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From Portuguese jaguar, from Old Tupi îagûara.[1]
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈd͡ʒæɡ.jʊə/, /ˈd͡ʒæɡ.juː.ə/, /ˈd͡ʒæɡ.juː.ɑː/
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈd͡ʒæɡ.wɑɹ/, /ˈd͡ʒæɡ.(j)u.ɑɹ/, (dialectally) /ˈd͡ʒæɡ.waɪɚ/
jaguar (plural jaguars)
- A carnivorous spotted large cat native to South and Central America, Panthera onca.
Panthera onca
- Afrikaans: jaguar (af)
- Arabic: يغور m (yağwar)
- Hijazi Arabic: جَقْوَر m (jagwar)
- Araona: iba
- Armenian: յագուար (hy) (yaguar)
- Asturian: xaguar (ast) m
- Azerbaijani: yaquar (az)
- Borôro: adügo
- Bulgarian: ягуа́р (bg) m (jaguár)
- Catalan: jaguar (ca) m
- Chinese:
- Czech: jaguár (cs) m
- Danish: jaguar c
- Dutch: jaguar (nl) m
- Esperanto: jaguaro
- Estonian: jaaguar (et)
- Faroese: jaguarur m
- Finnish: jaguaari (fi)
- French: jaguar (fr) m
- Galician: xaguar (gl) m
- Georgian: იაგუარი (iaguari)
- German: Jaguar (de) m
- Greek: ιαγουάρος (el) m (iagouáros), τζάγκουαρ (el) m (tzágkouar)
- Hebrew: יגואר (he)
- Hindi: जैगुआर (jaiguār)
- Huaorani: mẽnẽ
- Hungarian: jaguár (hu)
- Indonesian: jaguar (id)
- Irish: iaguar m
- Isthmus Zapotec: beedxeʼ
- Italian: giaguaro (it)
- Japanese: ジャガー (ja) (jagā), アメリカ豹 (amerikahyō)
- Kaqchikel: b’alam
- Korean: 재규어 (ko) (jaegyueo)
- Latvian: jaguārs m
- Macedonian: јагуар m (jaguar)
- Malay: jaguar
- Maltese: ġagwar m
- Mamaindé: jañan
- Mapudungun: nawel
- Mayan: B'alam
- Mayo: yóoko
- Nahuatl:
- Central: ocelotl
- Central Huasteca: oselotl
- Classical: ocelotl
- Western Huasteca: tekuajketl
- Navajo: Shádiʼááhdę́ę́ʼ náshdóítsoh łikizhígíí
- Norwegian:
- Occitan: jaguar (oc) m
- Old Tupi: îagûara
- Paumarí: jomahi hiihiha f
- Polish: jaguar (pl) m
- Portuguese: jaguar (pt) m, onça (pt) f
- Quechua: uturunku, uthurunku
- Romanian: jaguar (ro) m
- Russian: ягуа́р (ru) m (jaguár)
- Saliba (Colombia): ũpu
- Serbo-Croatian: jaguar (sh) m
- Sicilian: sciaguaru m
- Spanish: jaguar (es) m, tigre (es) m (Bolivia, Colombia, Venezuela, especially rural usage), yaguareté (es) m (Argentina, Paraguay)
- Swahili: jagwa
- Swedish: jaguar (sv) c
- Tagalog: haguwar
- Tariana: yawi
- Thai: เสือจากัวร์ (th) (suea cha kua)
- Turkish: jaguar (tr)
- Vietnamese: báo đốm, báo đốm châu Mỹ
- Warao: tobe
- Yao (South America): aroua
- Yucatec Maya: báalam
- jaguarundi
- jaguar on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Panthera onca on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
- ^ “jaguar”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
Borrowed from Portuguese jaguar, from Old Tupi îagûara.
jaguar m (plural jaguars)
- “jaguar” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “jaguar”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
- “jaguar” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “jaguar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Apparently borrowed from French jaguar, from Portuguese jaguar, from Old Tupi îagûara.[1] The contemporary pronunciation derives from English jaguar.
- IPA(key): /ˈdʒɛ.ɡuˌɑr/, /ˈdʒɛ.ɡuˌər/
- (dated in the Netherlands) IPA(key): /ˈjaː.ɣyˌɑr/
- Hyphenation: ja‧gu‧ar
jaguar m (plural jaguars, diminutive jaguartje n)
- jaguar [from late 18th c.]
- 1777, De Buffon, De algemeene en byzondere natuurlyke historie, vol. 5, part 1, tr. from French, J. H. Schneider (publ.), page 5.
Wat den puma en den jaguar betreft, het blykt duidelyk uit de beſchryvingen van hun, die deze dieren gezien hebben, dat de puma geen leeuw is, en de jaguar geen tyger; […]
- As for the puma and the jaguar, it clearly appears from the descriptions by them, who have seen these animals, that the cougar is not a lion, and [that] the jaguar is not a tiger; […]
- 1777, De Buffon, De algemeene en byzondere natuurlyke historie, vol. 5, part 1, tr. from French, J. H. Schneider (publ.), page 5.
- ^ “jaguar”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
- “jaguar” in Woordenlijst Nederlandse Taal – Officiële Spelling, Nederlandse Taalunie. [the official spelling word list for the Dutch language]
jaguar m (plural jaguars)
jaguar f (plural jaguars)
- “jaguar”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
From English jaguar, from Portuguese, from Old Tupi jaguara.
jaguar (Jawi spelling جاݢوار, plural jaguar-jaguar, informal 1st possessive jaguarku, 2nd possessive jaguarmu, 3rd possessive jaguarnya)
- “jaguar” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.
From Portuguese jaguar, from Old Tupi îagûara.
jaguar m (definite singular jaguaren, indefinite plural jaguarer, definite plural jaguarene)
- a jaguar, Panthera onca.
From Portuguese jaguar, from Old Tupi îagûara.
jaguar m (definite singular jaguaren, indefinite plural jaguarar, definite plural jaguarane)
- “jaguar” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Internationalism; compare English jaguar, French jaguar, German Jaguar, ultimately from Portuguese jaguar, from Old Tupi îagûara.
jaguar m animal
Borrowed from English Jaguar. Genericized trademark.
jaguar m animal
Ultimately from Old Tupi îagûara. Doublet of jaguara.
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
- Hyphenation: ja‧guar
jaguar m (plural jaguares)
- jaguar (Panthera onca, a feline of Latin America)
- Synonyms: onça, onça-pintada
In Brazil, jaguars are more commonly called onça or onça-pintada, and jaguar is mainly used in literature.
jaguar m (plural jaguari)
- jaguar in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)
jȁguār m (Cyrillic spelling ја̏гуа̄р)
jaguar m (plural jaguares)
- “jaguar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
jaguar c
- a jaguar (cat)
Declension of jaguar | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | jaguar | jaguaren | jaguarer | jaguarerna |
Genitive | jaguars | jaguarens | jaguarers | jaguarernas |
From Ottoman Turkish ژاغوآر (jaguar), from French jaguar, from Portuguese jaguar, from Old Tupi îagûara.
jaguar (definite accusative jaguarı, plural jaguarlar)