elephant

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈɛlɪfənt/
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• Canada, General-American: /ˈɛləfənt/
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• Australian, New-Zealand: /ˈeləfənt/
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• Philippines: /elefant/
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• India: /ˈe.lɪ.ˈfenʈ/
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• India: /ˈe.lɪ.ˈfæːnʈ/
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• CMU ARPABET: EH1 L AH0 F AH0 N T Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From Middle English elefant, elefaunt, from Old French elefant, elefan, olifant, re-latinized in Middle French as elephant, from Latin elephantus, from Ancient Greek ἐλέφᾱς (eléphās) (gen. ἐλέφαντος (eléphantos)). Believed to be derived from an Afroasiatic form such as Proto-Berber *eḷu (“elephant”) (compare Tamahaq êlu, Tamasheq alu) or Egyptian ꜣbw (“elephant; ivory”). More at ivory. Replaced Middle English olifant (from the aforementioned Old French form, from Vulgar Latin *olifantus), which replaced Old English elpend (“elephant”).

433 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: سورة الفيل — 105th sura of the Qur'an
• Danish: Elefanten — 105th sura of the Qur'an
• Japanese: 象 — 105th sura of the Qur'an
• Polish: Słoń — 105th sura of the Qur'an
• Russian: Сло́н (Slón) — 105th sura of the Qur'an
• Spanish: ssfgd — 105th sura of the Qur'an
• Swahili: Tembo — 105th sura of the Qur'an
• Swedish: Elefanten — 105th sura of the Qur'an
• Uyghur: پىل (pil) — 105th sura of the Qur'an
• Abkhaz: аслан (aslan) — mammal
• Acehnese: gajah — mammal
• Afar: dakanu — mammal
• Afrikaans: olifant — mammal
• Ahom: 𑜋𑜂𑜫 (chaṅ) — mammal
• Akan: ɛsono — mammal
• Akkadian: 𒄠𒋛 (pīrum) — mammal
• Albanian: elefant — mammal
• Southern Altai: јаан (ǰaan) — mammal
• Amharic: ዝሆን (zəhon) — mammal
• Amis: eco — mammal
• Arabic: فِيل (fīl) — mammal
• Chadian Arabic: فيل (fīl) — mammal
• Arabic: فيل (fīl) — mammal
• Aragonese: alifante — mammal
• Aramaic: ܦܝܠܐ (pīlā’) — mammal
• Aramaic: ܦܝܠܬܐ (pīltā’) — mammal
• Aramaic: פילא (pīlā’) — mammal
• Aramaic: פילתא (pīltā’) — mammal
• Armenian: փիղ (pʻiġ) — mammal
• Assamese: হাতী (hati) — mammal
• Asturian: elefante — mammal
• Ateso: etome — mammal
• Avar: пил (pil) — mammal
• Azerbaijani: fil — mammal
• Babungo: nsee — mammal
• West Coast Bajau: datu' — mammal
• West Coast Bajau: gaja — mammal
• Banjarese: gajah — mammal
• Bashkir: фил (fil) — mammal
• Basque: elefante — mammal
• Toba Batak: ᯎᯐ (gaja) — mammal
• Batek: gawoy — mammal
• Batek: gagok — mammal
• Belarusian: слон (slon) — mammal
• Belarusian: слані́ха (slaníxa) — mammal
• Bemba: nsofu — mammal
• Bengali: হাতি (hati) — mammal
• Besisi: mberat — mammal
• Bezhta: пил (pil) — mammal
• Bau Bidayuh: gajah — mammal
• Central Bikol: gadya — mammal
• Blackfoot: innóóhksisii — mammal
