different between giraffe vs okapi

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 Mvuba okapi.

Pronunciation

• (General South African) IPA^(key): /???k??pi/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /?(?)?k??pi/

Noun

okapi (plural okapis)

1. A large ruminant mammal, Okapia johnstoni, found in the rainforests of the Congo, related to the giraffe, but with a much shorter neck, a reddish brown coat and zebra-like stripes on its hindquarters.
   • 1904, ‘Saki’, "Reginald's Christmas Revel", Reginald:

     I used to listen to him with a rapt attention that I thought rather suited me, and then one day I quite modestly gave the dimensions of an okapi I had shot in the Lincolnshire fens.

Translations

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?okap?]
• Rhymes: -ap?

Noun

okapi f

1. okapi (large ruminant mammal)

Further reading

• okapi in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• okapi in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Dutch

Etymology

From Mvuba okapi.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: oka?pi

Noun

okapi m (plural okapi's, diminutive okapietje n)

1. okapi

Finnish

Noun

okapi

1. okapi

Declension

Anagrams

• poika, pokia

Japanese

Romanization

okapi

1. R?maji transcription of ???

Spanish

Alternative forms

• ocapi

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /o?kapi/, [o?ka.pi]

Noun

okapi m (plural okapis)

1. okapi

Further reading

• “okapi” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.