# kapibara
## Azerbaijani
### Noun

kapibara (definite accusative kapibaranı, plural kapibaralar)
* capybara

## Indonesian
### Etymology

Borrowed from Dutch capibara, from Spanish capibara, from Old Tupi kapibara.

### Pronunciation

* (Standard Indonesian) IPA: /kapiˈbara/ [ka.piˈba.ra]
* Rhymes: -ara
* Syllabification: ka‧pi‧ba‧ra

### Noun

kapibara (first-person possessive kapibaraku, second-person possessive kapibaramu, third-person possessive kapibaranya)
* capybara (Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris)

### Further reading

* “kapibara” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

## Kashubian
### Etymology

Borrowed from Polish kapibara.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ka.piˈba.ra/
* Rhymes: -ara
* Syllabification: ka‧pi‧ba‧ra

### Noun

kapibara f
* capybara (rodent of the genus Hydrochoerus)

### References

* Eùgeniusz Gòłąbk (2011) “kapibara”, in Słownik Polsko-Kaszubski / Słowôrz Pòlskò-Kaszëbsczi‎

## Latvian
### Etymology

Via other European languages, ultimately derived from Old Tupi kapibara (“slender grass/leaf eater”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [kapibaɾa]
* Audio (Riga):(file)

### Noun

kapibara f (4th declension)
* capybara (large South American rodent, especially Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris)
    kapibarai ir vairākas īpašības, kas piemērotas dzīvei ūdenī ― the capybara has many properties suitable for life in water
    kapibaru barā parasti ir 10-20 indivīdu ― in a capybara herd there usually are 10-20 individuals

#### Declension
## Old Tupi
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ka.piˈβ̞a.ɾa]
* Rhymes: -aɾa
* Hyphenation: ka‧pi‧ba‧ra

### Noun

kapibara (unpossessable)
* Alternative form of kapi'iûara

### References

* Hans Staden (1557) chapter XXX, in Warhaftige [Hiſtoria und] beſchꝛeibung eyner Landtſchafft der wilden nacketen/grimmigen menſchfreſſer leuthen/in der newenwelt America gelegen [True history and description of a land of wild, naked, fierce man-eating people located in the New World of America], volume 2 (overall work in German), Marburg: Andreas Kolbe, unnumbered page: “Catiuare [Kapibara]”
* Gabriel Soares de Sousa (1587) chapter CI, in Noticia do Brasil (overall work in Portuguese), Salvador; republished as Francisco Adolpho de Varnhagen, editor, Tratado descriptivo do Brazil em 1587, Rio de Janeiro: Laemmert, 1851, page 250: “capibaras [kapibara]”
* Antonie Knivet (1591) “The admirable aduentures and ſtrange fortunes of Maſter Antonie Knivet, which went with Maſter Thomas Candish in his ſecond voyage to the South Sea”, in Samuel Purchas, editor, Pvrchas his Pilgrimes, part IV, book VI, chapter VII § V (overall work in English), London: H. Fetherston, published 1625, page 1242: “Capiuaras [Kapibara]”
* Georg Marcgrave, Willem Piso (1648) Historia Naturalis Brasiliae [Brazilian Natural History], Rerum Naturalium Historiae, book VI, chapter VII (overall work in Latin), Amsterdam: Elzevir, page 230: “Capybara [Kapibara]”

## Polish
### Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish capibara, from Portuguese capivara, from Old Tupi kapi'iûara.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ka.piˈba.ra/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ara
* Syllabification: ka‧pi‧ba‧ra

### Noun

kapibara f
* capybara

#### Descendants

* → Kashubian: kapibara

### Further reading

* kapibara in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
* kapibara in Polish dictionaries at PWN

## Slovene
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kapibàːra/

### Noun

kapibára f
* capybara, Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris

#### Inflection
### Further reading

* “kapibara”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU (in Slovene), 2014–2024

## Turkish
### Etymology

From Spanish capibara, from Portuguese capivara.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kapibaɾa/
* Rhymes: -ɾa
* Hyphenation: ka‧pi‧ba‧ra

### Noun

kapibara (definite accusative kapibarayı, plural kapibaralar)
* capybara