zebra

1600; borrowed from Italian zebra, from Portuguese zebra, zebro (“zebra”), from Old Portuguese enzebro, ezebra, azebra (“wild ass”), from earlier cebrario (882), ezebrario (897), from Vulgar Latin *eciferus, from Latin equiferus (“wild horse”) (Pliny), from equus (“horse”) + ferus (“wild”).(Can this⁽⁺⁾ etymology be sourced?)

(biracial person): The term zebra, as used in its pejorative sense, was popularized on the television situation comedy The Jeffersons. The term was used by the series protagonist, George Jefferson (Sherman Hemsley), to express disdain for his daughter-in-law, Jenny Willis Jefferson, whose father was white and mother was black.

While the word was traditionally pronounced with a long initial vowel in standard English, during the twentieth century a vowel shift occurred in regions of England, with the adoption of an initial short vowel.[1] This pronunciation is now used throughout the UK and most Commonwealth nations. The long vowel pronunciation remains standard in Canadian and American English.

(referee): In reference to the black and white striped shirts they wear.

• (UK, Commonwealth) IPA^(key): /ˈzɛbɹə/

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  • Hyphenation: zeb‧ra
• (Canadian, US and traditional British English) IPA^(key): /ˈziːbɹə/

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  • Hyphenation: ze‧bra
• Rhymes: (UK, Commonwealth) -ɛbɹə, -iːbɹə

zebra (plural zebra or zebras)

1. Any of three species of subgenus Hippotigris: E. grevyi, E. quagga, or E. zebra, all with black and white stripes and native to Africa.
2. (sports, slang) A referee.
3. (medicine, slang) An unlikely diagnosis, especially for symptoms probably caused by a common ailment. (Originates in the advice often given to medical students: "when you hear hoofbeats, think of horses, not zebras".)
4. (vulgar, derogatory, slang, ethnic slur) A biracial person, specifically one born to a member of the Sub-Saharan African race and a Caucasian.
5. (informal) A fish, the zebra cichlid.
6. Any of various papilionid butterflies of the subgenus Paranticopsis of the genus Graphium, having black and white markings.
7. A zebra crossing.
   • 2010, Mick Herron, Slow Horses, page 247:

     On his way home he'd picked up two economy-sized bags of tortilla chips, and had dropped both when a twat in a Lexus honked him on a zebra . . .

• (animal of genus Equus): Burchell's zebra, Grevy's zebra, quagga, plains zebra, mountain zebra
• (unlikely diagnosis): fascinoma

• quagga
• Equus burchelli, Equus grevyi, Equus quagga, Equus zebra

• Zaber, braze

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zebra anim

1. zebra

From Old Catalan atzebra, from Old Portuguese *ezevra, *ezevro.

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /ˈze.bɾə/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈze.bɾa/

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zebra f (plural zebres)

1. zebra

• zebrat

• “zebra” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Borrowed from English zebra, from Italian zebra, from Portuguese zebra, zebro (“zebra”), from Old Portuguese enzebro, ezebra, azebra (“wild ass”), from earlier cebrario (882), ezebrario (897), from Vulgar Latin *eciferus, from Latin equiferus (“wild horse”) (Pliny), from equus (“horse”) + ferus (“wild”).

zebra

1. a zebra; any of three species of genus Equus: E. grevyi, E. quagga, or E. zebra, all with black and white stripes and native to Africa
2. a pattern or motif similar to the stripes of a zebra
3. (informal) an animal with zebra-like stripes

From Portuguese zebra (“wild horse”), from zebro, from Old Portuguese zevro, from *ezevro, from Vulgar Latin *eciferus, from Latin *equiferus, from equus (“horse”) + ferus (“wild”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈzɛbra/

zebra f (plural zebre)

1. Alternative form of zebru

• https://infcor.adecec.net/

• IPA^(key): /ˈzɛbra/

zebra f

1. zebra

• zebřička
• zebří

• zebra in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
• zebra in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

zebra c (singular definite zebraen, plural indefinite zebraer)

1. zebra

Borrowed from Portuguese zebra, from Vulgar Latin *eciferus, from Latin equiferus (“wild horse”). The second sense is a shortening of zebrapad.

