giraffa

See also: Giraffa

Italian

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *ḱerh₂-der.?

Classical Persian سرنا

Proto-Indo-European *ped-

Proto-Indo-European *-s

Proto-Indo-European *pṓds

Proto-Indo-Iranian *pā́ts

Proto-Iranian *pā́dah

Old Persian 𐎱𐎠𐎭 (p-a-d)

Classical Persian پَا (pā)

Classical Persian زُرْنَاپَا (zurnāpā)bor.

Classical Syriac ܙܪܝܦܐbor.

Arabic زُرَافَة (zurāfa)bor.

Italian giraffa

Borrowed from Arabic زُرَافَة (zurāfa), borrowed from Classical Syriac ܙܪܝܦܐ, borrowed from Classical Persian زُرْنَاپَا (zurnāpā), from سرنا + پَا (pā).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d͡ʒiˈraf.fa/

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• Rhymes: -affa
• Hyphenation: gi‧ràf‧fa

Noun

giraffa f (plural giraffe)

1. giraffe (mammal)
2. boom (a movable pole used to support a microphone or camera)

Related terms

• giraffista

 

Descendants

• → Czech: žirafa
• → Maltese: ġiraff
• → Middle French: giraffe
  • French: girafe
    • → Catalan: girafa
    • → Luxembourgish: Giraff
    • → Polish: żyrafa
    • → Romanian: girafă f
    • → Russian: жираф (žiraf)
      • → Georgian: ჟირაფი (žirapi)
      • → Ingrian: žirafa
    • → Swedish: giraff
      • → Finnish: kirahvi
  • → English: giraffe
• → Middle High German: geraff, seraffe, schraffe
  • German: Giraffe
    • → Danish: giraf
    • → Dutch: giraf, giraffe
    • → Hungarian: zsiráf
• → Portuguese: girafa
• → Spanish: jirafa
  • → Basque: jirafa
  • → Central Huasteca Nahuatl: jirafa

Further reading

• giraffa on the Italian Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^it

Anagrams

• graffai, graffia

Latin

Etymology

From Italian giraffa.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ɡiˈraf.fa/, [ɡɪˈräfːä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /d͡ʒiˈraf.fa/, [d͡ʒiˈräfːä]

Noun

giraffa f (genitive giraffae); first declension

1. (New Latin, zoology) a giraffe

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	giraffa	giraffae
genitive	giraffae	giraffārum
dative	giraffae	giraffīs
accusative	giraffam	giraffās
ablative	giraffā	giraffīs
vocative	giraffa	giraffae