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English
Etymology
From Portuguese jaguar , from Old Tupi îagûara .[ 1]
Jaguar
Pronunciation
Noun
jaguar (plural jaguars )
A carnivorous spotted large cat native to South and Central America, Panthera onca .
Derived terms
Translations
Panthera onca
Afrikaans: jaguar (af)
Arabic: يغور m (yağwar)
Hijazi Arabic: جَقْوَر m ( jagwar )
Araona: iba
Armenian: յագուար (hy) ( yaguar )
Asturian: xaguar (ast) m
Azerbaijani: yaquar (az)
Borôro: adügo
Bulgarian: ягуа́р (bg) m ( jaguár )
Catalan: jaguar (ca) m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 美洲豹 (zh) ( měizhōubào )
Czech: jaguár (cs) m
Danish: jaguar c
Dutch: jaguar (nl) m
Esperanto: jaguaro
Estonian: jaaguar (et)
Faroese: jaguarur m
Finnish: jaguaari (fi)
French: jaguar (fr) m
Galician: xaguar (gl) m
Georgian: იაგუარი ( iaguari )
German: Jaguar (de) m
Greek: ιαγουάρος (el) m ( iagouáros ) , τζάγκουαρ (el) m ( tzágkouar )
Hebrew: יגואר (he)
Hindi: जैगुआर ( jaiguār )
Huaorani: mẽnẽ
Hungarian: jaguár (hu)
Indonesian: jaguar (id)
Irish: iaguar m
Isthmus Zapotec: beedxeʼ
Italian: giaguaro (it)
Japanese: ジャガー (ja) ( jagā ) , アメリカ豹 ( amerikahyō )
Kaqchikel: b’alam
Korean: 재규어 (ko) ( jaegyueo )
Latvian: jaguārs m
Macedonian: јагуар m ( jaguar )
Malay: jaguar
Maltese: ġagwar m
Mamaindé: jañan
Mapudungun: nawel
Mayo: yóoko
Nahuatl:
Central: ocelotl
Central Huasteca: oselotl
Classical: ocelotl
Western Huasteca: tekuajketl
Navajo: Shádiʼááhdę́ę́ʼ náshdóítsoh łikizhígíí
Norwegian:
Bokmål: jaguar (no) m
Nynorsk: jaguar m
Occitan: jaguar (oc) m
Old Tupi: îagûara
Paumarí: jomahi hiihiha f
Polish: jaguar (pl) m
Portuguese: jaguar (pt) m , onça (pt) f
Quechua: uturunku , uthurunku
Romanian: jaguar (ro) m
Russian: ягуа́р (ru) m ( jaguár )
Saliba (Colombia): ũpu
Serbo-Croatian: jaguar (sh) m
Sicilian: sciaguaru m
Spanish: jaguar (es) m , tigre (es) m ( Bolivia, Colombia, Venezuela, especially rural usage ) , yaguareté (es) m ( Argentina, Paraguay ) , jaguar (es) m , yaguareté (es) m
Swahili: jagwa
Swedish: jaguar (sv) c
Tagalog: haguwar
Tariana: yawi
Thai: เสือจากัวร์ (th) ( suea cha kua )
Turkish: jaguar (tr)
Vietnamese: báo đốm , báo đốm châu Mỹ
Warao: tobe
Yao (South America): aroua
Yucatec Maya: báalam
See also
References
Catalan
Etymology
Borrowed from Portuguese jaguar , from Old Tupi îagûara .
Pronunciation
Noun
jaguar m (plural jaguars )
jaguar
Further reading
Dutch
Etymology
Apparently borrowed from French jaguar , from Portuguese jaguar , from Old Tupi îagûara .[ 1] The contemporary pronunciation derives from English jaguar .
