# tapir
## English
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈteɪpiːə(ɹ)/, /ˈteɪpɪə(ɹ)/, /ˈteɪpə(ɹ)/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Rhymes: -eɪpə(ɹ)
* Homophone: taper

### Noun

tapir (plural tapirs)
* 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

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

#### Translations
### Further reading

* tapir on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
* Tapirus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
* Category:Tapirus on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

### Anagrams

* atrip, parti, patri-

## Catalan
### Etymology

Borrowed from Old Tupi tapi'ira.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic) [təˈpir]
* IPA: (Valencia) [taˈpir]

### Noun

tapir m (plural tapirs)
* 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: /ˈtaː.pir/, [ˈtaː.pir]
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: ta‧pir

### Noun

tapir m (plural tapirs, diminutive tapirtje n)
* tapir
    Synonym: boskoe

## French
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /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
* (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-.

### Etymology 2

Borrowed from Old Tupi tapi'ira.

#### Noun

tapir m (plural tapirs)
* tapir

##### Descendants

* → English: tapir
* → German: Tapir
* → Ottoman Turkish: طاپر
** Turkish: tapir
* → Polish: tapir
** → Kashubian: tapir
* →? Portuguese: tapir
* →? Spanish: tapir
** → Catalan: tapir
** → Dutch: tapir
*** → Sundanese: 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
### Etymology

Borrowed from Polish tapir.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈta.pir/
* Rhymes: -apir
* Syllabification: ta‧pir

### Noun

tapir m animal
* tapir (ungulate of the family Tapiridae)

### References

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

## Middle English
### Noun

tapir
* Alternative form of taper

## Polish
### Etymology

Borrowed from French tapir.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈta.pir/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -apir
* Syllabification: ta‧pir

### Noun

tapir m animal
* tapir (any large odd-toed ungulate with a long prehensile upper lip of the family Tapiridae)

#### Descendants

* → Kashubian: tapir

### Further reading

* tapir in Polish dictionaries at PWN

## Portuguese
### 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: /taˈpi(ʁ)/ [taˈpi(h)]
* (Brazil) IPA: /taˈpi(ʁ)/ [taˈpi(h)]
** (São Paulo) IPA: /taˈpi(ɾ)/
** (Rio de Janeiro) IPA: /taˈpi(ʁ)/ [taˈpi(χ)]
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /taˈpi(ɻ)/
* (Portugal) IPA: /tɐˈpiɾ/
* (Portugal) IPA: /tɐˈpiɾ/
** (Southern Portugal) IPA: /tɐˈpi.ɾi/
* Hyphenation: ta‧pir

### Noun

tapir m (plural tapires)
* tapir
    Synonym: anta

## Romanian
### Etymology

Borrowed from French tapir.

### Noun

tapir m (plural tapiri)
* tapir

#### Declension
## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /taˈpiɾ/ [t̪aˈpiɾ]
* Audio (Venezuela):(file)
* Rhymes: -iɾ
* Syllabification: ta‧pir

### Noun

tapir m (plural tapires)
* 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
** → Sundanese: tapir
* → Tagalog: tapir

### Further reading

* “tapir”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

## Sundanese
### Etymology

From Dutch tapir, from Spanish tapir, from Old Tupi tapi'ira

### Noun

tapir (Sundanese script ᮒᮕᮤᮁ)
* tapir

### Further reading

* "TAPIR", in Coolsma, S (1913) Soendaneesch-Hollandsch Woordenboek (in Dutch), Leiden: A.W. Sijthoff's Uitgeversmaatschappij

## Swedish
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* Rhymes: -iːr

### Noun

tapir c
* tapir

#### Declension
### 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: /taˈpiɾ/ [t̪ɐˈpiɾ]
* Rhymes: -iɾ
* Syllabification: ta‧pir

### Noun

tapír (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜉᜒᜇ᜔)
* tapir

## Turkish
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [tɑ.piɾ]

### Noun

tapir (definite accusative tapiri, plural tapirler)
* tapir

#### Declension

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 :