kapibara

kapibara (definite accusative kapibaranı, plural kapibaralar)

1. capybara

Borrowed from Dutch capibara, from Spanish capibara, from Old Tupi kapibara.

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /kapiˈbara/ [ka.piˈba.ra]
• Rhymes: -ara
• Syllabification: ka‧pi‧ba‧ra

kapibara (plural kapibara-kapibara)

1. capybara (Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris)

• “kapibara” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Borrowed from Polish kapibara.

• IPA^(key): /ka.piˈba.ra/
• Rhymes: -ara
• Syllabification: ka‧pi‧ba‧ra

kapibara f

1. capybara (rodent of the genus Hydrochoerus)

• Eùgeniusz Gòłąbk (2011) “kapibara”, in Słownik Polsko-Kaszubski / Słowôrz Pòlskò-Kaszëbsczi‎^[1]

Via other European languages, ultimately derived from Old Tupi kapibara (“slender grass/leaf eater”).

• IPA^(key): [kapibaɾa]

• Audio (Riga):

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kapibara f (4th declension)

1. capybara (large South American rodent, especially Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris)

   kapibarai ir vairākas īpašības, kas piemērotas dzīvei ūdenī ― the capybara has many properties suitable for life in water

   kapibaru barā parasti ir 10-20 indivīdu ― in a capybara herd there usually are 10-20 individuals

• IPA^(key): [ka.piˈβ̞a.ɾa]
• Rhymes: -aɾa
• Hyphenation: ka‧pi‧ba‧ra

kapibara (unpossessable)

1. alternative form of kapi'iûara

• Hans Staden (1557) chapter XXX, in Warhaftige Hiſtoria [True History], volume 2 (overall work in German), Marburg: Andreas Kolbe, unnumbered page: “Catiuare [Kapibara]”
• Antonie Knivet (1591) “The admirable aduentures and ſtrange fortunes of Maſter Antonie Knivet, which went with Maſter Thomas Candish in his ſecond voyage to the South Sea”, in Samuel Purchas, editor, Pvrchas his Pilgrimes, part IV, book VI, chapter VII § V (overall work in English), London: H. Fetherston, published 1625, page 1242: “Capiuaras [Kapibara]”

Borrowed from Spanish capibara, from Portuguese capivara, from Old Tupi kapi'iûara.

• IPA^(key): /ka.piˈba.ra/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ara
• Syllabification: ka‧pi‧ba‧ra

kapibara f

1. capybara

• → Kashubian: kapibara

• kapibara in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• kapibara in Polish dictionaries at PWN

• IPA^(key): /kapibàːra/

kapibára f

1. capybara, Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris

• “kapibara”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU (in Slovene), 2014–2025

From Spanish capibara, from Portuguese capivara.

• IPA^(key): /kapibaɾa/
• Rhymes: -ɾa
• Hyphenation: ka‧pi‧ba‧ra

kapibara (definite accusative kapibarayı, plural kapibaralar)

1. capybara