different between elephant vs jaguar

English

Etymology

From Middle English elefant, elefaunt, from Old French elefant, elefan, olifant, re-latinized in Middle French as elephant, from Latin elephantus, from Ancient Greek ?????? (eléph?s) (gen. ????????? (eléphantos)). Believed to be derived from an Afroasiatic form such as Proto-Berber *e?u (“elephant”) (compare Tahaggart Tamahaq êlu, Tamasheq alu) or Egyptian ?bw (“elephant; ivory”). More at ivory. Replaced Middle English olifant (from the aforementioned Old French form, from Vulgar Latin *olifantus), which replaced Old English elpend (“elephant”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??l?f?nt/, /??l?f?nt/

Noun

elephant (countable and uncountable, plural elephants)

1. A mammal of the order Proboscidea, having a trunk, and two large ivory tusks jutting from the upper jaw.
2. (in particular) Any member of the family Elephantidae not also of the genus Mammuthus.
3. (figuratively) Anything huge and ponderous.
4. (paper, printing) Synonym of elephant paper
5. (Britain, childish) used when counting to add length, so that each count takes about one second

   Let's play hide and seek. I'll count. One elephant, two elephant, three elephant...

6. (uncountable, obsolete) Ivory.

   • He sent rich gifts of elephant and gold.

Synonyms

• (animal): Elephas maximus, Loxodonta africana
• (counting term): see Appendix:Words used as placeholders to count seconds

Hyponyms

• (animal): African bush elephant, African forest elephant, Indian elephant, African elephant

Derived terms

Descendants

Related terms

Translations

Further reading

• elephant on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Elephant (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• heptenal

Middle French

Noun

elephant m (plural elephans)

1. elephant (animal)

Descendants

• French: éléphant
  • Haitian Creole: elefan
  • ? Romanian: elefant
• ? Irish: eilifint
• ? Norman: êléphant, éléphant

English

Etymology

From Portuguese jaguar, from Old Tupi îaûara.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?d?æ?j??/, /?d?æ?ju???/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?d?æ?w??/, /?d?æ?(j)u.??/, /?d?æ?wa??/

Noun

jaguar (plural jaguars)

1. A carnivorous spotted large cat native to South and Central America, Panthera onca.

Translations

See also

• jaguarundi
• jaguar on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Panthera onca on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

References

Catalan

Pronunciation

Noun

jaguar m (plural jaguars)

1. jaguar

Further reading

• “jaguar” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “jaguar” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “jaguar” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “jaguar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Dutch

Etymology

Apparently borrowed from French jaguar, from Portuguese jaguar, from Old Tupi îagûara. The contemporary pronunciation derives from English jaguar.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?d??.?u??r/, /?d??.?u??r/
• (dated in the Netherlands) IPA^(key): /?ja?.?y??r/
• Hyphenation: ja?gu?ar

Noun

jaguar m (plural jaguars, diminutive jaguartje n)

1. jaguar [from late 18th c.]
   • 1777, De Buffon, De algemeene en byzondere natuurlyke historie, vol. 5, part 1, tr. from French, J. H. Schneider (publ.), page 5.

Derived terms

• weerjaguar

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?a.?wa?/

Noun

jaguar m or f (plural jaguars)

1. (masculine) jaguar (cat)
2. (masculine) Jaguar (Mac OS 10.2)
3. (feminine) jaguar (car)
4. (feminine) Jaguar (British car manufacturer)

Further reading

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

Malay

Alternative forms

• ???????

Etymology

From English jaguar, from Portuguese, from Old Tupi jaguara.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d??a?ua(r)/
• Rhymes: -ua(r), -wa(r), -a(r)

Noun

jaguar (Jawi spelling ??????)

1. jaguar (Panthera onca)

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Portuguese jaguar, from Old Tupi îagûara

Noun

jaguar m (definite singular jaguaren, indefinite plural jaguarer, definite plural jaguarene)

1. a jaguar, genus Panthera onca

References

• “jaguar” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “jaguar” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Portuguese jaguar, from Old Tupi îagûara

Noun

jaguar m (definite singular jaguaren, indefinite plural jaguarar, definite plural jaguarane)

1. a jaguar, genus Panthera onca

References

• “jaguar” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ja??u.ar/

Noun

jaguar m anim

1. jaguar (Panthera onca)
2. Jaguar car

Declension

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Tupi îaûara. Doublet of jaguara.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /?a.??wa?/
  • (Paulista) IPA^(key): [?a.??wa?], [?a.??wa?], [?a.??wa?]
  • (South Brazil) IPA^(key): [?a.??wa?], [?a.??wa?]
  • (Carioca) IPA^(key): [?a.??wa?]

Noun

jaguar m (plural jaguares)

1. jaguar (Panthera onca, a feline of Latin America)

   Synonyms: onça, onça-pintada

Usage notes

In Brazil, jaguars are more commonly called onça or onça-pintada, and jaguar is mainly used in literature.

Related terms

• jaguara, jaguaraíva, jaguaré, jaguaretê, jaguatirica

Descendants

• ? English: jaguar

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French jaguar.

Noun

jaguar m (plural jaguari)

1. jaguar

Declension

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /jâ?ua?r/
• Hyphenation: ja?gu?ar

Noun

j?gu?r m (Cyrillic spelling ????????)

1. jaguar

Declension

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /xa??wa?/, [xa???wa?]

Noun

jaguar m (plural jaguares)

1. jaguar (Panthera onca)

   Synonym: yaguareté

Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from French jaguar.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [??.??.??]

Noun

jaguar (definite accusative jaguar?, plural jaguarlar)

1. jaguar

Declension