Tarzan

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See also: tarzan and Tarzán

English

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Etymology

Coined by Edgar Rice Burroughs. A name created by Burroughs for his fiction.

Means "white skin" in the apes' fictional language; possibly echoic in its phonetics of various "exotic" names (see Orientalism).

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Tarzan

  1. (fiction) A heroic fictional character, raised in the jungle by apes.

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

Tarzan (plural Tarzans)

  1. (by extension) A strong wild man.
    • 2011, John Creasey, The Flood:
      There was nothing really statuesque about him; this wasn't a kind of Tarzan, with massive shoulders and great muscles and limbs as strong as a beast's, but a tall, lean, handsome man, who moved with superlative ease.

Descendants

  • Dutch: Tarzan
  • Swedish: Tarzan

Further reading

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English Tarzan.

Proper noun

Tarzan

  1. Tarzan

Derived terms

German

Etymology

Borrowed from English Tarzan.

Pronunciation

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Proper noun

Tarzan m (proper noun, strong, genitive Tarzans)

  1. Tarzan

Derived terms

Polish

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Tarzan

Etymology

Borrowed from English Tarzan.

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Tarzan m pers

  1. Tarzan (heroic fictional character, raised in the jungle by apes)

Declension

Derived terms

noun

Further reading

  • Tarzan in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from English Tarzan.

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Tarzan c (genitive Tarzans)

  1. Tarzan
    dra en Tarzan
    jerk off ("pull a Tarzan") (idiomatic)

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