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tapir

noun · 2 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

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Pronunciation

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  • /ˈteɪpiːə(ɹ)/
  • /ˈteɪpɪə(ɹ)/
  • /ˈteɪpə(ɹ)/
  • Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • rhymes with -eɪpə(ɹ)
  • homophone: taper

1

noun

Meaning 1

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

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

large inoffensive chiefly nocturnal ungulate of tropical America and southeast Asia having a heavy body and fleshy snout

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: odd-toed ungulate, perissodactyl, perissodactyl mammal

Narrower terms: New World tapir, Tapirus terrestris, Malayan tapir, Indian tapir, Tapirus indicus

History

Etymology

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

Across languages

Translations

88 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Afrikaans: tapir — large odd-toed ungulate with a long prehensile upper lip of the family Tapiridae
  • Arabic: تَابِير (tabīr) — large odd-toed ungulate with a long prehensile upper lip of the family Tapiridae
  • Armenian: գետակինճ (getakinč) — large odd-toed ungulate with a long prehensile upper lip of the family Tapiridae
  • Assamese: টাপিৰা (tapira) — large odd-toed ungulate with a long prehensile upper lip of the family Tapiridae
  • Asturian: tapir — large odd-toed ungulate with a long prehensile upper lip of the family Tapiridae
  • Basque: tapir — large odd-toed ungulate with a long prehensile upper lip of the family Tapiridae
  • Batek: baghik — large odd-toed ungulate with a long prehensile upper lip of the family Tapiridae
  • Belarusian: тапір (tapir) — large odd-toed ungulate with a long prehensile upper lip of the family Tapiridae
  • Bulgarian: тапир (tapir) — large odd-toed ungulate with a long prehensile upper lip of the family Tapiridae
  • Canela: cukryt — large odd-toed ungulate with a long prehensile upper lip of the family Tapiridae
  • Catalan: tapir — large odd-toed ungulate with a long prehensile upper lip of the family Tapiridae
  • Ceq Wong: grĕbel — large odd-toed ungulate with a long prehensile upper lip of the family Tapiridae
  • Chinese Mandarin: 貘 (mò) — large odd-toed ungulate with a long prehensile upper lip of the family Tapiridae
  • Czech: tapír — large odd-toed ungulate with a long prehensile upper lip of the family Tapiridae
  • Danish: tapir — large odd-toed ungulate with a long prehensile upper lip of the family Tapiridae
  • Desano: weku — large odd-toed ungulate with a long prehensile upper lip of the family Tapiridae
  • Dutch: tapir — large odd-toed ungulate with a long prehensile upper lip of the family Tapiridae
  • Dutch: boskoe — large odd-toed ungulate with a long prehensile upper lip of the family Tapiridae
  • Esperanto: tapiro — large odd-toed ungulate with a long prehensile upper lip of the family Tapiridae
  • Finnish: tapiiri — large odd-toed ungulate with a long prehensile upper lip of the family Tapiridae
  • French: tapir — large odd-toed ungulate with a long prehensile upper lip of the family Tapiridae
  • French: maïpouri — large odd-toed ungulate with a long prehensile upper lip of the family Tapiridae
  • German: Tapir — large odd-toed ungulate with a long prehensile upper lip of the family Tapiridae
  • Greek: τάπιρος (tápiros) — large odd-toed ungulate with a long prehensile upper lip of the family Tapiridae
  • Hebrew: טפיר (tapír) — large odd-toed ungulate with a long prehensile upper lip of the family Tapiridae
  • Hindi: टपीर (ṭapīr) — large odd-toed ungulate with a long prehensile upper lip of the family Tapiridae
  • Murui Huitoto: zuruma — large odd-toed ungulate with a long prehensile upper lip of the family Tapiridae
  • Hungarian: tapír — large odd-toed ungulate with a long prehensile upper lip of the family Tapiridae
  • Icelandic: káputapír — large odd-toed ungulate with a long prehensile upper lip of the family Tapiridae
  • Ido: tapiro — large odd-toed ungulate with a long prehensile upper lip of the family Tapiridae
  • Indonesian: babi alu — large odd-toed ungulate with a long prehensile upper lip of the family Tapiridae
  • Indonesian: cipan — large odd-toed ungulate with a long prehensile upper lip of the family Tapiridae
  • Indonesian: tenuk — large odd-toed ungulate with a long prehensile upper lip of the family Tapiridae
  • Italian: tapiro — large odd-toed ungulate with a long prehensile upper lip of the family Tapiridae
  • Jahai: barét — large odd-toed ungulate with a long prehensile upper lip of the family Tapiridae
  • Jahai: baroong — large odd-toed ungulate with a long prehensile upper lip of the family Tapiridae
  • Japanese: バク (baku) — large odd-toed ungulate with a long prehensile upper lip of the family Tapiridae
  • Kazakh: салпыерін (salpyerın) — large odd-toed ungulate with a long prehensile upper lip of the family Tapiridae
  • Korean: 맥 (maek) — large odd-toed ungulate with a long prehensile upper lip of the family Tapiridae
