zebra

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• Commonwealth: /ˈzɛb.ɹə/
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• /ˈziː.bɹə/ Canada, US, and traditionally UK
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• South-Asia: /ˈziːb.rɑː/ Canada, US, and traditionally UK
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• CMU ARPABET: Z IY1 B R AH0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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First attested in 1600. Borrowed from Italian zebra, from Portuguese zebra, zebro (“zebra”), from Old Galician-Portuguese enzebro, ezebra, azebra (“wild ass”), from earlier cebrario (882), ezebrario (897), from Vulgar Latin *eciferus, from Latin equiferus (“wild horse”) (Pliny), from equus (“horse”) + ferus (“wild”). While the word was traditionally pronounced with a long vowel in the first syllable in standard English, during the twentieth century a vowel shift occurred in regions of England, with the shortening of the first vowel. This pronunciation is now used throughout the UK and most Commonwealth nations. The long-vowel pronunciation remains standard in Canadian and American English and is used in the UK only by some older, conservative RP speakers. (unlikely diagnosis): Originates in the advice often given to medical students, "when you hear hoofbeats, think of horses, not zebras". (referee): In reference to the black and white striped shirts they wear.

173 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Afrikaans: kwagga — African animal
• Afrikaans: sebra — African animal
• Albanian: zebër — African animal
• Amharic: የሜዳ አህያ (yämeda ʾähya) — African animal
• Arabic: حِمَار وَحْشِيّ (ḥimār waḥšiyy) — African animal
• Arabic: حِمَار وَحْشِيّ مُخَطَّط (ḥimār waḥšiyy muḵaṭṭaṭ) — African animal
• Arabic: حِمَار الزَّرَد (ḥimār az-zarad) — African animal
• Aragonese: zebra — African animal
• Armenian: զեբր (zebr) — African animal
• Armenian: վագրաձի (vagraji) — African animal
• Assamese: জেব্ৰা (zebra) — African animal
• Assamese: জেবেৰা (zebera) — African animal
• Asturian: cebra — African animal
• Azerbaijani: گوره خر (gûræ-khær) — African animal
• Azerbaijani: چول آتی (choul-ati) — African animal
• Azerbaijani: zebr — African animal
• Azerbaijani: zebra — African animal
• Azerbaijani: gurəxər — African animal
• Azerbaijani: çölatı — African animal
• Basque: zebra — African animal
• Belarusian: зе́бра (zjébra) — African animal
• Bengali: জেবরা (jebora) — African animal
• Bengali: জেব্রা (jebra) — African animal
• Bau Bidayuh: kuda britik — African animal
• Brazilian Sign Language: CAVALO^LISTRA — African animal
• Breton: roudenneg — African animal
• Breton: zebr — African animal
• Bulgarian: зе́бра (zébra) — African animal
• Burmese: မြင်းကျား (mrang:kya:) — African animal
• Catalan: zebra — African animal
• Cherokee: ᏐᏈᎵ ᏧᎶᎸᏗ (soquili tsulolvdi) — African animal
• Cherokee: ᏐᏈᎵ ᏧᎵᏍᏆᏓᏃᎯ (soquili tsulisquadanohi) — African animal
• Cheyenne: nêškovávo'ha — African animal
• Chichewa: mbidzi — African animal
• Chinese Cantonese: 斑馬 /斑马 (baan1 maa5) — African animal
• Hakka Chinese: 斑馬 /斑马 (pân-mâ) — African animal
• Chinese: 斑馬 /斑马 (pan-má, pan-bé) — African animal
• Chinese: 花條馬 /花条马 (hoe-tiâu-bé) — African animal
• Chinese: 花斑馬 /花斑马 (hoe-pan-bé) — African animal
• Chinese Mandarin: 斑馬 /斑马 (bānmǎ) — African animal
• Chinese Mandarin: 福祿 /福禄 (fúlù) — African animal
• Wu Chinese: 斑馬 /斑马 (1pe-mo) — African animal
• Cornish: zebra — African animal
• Czech: zebra — African animal
• Danish: zebra — African animal
• Dhivehi: ޒިބްރާ (zibrā) — African animal
• Dutch: zebra — African animal
• Esperanto: zebro — African animal
• Estonian: sebra — African animal
• Finnish: seepra — African animal
• French: zèbre — African animal
• Galician: cebra — African animal
• Georgian: ზებრა (zebra) — African animal
• German: Zebra — African animal
• German: Tigerpferd — African animal
• Greek: ζέβρος (zévros) — African animal
• Greek: ζέβρα (zévra) — African animal
• Greek: όναγρος (ónagros) — African animal
• Greenlandic: siutituut nimeruaartut — African animal
• Hadza: dongo — African animal
• Hadza: dongoko — African animal
• Hadza: hantaii — African animal
• Haitian Creole: zèb — African animal
• Hebrew: זֶבְּרָה (zébra) — African animal
• Hindi: ज़ीब्रा (zībrā) — African animal
