tapir

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

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

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -eɪpə(ɹ)
• Homophone: taper

tapir (plural tapirs)

1. An odd-toed ungulate of the genus Tapirus with a long prehensile upper lip.
   • 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.

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

• Amazonian tapir (Tapirus terrestris)
• Asian tapir (Tapirus indicus)
• Baird's tapir (Tapirus bairdii)
• Brazilian tapir (Tapirus terrestris)
• California tapir (†Tapirus californicus)
• Central American tapir (Tapirus bairdii)
• giant tapir (†Tapirus augustus)
• hog tapir (Tapirus indicus, Tapirus bairdii)
• Indian tapir (Tapirus indicus)
• kabomani tapir (Tapirus terrestris)
• lowland tapir (Tapirus terrestris)
• Malayan tapir, Malaysian tapir (Tapirus indicus)
• maned tapir (Tapirus terrestris)
• mountain tapir (Tapirus pinchaque)
• New World tapir (Tapirus terrestris)
• South American tapir (Tapirus terrestris)

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

• atrip, parti, patri-

Ultimately from Old Tupi tapi'ira.

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

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tapir m (plural tapirs)

1. tapir

• “tapir”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈtaː.pir/, [ˈtaː.pir]

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• Hyphenation: ta‧pir

tapir m (plural tapirs, diminutive tapirtje n)

1. tapir

   Synonym: boskoe

• IPA^(key): /ta.piʁ/

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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”).

tapir

1. (reflexive) to hide

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-.

Borrowed from Old Tupi tapi'ira.

tapir m (plural tapirs)

1. tapir

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

• parti, pâtir, priât, ripât

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

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈtapir/ [ˈt̪a.pɪr]
• Rhymes: -apir
• Syllabification: ta‧pir

tapir (plural tapir-tapir)

1. tapir

   Synonyms: badak babi, senuk, tenuk

• “tapir”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

Borrowed from Polish tapir.

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

tapir m animal

1. tapir (ungulate of the family Tapiridae)

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

tapir (Jawi spelling تاڤير, plural tapir-tapir or tapir²)

1. tapir

   Synonym: tenuk

• "tapir" in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu (PRPM) [Malay Literary Reference Centre (PRPM)] (in Malay), Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017

tapir

1. alternative form of taper

Borrowed from French tapir.

• IPA^(key): /ˈta.pir/

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• Rhymes: -apir
• Syllabification: ta‧pir

tapir m animal

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

• → Kashubian: tapir

• “tapir”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[2] (in Polish)

Ultimately from Old Tupi tapi'ira.

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

• Hyphenation: ta‧pir

tapir m (plural tapires)

1. tapir

   Synonym: anta

• “tapir”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “tapir”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Borrowed from French tapir.

tapir m (plural tapiri)

1. tapir

• IPA^(key): /taˈpiɾ/ [t̪aˈpiɾ]

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• Rhymes: -iɾ
• Syllabification: ta‧pir

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

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

• “tapir”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025

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

tapir (Sundanese script ᮒᮕᮤᮁ)

1. tapir

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

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

• Rhymes: -iːr

tapir c

1. tapir

• “tapir”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
• “tapir”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)

• parti, pirat

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

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

tapír (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜉᜒᜇ᜔)

1. tapir

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

• IPA^(key): [tɑ.piɾ]

tapir (definite accusative tapiri, plural tapirler)

1. tapir