zebra – Dutch noun declension

Noun: zebra
Gender: Masculine Hyphenation:

Sg.	zebra
Pl.	zebra's

Sample Sentences

Nouns inflected like zebra

safari, samosa, salami, sialia, sherry, sherpa, skorro, vluchtauto, actiefoto, pachinko, blauwgrijze ara, commando, babiroesa, begonia, beloega, hotellobby, basisgrammatica, roodwangara, retorica, yogini, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)

Etymology

Borrowed from Portuguese 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”). The second sense is a shortening of zebrapad. See: Portuguese Nouns 'zebra', Old Portuguese Nouns 'enzebro', Latin Nouns 'equiferus'.

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