# giraffe
## English
### Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French giraffe, from Italian giraffa. Displaced camelopard.

### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /dʒɪˈɹɑːf/
* (Northern England, Scotland) IPA: /dʒɪˈɹaf/
* (General American) IPA: /d͡ʒəˈɹæf/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɑːf

### Noun

giraffe (plural giraffes or giraffe)
* A ruminant, of the genus Giraffa, of the African savannah with long legs and highly elongated neck, which make it the tallest living animal; yellow fur patterned with dark spots, often in the form of a network; and two or more short, skin-covered horns, so-called; strictly speaking the horn-like projections are ossicones.
    Synonym: camelopard
* A giraffe unicycle.
* (Cockney rhyming slang) A laugh.
    Synonyms: bubble bath, bubble
    Are you having a giraffe?!
* (Internet slang, uncommon) A very tall individual.

#### Derived terms

* Angolan giraffe (Giraffa giraffa angolensis)
* Baringo giraffe
* Congolese giraffe
* forest giraffe
* giraffe bread
* giraffedom
* giraffe gazelle (Litocranius walleri)
* giraffelike
* giraffeling
* giraffe piano
* giraffe seahorse
* giraffe sheep
* giraffess
* giraffe thorn
* giraffe weevil (Trachelophorus giraffa)
* giraffish
* giraffiti
* giraffoid
* giraffy
* high as giraffe pussy
* Kilimanjaro giraffe (Giraffa tippelskirchi tippelskirchi)
* Kordofan giraffe (Giraffa camelopardalis antiquorum)
* Maasai giraffe, Masai giraffe (Giraffa tippelskirchi tippelskirchi)
* Niger giraffe, Nigerian giraffe (Giraffa peralta)
* northern giraffe (Giraffa camelopardalis)
* Nubian giraffe (Giraffa camelopardalis camelopardalis)
* reticulated giraffe (Giraffa reticulata)
* Rhodesian giraffe (Giraffa camelopardalis thornicrofti)
* Rothschild giraffe (Giraffa camelopardalis rothschildi)
* Rothschild's giraffe
* smoky giraffe (Giraffa giraffa angolensis)
* Somali giraffe (Giraffa reticulata)
* South African giraffe (Giraffa giraffa giraffa)
* Thornicroft's giraffe (Giraffa camelopardalis thornicrofti)
* three-horned giraffe (Giraffa camelopardalis)
* Ugandan giraffe (Giraffa camelopardalis rothschildi)
* West African giraffe (Giraffa camelopardalis peralta)
* zebra giraffe

