Tapir in Scrabble and Meaning

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Definitions and meaning of tapir

tapir

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈteɪpiːə(ɹ)/, /ˈteɪpɪə(ɹ)/, /ˈteɪpə(ɹ)/
• Rhymes: -eɪpə(ɹ)
• 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.

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)

Translations

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• atrip, parti, patri-

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Tupi tapi'ira.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [təˈpir]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [taˈpir]

Noun

tapir m (plural tapirs)

1. tapir

Further reading

• “tapir” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Dutch

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

tapir m (plural tapirs, diminutive tapirtje n)

1. tapir

   Synonym: boskoe

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ta.piʁ/

Etymology 1

Inherited 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-.

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Old Tupi tapi'ira.

Noun

tapir m (plural tapirs)

1. tapir

Descendants

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• parti, pâtir, priât, ripât

Kashubian

Etymology

Borrowed from Polish tapir.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtapir/
• Hyphenation: ta‧pir

Noun

tapir m animal

1. tapir (ungulate of the family Tapiridae)

References

• Eùgeniusz Gòłąbk (2011) “tapir”, in Słownik Polsko-Kaszubski / Słowôrz Pòlskò-Kaszëbsczi‎^[1]

Middle English

Noun

tapir

1. Alternative form of taper

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from French tapir.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈta.pir/
• Rhymes: -apir
• Syllabification: ta‧pir

Noun

tapir m animal

1. tapir (any large odd-toed ungulate with a long prehensile upper lip of the family Tapiridae)

Declension

Descendants

• → Kashubian: tapir

Further reading

• tapir in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Etymology

Ultimately from Old Tupi tapi'ira.

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: ta‧pir

Noun

tapir m (plural tapires)

1. tapir

   Synonym: anta

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French tapir.

Noun

tapir m (plural tapiri)

1. tapir

Declension

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /taˈpiɾ/ [t̪aˈpiɾ]
• Rhymes: -iɾ
• Syllabification: ta‧pir

Noun

tapir m (plural tapires)

1. tapir

   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

Derived terms

Descendants

• → Catalan: tapir
• → Dutch: tapir
• → Tagalog: tapir

Further reading

• “tapir”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Swedish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -iːr

Noun

tapir c

1. tapir

Declension

References

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

Anagrams

• parti, pirat

Tagalog

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: ta‧pir
• IPA^(key): /taˈpiɾ/, [tɐˈpiɾ]

Noun

tapír (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜉᜒᜇ᜔)

1. tapir

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish طاپر (tapir), from French tapir, from Old Tupi tapi'ira.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [tɑ.piɾ]

Noun

tapir (definite accusative tapiri, plural tapirler)

1. tapir

Declension

Source: wiktionary.org