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
A tapir (Tapirus indicus)

Etymology

Borrowed from French tapir, from Old Tupi tapiira.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈteɪpiːə(ɹ)/, /ˈteɪpɪə(ɹ)/, /ˈteɪpə(ɹ)/
  • Rhymes: -eɪpə(r)
  • Homophone: taper

Noun

tapir (plural tapirs)

  1. 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.

Synonyms

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

Hyponyms

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Further reading

Anagrams

Dutch

Pronunciation

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Noun

tapir m (plural tapirs, diminutive tapirtje n)

  1. tapir

French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ta.piʁ/

Etymology 1

From Frankish *tappijan.

Verb

tapir

  1. (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
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/
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
pluperfect1 Use the imperfect subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle
imperative – tu – nous vous –
— tapis
/ta.pi/		 — tapissons
/ta.pi.sɔ̃/		 tapissez
/ta.pi.se/		 —
1literary tenses

Etymology 2

From Tupian tapiira.

Noun

tapir m (plural tapirs)

  1. tapir

Anagrams

Further reading

Polish

Noun

tapir m anim

  1. tapir

Declension

Portuguese

tapir (Tapirus indicus)

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Tupi tapiira.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

tapir m (plural tapires)

  1. tapir

Synonyms

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: ta‧pir

Noun

tapir m (plural tapires)

  1. tapir

Synonyms

Tagalog

Etymology

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

Noun

tapír

  1. tapir
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