Giraffe
See also: giraffe
Dutch
editEtymology
editFrom giraffe.
Pronunciation
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Proper noun
editGiraffe f
German
editEtymology
editFrom Middle High German geraff, seraffe, schraffe, partly via Italian giraffa, partly directly (in travel reports) from Arabic زَرافَة (zarāfa).
Pronunciation
edit- IPA(key): /ɡiˈʁafə/ (predominant; only common form in Germany)
- IPA(key): /ʒiˈʁafə/, /ʃi-/ (rare in Eastern Germany, alternatively in Austria and Switzerland)
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Noun
editGiraffe f (genitive Giraffe, plural Giraffen, feminine Giraffin)
- giraffe (animal)
Declension
editDeclension of Giraffe [feminine]
Proper noun
editGiraffe f (proper noun, genitive Giraffe)
- The constellation Camelopardalis
- 1809, Ludewig Ideler, Untersuchungen über den Ursprung und die Bedeutung der Sternnamen, Berlin, page 353:
- Der Kameelparder oder die Giraffe, Camelopardalis, in dem ansehnlichen Raum zwischen dem Nordpol und dem Fuhrmann.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- 1823, Joh. Elert Bode, Betrachtung der Gestirne und des Weltgebäudes, Berlin, page 49:
- Die Giraffe oder der Kameelparder
steht zwischen dem Nordpol, Furmann, Cassiopeja und dem Kopfe des großen Bären, und nimmt einen ziemlich großen Raum am Himmel ein, besteht aber nur aus vielen kleinen Sternen, deren Anzahl Flamsteed auf 51 gesetzt hat.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
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