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zebra
English
Etymology
1600; borrowed from Italian zebra, from Portuguese zebra, zebro (“zebra”), from Old Portuguese enzebro, ezebra, azebra (“wild ass”), from earlier cebrario (882), ezebrario (897), from Vulgar Latin *eciferus, from Latin equiferus (“wild horse”) (Pliny), from equus (“horse”) + ferus (“wild”).
(biracial person): The term zebra, as used in its pejorative sense, was popularized on the television situation comedy The Jeffersons. The term was used by the series protagonist, George Jefferson (Sherman Hemsley), to express disdain for his daughter-in-law, Jenny Willis Jefferson, whose father was white and mother was black.
While the word was traditionally pronounced with a long initial vowel in standard English, during the twentieth century a vowel shift occurred in regions of England, with the adoption of an initial short vowel. This pronunciation is now used throughout the UK and most Commonwealth nations. The long vowel pronunciation remains standard in Canadian and American English.
Pronunciation
- (UK, Commonwealth) IPA(key): /?z?b??/, /?zi?b??/
- Hyphenation: zeb?ra
- (Canadian, US and traditional British English) IPA(key): /?zi?b??/
- Hyphenation: ze?bra
Noun
zebra (plural zebra or zebras)
- Any of three species of genus Equus: E. grevyi, E. quagga, or E. zebra, all with black and white stripes and native to Africa.
- (sports, slang) A referee.
- (medicine, slang) An unlikely diagnosis, especially for symptoms probably caused by a common ailment. (Originates in the advice often given to medical students: "when you hear hoofbeats, think of horses, not zebras".)
- (vulgar, derogatory, slang, ethnic slur) A biracial person, specifically one born to a member of the Sub-Saharan African race and a Caucasian.
- (informal) A fish, the zebra cichlid.
- Any of various papilionid butterflies of the subgenus Paranticopsis of the genus Graphium, having black and white markings.
Synonyms
- (unusual diagnosis): fascinoma
Hyponyms
- (animal of genus Equus): Burchell's zebra, Grevy's zebra, quagga, plains zebra, mountain zebra
Derived terms
Translations
See also
- quagga
- Equus burchelli, Equus grevyi, Equus quagga, Equus zebra
References
Anagrams
- Zaber, braze
Basque
Pronunciation
Noun
zebra anim
- zebra
Declension
Catalan
Pronunciation
- (Balearic, Central) IPA(key): /?ze.b??/
- (Valencian) IPA(key): /?ze.b?a/
Noun
zebra f (plural zebres)
- zebra
Cebuano
Etymology
Borrowed from English zebra, from Italian zebra, from Portuguese zebra, zebro (“zebra”), from Old Portuguese enzebro, ezebra, azebra (“wild ass”), from earlier cebrario (882), ezebrario (897), from Vulgar Latin *eciferus, from Latin equiferus (“wild horse”) (Pliny), from equus (“horse”) + ferus (“wild”).
Noun
zebra
- a zebra; any of three species of genus Equus: E. grevyi, E. quagga, or E. zebra, all with black and white stripes and native to Africa
- a pattern or motif similar to the stripes of a zebra
- (informal) an animal with zebra-like stripes
Corsican
Etymology
From Portuguese zebra (“wild horse”), from zebro, from Old Portuguese zevro, from *ezevro, from Vulgar Latin *eciferus, from Latin *equiferus, from equus (“horse”) + ferus (“wild”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?z?bra/
Noun
zebra f (plural zebre)
- Alternative form of zebru
References
- https://infcor.adecec.net/
Czech
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?z?bra/
Noun
zebra f
- zebra
Declension
Further reading
- zebra in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
- zebra in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989
Danish
Noun
zebra c (singular definite zebraen, plural indefinite zebraer)
- zebra
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from Portuguese zebra, from Vulgar Latin *eciferus, from Latin equiferus (“wild horse”). The second sense is a shortening of zebrapad.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?ze?.bra?/
- Hyphenation: ze?bra
Noun
zebra m (plural zebra's, diminutive zebraatje n)
- A zebra, a black-and-white striped equid of the genus Equus; Equus zebra, Equus quagga or Equus grevyi. [from late 16th c.]
- A zebra crossing, a pedestrian crossing. [from mid 1950s.]
- Synonym: zebrapad
Hypernyms
- (pedestrian crossing): oversteekplaats
Hyponyms
- (zebra): quagga
Derived terms
- zebrahaai
- zebrapad
- zebraprint
Esperanto
Etymology
From zebro (“zebra”) +? -a.
Adjective
zebra (accusative singular zebran, plural zebraj, accusative plural zebrajn)
- zebrine, hippotigrine
Hypernyms
- ekveda (“equid”)
Hungarian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?z?br?]
- Hyphenation: zeb?ra
- Rhymes: -r?
Noun
zebra (plural zebrák)
- (biology) zebra (animal)
- (road transport) pedestrian crossing, crosswalk, zebra crossing
Declension
Synonyms
- (crosswalk): gyalogátkel?hely
Derived terms
(Compound words):
- zebrapinty
Further reading
- zebra in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?d?z?.bra/
- Rhymes: -?bra
Noun
zebra f (plural zebre)
- zebra
- (in the plural, informal) zebra crossing
Ladin
Noun
zebra f (plural zebres)
- zebra
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /?ze?.bra/, [?d??z?e?b?ä]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /?d?ze.bra/, [?d??z???b??]
Noun
z?bra f (genitive z?brae); first declension
- (New Latin) zebra (Equus zebra)
Declension
First-declension noun.
Latvian
Etymology
Possibly ultimately from a Congolese name for the animal, via Portuguese, via some other European language. Possibly also ultimately from Latin equiferus (“wild horse”), via Portuguese and/or Italian.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?z?bra/
Noun
zebra f (4th declension)
- zebra (esp. Equus zebra)
Declension
Polish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?z?.bra/
Noun
zebra f
- zebra (animal)
- (colloquial) zebra crossing
- Synonyms: przej?cie dla pieszych, pasy
Declension
Further reading
- zebra in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
- zebra in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Portuguese
Etymology
From zebro, from Old Portuguese zebro, ezebro (“European wild ass”), from Vulgar Latin *eciferus, from Latin equiferus (“wild horse”), from equus (“horse”) + ferus (“wild”). Compare Spanish cebra.
Pronunciation
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /?ze.???/
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /?ze.b?a/, /?ze.b??/
- Hyphenation: ze?bra
Noun
zebra f (plural zebras)
- zebra
Descendants
- Italian: zebra
- English: zebra
Serbo-Croatian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /zêbra/
Noun
z?bra f (Cyrillic spelling ??????)
- zebra
Declension
Slovene
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /zè?bra/, /zé?bra/
Noun
z??bra f
- zebra
Inflection
Further reading
- “zebra”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran
Spanish
Noun
zebra f (plural zebras)
- Obsolete spelling of cebra
Swedish
Alternative forms
- sebra
Noun
zebra c
- zebra
Declension
Turkish
Etymology
Borrowed from English zebra.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?zeb.??]
- Hyphenation: zeb?ra
Noun
zebra (definite accusative zebray?, plural zebralar)
- zebra
Declension
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zebralike
English
Etymology
zebra +? -like
Adjective
zebralike (comparative more zebralike, superlative most zebralike)
- Resembling a zebra, especially in having contrasting stripes.
zebralike From the web:
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