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Webster 1913 Edition

Tapir

Ta′pir

Noun.

[Braz.

tapy’ra

: cf. F.

tapir

(Zool.)

Any one of several species of large odd-toed ungulates belonging to

Tapirus

Elasmognathus

, and allied genera. They have a long prehensile upper lip, short ears, short and stout legs, a short, thick tail, and short, close hair. They have three toes on the hind feet, and four toes on the fore feet, but the outermost toe is of little use.

☞ The best-known species are the Indian tapir (

Tapirus Indicus

), native of the

East Indies

and

Malacca

, which is black with a broad band of white around the middle, and the common American tapir (

Tapirus Americanus

), which, when adult, is dull brown. Several others species inhabit the Andes and Central America.

Tapir tiger

(Zool.)

the wallah.

Webster 1828 Edition

Tapir

TA'PIR

Noun.

A quadruped of S. America, about 6 feet long and 3 l/2 high, resembling a hog in shape, with a short movable proboscis. It frequents the water, like the hippopotamus.

Definition 2024

Tapir

See also: tapir and tapír

German

Tapir

Noun

Tapir m ‎(genitive Tapirs, plural Tapire)

tapir (large odd-toed ungulate with long prehensile upper lip)

Declension

Declension of Tapir

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	ein	der	Tapir	die	Tapire
genitive	eines	des	Tapirs	der	Tapire
dative	einem	dem	Tapir	den	Tapiren
accusative	einen	den	Tapir	die	Tapire

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

Noun

tapir ‎(plural tapirs)

Any one 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.

Hyponyms

Baird's tapir, Tapirus bairdii
Brazilian tapir, Tapirus terrestris
Malayan tapir, Tapirus indicus
mountain tapir, Tapirus pinchaque
Tapirus californicus †
Tapirus copei †
Tapirus merriami †
Tapirus polkensis †
Tapirus veroensis †
For others see tapir on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Translations

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

Arabic: تَابِير m ‎(tabīr)
Armenian: գետակինճ (hy) ‎(getakinč)
Basque: tapir (eu)
Bulgarian: тапир ‎(tapir)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 貘 (zh) ‎(mò)
Czech: tapír (cs)
Danish: tapir
Dutch: tapir (nl) m
Esperanto: (♂♀) tapiro, (♂) virtapiro, (neologism ♂) tapiriĉo, (♀) tapirino, (♂♀ offspring, young) tapirido, (♂ offspring) virtapirido, (neologism ♂ offspring) tapiridiĉo, (♀ offspring) tapiridino
Finnish: tapiiri (fi)
French: tapir (fr) m
German: Tapir (de) m
Greek: τάπιρος ‎(tápiros)
Hebrew: טפיר (he) ‎(tapír)
Hungarian: tapír (hu)
Icelandic: káputapír m
Ido: (♂♀) tapiro (io), (♂) tapirulo, (♀) tapirino, (♂♀ offspring, young) tapiryuno, (♂ offspring) tapiryunulo, (♀ offspring) tapiryunino
Italian: tapiro (it) m

Japanese: バク (ja) ‎(baku)
Latvian: tapirs m
Lithuanian: tapyras
Malay: tenuk, cipan, kipan, badak tampung, badak murai, badak babi, kuda air, senuk, tapir
Navajo: bíchį́į́h naatsʼǫǫdí
Norwegian: tapir (no)
Polish: tapir (pl) m
Portuguese: anta (pt) f, tapir (pt) m
Romanian: tapir (ro) m
Russian: тапи́р (ru) m ‎(tapír)
Serbo-Croatian:

Cyrillic: тапир

Roman: tapir (sh)
Slovene: tapir (sl)
Spanish: tapir (es) m, anta (es) f (Bolivia), anteburro m (Mexico), danta f (Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Guatemala, Mexico, Panama, Venezuela), danto m (Honduras, Nicaragua), sachavaca f (Peru)
Swedish: tapir (sv)
Tagalog: tapir
Volapük: (♂♀) tapir, (♂) hitapir, (♀) jitapir, (♂♀ offspring, young) tapirül, (♂ offspring) hitapirül, (♀ offspring) jitapirül

Anagrams

parti

Dutch

Pronunciation

Noun

tapir m ‎(plural tapirs, diminutive tapirtje n)

tapir

French

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /tapiʁ/

Etymology 1

From Frankish *tappijan.

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-.

Conjugation of tapir (see also Appendix:French verbs)

		simple			compound
infinitive		tapir			avoir tapi
gerund		en tapissant			en ayant tapi
present participle		tapissant /ta.pi.sɑ̃/
past participle		tapi /ta.pi/
person		singular			plural
person		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il	nous	vous	ils
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 historic¹	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	Use the present tense of avoir followed by the past participle
	pluperfect	Use the imperfect tense of avoir followed by the past participle
	past anterior¹	Use the past historic tense of avoir followed by the past participle
	future perfect	Use the future tense of avoir followed by the past participle
	conditional perfect	Use the conditional tense of avoir followed by the past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il	que nous	que vous	qu’ils
simple tenses	present	tapisse /ta.pis/	tapisses /ta.pis/	tapisse /ta.pis/	tapissions /ta.pi.sjɔ̃/	tapissiez /ta.pi.sje/	tapissent /ta.pis/
simple tenses	imperfect¹	tapisse /ta.pis/	tapisses /ta.pis/	tapît /ta.pi/	tapissions /ta.pi.sjɔ̃/	tapissiez /ta.pi.sje/	tapissent /ta.pis/
compound tenses	past	Use the present subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle
compound tenses	pluperfect¹	Use the imperfect subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
imperative		—	tapis /ta.pi/	—	tapissons /ta.pi.sɔ̃/	tapissez /ta.pi.se/	—
¹literary tenses

Etymology 2

From Tupian tapiira.

Noun

tapir m ‎(plural tapirs)

tapir

Anagrams

parti, pâtir, priât, ripât

Polish

Noun

tapir m anim

tapir

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

Portuguese

tapir (Tapirus indicus)

Etymology

Borrowing from Old Tupi tapiira.

Pronunciation

(Portugal) IPA^(key): /ta.ˈpiɾ/
(Brazil) IPA^(key): /ta.ˈpi(ʁ)/
Hyphenation: ta‧pir

Noun

tapir m (plural tapires)

tapir

Synonyms

(tapir): anta

Spanish

Pronunciation

Hyphenation: ta‧pir

Noun

tapir m ‎(plural tapires)

tapir

Synonyms

(tapir): anta, anteburro, sachavaca, danta, ante

Tagalog

Etymology

From Spanish tapir ‎(“tapir”), from French tapir, from Old Tupi tapiira.

Noun

tapír

tapir

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Tapir

Tapir

German

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tapir

tapir

English

Noun

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Dutch

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French

Pronunciation

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Verb

Conjugation

Etymology 2

Noun

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Polish

Noun

Declension

Portuguese

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Noun

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Spanish

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Noun

Synonyms

Tagalog

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