• IPA^(key): /ˈzeː.braː/

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• Hyphenation: ze‧bra

zebra m (plural zebra's, diminutive zebraatje n)

1. A zebra, a black-and-white striped equid of the genus Equus; Equus zebra, Equus quagga or Equus grevyi. [from late 16th c.]
2. A zebra crossing, a pedestrian crossing. [from mid 1950s.]

   Synonym: zebrapad

• (pedestrian crossing): oversteekplaats

• (zebra): quagga

• zebrahaai
• zebrapad
• zebraprint

From zebro (“zebra”) +‎ -a.

zebra (accusative singular zebran, plural zebraj, accusative plural zebrajn)

1. zebrine, hippotigrine

• ekveda (“equid”)

• IPA^(key): [ˈzɛbrɒ]
• Hyphenation: zeb‧ra
• Rhymes: -rɒ

zebra (plural zebrák)

1. (biology) zebra (animal)
2. (road transport) pedestrian crossing, crosswalk, zebra crossing

• (crosswalk): gyalogátkelőhely

(Compound words):

• zebrapinty

• zebra in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

• IPA^(key): ^*/ˈd͡zɛ.bra/
• Rhymes: -ɛbra
• Hyphenation: zè‧bra

zebra f (plural zebre)

1. zebra
2. (in the plural, informal) zebra crossing/crosswalk

Borrowed from Polish zebra.

• IPA^(key): /ˈzɛbra/
• Hyphenation: zeb‧ra

zebra f

1. zebra (striped mammal of the genus Equus)

• Eùgeniusz Gòłąbk (2011), “zebra”, in Słownik Polsko-Kaszubski / Słowôrz Pòlskò-Kaszëbsczi

zebra f (plural zebres)

1. zebra

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈze.bra/, [ˈd̪͡z̪ɛbrä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ze.bra/, [ˈd̪͡z̪ɛːbrä]

zebra f (genitive zebrae); first declension

1. (New Latin) zebra (Equus zebra)

First-declension noun.

Possibly ultimately from a Congolese name for the animal, via Portuguese, via some other European language. Possibly also ultimately from Latin equiferus (“wild horse”), via Portuguese and/or Italian.

• IPA^(key): /ˈzɛbra/

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zebra f (4th declension)

1. zebra (esp. Equus zebra)

• IPA^(key): /ˈzɛb.ra/

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• Rhymes: -ɛbra
• Syllabification: zeb‧ra

zebra f

1. zebra (animal)
2. (colloquial) zebra crossing

   Synonyms: przejście dla pieszych, pasy

• → Kashubian: zebra

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

From zebro, from Old Portuguese zebro, ezebro (“European wild ass”), from Vulgar Latin *eciferus, from Latin equiferus (“wild horse”), from equus (“horse”) + ferus (“wild”). Compare Spanish cebra.

Sense 2 of the word comes from the popular Brazilian betting game jogo do bicho, in which the animal is abscent, therefore it is unlikely that a zebra will be drawn.

• Hyphenation: ze‧bra

zebra f (plural zebras)

1. zebra
2. (Brazil, slang) A victorious competitor initially thought unlikely to win, especially in sports; an underdog

   Aquele time ganhou quando todo mundo pensou que ele iria perder, mas que zebra!.

   That [soccer] team won when everyone else thought they were going to lose, what a underdog!.

• Italian: zebra
  • English: zebra

• IPA^(key): /zêbra/

zȅbra f (Cyrillic spelling зе̏бра)

1. zebra

• IPA^(key): /zèːbra/, /zéːbra/

zẹ̄bra f

1. zebra

• “zebra”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran

zebra f (plural zebras)

1. Obsolete spelling of cebra

• “zebra”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

• sebra

zebra c

1. zebra

Borrowed from Italian zebra.

• IPA^(key): [ˈzeb.ɾɑ]
• Hyphenation: zeb‧ra

zebra (definite accusative zebrayı, plural zebralar)

1. zebra