safari

From Swahili safari (“journey”), from Arabic سَفَر (safar).

• IPA^(key): /səˈfɑːɹ.i/

  • Audio (Southern England):

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• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -ɑːɹi

safari (plural safaris)

1. A trip into any undeveloped area to see, photograph or to hunt wild animals in their own environment.

   We're going on a safari in Kenya.

2. A caravan going on a safari.
3. (by extension) Any trip for the purpose of discovering something new or acquiring prizes or trophies.
   • 1968, Ruth Stearns Egge, How to Make Something from Nothing:

     An ardent junker herself, Mrs. Egge tells how to conduct a fascinating junk safari into the attic or antique and secondhand shops and what to do with the trophies you bring home.

   • 2017, Serena, “Safari”:

     Come on, boy, move that body/ 'Cause tonight I'm naughty, naughty/ Dance with me like it's my party/ We go wild, we're in safari

safari (third-person singular simple present safaris, present participle safariing, simple past and past participle safaried)

1. (intransitive) To take part in a safari.

• Farias

Borrowed from Swahili safari (“journey”), from Arabic سَفَر (safar).

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [səˈfa.ɾi]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [saˈfa.ɾi]

safari m (plural safaris)

1. safari

• “safari”, 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

From Swahili safari (“journey”), from Arabic سَفَر (safar).

• IPA^(key): /saːˈfaː.ri/

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• Hyphenation: sa‧fa‧ri

safari m (plural safari's, diminutive safarietje n)

1. safari

• safaribus
• safaripark

• → Indonesian: safari

From Swahili safari (“journey”), from Arabic سَفَر (safar).

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɑfɑri/, [ˈs̠ɑ̝fɑ̝ri]
• Rhymes: -ɑfɑri
• Syllabification^(key): sa‧fa‧ri
• Hyphenation^(key): sa‧fa‧ri

safari

1. safari

• “safari”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 3 July 2023

• fraasi

Borrowed from Swahili safari (“journey”), from Arabic سَفَر (safar).

• IPA^(key): /sa.fa.ʁi/

safari m (plural safaris)

1. safari

• → Romanian: safari
• →? Turkish: safari

• “safari”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Borrowed from Dutch safari (“safari”), from Swahili safari (“journey”), from Arabic سَفَر (safar).

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /saˈfari/ [saˈfa.ri]
• Rhymes: -ari
• Syllabification: sa‧fa‧ri

safari (plural safari-safari)

1. safari

• “safari” 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 Swahili safari (“journey”), from Arabic سَفَر (safar).

safari m (invariable)

1. safari

• sfarai

safari

1. Rōmaji transcription of サファリ

From Swahili safari (“journey”), from Arabic سَفَر (safar).

• IPA^(key): /sɑfɑːrɪ/
• Rhymes: -ɪ

safari m (definite singular safarien, indefinite plural safarier, definite plural safariene)

1. a safari

• hvalsafari

• “safari” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Swahili safari (“journey”), from Arabic سَفَر (safar).

safari m (definite singular safarien, indefinite plural safariar, definite plural safariane)

1. a safari

• “safari” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Borrowed from Swahili safari, from Arabic سَفَر (safar).

• IPA^(key): /saˈfa.ri/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ari
• Syllabification: sa‧fa‧ri

safari n (indeclinable)

1. safari (trip into any undeveloped area)

• safari in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Borrowed from French safari.

safari n (uncountable)

1. safari

Borrowed from Swahili safari (“journey”), from Arabic سَفَر (safar).

• IPA^(key): /saˈfaɾi/ [saˈfa.ɾi]
• Rhymes: -aɾi
• Syllabification: sa‧fa‧ri

safari m (plural safaris)

1. safari

• “safari”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024

Borrowed from Arabic سَفَر (safar).

• (Unguja standard) IPA^(key): /sɑˈfɑ.ɾi/

• Audio (Kenya):

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safari class IX (plural safari class X)

1. journey, trip
2. a time or instance

• -safiri

• → Arabic: سَفَارِي (safārī)
• → Catalan: safari
• → English: safari
• → Finnish: safari
• → French: safari
  • → Romanian: safari
  • →? Turkish: safari
• → German: Safari
• → Hungarian: szafari
• → Italian: safari
• → Japanese: サファリ
• → Portuguese: safári
• → Russian: сафа́ри (safári)
• → Spanish: safari
• → Swedish: safari

Borrowed from Swahili safari (“journey”), from Arabic سَفَر (safar).

safari c

1. safari

• safari in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• safari in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• safari in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

Borrowed from French safari or from English safari. Doublet of sefer.

• IPA^(key): /saˈfa.ɾi/
• Hyphenation: sa‧fa‧ri

safari (definite accusative safariyi, plural safariler)

1. safari

• “safari”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “safari”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Ayverdi, İlhan (2010) “safari”, in Misalli Büyük Türkçe Sözlük, a reviewed and expanded single-volume edition, Istanbul: Kubbealtı Neşriyatı
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “safari”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3929