tapir

See also: Tapir and tapír

English

A 19th-century watercolour of a Malayan tapir (Tapirus indicus), from the William Farquhar Collection of Natural History Drawings at the National Museum of Singapore

A tapir (Tapirus indicus)

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈteɪpiːə(ɹ)/, /ˈteɪpɪə(ɹ)/, /ˈteɪpə(ɹ)/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -eɪpə(ɹ)
• 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.
   • 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:

     Once a dark, clumsy tapir stared at us from a gap in the bushes, and then lumbered away through the forest; once, too, the yellow, sinuous form of a great puma whisked amid the brushwood, and its green, baleful eyes glared hatred at us over its tawny shoulder.

Synonyms

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

Hyponyms

• Baird's tapir (Tapirus bairdii)
• Brazilian tapir (Tapirus terrestris)
• hog tapir
• Malayan tapir (Tapirus indicus)
• mountain tapir (Tapirus pinchaque)

Translations

large odd-toed ungulate with a long prehensile upper lip of the family Tapiridae

• Afrikaans: tapir
• Arabic: تَابِير m (tabīr)
• Armenian: գետակինճ (hy) (getakinč)
• Assamese: টাপিৰা (tapira)
• Asturian: tapir (ast) m
• Basque: tapir (eu)
• Batek: baghik
• Belarusian: тапір m (tapir)
• Bulgarian: тапир (tapir)
• Canela: cukryt
• Catalan: tapir m
• Ceq Wong: grĕbel
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 貘 (zh) (mò)

• Czech: tapír (cs)
• Danish: tapir
• Desano: weku
• Dutch: tapir (nl) m, (Surinam) boskoe
• Esperanto: tapiro
• Estonian: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: tapiiri (fi)
• French: tapir (fr) m, (French Guiana) maïpouri m
• German: Tapir (de) m
• Greek: τάπιρος (tápiros)
• Guaraní: mboreví
• Hebrew: טפיר (he) (tapír)
• Hindi: टपीर m (ṭapīr)
• Hungarian: tapír (hu)
• Icelandic: káputapír m
• Ido: tapiro (io)
• Indonesian: tenuk (id), cipan (id), babi alu (id)
• Italian: tapiro (it) m
• Jahai: barét, baroong
• Japanese: バク (ja) (baku)
• Kazakh: салпыерін (salpyerın)
• Korean: 맥(貘) (ko) (maek)
• Kuna: moli
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: تاپیر (tapîr)

• Latvian: tapirs m
• Lithuanian: tapyras
• Malay: tenuk, senuk, terenuk, cipan, kipan, badak tampung, badak murai, badak babi, kuda air, tapir (ms)
• Murui Huitoto: zuruma
• Nahuatl: tlācaxōlōtl
• Norwegian: tapir (no)
• Old Tupi: tapi'ira
• Pirahã: kabatií
• Polish: tapir (pl) m
• Portuguese: anta (pt) f, tapir (pt) m
• Quechua: sach'a waka f
• Romanian: tapir (ro) m
• Russian: тапи́р (ru) m (tapír)
• Semnam: baroong
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: тапир

  Roman: tapir (sh)

• Slovene: tapir (sl)
• Spanish: tapir (es) m, anta (es) f (Bolivia, Northern Argentina), anteburro m (Southern Mexico), danta f (Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Guatemala, Southern Mexico, Venezuela), danto m (Honduras, Nicaragua), macho de monte m (Panamá, Colombian Pacific Coast), mboreví m (Paraguay), sachavaca f (Peru), vaca de monte f (Ecuador)
• Swedish: tapir (sv)
• Tagalog: tapir
• Temiar: barééw
• Temoq: naq bĕrtampal
• Thai: สมเสร็จ (th) (sǒm-sèt)
• Turkish: tapir (tr)
• Uyghur: تاپىر (tapir)
• Vietnamese: lợn vòi, heo vòi
• Volapük: tapir
• Wapishana: kodoi
• Yucatec Maya: tsíimin
• Yuracare: wenche

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• atrip, parti, patri-

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Tupi tapi'ira.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [təˈpir]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [taˈpir]

Noun

tapir m (plural tapirs)

1. tapir

Further reading

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

Dutch

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtaː.pir/, [ˈtaː.pir]

• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: ta‧pir

Noun

tapir m (plural tapirs, diminutive tapirtje n)

1. tapir

   Synonym: boskoe

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ta.piʁ/

Etymology 1

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

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-.