Pronunciation
IPA (key ) : /ˈdʒɛ.ɡuˌɑr/ , /ˈdʒɛ.ɡuˌər/
( dated in the Netherlands ) IPA (key ) : /ˈjaː.ɣyˌɑr/
Hyphenation: ja‧gu‧ar
Noun
jaguar m (plural jaguars , diminutive jaguartje n )
jaguar
1777 , De Buffon, De algemeene en byzondere natuurlyke historie , vol. 5, part 1, tr. from French, J. H. Schneider (publ.), page 5.
Wat den puma en den jaguar betreft, het blykt duidelyk uit de beſchryvingen van hun, die deze dieren gezien hebben, dat de puma geen leeuw is, en de jaguar geen tyger; [ …] As for the puma and the jaguar , it clearly appears from the descriptions by them, who have seen these animals, that the cougar is not a lion, and the jaguar is not a tiger;
Derived terms
References
Further reading
“jaguar ” in Woordenlijst Nederlandse Taal – Officiële Spelling , Nederlandse Taalunie.
French
Pronunciation
Noun
jaguar m (plural jaguars )
jaguar (cat)
Jaguar (Mac OS 10.2)
Noun
jaguar f (plural jaguars )
jaguar (car)
Jaguar (British car manufacturer)
Further reading
Malay
Etymology
From English jaguar , from Portuguese , from Old Tupi jaguara .
Pronunciation
Noun
jaguar (Jawi spelling جاݢوار , plural jaguar -jaguar , informal 1st possessive jaguarku , 2nd possessive jaguarmu , 3rd possessive jaguarnya )
jaguar ( Panthera onca )
Further reading
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From Portuguese jaguar , from Old Tupi îagûara .
Pronunciation
Noun
jaguar m (definite singular jaguaren , indefinite plural jaguarer , definite plural jaguarene )
a jaguar , Panthera onca .
References
“jaguar” in The Bokmål Dictionary .
“jaguar” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB ).
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From Portuguese jaguar , from Old Tupi îagûara .
Noun
jaguar m (definite singular jaguaren , indefinite plural jaguarar , definite plural jaguarane )
a jaguar , Panthera onca
References
Polish
jaguar
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Internationalism ; compare English jaguar , French jaguar , German Jaguar , ultimately from Portuguese jaguar , from Old Tupi îagûara .
Noun
jaguar m animal
jaguar ( Panthera onca )
Etymology 2
Borrowed from English Jaguar . Genericized trademark .
Noun
jaguar m animal
Jaguar car
Declension
Further reading
jaguar in Wielki słownik języka polskiego , Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
jaguar in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Portuguese
Um jaguar
Etymology
Ultimately from Old Tupi îagûara , from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *jawar . Doublet of jaguara .
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium .)
Pronunciation
Noun
jaguar m (plural jaguares )
jaguar ( Panthera onca , a feline of Latin America)
Synonyms: onça , onça-pintada
Usage notes
In Brazil, jaguars are more commonly called onça or onça-pintada , and jaguar is mainly used in literature.
Descendants
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from French jaguar .
Pronunciation
Noun
jaguar m (plural jaguari )
jaguar
Declension
References
Serbo-Croatian
Pronunciation
IPA (key ) : /jâɡuaːr/
Hyphenation: ja‧gu‧ar
Noun
jȁguār m (Cyrillic spelling ја̏гуа̄р )
jaguar
Declension
Spanish
Pronunciation
IPA (key ) : /xaˈɡwaɾ/
Rhymes: -aɾ
Syllabification: ja‧guar
Noun
jaguar m (plural jaguares )
jaguar ( Panthera onca )
Synonyms: yaguareté , otorongo
Further reading
Swedish
Noun
jaguar c
a jaguar (cat)
Declension
References
Turkish
Etymology
From Ottoman Turkish ژاغوآر ( jaguar ) , from French jaguar , from Portuguese jaguar , from Old Tupi îagûara .
Pronunciation
Noun
jaguar (definite accusative jaguarı , plural jaguarlar )
jaguar
Declension