tapir

See also: Tapir and tapír

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EnglishEdit

A 19th-century watercolour of a Malayan tapir (Tapirus indicus), from the William Farquhar Collection of Natural History Drawings at the National Museum of Singapore

A tapir (Tapirus indicus)

EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from French tapir, from Old Tupi tapiira.

PronunciationEdit

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

NounEdit

tapir (plural tapirs)

1. Any one 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.

SynonymsEdit

• (Guyana) bush cow, (Belize) mountain cow

HyponymsEdit

• Baird's tapir, Tapirus bairdii
• Brazilian tapir, Tapirus terrestris
• Malayan tapir, Tapirus indicus
• mountain tapir, Tapirus pinchaque
• Tapirus californicus †
• Tapirus copei †
• Tapirus merriami †
• Tapirus polkensis †
• Tapirus veroensis †
• For others see tapir on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

TranslationsEdit

large odd-toed ungulate with a long prehensile upper lip of the family Tapiridae

• Arabic: تَابِير‎‎ m (tabīr)
• Armenian: գետակինճ (hy) (getakinč)
• Assamese: টাপিৰা (tapira)
• Basque: tapir (eu)
• Bulgarian: тапир (tapir)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 貘 (zh) (mò)

• Czech: tapír (cs)
• Danish: tapir
• Dutch: tapir (nl) m, (Surinam) boskoe
• Esperanto: tapiro
• Finnish: tapiiri (fi)
• French: tapir (fr) m, (French Guiana) maïpouri m
• German: Tapir (de) m
• Greek: τάπιρος (tápiros)
• Guaraní: mboreví
• Hebrew: טפיר‎‎ (he) (tapír)
• Hungarian: tapír (hu)
• Icelandic: káputapír m
• Ido: tapiro (io)
• Indonesian: tenuk (id), tapir (id), cipan (id)
• Italian: tapiro (it) m

• Japanese: バク (ja) (baku)
• Kuna: moli
• Latvian: tapirs m
• Lithuanian: tapyras
• Malay: tenuk, cipan, kipan, badak tampung, badak murai, badak babi, kuda air, senuk, tapir
• Navajo: bíchį́į́h naatsʼǫǫdí
• Norwegian: tapir (no)
• Polish: tapir (pl) m
• Portuguese: anta (pt) f, tapir (pt) m
• Quechua: sach'a waka f
• Romanian: tapir (ro) m
• Russian: тапи́р (ru) m (tapír)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: тапир

  Roman: tapir (sh)

• Slovene: tapir (sl)
• Spanish: tapir (es) m, anta (es) f (Bolivia, Northern Argentina), anteburro m (Southern Mexico), danta f (Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Guatemala, Southern Mexico, Venezuela), danto m (Honduras, Nicaragua), macho de monte m (Panamá, Colombian Pacific Coast), mboreví m (Paraguay), sachavaca f (Peru), vaca de monte f (Ecuador)
• Swedish: tapir (sv)
• Tagalog: tapir
• Uyghur: تاپىر‎‎ (tapir)
• Volapük: tapir
• Yucatec Maya: tsíimin

Further readingEdit

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

AnagramsEdit

• atrip, parti, patri-

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DutchEdit

PronunciationEdit

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NounEdit

tapir m (plural tapirs, diminutive tapirtje n)

1. tapir

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FrenchEdit

PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): /ta.piʁ/

Etymology 1Edit

From Frankish *tappijan.

VerbEdit

tapir

1. (reflexive) to hide

ConjugationEdit

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-.

  Conjugation of tapir (see also Appendix:French verbs)

		simple			compound
infinitive		tapir			avoir tapi
gerund		en tapissant			en ayant tapi
present participle		tapissant /ta.pi.sɑ̃/
past participle		tapi /ta.pi/
person		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il	nous	vous	ils
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 historic1	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	Use the present tense of avoir followed by the past participle
	pluperfect	Use the imperfect tense of avoir followed by the past participle
	past anterior1	Use the past historic tense of avoir followed by the past participle
	future perfect	Use the future tense of avoir followed by the past participle
	conditional perfect	Use the conditional tense of avoir followed by the past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il	que nous	que vous	qu’ils
simple tenses	present	tapisse /ta.pis/	tapisses /ta.pis/	tapisse /ta.pis/	tapissions /ta.pi.sjɔ̃/	tapissiez /ta.pi.sje/	tapissent /ta.pis/
	imperfect1	tapisse /ta.pis/	tapisses /ta.pis/	tapît /ta.pi/	tapissions /ta.pi.sjɔ̃/	tapissiez /ta.pi.sje/	tapissent /ta.pis/
compound tenses	past	Use the present subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle
	pluperfect1	Use the imperfect subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
		—	tapis /ta.pi/	—	tapissons /ta.pi.sɔ̃/	tapissez /ta.pi.se/	—
1literary tenses

Etymology 2Edit

From Tupian tapiira.

NounEdit

tapir m (plural tapirs)

1. tapir

AnagramsEdit

• parti, pâtir, priât, ripât

Further readingEdit

• “tapir” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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PolishEdit

NounEdit

tapir m anim

1. tapir

DeclensionEdit

declension of tapir

	singular	plural
nominative	tapir	tapiry
genitive	tapira	tapirów
dative	tapirowi	tapirom
accusative	tapira	tapiry
instrumental	tapirem	tapirami
locative	tapirze	tapirach
vocative	tapirze	tapiry

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PortugueseEdit

tapir (Tapirus indicus)

EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from Old Tupi tapiira.

PronunciationEdit

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ta.ˈpiɾ/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ta.ˈpi(ʁ)/
• Hyphenation: ta‧pir

NounEdit

tapir m (plural tapires)

1. tapir

SynonymsEdit

• (tapir): anta

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SpanishEdit

PronunciationEdit

• Hyphenation: ta‧pir

NounEdit

tapir m (plural tapires)

1. tapir

SynonymsEdit

• (tapir): anta, anteburro, sachavaca, danta, ante

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TagalogEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Spanish tapir (“tapir”), from French tapir, from Old Tupi tapiira.

NounEdit

tapír

1. tapir