• Breton: olifant — mammal
• Bulgarian: слон (slon) — mammal
• Burmese: ဆင် (hcang) — mammal
• Buryat: заан (zaan) — mammal
• Carpathian Rusyn: слон (slon) — mammal
• Catalan: elefant — mammal
• Old Catalan: orifany — mammal
• Old Catalan: aurifany — mammal
• Old Catalan: olifany — mammal
• Cerma: gbɛ̃lŋo — mammal
• Eastern Cham: ꨤꨪꨟꨲꩆ — mammal
• Western Cham: ليمان limân — mammal
• Chechen: пийл (piı̇l) — mammal
• Cherokee: ᎧᎹᎹ (kamama) — mammal
• Cherokee: ᎧᎹᎹ ᎤᏔᎾ (kamama utana) — mammal
• Chewong: itung — mammal
• Cheyenne: tsėhe'ėseeséhe — mammal
• Chichewa: njovu — mammal
• Chinese Cantonese: 象 (zoeng6) — mammal
• Chinese Cantonese: 大象 (daai6 zoeng6) — mammal
• Chinese Cantonese: 大笨象 (daai6 ban6 zoeng6) — mammal
• Chinese: щён (xion) — mammal
• Eastern Min Chinese: 象 (chiông) — mammal
• Gan Chinese: 象 (xiong5) — mammal
• Hakka Chinese: 象 (siong) — mammal
• Chinese: 象 (chhiūn / chhiǔn / chhiōn / chhiāun / siōng / sióng / siǒng / chhiāng) — mammal
• Jin Chinese: 象 (xion3) — mammal
• Chinese Mandarin: 象 (xiàng) — mammal
• Chinese Mandarin: 大象 (dàxiàng) — mammal
• Northern Min Chinese: 象 (siōng) — mammal
• Wu Chinese: 象 — mammal
• Xiang Chinese: 象 (sian4) — mammal
• Chol: elefanti — mammal
• Chukchi: эʼԓыпын (ėʼḷypyn) — mammal
• Chuvash: слон (slon) — mammal
• Chuvash: сӑлан (sălan) — mammal
• West Circassian: пыл (pəl) — mammal
• Ngazidja Comorian: nɗovu — mammal
• Cornish: olifans — mammal
• Crimean Tatar: fil — mammal
• Czech: slon — mammal
• Czech: slonice — mammal
• Dagbani: wobgu — mammal
• Dagbani: wɔbigu — mammal
• Danish: elefant — mammal
• Defaka: ɓɪla — mammal
• Dhivehi: އެތް (et̊) — mammal
• Dinka: akɔ̈ɔ̈n — mammal
• Duala: njo̠u class 9 — mammal
• Central Dusun: godingon — mammal
• Central Dusun: godingan — mammal
• Dutch: olifant — mammal
• Dutch: elpendier — mammal
• Dutch: elp — mammal
• Egyptian: Ab-b-w-E26 (ꜣbw) — mammal
• Ekpeye: enyî — mammal
• Esperanto: elefanto — mammal
• Estonian: elevant — mammal
• Faroese: fílur — mammal
• Fijian: elevaniti — mammal
• Fijian: elefadi — mammal
• Finnish: norsu — mammal
• Finnish: elefantti — mammal
• French: éléphant — mammal
• French: éléphante — mammal
• French: éléphanteau — mammal
• French: éléphantelle — mammal
• Middle French: elephant — mammal
• Old French: olifan — mammal
• West-Frisian: oaljefant — mammal
• Friulian: elefant — mammal
• Gagauz: fillär — mammal
• Gagauz: fil — mammal
• Galician: elefante — mammal
• Georgian: სპილო (sṗilo) — mammal
• German: Elefant — mammal
• German: Elefantenbulle — mammal
• German: Elefantin — mammal
• German: Elefantenkuh — mammal
• German: Elefantenkalb — mammal
• German: Elifant — mammal
• Greek: ελέφαντας (eléfantas) — mammal
• Ancient Greek: ἐλέφας (eléphas) — mammal
• Greenlandic: nagguaatsoq — mammal
• Paraguayan Guarani: tapi'itĩmbuku — mammal
• Gujarati: હાથી (hāthī) — mammal
• Gwere: nzogi — mammal
• Haitian Creole: elefan — mammal
• Hausa: giwa — mammal
