different between shikar vs safari

English

Etymology

From Urdu / Hindi ????? / ????? (?ik?r), from Persian ????? (šekâr).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???k??/

Noun

shikar (countable and uncountable, plural shikars)

1. (India) Hunting, sport; a hunting expedition.
   • 1888, Rudyard Kipling, ‘Miss Youghal's Sais’, Plain Tales from the Hills, Folio Society 2007, p. 25:

     Where other men took ten days to the Hills, Strickland took leave for what he called shikar, put on the disguise that appealed to him at the time, stepped down into the brown crowd, and was swallowed up for a while.

   • 1924, EM Forster, A Passage to India, Penguin 2005, p. 130:

     They climbed up the ladder, and he mounted shikar fashion, treading first on the sharp edge of the heel and then into the looped-up tail.

2. hunting guide (elsewhere besides India, e.g. Australia)

Related terms

• shikari

Verb

shikar (third-person singular simple present shikars, present participle shikarring, simple past and past participle shikarred)

1. (India, dated, transitive, intransitive) To hunt; to go hunting.

Anagrams

• Harkis, Kishar, Sakhir, Shakir, Shirak, rakhis, rakish, shikra

English

Etymology

From Swahili safari (“journey”), from Arabic ?????? (safar).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s??f???.i/
• Rhymes: -??ri

Noun

safari (plural safaris)

1. A trip into any undeveloped area to see, photograph or hunt wild animals in their own environment.
2. A caravan going on a safari.
3. (by extension) Any trip for the purpose of discovering something new or acquiring prizes or trophies.
   • 1968, Ruth Stearns Egge, How to Make Something from Nothing

     An ardent junker herself, Mrs. Egge tells how to conduct a fascinating junk safari into the attic or antique and secondhand shops and what to do with the trophies you bring home.

Derived terms

• safari jacket
• safari park
• safari suit
• safarier
• safarigoer
• safariman
• surfari
• whale safari

Translations

Verb

safari (third-person singular simple present safaris, present participle safariing, simple past and past participle safaried)

1. (intransitive) To take part in a safari.

Anagrams

• Farias

Catalan

Etymology

From Swahili safari (“journey”), from Arabic ?????? (safar).

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /s??fa.?i/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /sa?fa.?i/

Noun

safari m (plural safaris)

1. safari

Further reading

• “safari” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Dutch

Etymology

From Swahili safari (“journey”), from Arabic ?????? (safar).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sa??fa?.ri/
• Hyphenation: sa?fa?ri

Noun

safari m (plural safari's, diminutive safarietje n)

1. safari

Derived terms

• safaribus
• safaripark

Finnish

Etymology

From Swahili safari (“journey”), from Arabic ?????? (safar).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?s?f?ri/, [?s??f?ri]
• Rhymes: -?f?ri
• Syllabification: sa?fa?ri

Noun

safari

1. safari

Declension

Anagrams

• fraasi

French

Etymology

From Swahili safari (“journey”), from Arabic ?????? (safar).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sa.fa.?i/

Noun

safari m (plural safaris)

1. safari

Italian

Etymology

From Swahili safari (“journey”), from Arabic ?????? (safar).

Noun

safari m (invariable)

1. safari

Anagrams

• sfarai

Japanese

Romanization

safari

1. R?maji transcription of ????

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Swahili safari (“journey”), from Arabic ?????? (safar).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s?f??r?/
• Rhymes: -?

Noun

safari m (definite singular safarien, indefinite plural safarier, definite plural safariene)

1. a safari

Derived terms

• hvalsafari

References

• “safari” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Swahili safari (“journey”), from Arabic ?????? (safar).

Noun

safari m (definite singular safarien, indefinite plural safariar, definite plural safariane)

1. a safari

References

• “safari” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Romanian

Etymology

From French safari

Noun

safari n (uncountable)

1. safari

Declension

Spanish

Etymology

From Swahili safari (“journey”), from Arabic ?????? (safar).

Noun

safari m (plural safaris)

1. safari

Swahili

Etymology

From Arabic ?????? (safar, “trip”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s??f?.?i/

Noun

safari (n class, plural safari)

1. journey, trip
2. a time or instance

Related terms

• -safiri

Descendants

• ? Arabic: ????????? (saf?r?)
• ? Catalan: safari
• ? English: safari
• ? Finnish: safari
• ? French: safari
• ? German: Safari
• ? Hungarian: szafari
• ? Italian: safari
• ? Japanese: ????
• ? Portuguese: safári
• ? Russian: ??????? (safári)
• ? Spanish: safari
• ? Swedish: safari