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Tarzan

See also: tarzan and Tarzán

English edit

 
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Etymology edit

Coined by Edgar Rice Burroughs. A name created by Burroughs for his fiction.

Means "white skin" in the apes' fictional language; possibly echoic in its phonetics of various "exotic" names (see Orientalism).

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Proper noun edit

Tarzan

  1. (fiction) A heroic fictional character, raised in the jungle by apes.

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Noun edit

Tarzan (plural Tarzans)

  1. (by extension) A strong wild man.
    • 2011, John Creasey, The Flood:
      There was nothing really statuesque about him; this wasn't a kind of Tarzan, with massive shoulders and great muscles and limbs as strong as a beast's, but a tall, lean, handsome man, who moved with superlative ease.

Descendants edit

  • Dutch: Tarzan
  • Swedish: Tarzan

Further reading edit

Dutch edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from English Tarzan.

Proper noun edit

Tarzan

  1. Tarzan

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German edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from English Tarzan.

Pronunciation edit

  • Audio(file)

Proper noun edit

Tarzan m (proper noun, strong, genitive Tarzans)

  1. Tarzan

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Polish edit

 
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Tarzan

Etymology edit

Borrowed from English Tarzan.

Pronunciation edit

Proper noun edit

Tarzan m pers

  1. Tarzan (heroic fictional character, raised in the jungle by apes)

Declension edit

Declension of Tarzan
singular
nominative Tarzan
genitive Tarzana
dative Tarzanowi
accusative Tarzana
instrumental Tarzanem
locative Tarzanie
vocative Tarzanie

Derived terms edit

noun

Further reading edit

  • Tarzan in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Swedish edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from English Tarzan.

Pronunciation edit

Proper noun edit

Tarzan c (genitive Tarzans)

  1. Tarzan
    dra en Tarzan
    jerk off ("pull a Tarzan") (idiomatic)

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