (fi)
• French: tarsier (fr) m
• German: Koboldmaki m
• Hebrew: קוֹפִיף‎ (he)
• Hungarian: koboldmaki
• Indonesian: please add this translation if you can
• Italian: tarsio (it)
• Japanese: メガネザル (meganezaru), 眼鏡猿 (めがねざる, meganezaru)
• Khmer: please add this translation if you can
• Korean: 안경원숭이 (an'gyeong'wonsung'i)
• Lao: please add this translation if you can
• Lithuanian: ilgakulnis m
• Malay: kera hantu
• Navajo: mágí binááʼtsohígíí
• Norman: tarsyi
• Norwegian: spøkelsesaper
• Occitan: tarsièr
• Polish: wyrak (pl)
• Portuguese: társio (pt) m
• Russian: долгопя́т (ru) m (dolgopját)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: аветњаци, тарзијери

  Roman: avetnjaci, tarzijeri

• Spanish: tarsero m, tarsio m
• Swedish: spökdjur, vristdjur
• Tagalog: malmag, mamag
• Thai: ทาร์เซียร์ (taa-siia)
• Ukrainian: довгоп'я́т m (dovhopʺját)
• Vietnamese: phủ hầu
• Waray-Waray: magô
• White Hmong: please add this translation if you can

See also

• Tarsius on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

Anagrams

• 'Arriets, artsier, serrati, starier, tarries

French

Etymology

From tarse +‎ -ier.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /taʁ.sje/

• Audio

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Noun

tarsier m (plural tarsiers)

1. tarsier

Further reading

• “tarsier”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.