Elephant

Table of contents

1 Pronunciation 2 Etymology 3 Noun 3.1 Related Words 3.2 Translations 4 Further Reading

Pronunciation

Etymology

Noun

elephant

1. A mammal of the order Proboscidia, having a trunk, and two large ivory tusks jutting from the upper jaw. Elephants are the largest land animals now existing.
2. the symbol of the United States Republican Party; introduced in cartoons by Thomas Nast in 1874

• white elephant
• elephantine

• Albanian: elefanti
• Basque: elefante
• Belarusian: слон
• Breton: olifant m -ed pl
• Bulgarian: слон (slon)
• Catalan: elefant
• Croatian: slon
• Czech: slon
• Danish: elefant
• Dutch: olifant m
• Esperanto: elefanto
• Estonian: elevant
• Faroese: fílur
• Finnish: norsu, elefantti
• French: éléphant m
• Frisian: oaljefant
• Friulian: elefant
• Gallegan: elefante
• German: Elefant m
• Greek: ελέφανταs
• Hebrew: פיל
• Hungarian: elefánt
• Icelandic: fíll
• Indonesian: gajah
• Interlingua: elephante
• Irish: eilifint
• Italian: elefante m
• Japanese: 象 (ぞう, zō)
• KiSwahili: ndovu, tembo
• Korean: 코끼리 (kokkiri)
• Ladin: elefant
• Latin: Elephas maximus, Loxodonta africana
• Latvian: staltbriedis
• Lithuanian: dramblys
• Lower Sorbian: elefant, (słon)
• Macedonian: слон (slon)
• Maltese: iljunfant
• Norwegian: elefant
• Occitan: elefant
• Persian: فيل (fil)
• Polish: słoń m
• Portuguese: elefante m, elefanta f
• Romanian: elefant
• Romansh: elefant
• Romany: woroslano m woroslanka]] f
• Russian: слон (slon) m
• Sami: elefánta
• Sardinian: elefante/elefanti
• Scottish: ailbhean
• Serbian: слон (slon)
• Slovak: slon
• Slovenian: slon
• Spanish: elefante m
• Swedish: elefant
• Turkish: fil
• Ukrainian: слон (slon)
• Upper Sorbian: elefant, (słon)
• Welsh: eliffant