• Hawaiian: ʻelepani — mammal
• Hebrew: פִּיל (pil) — mammal
• Hindi: हाथी (hāthī) — mammal
• Hindi: हस्ती (hastī) — mammal
• Hindi: गज (gaj) — mammal
• Hindi: पील (pīl) — mammal
• White Hmong: ntxhw — mammal
• Hungarian: elefánt — mammal
• Ibani: bɪla — mammal
• Ibibio: eniin — mammal
• Icelandic: fíll — mammal
• Ida'an: liman — mammal
• Ido: elefanto — mammal
• Ilocano: gadia — mammal
• Indonesian: gajah — mammal
• Ingush: пилла (pilla) — mammal
• Interlingua: elephante — mammal
• Irish: eilifint — mammal
• Isan: ซ่าง — mammal
• Italian: elefante — mammal
• Japanese: 象 (zou) — mammal
• Japanese: ゾウ (zou) — mammal
• Jarai: rơman — mammal
• Jarawa: ʈhehuːʈhu — mammal
• Javanese: ꦒꦗꦃ (gajah) — mammal
• Javanese: ꦭꦶꦩꦤ꧀ (liman) — mammal
• Javanese: ꦢ꧀ꦮꦶꦥꦁꦒ (dwipangga) — mammal
• Javanese: ꦢ꧀ꦮꦶꦫꦢ (dwirada) — mammal
• Javanese: ꦧ꧀ꦭꦼꦢꦸꦒ꧀ (bledug) — mammal
• Jehai: antok — mammal
• Jeju: 코끼리 (kokkiri) — mammal
• Jeju: 퀘끼리 (kwekkiri) — mammal
• Jingpho: magwi — mammal
• Jingpho: magui — mammal
• Kalenjin: ebelio — mammal
• Kalmyk: зан (zan) — mammal
• Kamba: nzou — mammal
• Kambaata: danichcho — mammal
• Kannada: ಆನೆ (āne) — mammal
• Kannada: ಗಜ (gaja) — mammal
• Kapampangan: elipanti — mammal
• Kapampangan: gaddia — mammal
• Karang: mbali — mammal
• Kashmiri: ہۆس (hos) — mammal
• Kashmiri: ہۆست (host) — mammal
• Kashmiri: ۂسؠ تِنؠ (hạs'tin') — mammal
• Kashubian: słóń — mammal
• Kazakh: піл (pıl) — mammal
• Kenaboi: gĕntúl — mammal
• Kenaboi: bĕrat — mammal
• Khasi: hati — mammal
• Khmer: ដំរី (dɑmrəy) — mammal
• Khoekhoe: ǂkhoab — mammal
• Kikuyu: njogu — mammal
• Kituba: nzau — mammal
• Komi-Permyak: слӧн (slön) — mammal
• Kongo: nzau — mammal
• Korean: 코끼리 (kokkiri) — mammal
• Kristang: alfanti — mammal
• Central Kurdish: فیل (fîl) — mammal
• Northern Kurdish: fîl — mammal
• Kwama: kwɨ — mammal
• Kyrgyz: пил (pil) — mammal
• Ladin: elefant — mammal
• Ladino: איליפ׳אנטי (elefante) — mammal
• Lao: ຊ້າງ (sāng) — mammal
• Latin: elephantus — mammal
• Latin: elephas — mammal
• Latin: barrus — mammal
• Latin: Lūca bōs — mammal
• Latvian: zilonis — mammal
• Lezgi: фил (fil) — mammal
• Lingala: nzɔku — mammal
• Lithuanian: dramblys — mammal
• Lü: ᦋᦱᧂᧉ (tsaang2) — mammal
• Luhya: enjofu — mammal
• Lutuv: ale — mammal
• Luxembourgish: Elefant — mammal
• Maasai: olkanchaoi — mammal
• Maasai: olenkaina — mammal
• Maasai: oltome — mammal
• Macedonian: слон (slon) — mammal
• Madurese: ꦓꦙ (ghajha) — mammal
• Malagasy: elefanta — mammal
• Malay: gajah — mammal
• Malay: cewe untut — mammal
• Malay: biram — mammal
• Malay: liman — mammal
• Brunei Malay: gajah — mammal
• Malayalam: ആന (āna) — mammal
• Maltese: ljunfant — mammal
• Manchu: ᠰᡠᡶᠠᠨ (sufan) — mammal
• Mandinka: samoo — mammal
• Marathi: हत्ती (hattī) — mammal
• Marwari: गयंद (gayand) — mammal
• Central Melanau: gajah — mammal
• Mirandese: eilefante — mammal
• Moksha: слан (slan) — mammal
• Mon: စိၚ် — mammal
• Mongolian: заан (zaan) — mammal
