köken: From Middle High German geraff, seraffe, schraffe, partly via Italian giraffa, partly directly (in travel reports) from Arabic زَرافَة (zarāfa).
Der Kameelparder oder die Giraffe, Camelopardalis, in dem ansehnlichen Raum zwischen dem Nordpol und dem Fuhrmann.
köken: From Ancient Greek καμηλοπάρδαλις (kamēlopárdalis, “giraffe”), from κάμηλος (kámēlos, “camel”) (camelus) + πάρδαλις (párdalis, “leopard”) (see also: cameleopard).
köken: Sino-Korean word from 麒麟. The archaic sense of legendary animal is attested in the two-millennia old Confucianist Classic of Rites that reads bonghwang-girin (鳳凰麒麟). Since Admiral Zheng He brought a giraffe from Somalia to China in 1414, this Hanja word was equated with Somali geri or the like meaning "giraffe" then (See Citations:기린), which on the other hand may have influenced the etymology of…
giraffe (any mammal of the genus Giraffa) · long blender, designed to be held by hand, whose blending and mixing blades are located at the end of the handle · piano whose strings and sound box are set vertically rather than horizontally, produced and used in the 18th and 19th centuries
çekim: çoğul żyrafy · tamlayan żyrafy
eş: sarnapa, gw. (Górny Śląsk) żyrafijo
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱer- Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ ? Proto-Indo-European *ḱerh₂-der.? Classical Persian زُرْنَا (zurnā) Proto-Indo-European *ped- Proto-Indo-European *-s Proto-Indo-European *pṓds Proto-Indo-Iranian *pā́ts Proto-Iranian *pā́dah Old Persian 𐎱𐎠𐎭 (p-a-d) Classical Persian پَا (pā) Classical Persian زُرْنَاپَا (zurnāpā)bor. Classical Syriac ܙܪܝܦܐ (zārīp̄ā)bor. Arabic…
köken: Romanized form of the Ancient Greek καμηλοπάρδαλις (kamēlopárdalis, “giraffe”), from κάμηλος (kámēlos, “camel”) (camelus) + πάρδαλις (párdalis, “leopard”), due to its having a long neck like a camel and spots like a leopard.