different between tapir vs takir

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French tapir, from Old Tupi tapi'ira.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?te?pi??(?)/, /?te?p??(?)/, /?te?p?(?)/
• Rhymes: -e?p?(r)
• Homophone: taper

Noun

tapir (plural tapirs)

1. Any one of 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.

Synonyms

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

Hyponyms

• 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

Translations

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• atrip, parti, patri-

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish tapir, from Old Tupi tapi'ira.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ta?.pir/, [?ta?.pir]
• Hyphenation: ta?pir

Noun

tapir m (plural tapirs, diminutive tapirtje n)

1. tapir

   Synonym: boskoe

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ta.pi?/

Etymology 1

From Middle French tapir, from Old French tapir, borrowed from Frankish *tappijan (“to close, shut in, lock up”), from Frankish *tapp?, from Proto-Germanic *tappô.

Verb

tapir

1. (reflexive) to hide

Conjugation

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-.

Etymology 2

From Old Tupi tapi'ira.

Noun

tapir m (plural tapirs)

1. tapir

Anagrams

• parti, pâtir, priât, ripât

Further reading

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

Middle English

Noun

tapir

1. Alternative form of taper

Polish

Noun

tapir m anim

1. tapir

Declension

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Tupi tapi'ira.

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ta.?pi?/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ta.?pi(?)/
• Hyphenation: ta?pir

Noun

tapir m (plural tapires)

1. tapir

   Synonym: anta

Romanian

Etymology

From French tapir.

Noun

tapir m (plural tapiri)

1. tapir

Declension

Spanish

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: ta?pir

Noun

tapir m (plural tapires)

1. tapir

   Synonyms: (Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Guatemala, Southern Mexico, Venezuela) danta, (Bolivia, Northern Argentina) anta, (Ecuador) vaca de monte, (Honduras, Nicaragua) danto, (Mexico) ante, (Panama, Colombian Pacific Coast) macho de monte, (Paraguay) mboreví, (Peru) sachavaca, (Southern Mexico) anteburro

Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from French tapir, from Old Tupi tapi'ira.

Noun

tapir c

1. tapir

Declension

References

• tapir in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• tapir in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

Anagrams

• parti, pirat

Tagalog

Etymology

From Spanish tapir (“tapir”), from French tapir, from Old Tupi tapi'ira.

Noun

tapír

1. tapir

English

Alternative forms

• takyr

Etymology

From Russian ????? (takyr), from a Turkic source; compare Bashkir ????? (taqïr).

Noun

takir (plural takirs)

1. A type of relief, a dry fissured crust primarily formed by filamentous cyanobacteria, occurring in the deserts of Central Asia, and similar to a salt flat.

Anagrams

• IARTK, Takri, iktar, kirat, krait

Chuukese

Verb

takir

1. to laugh

Icelandic

Verb

takir

1. second-person singular active present subjunctive of taka