• Mongolian: ᠵᠠᠭᠠᠨ (ǰaɣan) — mammal
• Mukulu: 'elbi — mammal
• Tagal Murut: godingan — mammal
• Timugon Murut: gadingan — mammal
• Timugon Murut: mangumbus togup — mammal
• Mwani: nembo — mammal
• Nahuatl: elefante — mammal
• Classical Nahuatl: elepantli — mammal
• Navajo: bíchį́į́h yee adilohii — mammal
• Nepali: हात्ती (hāttī) — mammal
• Newar: किसी (kisī) — mammal
• Nkonya: srʋfɔ — mammal
• Norman: êléphant — mammal
• Northern Dagara: wɔɔ — mammal
• Northern Sotho: tlou — mammal
• Norwegian Bokmål: elefant — mammal
• Nuer: guɔr — mammal
• Nupe: dagba — mammal
• Occitan: elefant — mammal
• Odia: ହାତୀ (hāti) — mammal
• Ojibwe: jejiibajikii — mammal
• Church Slavic: слонь (slonĭ) — mammal
• Old East Slavic: слонъ (slonŭ) — mammal
• Old English: elpend — mammal
• Old Norse: fíll — mammal
• Oromo: arbaa — mammal
• Ossetian: пыл (pyl) — mammal
• Mezquital-Otomi: elefante — mammal
• Pali: hatthin — mammal
• Pali: nāga — mammal
• Pali: gaja — mammal
• Pannonian Rusyn: єлефант (jelefant) — mammal
• Pannonian Rusyn: слон (slon) — mammal
• Pashto: پيل (pil) — mammal
• Dari: فِیل (fīl) — mammal
• Dari: پِیل (pīl) — mammal
• Iranian Persian: فیل (fil) — mammal
• Iranian Persian: پیل (pil) — mammal
• Iranian Persian: کنجر (kenjar) — mammal
• Middle Persian: pyl (pīl) — mammal
• Polish: słoń — mammal
• Polish: słonica — mammal
• Portuguese: elefante — mammal
• Portuguese: elefanta — mammal
• Portuguese: aliá — mammal
• Portuguese: elefoa — mammal
• Portuguese: alifante — mammal
• Punjabi: ਹਾਥੀ (hāthī) — mammal
• Rade: êman — mammal
• Rohingya: háñti — mammal
• Romani: woroslano — mammal
• Romani: woroslanka — mammal
• Romani: elefànto — mammal
• Romanian: elefant — mammal
• Romansh: elefant — mammal
• Russian: слон (slon) — mammal
• Russian: слони́ха (sloníxa) — mammal
• Rwanda-Rundi: inzovu — mammal
• Saek: ซาง — mammal
• Saho: dakano — mammal
• Northern Sami: elefánta — mammal
• Samoan: 'elefane — mammal
• Sanskrit: गज (gaja) — mammal
• Sanskrit: इभ (ibha) — mammal
• Sanskrit: हस्तिन् (hastin) — mammal
• Sanskrit: नाग (nāga) — mammal
• Sanskrit: वारण (vāraṇá) — mammal
• Santali: ᱦᱟᱹᱛᱤ (hăti) — mammal
• Sardinian: elefante — mammal
• Sardinian: elefanti — mammal
• Scottish Gaelic: ailbhean — mammal
• Semai: cig — mammal
• Semelai: kĕgdo — mammal
• Semelai: pemalen — mammal
• Semelai: pemaleng — mammal
• Senoufo Supyire: ńtàsùù — mammal
• Serbo-Croatian: сло̏н — mammal
• Serbo-Croatian: сло̀ница — mammal
• Serbo-Croatian: фил — mammal
• Serbo-Croatian: slȍn — mammal
• Serbo-Croatian: slònica — mammal
• Serbo-Croatian: fil — mammal
• Shan: ၸၢင်ႉ (tsâ̰ang) — mammal
• Sherpa: གླང་པུ (glang pu) — mammal
• Shona: nzou — mammal
• Sicilian: liotru — mammal
• Sicilian: lifanti — mammal
• Sidamo: dano — mammal
• Sindhi: هاٿيِ (hāthī) — mammal
• Sinhalese: අලියා (aliyā) — mammal
• Slovak: slon — mammal
• Slovene: slon — mammal
• Slovene: slonica — mammal
• Somali: maroodi — mammal
• Lower Sorbian: elefant — mammal