Conjugation of tapir (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	tapir
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	tapissant /ta.pi.sɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		tapi /ta.pi/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	tapis /ta.pi/	tapis /ta.pi/	tapit /ta.pi/	tapissons /ta.pi.sɔ̃/	tapissez /ta.pi.se/	tapissent /ta.pis/
	imperfect	tapissais /ta.pi.sɛ/	tapissais /ta.pi.sɛ/	tapissait /ta.pi.sɛ/	tapissions /ta.pi.sjɔ̃/	tapissiez /ta.pi.sje/	tapissaient /ta.pi.sɛ/
	past historic2	tapis /ta.pi/	tapis /ta.pi/	tapit /ta.pi/	tapîmes /ta.pim/	tapîtes /ta.pit/	tapirent /ta.piʁ/
	future	tapirai /ta.pi.ʁe/	tapiras /ta.pi.ʁa/	tapira /ta.pi.ʁa/	tapirons /ta.pi.ʁɔ̃/	tapirez /ta.pi.ʁe/	tapiront /ta.pi.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	tapirais /ta.pi.ʁɛ/	tapirais /ta.pi.ʁɛ/	tapirait /ta.pi.ʁɛ/	tapirions /ta.pi.ʁjɔ̃/	tapiriez /ta.pi.ʁje/	tapiraient /ta.pi.ʁɛ/
(compound tenses)	present perfect	present indicative of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
	past anterior2	past historic of avoir + past participle
	future perfect	future of avoir + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il, qu’elle	que nous	que vous	qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple tenses)	present	tapisse /ta.pis/	tapisses /ta.pis/	tapisse /ta.pis/	tapissions /ta.pi.sjɔ̃/	tapissiez /ta.pi.sje/	tapissent /ta.pis/
	imperfect2	tapisse /ta.pis/	tapisses /ta.pis/	tapît /ta.pi/	tapissions /ta.pi.sjɔ̃/	tapissiez /ta.pi.sje/	tapissent /ta.pis/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	tapis /ta.pi/	—	tapissons /ta.pi.sɔ̃/	tapissez /ta.pi.se/	—
compound		—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Old Tupi tapi'ira.

Noun

tapir m (plural tapirs)

1. tapir

Descendants

• → English: tapir
• → German: Tapir
• → Ottoman Turkish: طاپر
  • Turkish: tapir
• → Polish: tapir
  • → Kashubian: tapir
• →? Portuguese: tapir
• →? Spanish: tapir
  • → Catalan: tapir
  • → Dutch: tapir
  • → Tagalog: tapir
• → Swedish: tapir

Further reading

• “tapir”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• parti, pâtir, priât, ripât

Kashubian

Tapir.

Etymology

Borrowed from Polish tapir.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈta.pir/
• Rhymes: -apir
• Syllabification: ta‧pir

Noun

tapir m animal

1. tapir (ungulate of the family Tapiridae)

References

• Eùgeniusz Gòłąbk (2011) “tapir”, in Słownik Polsko-Kaszubski / Słowôrz Pòlskò-Kaszëbsczi‎^[1]

Middle English

Noun

tapir

1. Alternative form of taper

Polish

tapir

Etymology

Borrowed from French tapir.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈta.pir/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -apir
• Syllabification: ta‧pir

Noun

tapir m animal

1. tapir (any large odd-toed ungulate with a long prehensile upper lip of the family Tapiridae)

Declension

Declension of tapir

	singular	plural
nominative	tapir	tapiry
genitive	tapira	tapirów
dative	tapirowi	tapirom
accusative	tapira	tapiry
instrumental	tapirem	tapirami
locative	tapirze	tapirach
vocative	tapirze	tapiry

Descendants

• → Kashubian: tapir

Further reading

• tapir in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

tapir (Tapirus indicus)

Etymology

Ultimately from Old Tupi tapi'ira.

