different between giraffe vs bison

English

Etymology

From French giraffe (now girafe), from Arabic ????????? (zar?fa, “giraffe”); ultimately from Persian ?????????? (zurn?p?), a compound of ??????? (zurn?, “flute”) and ???? (p?, “leg”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /d??????f/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /d?????æf/
• Rhymes: -??f

Noun

giraffe (plural giraffes or giraffe)

1. A ruminant, of the genus Giraffa, of the African savannah with long legs and highly elongated neck, which make it the tallest living animal; yellow fur patterned with dark spots, often in the form of a network; and two or more short, skin-covered horns, so-called; strictly speaking the horn-like projections are ossicones.
2. A giraffe unicycle.
3. (Cockney rhyming slang) A laugh.

   Are you having a giraffe?!

Synonyms

• camelopard
• (a laugh) bubble bath, bubble

Derived terms

Translations

Further reading

• giraffe on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Giraffa on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Giraffa on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Anagrams

• riffage

Dutch

Etymology

Possibly via German Giraffe, from Italian giraffa, from Arabic ????????? (zar?fa).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?i?r?f/
• Hyphenation: gi?raf?fe
• Rhymes: -?f

Noun

giraffe f (plural giraffen or giraffes, diminutive giraffetje n or girafje n)

1. Alternative spelling of giraf.

Italian

Noun

giraffe f

1. plural of giraffa

English

Etymology

From Middle English bisontes (plural), from Old French bison, from Latin bis?n, bis?nt- (“wild ox”), from Proto-Germanic *wisundaz (“wild ox, aurochs”), from Proto-Indo-European *wisAn- (“aurochs, aurochs horn”), from Proto-Indo-European *weys- (“to flow, melt”). Akin to Old High German wisunt (“bison”), German Wisent (“bison”), Old English wesend, wusend (“bison, buffalo, wild ox”), Middle Dutch w?sent (“wild ox”). Doublet of wisent.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ba??s?n/
• Rhymes: -a?s?n

Noun

bison (plural bison or (chiefly dated) bisons)

1. A wild ox, Bison bonasus.

   Synonyms: wisent, European bison

2. A similar North American animal, Bison bison.

   Synonyms: American bison, (imprecise) buffalo, (imprecise) American buffalo

Translations

Further reading

• bison on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• bison on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

Anagrams

• Ibson, binos, bions

French

Etymology

From Latin bison.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bi.z??/

Noun

bison m (plural bisons, feminine bisonne)

1. buffalo (North American bison)
2. wisent (European bison)

Descendants

• ? Russian: ?????? (bizón) (see there for further descendants)

Further reading

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

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Proto-Germanic *wisundaz (“bison, wisent”). Compare Ancient Greek ????? (bís?n).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?bi.so?n/, [?b?s?o?n]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?bi.son/, [?bi?s??n]

Noun

bis?n m (genitive bis?ntis); third declension

1. bison (Bison bonasus)

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Further reading

• bison in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• bison in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

Norman

Etymology

From Old French bison, from Latin bis?n, bis?nt- (“wild ox”), from Proto-Germanic *wisundaz (“wild ox, aurochs”).

Noun

bison f (plural bisons)

1. (Jersey) bison