Noun: giraffa
Gender: f
Hyphenation: gi‧ràf‧fa
| Singular f | giraffa |
| Plural f | giraffe |
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like giraffa
monferrina,
ossichinolina,
palestra,
nipoteria,
gualdrappa,
bacinella,
minicassetta,
bestemmia,
geostoria,
sferra,
sferza,
sfilza,
triplofonia,
fiduciaria,
meteoroscopia,
ipersonnia,
sovrabbondanza,
corbezzola,
pseudoestesia,
viminata, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *ḱer-
3. Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
4. ?
5. Proto-Indo-European *ḱerh₂-der.?
6. Classical Persian زُرْنَا (zurnā)
7. Proto-Indo-European *ped-
8. Proto-Indo-European *-s
9. Proto-Indo-European *pṓds
10. Proto-Indo-Iranian *pā́ts
11. Proto-Iranian *pā́dah
12. Old Persian 𐎱𐎠𐎭 (p-a-d)
13. Classical Persian پَا (pā)
14. Classical Persian زُرْنَاپَا (zurnāpā)bor.
15. Classical Syriac ܙܪܝܦܐ (zārīp̄ā)bor.
16. Arabic زُرَافَة (zurāfa)bor.
17. Italian giraffa
18. Borrowed from Arabic زُرَافَة (zurāfa), borrowed from Classical Syriac ܙܪܝܦܐ (zārīp̄ā), borrowed from Classical Persian زُرْنَاپَا (zurnāpā), from زُرْنَا (zurnā) + پَا (pā).
Verbs referencing "giraffa"
English Nouns
giraffe, Dutch Nouns
giraffe, French Nouns
girafe, German Nouns
Giraffe, Danish Nouns
giraf, Dutch Nouns
giraf, Icelandic Nouns
gíraffi, Faroese Nouns
giraffur.
Translations