Noun: giraffe
| Singular | giraffe |
| Plural | giraffes; giraffe |
Sample Sentences
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A group of giraffes is called a tower. [2019 June 6, “A gaggle, a confusion and a conspiracy - bizarre animal collective group names”, in BBC:]
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Are you having a giraffe?!
Nouns inflected like giraffe
whiting,
Munduruku,
Mundurucu,
sempai,
senpai,
saseng,
satang,
cunjevoi,
sansei,
Namboothiri,
somoni,
Sentinelese,
siopao,
shogun,
shinza,
Barakzai,
Chippewyan,
Diaguita,
shōgun,
thermal horsepower, 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 giraffabor.
18. Middle French giraffebor.
19. English giraffe
20. From Middle French giraffe, from Italian giraffa, from Arabic زُرَافَة (zurāfa), from Classical Syriac ܙܪܝܦܐ (zārīp̄ā), from Classical Persian زُرْنَاپَا (zurnāpā, literally “flute-leg”). Displaced camelopard. See: Italian Nouns '
giraffa'.