#### Translations

Afar: gari
Afrikaans: kameelperd (af)
Albanian: gjirafë (sq)
Amharic: ቀጭኔ (ḳäč̣ne)
Arabic: زَرَافَة (ar) f (zarāfa)
Aragonese: chirafa f
Aramaic:
Classical Syriac: ܙܪܢܦܐ m (zarnāp̄āʾ), ܓܡܠ ܢܡܪܐ m (gəmal nemrāʾ)
Armenian: ընձուղտ (hy) (ənjuġt)
Assamese: জিৰাফ (ziraph)
Asturian: xirafa (ast) f
Azerbaijani: zürafə (az)
Basque: jirafa (eu)
Belarusian: жыра́фа f (žyráfa)
Bengali: জরৈফ (jorōiph)
Bongo: kïlïrü
Bulgarian: жира́ф (bg) m (žiráf), жира́фа (bg) f (žiráfa)
Burmese: သစ်ကုလားအုတ် (my) (sacku.la:ut)
Catalan: girafa (ca) f
Central Melanau: jirapah
Cherokee: ᏗᎦᎵᏍᏚᎩᏍᎩ (digalisdugisgi)
Cheyenne: tsėhe'ėsenotováhe
Chichewa: nyamalikiti, nswala
Chinese:
Cantonese: 長頸鹿 / 长颈鹿 (coeng$^4$ geng$^2$ luk$^6$, coeng$^4$ geng$^2$ luk$^{6-2}$)
Hakka: 長頸鹿 / 长颈鹿 (chhòng-kiáng-lu̍k)
Hokkien: 長頷鹿 / 长颔鹿 (zh-min-nan) (tn̂g-ām-lo̍k), 長頭鹿仔 / 长头鹿仔 (tn̂g-thâu-lo̍k-á), 麒麟鹿 (kî-lîn-lo̍k)
Mandarin: 長頸鹿 / 长颈鹿 (zh) (chángjǐnglù)
Coptic: ⲁⲛⲑⲉⲣⲟⲥ f (antheros)
Cornish: jiraff m
Czech: žirafa (cs) f
Danish: giraf (da) c
Daur: чилин (čilin)
Dhivehi: ޒަރާފާ (zarāfā)
Dutch: giraf (nl) f
Egyptian: (mmj)
Erzya: дуебабри (dujebabri)
Esperanto: ĝirafo
Estonian: kaelkirjak (et)
Faroese: giraffur m
Finnish: kirahvi (fi)
French: girafe (fr) f, chameaupard m (archaic, obsolete)
Galician: xirafa (gl) f
Georgian: ჟირაფი (žirapi)
German: Giraffe (de) f
Greek: καμηλοπάρδαλη (el) f (kamilopárdali)
Ancient: καμηλοπάρδαλις f (kamēlopárdalis)
Guerrero Amuzgo: kió' xtyo' tkò
Gujarati: જિરાફ (jirāph)
Hadza: zzókwanako, háwayii (triumphal name)
Haitian Creole: jiraf
Hawaiian: kamelopaki
Hebrew: גִ׳ירָף m (jiraf)
Hindi: जिराफ़ m (jirāf), जिराफ (hi) m (jirāph), जराफ़ (jarāf), जुराफा (hi) (jurāphā), जराफा (hi) m (jarāphā)
Hungarian: zsiráf (hu)
Hunsrik: Schiraff f
Icelandic: gíraffi (is) m
Ido: jirafo (io)
Indonesian: jerapah (id), zarafah (id)
Irish: sioráf
Italian: giraffa (it) f
Japanese: 麒麟 (ja) (きりん, kirin), キリン (ja) (kirin)
Kalmyk: анаш (anaş)
Kannada: ಜಿರಾಫೆ (jirāphe)
Kazakh: жираф (jiraf), керік (kerık)
Khmer: ហ្សីរ៉ាហ្វ (ziiraaf), កវែង (km) (kɑɑ vɛɛng)
Khoekhoe: ǃnaib
Kikuyu: ndũiga class 9/10, njirabu
Korean: 기린(麒麟) (ko) (girin)
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: زەڕافە (ckb) (zerrafe), ھێشترگا (hêştirga)
Northern Kurdish: hêştirga (ku), canhêştir (ku), zirafe (ku)
Kyrgyz: жираф (jiraf), акыра (akıra)
Laalaa: njabala
Lao: ກວາງຄໍຍາວ (lo) (kuāng khǭ nyāo)
Latin: camelopardalis (la) f
Latvian: žirafe f
Lingala: díkálá class 9a/10a
Lithuanian: žirafa (lt) f
Luxembourgish: Giraff (lb) f
Maasai: olmeut m
Macedonian: жира́фа (mk) f (žiráfa)
Malay: zirafah (ms)
Malayalam: ജിറാഫ് (ml) (jiṟāphŭ)
Maori: kakīroa
Marathi: जिराफ m (jirāph)
Middle Persian: 𐭥𐭱𐭲𐭫𐭢𐭠𐭥𐭯𐭫𐭭𐭢 (ʿštlgʾʿplng /⁠uštar-gāw-palang⁠/)
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: анааш (mn) (anaaš)
Mongolian: ᠠᠨᠠᠰᠢ (anasi)
Navajo: tsinlátah ayáanii
Norman: girafe f
Northern Sotho: thutlwa
Norwegian:
Bokmål: sjiraff (no) m
Nynorsk: sjiraff m
Occitan: girafa (oc) f
Oromo: sattawwaa
Pashto: زرافه (ps) f (zarāfá)
Persian: زرّافه (fa) (zarrâfe), شترگاوپلنگ (fa) (šotorgâvpalang), زرناپا (zornâpâ)
Polish: żyrafa (pl) f
Portuguese: girafa (pt) f
Romanian: girafă (ro) f
Romansch: giraffa f
Russian: жира́ф (ru) m (žiráf), жира́фа (ru) f (žiráfa) (obsolete), гира́ф m (giráf) (obsolete)
Samoan: serafa
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: жира̀фа f
Roman: žiràfa (sh) f
Sicilian: jirafa f, zirafa f
Sinhalese: ජිරාෆ් (jirāf)
Slovak: žirafa (sk) f
Slovene: žirafa (sl) f
Somali: geri
Sotho: thuhlo
Spanish: jirafa (es) f
Swahili: twiga (sw)
Swedish: giraff (sv) c
Sylheti: ꠎꠤꠞꠣꠚ (zirafó)
Tagalog: hirapa
Tajik: заррофа (tg) (zarrofa), шутурпаланг (šuturpalang)
Tamil: ஒட்டகச்சிவிங்கி (ta) (oṭṭakacciviṅki)
Telugu: జిరాఫీ (te) (jirāphī)
Thai: ยีราฟ (th) (yii-ráap)
Tigrinya: ዝዖታ (zəʿota), ዘራፍ (zäraf)
Tongan: selafi
Tooro: entwiga class 9
Tswana: thutlwa (tn)
Turkish: zürafa (tr)
Turkmen: žiraf (tk)
Ukrainian: жира́фа f (žyráfa), жира́ф m (žyráf)
Urdu: جراف m (jirāf), زرافہ (ur) (zarrāfe)
Uyghur: زىراپە (zirape)
Uzbek: jirafa (uz), zirofa (uz)
Vietnamese: hươu cao cổ (vi)
Volapük: giraf (vo)
Welsh: jiráff m
Wolof: njamala mi (wo)
Xhosa: indlulamthi class 9/10
Yiddish: זשיראַף m (zhiraf)
Zhuang: loeghozraez
Zulu: indlulamithi (zu) class 9/10 :

### Further reading

* giraffe on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
* Giraffa on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
* Category:Giraffa on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

### Anagrams

* riffage

## Dutch
### Etymology

Possibly via German Giraffe, from Italian giraffa, from Arabic زَرَافَة (zarāfa).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ʒiˈrɑf/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: gi‧raf‧fe
* Rhymes: -ɑf

### Noun

giraffe f (plural giraffen or giraffes, diminutive giraffetje n or girafje n)
* Alternative spelling of giraf

## French
### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Noun

giraffe f (plural giraffes)
* Archaic spelling of girafe.

## Italian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /d͡ʒiˈraf.fe/
* Rhymes: -affe
* Hyphenation: gi‧ràf‧fe

### Noun

giraffe f
* plural of giraffa

## Middle French
### Etymology

Borrowed from Italian giraffa.

### Noun

giraffe f (plural giraffes)
* giraffe (mammal)

#### Descendants

* French: girafe
** → Catalan: girafa
** → Luxembourgish: Giraff
** → Polish: żyrafa
** → Romanian: girafă f
** → Russian: жираф (žiraf)
*** → Georgian: ჟირაფი (žirapi)
*** → Ingrian: žirafa
** → Swedish: giraff
*** → Finnish: kirahvi
* → English: giraffe