zebro

Borrowed from French zèbre, English zebra, Russian зе́бра (zébra) and German Zebra.

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• IPA^(key): [ˈzebro]
• Rhymes: -ebro
• Hyphenation: ze‧bro

zebro (accusative singular zebron, plural zebroj, accusative plural zebrojn)

1. zebra
   • 2009, Klivo Lendon (translator), La Origino de Specioj, Karolo Darvin, page 160:

     Oni vidas plurajn tre malsamajn speciojn de la ĉevala genro fariĝi, per simpla variado, striaj ĉe la kruro kiel zebro, aŭ striaj ĉe la ŝultroj kiel azeno.

     We see several very distinct species of the horse-genus becoming, by simple variation, striped on the legs like a zebra, or striped on the shoulders like an ass.

• ekvedo (“equid”)

• (neologism) zebriĉo, (idiomatic) virzebro (“male zebra, zebra stallion”)
• zebrido (“young zebra, zebra foal”)
• zebrino (“female zebra, zebra mare”)

• zebraro (“herd of zebras”)

• zebra (“zebrine, hippotigrine”)

• IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ze.bɾo/

zebro m

1. Alternative form of zevro

• IPA^(key): /ˈzɛb.rɔ/
• Rhymes: -ɛbrɔ
• Syllabification: zeb‧ro

zebro f

1. vocative singular of zebra

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

• Hyphenation: ze‧bro

zebro m (plural zebros, feminine zebra, feminine plural zebras)

1. a wild horse or a wild ass (Equus hydruntinus, an extinct equine)

• zebra