  • Kuna: moli — large odd-toed ungulate with a long prehensile upper lip of the family Tapiridae
  • Central Kurdish: تاپیر (tapîr) — large odd-toed ungulate with a long prehensile upper lip of the family Tapiridae
  • Latvian: tapirs — large odd-toed ungulate with a long prehensile upper lip of the family Tapiridae
  • Lithuanian: tapyras — large odd-toed ungulate with a long prehensile upper lip of the family Tapiridae
  • Malay: badak babi — large odd-toed ungulate with a long prehensile upper lip of the family Tapiridae
  • Malay: badak murai — large odd-toed ungulate with a long prehensile upper lip of the family Tapiridae
  • Malay: badak tampung — large odd-toed ungulate with a long prehensile upper lip of the family Tapiridae
  • Malay: cipan — large odd-toed ungulate with a long prehensile upper lip of the family Tapiridae
  • Malay: kipan — large odd-toed ungulate with a long prehensile upper lip of the family Tapiridae
  • Malay: kuda air — large odd-toed ungulate with a long prehensile upper lip of the family Tapiridae
  • Malay: senuk — large odd-toed ungulate with a long prehensile upper lip of the family Tapiridae
  • Malay: tapir — large odd-toed ungulate with a long prehensile upper lip of the family Tapiridae
  • Malay: tenuk — large odd-toed ungulate with a long prehensile upper lip of the family Tapiridae
  • Malay: terenuk — large odd-toed ungulate with a long prehensile upper lip of the family Tapiridae
  • Nahuatl: tlācaxōlōtl — large odd-toed ungulate with a long prehensile upper lip of the family Tapiridae
  • Norwegian: tapir — large odd-toed ungulate with a long prehensile upper lip of the family Tapiridae
  • Old Tupi: tapi'ira — large odd-toed ungulate with a long prehensile upper lip of the family Tapiridae
  • Pirahã: kabatií — large odd-toed ungulate with a long prehensile upper lip of the family Tapiridae
  • Polish: tapir — large odd-toed ungulate with a long prehensile upper lip of the family Tapiridae
  • Portuguese: anta — large odd-toed ungulate with a long prehensile upper lip of the family Tapiridae
  • Portuguese: tapir — large odd-toed ungulate with a long prehensile upper lip of the family Tapiridae
  • Quechua: sach'a waka — large odd-toed ungulate with a long prehensile upper lip of the family Tapiridae
  • Romanian: tapir — large odd-toed ungulate with a long prehensile upper lip of the family Tapiridae
  • Russian: тапи́р (tapír) — large odd-toed ungulate with a long prehensile upper lip of the family Tapiridae
  • Semnam: baroong — large odd-toed ungulate with a long prehensile upper lip of the family Tapiridae
  • Serbo-Croatian: тапир — large odd-toed ungulate with a long prehensile upper lip of the family Tapiridae
  • Serbo-Croatian: tapir — large odd-toed ungulate with a long prehensile upper lip of the family Tapiridae
  • Slovene: tapir — large odd-toed ungulate with a long prehensile upper lip of the family Tapiridae
  • Spanish: tapir — large odd-toed ungulate with a long prehensile upper lip of the family Tapiridae
  • Spanish: anta — large odd-toed ungulate with a long prehensile upper lip of the family Tapiridae
  • Spanish: anteburro — large odd-toed ungulate with a long prehensile upper lip of the family Tapiridae
  • Spanish: danta — large odd-toed ungulate with a long prehensile upper lip of the family Tapiridae
  • Spanish: danto — large odd-toed ungulate with a long prehensile upper lip of the family Tapiridae
  • Spanish: mboreví — large odd-toed ungulate with a long prehensile upper lip of the family Tapiridae
  • Spanish: sachavaca — large odd-toed ungulate with a long prehensile upper lip of the family Tapiridae
  • Spanish: vaca de monte — large odd-toed ungulate with a long prehensile upper lip of the family Tapiridae
  • Swedish: tapir — large odd-toed ungulate with a long prehensile upper lip of the family Tapiridae
  • Tagalog: tapir — large odd-toed ungulate with a long prehensile upper lip of the family Tapiridae
  • Temiar: barééw — large odd-toed ungulate with a long prehensile upper lip of the family Tapiridae
  • Temoq: naq bĕrtampal — large odd-toed ungulate with a long prehensile upper lip of the family Tapiridae
  • Thai: สมเสร็จ (sǒm-sèt) — large odd-toed ungulate with a long prehensile upper lip of the family Tapiridae
  • Turkish: tapir — large odd-toed ungulate with a long prehensile upper lip of the family Tapiridae
  • Uyghur: تاپىر (tapir) — large odd-toed ungulate with a long prehensile upper lip of the family Tapiridae
  • Vietnamese: lợn vòi — large odd-toed ungulate with a long prehensile upper lip of the family Tapiridae
  • Vietnamese: heo vòi — large odd-toed ungulate with a long prehensile upper lip of the family Tapiridae
  • Volapük: tapir — large odd-toed ungulate with a long prehensile upper lip of the family Tapiridae
  • Wapishana: kodoi — large odd-toed ungulate with a long prehensile upper lip of the family Tapiridae
  • Yucatec Maya: tsíimin — large odd-toed ungulate with a long prehensile upper lip of the family Tapiridae
  • Yuracare: wenche — large odd-toed ungulate with a long prehensile upper lip of the family Tapiridae
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