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Elephant
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English
Pronunciation
- IPA : /'ɛləfənt/
Hyphenation
- el·e·phant
Etymology
Respelled "elephant" from olyfaunt (13th century), from Old French oliphant , from Latin elephantus and elephas, borrowed from Greek ἐλέφας (elephas), from Arabic al-fil , from Persian فیل/پیل, pil/fil
Noun
elephant (plural elephants )
- A mammal of the order Proboscidia, having a trunk, and two large ivory tusks jutting from the upper jaw. Elephants are the largest land animals now existing. (Read more at Wikipedia )
- (figurative) anything huge and ponderous
Scientific names
- Elephas maximus
- Loxodonta africana
Related Words
- elephantiasis
- elephantine
- white elephant
Translations
- Albanian: elefanti
- Basque: elefante
- Belarusian: слон
- Bosnian: slon m, slonica f
- Breton: olifant m -ed pl
- Bulgarian: слон (slon)
- Catalan: elefant
- Chinese: 象 (xiàng)
- Croatian: slon
- Czech: slon
- Danish: elefant
- Dutch: olifant m
- Esperanto: elefanto
- Estonian: elevant
- Faroese: fílur
- Farsi: فيل (fil)
- Finnish: norsu , elefantti
- French: éléphant m
- Frisian: oaljefant
- Friulian: elefant
- Galician: elefante
- German: Elefant m
- Greek, Ancient: ἐλέφας m (elephas)
- Greek, Modern: ελέφανταs (elefandas)
- Hebrew: פיל
- Hungarian: elefánt
- Icelandic: fíll
- Indonesian: gajah
- Interlingua: elephante
- Irish: eilifint
- Italian: elefante m
- Japanese: 象 (ぞう, zō)
- KiSwahili: ndovu , tembo
- Korean: 코끼리 (kokkiri)
- Ladin: elefant
- Latin: elephantus, elephas
- Latvian: staltbriedis
- Lithuanian: dramblys
- Lower Sorbian: elefant , (słon)
- Macedonian: слон (slon)
- Maltese: iljunfant
- Norwegian: elefant
- Occitan: elefant
- Polish: słoń m
- Portuguese: elefante m, elefanta f
- Romanian: elefant
- Romansh: elefant
- Romany: woroslano m woroslanka f
- Russian: слон (slon) m
- Sami: elefánta
- Sardinian: elefante/elefanti
- Scottish: ailbhean
- Serbian: слон (slon)
- Slovak: slon m
- Slovenian: slon m, slonica f
- Spanish: elefante m
- Swedish: elefant
- Turkish: fil
- Ukrainian: слон (slon)
- Upper Sorbian: elefant , (słon)
- Welsh: eliffant
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