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /taˈpi(ʁ)/ [taˈpi(h)]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /taˈpi(ʁ)/ [taˈpi(h)]
  • (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /taˈpi(ɾ)/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /taˈpi(ʁ)/ [taˈpi(χ)]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /taˈpi(ɻ)/

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /tɐˈpiɾ/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /tɐˈpiɾ/
  • (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): /tɐˈpi.ɾi/

• Hyphenation: ta‧pir

Noun

tapir m (plural tapires)

1. tapir

   Synonym: anta

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French tapir.

Noun

tapir m (plural tapiri)

1. tapir

Declension

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	tapir	tapirul		tapiri	tapirii
genitive-dative	tapir	tapirului		tapiri	tapirilor
vocative	tapirule			tapirilor

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /taˈpiɾ/ [t̪aˈpiɾ]

• Audio (Venezuela):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -iɾ
• Syllabification: 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

Derived terms

• tapir amazónico
• tapir de Baird

 

Descendants

• → Catalan: tapir
• → Dutch: tapir
• → Tagalog: tapir

Further reading

• “tapir”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28

Swedish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -iːr

Noun

tapir c

1. tapir

Declension

Declension of tapir

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	tapir	tapirs
	definite	tapiren	tapirens
plural	indefinite	tapirer	tapirers
	definite	tapirerna	tapirernas

References

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

Anagrams

• parti, pirat

Tagalog

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /taˈpiɾ/ [t̪ɐˈpiɾ]
• Rhymes: -iɾ
• Syllabification: ta‧pir

Noun

tapír (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜉᜒᜇ᜔)

1. tapir

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish طاپر (tapir), from French tapir, from Old Tupi tapi'ira.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [tɑ.piɾ]

Noun

tapir (definite accusative tapiri, plural tapirler)

1. tapir

Declension

Inflection
Nominative	tapir
Definite accusative	tapiri
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	tapir	tapirler
Definite accusative	tapiri	tapirleri
Dative	tapire	tapirlere
Locative	tapirde	tapirlerde
Ablative	tapirden	tapirlerden
Genitive	tapirin	tapirlerin
Possessive forms Nominative Singular Plural 1st singular tapirim tapirlerim 2nd singular tapirin tapirlerin 3rd singular tapiri tapirleri 1st plural tapirimiz tapirlerimiz 2nd plural tapiriniz tapirleriniz 3rd plural tapirleri tapirleri Definite accusative Singular Plural 1st singular tapirimi tapirlerimi 2nd singular tapirini tapirlerini 3rd singular tapirini tapirlerini 1st plural tapirimizi tapirlerimizi 2nd plural tapirinizi tapirlerinizi 3rd plural tapirlerini tapirlerini Dative Singular Plural 1st singular tapirime tapirlerime 2nd singular tapirine tapirlerine 3rd singular tapirine tapirlerine 1st plural tapirimize tapirlerimize 2nd plural tapirinize tapirlerinize 3rd plural tapirlerine tapirlerine Locative Singular Plural 1st singular tapirimde tapirlerimde 2nd singular tapirinde tapirlerinde 3rd singular tapirinde tapirlerinde 1st plural tapirimizde tapirlerimizde 2nd plural tapirinizde tapirlerinizde 3rd plural tapirlerinde tapirlerinde Ablative Singular Plural 1st singular tapirimden tapirlerimden 2nd singular tapirinden tapirlerinden 3rd singular tapirinden tapirlerinden 1st plural tapirimizden tapirlerimizden 2nd plural tapirinizden tapirlerinizden 3rd plural tapirlerinden tapirlerinden Genitive Singular Plural 1st singular tapirimin tapirlerimin 2nd singular tapirinin tapirlerinin 3rd singular tapirinin tapirlerinin 1st plural tapirimizin tapirlerimizin 2nd plural tapirinizin tapirlerinizin 3rd plural tapirlerinin tapirlerinin