different between zebra vs zoo

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

Clipping of zoological garden, now the usual form. See zoology.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /zu?/
• Rhymes: -u?

Noun

zoo (plural zoos)

1. A park where live animals are exhibited.
2. (informal, figuratively) Any place that is wild, crowded, or chaotic.

3. (US, military, slang) The jungle.
   • 2013, E. E. "Doc" Murdock, My Vietnam War (page 152)

     I'm not all that unhappy about being out on an actual patrol, but there's a worried feeling wandering around the back of my mind, not exactly fear, more like a sort of lurking anxiety at being out in the dreaded jungle, the zoo, where the enemy hides.

4. (slang) A zoophile.
   • 2013, Mark Hawthorne, Bleating Hearts: The Hidden World of Animal Suffering

     Zoophiles, or 'zoos,' are sexually and emotionally attracted to animals, as in a sexual orientation.

   • 2016, Jessica Pierce, Run, Spot, Run: The Ethics of Keeping Pets (page 129)

     Bestiality or zoophilia—whatever we decide to call it—is one of the most pressing issues for all domesticated animals, […] From the scanty research available, the following picture emerges: the majority of zoos are male, though certainly not all; […]

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Valencian) IPA^(key): /?zo.o/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /?zo.u/

Noun

zoo m (plural zoos)

1. Clipping of zoològic.

Further reading

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

Czech

Noun

zoo f

1. zoo

Synonyms

• zoologická zahrada

Danish

Etymology

From English zoo

Noun

zoo c (singular definite zooen, plural indefinite zooer)

1. a zoo, zoological garden

Synonyms

• zoologisk have

Dutch

Pronunciation

• (Belgium) IPA^(key): /zo?/
• (Netherlands) IPA^(key): /zu?/, /zo?/
• Hyphenation: zoo
• Rhymes: -o?

Etymology 1

Probably a borrowing from French zoo. Equivalent to a shortening of zoölogische tuin.

Noun

zoo m (plural zoos, diminutive zootje n)

1. (chiefly Belgium) zoo

Synonyms

• dierentuin, diergaarde

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Adverb

zoo

1. Archaic spelling of zo.

Esperanto

Etymology

Clipping of zoologia ?ardeno.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?zoo/
• Hyphenation: zo?o
• Rhymes: -oo

Noun

zoo (accusative singular zoon, plural zooj, accusative plural zoojn)

1. zoo

Synonyms

• besto?ardeno

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /zo/, /zo.o/

Noun

zoo m (plural zoos)

1. zoo

Related terms

• zoologique

Further reading

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

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?d?z?.o/

Noun

zoo m (invariable)

1. zoo

Related terms

• giardino zoologico

Malay

Etymology

From English zoo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /zu/
• Rhymes: -zu, -u

Noun

zoo

1. zoo (park where live animals are exhibited)

Synonyms

• kebun binatang
• taman haiwan

Polish

Etymology

From English zoo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?z??/

Noun

zoo n (indeclinable)

1. (zoology) zoo (park where live animals are exhibited)

   Synonym: ogród zoologiczny

Further reading

• zoo in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• zoo in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• zôo (superseded)

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /?zo.u/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /?zo.u/, /?zow/
• Rhymes: -o.u

Noun

zoo m (plural zoos)

1. Clipping of zoológico.

Verb

zoo

1. first-person singular (eu) present indicative of zoar

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /??oo/, [??o.o]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America) /?soo/, [?so.o]

Noun

zoo m (plural zoos)

1. zoo

Related terms

• zoológico

Further reading

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

Swedish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /su?/
• Homophone: so

Noun

zoo n

1. zoo

Declension

Related terms

• zoo-

References

• zoo in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)

White Hmong

Etymology

From Proto-Hmong-Mien *-?r??H (“good”). Cognate with Iu Mien longx.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /????/

Adjective

zoo

1. good

Derived terms

• mus zoo
• nyob zoo

References

• Heimbach, Ernest E. (1979) White Hmong — English Dictionary?^[2], SEAP Publications, ?ISBN.