• Hindi: ज़ेब्रा (zebrā) — African animal
• Hindi: जेबरा (jebrā) — African animal
• Hindi: जबरा (jabrā) — African animal
• Hindi: जेब्रा (jebrā) — African animal
• Hindi: गोरखर (gorkhar) — African animal
• Hungarian: zebra — African animal
• Icelandic: sebrahestur — African animal
• Indonesian: zebra — African animal
• Interlingua: zebra — African animal
• Irish: séabra — African animal
• Italian: zebra — African animal
• Japanese: 縞馬 (shimauma) — African animal
• Japanese: シマウマ (shimauma) — African animal
• Kazakh: зебір (zebır) — African animal
• Kazakh: зебра (zebra) — African animal
• Khmer: សេះបង្កង់ (seh bɑngkɑng) — African animal
• Khoekhoe: ǃgoreb — African animal
• Kongo: mbizi — African animal
• Korean: 얼룩말 (eollungmal) — African animal
• Northern Kurdish: zebra — African animal
• Kyrgyz: зебра (zebra) — African animal
• Ladin: zebra — African animal
• Lao: ມ້າລາຍ (mā lāi) — African animal
• Latin: hippotīgris — African animal
• Latvian: zebra — African animal
• Limburgish: zaeber — African animal
• Lingala: zébélé — African animal
• Lingala: mpila — African animal
• Lithuanian: zebras — African animal
• Luxembourgish: Zebra — African animal
• Macedonian: зе́бра (zébra) — African animal
• Malagasy: zebra — African animal
• Malay: kuda belang — African animal
• Malay: kuda habluk — African animal
• Malay: kuda loreng — African animal
• Malay: zebra — African animal
• Māori: hepara — African animal
• Central Melanau: kudak gahet — African animal
• Mongolian: эрээн тахь (ereen taxʹ) — African animal
• Mongolian: судалт тахь (sudalt taxʹ) — African animal
• Mongolian: ᠡᠷᠢᠶᠡᠨ ᠲᠠᠬᠢ (eriyen taqi) — African animal
• Mongolian: ᠰᠤᠳᠠᠯᠲᠤ ᠲᠠᠬᠢ (sudaltu taqi) — African animal
• Nahuatl: cebra — African animal
• Nandi: oloitigo — African animal
• Navajo: tééh łį́į́ʼ — African animal
• Nepali: जेब्रा (jebrā) — African animal
• Norman: zèbre — African animal
• Northern Sotho: pitsi — African animal
• Norwegian Bokmål: sebra — African animal
• Norwegian Nynorsk: sebra — African animal
• Occitan: zèbre — African animal
• Oromo: harre diidoo — African animal
• Papiamentu: zebra — African animal
• Pashto: بييی (biyay) — African animal
• Persian: گورخر (gurxar) — African animal
• Persian: زبرا (zebrâ) — African animal
• Plautdietsch: Zeebra — African animal
• Polish: zebra — African animal
• Portuguese: zebra — African animal
• Quechua: siwra — African animal
• Romanian: zebră — African animal
• Russian: зе́бра (zébra) — African animal
• Scottish Gaelic: asal-stiallach — African animal
• Koyraboro-Senni: ganjifarka — African animal
• Serbo-Croatian: зебра — African animal
• Serbo-Croatian: zebra — African animal
• Shona: mbizi — African animal
• Sindhi: زيبرو (zebro) — African animal
• Sindhi: زيبرِي (zebrī) — African animal
• Sinhalese: සීබ්රා (sībrā) — African animal
• Slovak: zebra — African animal
• Slovene: zebra — African animal
• Spanish: cebra — African animal
• Spanish: zebra (tsebra, disused) — African animal
• Swahili: punda milia — African animal
• Swedish: zebra — African animal
• Swedish: sebra — African animal
• Tagalog: sebra — African animal
• Tajik: гӯрхар (gürxar) — African animal
• Tajik: зебра (zebra) — African animal
• Tamil: வரிக்குதிரை (varikkutirai) — African animal
• Tatar: зебра (zebra) — African animal
• Telugu: చారలగుర్రము (cāralagurramu) — African animal
• Thai: ม้าลาย (máa-laai) — African animal
• Tibetan: རྐྱང་ཁྲ (rkyang khra) — African animal
• Tigrinya: ኣድጊ በረኻ (ʾadgi bäräxa) — African animal
• Tigrinya: ዘብራ (zäbra) — African animal
• Tooro: entulege class 9 — African animal
• Turkish: zebra — African animal
• Turkmen: zebra — African animal
• Udmurt: зебра (źebra) — African animal
• Udmurt: кырвал (kyrval) — African animal
• Udmurt: сюрсовал (śursoval) — African animal
• Ukrainian: зе́бра (zébra) — African animal
• Unami: mamalsit nehënaonkès — African animal
• Uzbek: zebra — African animal
• Venda: mbiḓi — African animal
• Venetan: xebra — African animal
• Veps: zebr — African animal
• Vietnamese: ngựa vằn — African animal
• Volapük: sebrad — African animal
• Welsh: sebra — African animal
• Wolaytta: harddiidaa — African animal
• Wolof: fasu àll wi — African animal
• Xhosa: iqwarhashe — African animal
• Yiddish: זעברע (zebre) — African animal
• Yoruba: kẹ́tẹ́kẹ́tẹ́ abilà — African animal
• Zulu: idube — African animal