different between zebra vs zebroid

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)

1. Any of three species of genus Equus: E. grevyi, E. quagga, or E. zebra, all with black and white stripes and native to Africa.
2. (sports, slang) A referee.
3. (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".)
4. (vulgar, derogatory, slang, ethnic slur) A biracial person, specifically one born to a member of the Sub-Saharan African race and a Caucasian.
5. (informal) A fish, the zebra cichlid.
6. 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

1. zebra

Declension

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /?ze.b??/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /?ze.b?a/

Noun

zebra f (plural zebres)

1. 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

1. 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
2. a pattern or motif similar to the stripes of a zebra
3. (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)

1. Alternative form of zebru

References

• https://infcor.adecec.net/

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?z?bra/

Noun

zebra f

1. 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)

1. 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)

1. A zebra, a black-and-white striped equid of the genus Equus; Equus zebra, Equus quagga or Equus grevyi. [from late 16th c.]
2. 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)

1. zebrine, hippotigrine

Hypernyms

• ekveda (“equid”)

Hungarian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?z?br?]
• Hyphenation: zeb?ra
• Rhymes: -r?

Noun

zebra (plural zebrák)

1. (biology) zebra (animal)
2. (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)

1. zebra
2. (in the plural, informal) zebra crossing

Ladin

Noun

zebra f (plural zebres)

1. 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

1. (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)

1. zebra (esp. Equus zebra)

Declension

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?z?.bra/

Noun

zebra f

1. zebra (animal)
2. (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)

1. zebra

Descendants

• Italian: zebra
  • English: zebra

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /zêbra/

Noun

z?bra f (Cyrillic spelling ??????)

1. zebra

Declension

Slovene

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /zè?bra/, /zé?bra/

Noun

z??bra f

1. zebra

Inflection

Further reading

• “zebra”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran

Spanish

Noun

zebra f (plural zebras)

1. Obsolete spelling of cebra

Swedish

Alternative forms

• sebra

Noun

zebra c

1. zebra

Declension

Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from English zebra.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?zeb.??]
• Hyphenation: zeb?ra

Noun

zebra (definite accusative zebray?, plural zebralar)

1. zebra

Declension

English

Etymology

From zebra +? -oid.

Noun

zebroid (plural zebroids)

1. A cross between a zebra and any other equine animal, but especially a horse.

Adjective

zebroid (comparative more zebroid, superlative most zebroid)

1. Of or pertaining to such a cross.
2. Of or pertaining to a zebra; zebrine.