girafa

Borrowed from French girafe.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ʒiˈɾa.fə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [d͡ʒiˈɾa.fa]

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girafa f (plural girafes)

1. giraffe
2. boom (microphone support)

• “girafa”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

girafa f (plural girafas, reintegrationist norm)

1. reintegrationist spelling of xirafa

• “girafa” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).

Borrowed from Italian giraffa.

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• Rhymes: -afɐ
• Hyphenation: gi‧ra‧fa

girafa f (plural girafas)

1. giraffe (any animal of the genus Giraffa)

   Synonym: (archaic) camelopárdale

2. (by extension, rare) giraffid (any animal of the Giraffidae family)

   Synonym: girafídeo

3. (Brazil, figurative, colloquial) giraffe (very tall or long-necked individual)
4. (Brazil, film, television) boom (movable pole used to support a microphone or camera)

   Synonyms: bum, percha

5. (music) ellipsis of piano girafa (“giraffe piano”)

The gender of this Portuguese zoonym is always feminine: when the gender of the being itself must be specified, use “girafa-macho” for male, and “girafa-fêmea” for female. Here, macho is treated as an undeclinable noun and doesn't necessarily need to agree in gender with the referent, but would change to macha if so.

• → Hunsrik: Schiraff

• “girafa”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2025
• “girafa”, in Dicionário inFormal (in Portuguese), 2006–2025
• “girafa”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
• “girafa”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

• IPA^(key): /d͡ʒiˈrafa/

girafa f

1. definite nominative singular of girafă