• Lower Sorbian: słon — mammal
• Upper Sorbian: elefant — mammal
• Upper Sorbian: słon — mammal
• Sotho: tlou — mammal
• Spanish: elefante — mammal
• Old Spanish: alefant — mammal
• Old Spanish: eleofant — mammal
• Old Spanish: elifant — mammal
• Sranan Tongo: asaw — mammal
• Sumerian: 𒄠𒋛 (amsi) — mammal
• Sundanese: ᮌᮏᮂ (gajah) — mammal
• Swahili: ndovu — mammal
• Swahili: tembo — mammal
• Swazi: indlovu — mammal
• Swedish: elefant — mammal
• Sylheti: ꠀꠔ꠆ꠔꠤ (atti) — mammal
• Tagalog: elepante — mammal
• Tagalog: gadya — mammal
• Tai Dam: ꪋ꫁ꪱꪉ — mammal
• Tai Nüa: ᥓᥣᥒᥳ (tsȧang) — mammal
• Tajik: фил (fil) — mammal
• Tajik: пил (pil) — mammal
• Tamil: யானை (yāṉai) — mammal
• Tangale: labata — mammal
• Tatar: фил (fil) — mammal
• Tày: chạng — mammal
• Tedaga: kumon — mammal
• Telugu: ఏనుగు (ēnugu) — mammal
• Telugu: గజము (gajamu) — mammal
• Temiar: talam — mammal
• Temiar: alul — mammal
• Temiar: ateng — mammal
• Temiar: alĕĕp — mammal
• Temiar: alaay — mammal
• Temiar: atũd — mammal
• Temiar: orang besar — mammal
• Temiar: tangk'el (Ple-Temer) — mammal
• Temoq: koleq — mammal
• Thai: ช้าง (cháang) — mammal
• Thai: คชสาร (kót-chá-sǎan) — mammal
• Northern Thai: ᨩ᩶ᩣ᩠ᨦ (cang) — mammal
• Northern Thai: ᨩ᩶ᩣ᩠ᨦ — mammal
• Tibetan: གླང་ཆེན (glang chen) — mammal
• Tibetan: གླང་པོ (glang po) — mammal
• Southern Tidung: gedingan — mammal
• Tigrinya: ሓርማዝ (ḥarmaz) — mammal
• Tocharian B: onkolmo — mammal
• Tswana: tlou — mammal
• Tumbuka: ndlovu — mammal
• Turka: gbĩɛ̃lw — mammal
• Turkana: etom — mammal
• Turkish: fil — mammal
• Ottoman Turkish: فیل (fil) — mammal
• Ottoman Turkish: پیل (pil) — mammal
• Turkmen: pil — mammal
• Tyap: zwuom — mammal
• Udi: фил (fil) — mammal
• Udmurt: слон (slon) — mammal
• Uduk: jè — mammal
• Ukrainian: слон (slon) — mammal
• Ukrainian: слони́ха (slonýxa) — mammal
• Ukrainian: слонь (slonʹ) — mammal
• Unami: èlëpën — mammal
• Urdu: ہاتھی (hāthī) — mammal
• Urdu: ہَسْتی (hastī) — mammal
• Urdu: گَج (gaj) — mammal
• Urdu: فِیل (fīl) — mammal
• Urdu: پِیل (pīl) — mammal
• Uyghur: پىل (pil) — mammal
• Uzbek: fil — mammal
• Veddah: බොටකඳා (boṭakan̆dā) — mammal
• Venda: nḓou — mammal
• Vietnamese: voi — mammal
• Vilamovian: elefaont — mammal
• Volapük: leefad — mammal
• Welsh: eliffant — mammal
• Welsh: cawrfil — mammal
• Wolaytta: danggarssaa — mammal
• Wolof: ñey wi — mammal
• Wolof: ñay — mammal
• Xhosa: indlovu — mammal
• Yaghnobi: фил (fil) — mammal
• Yakut: слон (slon) — mammal
• Yao (Africa): ndembo class 9 — mammal
• Yaqui: elehaánte — mammal
• Yiddish: העלפֿאַנד (helfand) — mammal
• Yoruba: erin — mammal
• Yucatec Maya: chowak jom — mammal
• Yucatec Maya: elefante — mammal
• Zazaki: fil (diq) — mammal
• Zhuang: duzciengh — mammal
• Zhuang: ciengh — mammal
• Zulu: indlovu — mammal
• ǃXóõ: ǂxūa — mammal
• Finnish: mammutti — anything huge and ponderous
• French: éléphantesque — anything huge and ponderous
• Swahili: kubwa — anything huge and ponderous